Anthropology - ANNOUNCEMENTS

Workshop examines leadership and lessons from internal displacement in Ukraine

��VR��Ƶ — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:33:54 +0000

Researchers, policymakers and displaced Ukrainian leaders gather in Warsaw to discuss action, advocacy and durable solutions to address the displacement crisis in Ukraine

Call for papers - Perimeters Graduate Conference

��VR��Ƶ — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:06:13 +0000

Perimeters, a new graduate conference by AGSA, invites paper proposals on the topic of the “field” for our inaugural conference - to be held March 21, 2026, at Thomson House.

Notoriously messy and elusive, the “field” is a thorny problematic for many of us before, during, and after fieldwork. This conference invites papers that sit with this trouble in order to engender new ways of thinking and theorizing the “field.” Some of our questions include:

- How do we find and make sense of the contexts we step into?

Collaboration with Mexico's School of Anthropology (ENAH) Field School

��VR��Ƶ — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:15:17 +0000

During the summer of 2025, the Guiengola Archaeological Project, directed by Guillermo Ramón Celis--Banting Postdoctoral Researcher in the Anthropology Department at ��VR��Ƶ--mentored twelve students from Mexico's National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH). Together, they surveyed a neighborhood of Guiengola, a fortified Zapotec city in southern Oaxaca that was occupied during the period when Europeans first arrived in the region.

The Department of Anthropology congratulates its fellowship recipients for Fall 2025!

��VR��Ƶ — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:58:28 +0000

Doctoral
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship: Camilo Mireles Salcedo
Canada Graduate Scholarship: Anna Horton, Lynn Jacobs, and Sabine Plummer
FRQSC Doctoral Scholarship: Sara Hosseini, Lynn Jacobs, Wenrui Li, Camilo Mireles, Enke Tuyaa Montgomery
SECIHTI (Mexico): Alondra Pérez Rojas
Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowship: Alondra Pérez Rojas

Honours Information Session - April 3

��VR��Ƶ — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:50:39 +0000

Wednesday, April 3 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in LEA 738

Please see attached flyer for more information.

Dean's Reception for Fellowship Recipients

��VR��Ƶ — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:02:30 +0000

Being honoured at this event were Lily-Cannelle Mathieu (Trudeau Scholarship and Vanier Scholarship) and Camilo Mireles (Tomlinson Fellowship)

Fellowship Announcement 2023-2024

��VR��Ƶ — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:57:45 +0000

Congratulations to the 2023-2024 fellowship recipients!

Trudeau Scholar: Lily-Cannelle Mathieu, https://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/member/lily-cannelle-mathieu

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship: Lily-Cannelle Mathieu, /gps/funding/achievements/vanier-canada-graduate-scholarship/2023-vanier-scholars

Weaver-Tremblay Award in Canadian Applied Anthropology 2023 - Prof. Colin Scott

��VR��Ƶ — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:44:25 +0000

Weaver-Tremblay 2023: Anthropological Activism for Territories of Life

11/16/2023 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM, TMCC Hall F

Prof. Colin Scott has received the prestigious Weaver-Tremblay Award in Canadian Applied Anthropology for his “longstanding commitments to the territorial rights, sovereignty, and self-determination of Indigenous peoples in Canada.”

New Ecozoic Initiative - Dept. of Anthropology seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow

��VR��Ƶ — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 18:44:09 +0000

The Department of Anthropology is seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow, newly housed in our department under the umbrella of the Anthropology for the Ecozoic (A4E) hub, which also includes the Critical Media Lab, a practice-based research space for audiovisual and multimodal ethnography.

Meilin Ma (2021), Ryersonian interview with Sandra Hyde on “Racism against Asians in North America Surging,” March 29. https://ryersonian.ca/racism-against-asians-in-north-america-surging/

��VR��Ƶ — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:48:15 +0000

Congratulations to Dr. Hillary Kaell who won a SSHRC Insight grant for a 5-year project on ecological and spiritual disruptions in coastal regions of the United States

��VR��Ƶ — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:19:10 +0000

VOX POPULI ON PANDEMIC by Prof. Sandra Hyde (The Hill Times, 2021)

��VR��Ƶ — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:03:19 +0000

“Epidemics are not random events that drop from the sky without warning. Epidemic outbreaks follow the fault lines of society, where they begin to entrench more” along racial and economic disparities

Congratulations to our incoming MA student Daisy Couture for winning a McCall MacBain Scholarship!

��VR��Ƶ — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:46:21 +0000

The McCall MacBain Scholarship enables students to pursue a fully funded master’s or professional degree at ��VR��Ƶ while connecting with mentors and participating in an intensive leadership development program.

Prof. Katherine Lemons' book Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press, 2019) received an Honourable Mention in the inaugural SAMSA Book Award

��VR��Ƶ — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:56:12 +0000

Congratulations to Prof. Katherine Lemons whose book Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press, 2019) has just received an Honourable Mention in the inaugural South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA) Book Award, which recognizes scholarship taking place within the field of South Asian Muslim Studies.

Prof. Ronald Niezen awarded a Distinguished James ��VR��Ƶ Professorship

��VR��Ƶ — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:43:58 +0000

Congratulations to Prof. Ronald Niezen, , for being awarded a Distinguished James ��VR��Ƶ Professorship

Many congratulations to Prof. Hillary Kaell (jointly appointed with the School for Religious Studies) for being awarded a Wlliam Dawson Chair

��VR��Ƶ — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:31:31 +0000

Sandra Teresa Hyde - Editor for a 2020 Special Issue of the journal Medical Anthropology

��VR��Ƶ — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:18:17 +0000

Sandra Teresa Hyde was the Editor for 2020 Special Issue of the journal Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness titled "Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology's Storytelling."

Medical Anthropologists weigh in on COVID-19

��VR��Ƶ — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:15:39 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic sadly removed members of the Anthropology department from our face to face collective spaces. To fill this void, the Anthropology Graduate Students collectively created Talking Culture and its mini-series COVID Conversations. As the producer and host, Alejandra Melian-Morse conducted nine interviews on how COVID-19 entangled scholarship and lives. These podcasts showcase how Anthropology asks questions and fosters meaningful conversations through creative digital media, generating novel ways to think about this pandemic.

Winter term: Professional Development Seminar Winter 2021 ANTH 609 with Prof Sandra Hyde

��VR��Ƶ — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:12:26 +0000

Time: Select Mondays Livestream on Zoom from 12:35-1:35 pm on zoom Office hours: Wednesdays 2-4pm or by email request Email: sandra.hyde [at] mcgill.ca Please kindly contact during working hours.

Prof Lemons wins honourable mention for her recent book

��VR��Ƶ — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:39:39 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Katherine Lemons for winning the Honorable Mention for her book, Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press 2019) from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Book Prize in Critical Anthropology, 2020.

Fall 2020 Course Descriptions and Syllabi

��VR��Ƶ — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:18:11 +0000

Check out the Courses page for updated course descriptions and syllabi for the Anthropology courses you can take in Fall 2020!