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Kathleen C. Riley, an Assistant Research Professor at Rutgers University, has received a Fulbright US Scholar Program award in Anthropology to France for the 2026-27 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Riley’s research project, "Marquesan Migrants in France (Ènana en France): Language, Food, Sex, and Cultural Sovereignty," asks: why do French Polynesians migrate to France, and how does life in the metropole change their sense of identity and...

On April 10, Professor Omar Dewachi delivered the annual Robert’s Lecture at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, titled “Death of the Clinic: Care in the Ruins of War.” Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, the talk examined how decades of war in Iraq have reshaped the conditions of care, tracing the erosion of the clinic as a stable institutional form. Dewachi showed how care persists across fragmented infrastructures—moving through hospitals, homes, and...

Congratulations to Khaled Bin Oli Bhuiyan, who has published his first, first-authored publication in the American Journal of Human Biology!! The article describes links between leg length and fat oxidation, which may offer an early assessment for risk for subsequent chronic disease. The article is here for those of you who are interested: Website

Rutgers PhD student Dimitri Papavasiliou, currently researching with AMBILAB group, was featured in University of La Laguna's newsletter.

 A book edited by two SAS professors that explores how Latino communities have shaped the cultural, economic, and political fabric of New Jersey has received a 2025 Author Award from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance. Congratulations Ulla Berg and Aldo Lauria Santiago for their work on the acclaimed “Latinas/os in New Jersey: Histories, Communities, and Cultures," published by Rutgers University Press.

During his time at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, anthropology and history major Joe Mezza interned as an assistant and tour guide at the Rutgers Geology Museum.  Read the full article here.