Anthropology at Princeton University

🎬🦁 The students of ANT 455: Visible Evidence: Wildlife films and Multispecies Documentary screened five original films they created on a trip to the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya. 🌍🦒🌿

🐃Herded
🦓Chasing Stripes
🐕Dog Hunt
🌱Daraja Academy: The Sisterhood That Grows Here
🐒Baboons and the Humans that Follow Them

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This trip and the work that came out of it were made possible through the generous support of the Office of the Provost, the Princeton Center on Science and Technology , the High Meadows Environmental Institute, Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), Princeton Office of International Programs, and the Program in African Studies.

We are so excited to see what ANT alum have been up to! Good luck in Law School, Autumn!

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🎉Congratulations Doctor Sadighi!

On July 2, Anthropology graduate student Darius Sadighi successfully defended his dissertation “Stakeholder Socialism: The Economy of Solutions in Vietnam's Mekong Delta."

Darius' dissertation defense committee included his two co-chairs Professor João Biehl and Assistant Professor Jerry Zee, as well as his examiners Professors Arzoo Osanloo and Christina Schwenkel of UC Riverside.

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Thursday, July 2nd,- launch event for Professor Richard A. Wilson's new book Speech Crimes in the Digital Era: The Peace and Justice Initiative Guidelines, co-edited with Matthew Gillett and Vanessa Topp. Can't make it to The Hage to attend in person? The event will be live streamed on Microsoft Teams. For the link and more information on the speaker lineup bit.ly/3Qs3HSy

New agreements between Anthropology at Princeton University,
Brazil LAB, and Brazilian institutions Instituto Serrapilheira, Instituto Relva, and UFAM - Universidade Federal do Amazonas turn research collaboration into a durable scholarly network looking at anthropology, Indigenous sciences, environmental research, and climate adaptation.

Anthropology and the Brazil LAB Forge New Partnerships to Cross-Pollinate Indigenous and Western Sciences Princeton’s Department of Anthropology and the Brazil LAB at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) have entered into formal partnerships with Instituto Serrapilheira, Instituto Relva, and the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM). Together, the agreements establish...

Assistant Professor Hanna Garth discusses with NPR All Things Considered the importance of restaurants in fostering community as inflation has many dining out less often. NPR

Diners are staying home, so this restaurant lets patrons pay what they want Americans are increasingly passing up on dining out. So one restaurant is allowing diners to pay what they like for their food.

Assistant Professor Amelia Frank-Vitale discussed migration, storytelling, and her new book 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘐𝘧 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘊𝘢𝘯 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
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In a new essay for Anthropology News, John Borneman reflects on teaching students to write from experience—and why that process matters more than ever.
Explore his insights on voice, self-discovery, and learning in the age of AI:

You Cannot Borrow a Voice: John Borneman Reflects on Teaching Writing as Self-Discovery in a Time of AI In Fall of 2025, John Borneman, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, returned to Princeton to teach a First-Year Seminar, Anthropology of the Self: Reflexivity, Psychoanalysis, Experience. In his recent Anthropology News essay, “You Cannot Borrow a Voice,” he reflects on the course in the context...

🎉Congratulations to the 2026 Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize winners! 📙