New article on NYA Sciences co-written by our professor Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo: "Early Humans and the Balance of Power: Homo habilis as prey" Read it online: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are having our first Ethnographic Design CoLab meeting of the year! Affect Theater with Cristiana Giordano, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, September 26, 12-4pm, Location TBA.

Students in Eat Me: Food & Culture in Global Contexts (ANTH 210, Fall 2025), taught by Professor Cymene Howe, spent an afternoon at Seibel Servery in conversation with Chef Joe Stayshich, Assistant Dining Director, and the dedicated servery crew.

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Talk “No Malagasy Science? Politics and Paradox of Post-Colonial Sciences in Madagascar” with Quinn Georgic, PhD Candidate, Rice University, on Friday, September 19, at 12:00pm in Sewall 570 and Zoom. Register for the Zoom meeting: tinyurl.com/5dez6v43

JOIN US and the Center for Environmental Studies for their next lunch series on Tuesday, September 16, at 11:30 am, at the Cohen House. Assistant Professor Huatse Gyal (Anthropology) will be one of the panelists, along with Dean Rachel Kimbro, Cassandra Diep, and Chin Jou.

JOIN US, Dr. Günel, and Friends of Fondren for an event, The Books that Shaped My World, this Wednesday, September 10, 6 p.m., Fondren Library, Kyle Morrow Room, 3rd Floor. RSVP here: riceconnect.rice.edu/fondren/BTSM...

JOIN US and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies for a talk: "Spanish Speakers as Racialized Social Types: Hearing for Deficiency and Deception" by Jessica López-Espino. Dr. López-Espino will be introduced by our professor Amarilys Estrella. Scan QR for more info.

TOMORROW! ✨ JOIN THE RICE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT FOR A BROWN BAG LECTURE WITH MELISSA CEFKIN:

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Talk “Positioning Possibilities: Anthropological Engagements Across Careers” with Melissa Cefkin, Lecturer and Senior Consultant, on Friday, September 5, at 12:00pm in Sewall 570 and Zoom. Register to join on Zoom: tinyurl.com/38nzrjkm

This Labor Day, we are reading "More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn’t Working" by Carrie M. Lane Read our professor, Ilana Gershon, interviewing Carrie M. Lane about the book on SAW website: tinyurl.com/mrkuvakz

New Year, New Members of the Anthro Department! Welcome our new student, Sangharsh Telang! Sangharsh's work examines the interrelationship between highly affluent neighborhoods and the politics of redistribution. #riceanthro #newstudent #riceuniversity

The Anthropology Brown Bag Calendar is up! Join us this fall semester and listen to our favorite anthropologists in our favorite room, Sewall 570. Links and descriptions will be provided before each meeting. Stay tuned! ✨

New Year, New Members of the Anthro Department! Welcome our new student, Kevin Yu! Kevin's research lies at the intersection of law, politics, gender, and transnational governance, with a particular focus on China and the Global South.

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Talk “Autogestión and Autonomy in a 21st Century Mexico City Tianguis” with Rigoberto Quintana, PhD Candidate, Rice University, on Friday, August 29, at 12:00 pm on Zoom. Register for the Zoom meeting: tinyurl.com/bp7ymxdc

New Year, New Members of the Anthro Department! Welcome our new student, Nabiya Khan! Nabiya's research focuses on the formation of political subjectivities among Indian Muslim women, with a focus on everyday life, memory, and resistance.

Another amazing course from the Anthropology department for the Fall semester! Jerks, Bullies, and Toxic People: The Anthropology of Bad Behavior (ANTH 304) Prof. Ilana Gershon Mondays/Wednesdays: 2:00 - 3:15 pm

Are you ready for the fall semester?! 🍁🍂 Social Design Studio (ANTH 368/568) Prof. Dominic Boyer Fridays 2:00-4:30pm Read more below. #riceanthro #socialsciences #socialdesign

Our professors Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer helped lead the world's first funeral for a glacier, Okjökull. The funeral project is now featured in 'Breaking the Ice', in connection with the United Nations’ International Year of Glacier Preservation. Read it on Rice News: tinyurl.com/3urpy4yw

Are you ready for the fall semester?! 🍁🍂 We have great courses coming up: Zooarcheology (ANTH315/515) Dr. Mary Prendergast Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:25-10:40 am Fridays 10-10:50 am

Are you ready for the fall semester?! 🍁🍂 We have great courses coming up: "Kings, Queens, and Commoners: Archeology of Ancient Mesoamerica" ANTH 392/592 Dr. Molly Morgan Meeting times: M&W 2:00-3:15pm

Read our professor Dr. Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo's latest article: "The Ecology of an Elephant Kill: Lion Defleshing of an African Elephant in the Okavango Delta (Botswana), and Limited Kleptoparasitic Opportunities for Meat-Eating Scavengers" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Lecture “Home Values: Land, Labor, and the Economy of Retreat in the Eastern Himalayas” with Sarah Besky, Prof of the Anthropology of Work, the IRL School, Cornell University, on Friday, April 18, at 12:00pm in Room 570, Sewall Hall and via Zoom.

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Lecture “Eldercare and Technology: Visions of Positive Futures” with Caitrin Lynch, Professor of Anthropology, Olin College of Engineering, on Tuesday, April 8, at 12:15pm in Sewall 570 and via Zoom.

This weekend, we are in Austin! the 14th New Directions in Anthropology (NDIA) Conference is hosted by UTAustin Dept of Anthropology in collaboration with the grad students of Rice Anthropology The theme is ‘Rupture and Repair: The Modalities of Anthropological Practice in Contemporary Times

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Lecture “Exceptional Blackness: Neoliberalism and the Homeland Brand in West Africa”with Bayo Holsey, Associate Professor, African American Studies and Anthropology, Emory University, on Friday, April 4, at 12:00pm in Room 570, Sewall Hall and via Zoom.

JOIN our PhD Candidate Laurin Baumgardt for his Doctoral Dissertation Defense “Meantime Design: Architecture, Infrastructure, and Housing Struggles in Post-Apartheid Cape Town” on Wednesday, April 2 at 12:00 PM CDT on Zoom.

Join our PhD Candidate Zeynep Gizem Haspolat for her Doctoral Dissertation Defense “Cheap Meat, Plastic Lives: Cattle Imports, Veterinary Care and Shifting Livestock Economies in Turkey” on Monday, March 31 at 12:00 PM on Zoom. Link below.

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Lecture “Securitizing Birth in South Texas: On Midwives, Birth Certificates, and Bureaucratic Doubling” with Orlando Lara, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, Race and Justice Emphasis, UC Irvine, on Friday, March 28, at 12 pm in ROOM 307, Sewall or Zoom.

Join our professor Dr. Khadene Harris for a talk hosted by the Center for African and African American Studies, "A Conspiracy of Industry and Violence: Caribbean Plantations and the (Un)making of the Plantationocene, March 26, 12pm, Rayzor Hall 119.

JOIN US for this year's Mutant Anthropologies public lecture, Living and Writing War with Dr. Munira Khayyat, Friday, March 13, 2025, 12pm, Sewall 572 or Zoom.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the last Ethnographic Design CoLab of the year! We watched Pema Tseden's Snow Leopard and shared our thoughts after the movie. Special thanks to TransArt Foundation for Art and Anthropology for hosting our event.

JOIN US for a Reception and Screening of Snow Leopard by Pema Tseden! Friday, March 7, 2025 4-5pm Reception 5-7pm Screening of Snow Leopard Location: The Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology, 1412 W Alabama St, Houston, TX 77006 #EthnographicDesignCoLab

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Lecture “Fostering Global Partnerships: Best Practices for Secure and Ethical International Collaboration” with Tam Dao, Assistant Vice President for Research Security, Rice University, on Friday, March 7, at 12:00pm in Room 570, Sewall Hall and via Zoom

Join us for a reading of Undocumented Motherhood with Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, Chicana author and medical anthropologist, as she shares her insights on identity, health, and resilience. Event is hosted by Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies and supported by Rice Anthropology Department

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Lecture “Navigating the Desert of the Unreal” with Lisa Messeri, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, on Friday, February 28, at 12:00pm in Room 570, Sewall Hall and via Zoom.

We had an amazing EDC workshop with Dr. Deborah Thomas where we learned how audio-visual materials and multi-modal work in general contribute to ethnographic work. Stay tuned for the next Ethnographic Design Co.Lab event!

Join us for What’s Cooking in the Pastoral Neolithic? New Approaches to African Foodways, Friday, February 28, 4-6pm, Sewall 570 and Zoom. To register for the Zoom meeting, click here: tinyurl.com/fhw6xzw4 Read more about the event below

join us tomorrow! 12pm, Sewall 570.

Join the Center for Environmental Studies supported by the Rice Sustainability Institute for a talk by Dr. Brittany Meché, "Sustaining Sahelian Futures", Thursday, Feb 20, 12:15-1:30pm, Sewall Hall 570.

Join us for our next Ethnographic Design Co.Lab: Exploring Multimodal Forms - Embodied Knowledge and Modes of Repair Our workshop with Dr. Deborah Thomas will think through abstraction as a representational mode. RSVP by Feb 19, with the code provided. Read more below about the event.

You can read the piece here: limn.press/article/the-...

Why are farmers burying underwear in their fields?  Keren Reichler, Rice Anthropology PhD Candidate, recently published an article in Limn, exploring the theme of obsolescence through an unlikely tool that farmers use to get intimate with their soils.

Join our professors Dominic Boyer (@dominicboyer.bsky.social) and Cymene Howe (@cymene.bsky.social) and other guests for a Center for Coastal Future and Adaptive Resilience conference: Adaptive Resilience for Improved Coastal Futures Kraft Hall 130!

2 days until the deadline! ✨ JOIN US for New Directions in Anthropology Conference, co-hosted by UT Austin and Rice University Anthropology Departments. 5-6 April 2025.

A genuine thanks to Tim Morton and to everyone who joined us today for EDC: Object-Oriented Anthropology.

Ethnographic Design Co.Lab: OBJECT-ORIENTED ETHNOGRAPHY January 31, 12-2pm, with Timothy Morton, Department of English, Cymene Howe and Huatse Gyal, Department of Anthropology. RSVP by Jan 29: tinyurl.com/4nv7ebhb

Join us for the Spring Brown Bags! ✒️📝📚 Here is our calendar for the Spring 2025. #RiceAnthro #BrownBagSeriesSpring Zoom links will be provided here and on our website before every meeting! Stay tuned.

Join Rice Center for Environmental Studies, supported by Rice Sustainability Institute, for a colloquium, Ryan Cecil Jobson: The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago, Thursday, January 23, 12pm, in the Anthropology conference room, Sewall 572.

JOIN US for a Brown Bag Lecture “Be Part of the Energy: The Spirit of the Good Life in Corporate Calgary” with Judith Brunton, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Rice University, on Friday, January 17, at 12:00 p.m. in Room 570, Sewall Hall and via Zoom. #AnthroBrownBag #BrownBagSeries

The fall semester ended but here is a throwback to the end-of-term class of People and Animals in the Past. #RiceAnthro Students of the class presented their posters and celebrated their last class on December 5th. Here are some photos! Poster titles below: