Traveling across the nation with the latest iteration of the Grateful Dead, Sam Cooper ’24 joined a community of like-minded “Deadheads” for a summer of music and ritual dancing. These experiences form the basis of the philosophy major’s summer research project.
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The anthropology professor coauthors a widely shared article in 谈话 exploring what might happen if the search for extraterrestrial life yields results.
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The Peary-MacMillan 北极的博物馆 officially reopens in the new and dramatic John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies with three inaugural exhibitions.
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Bowdoin has appointed a cohort of four accomplished scholars to new endowed faculty professorships honoring distinguished Black graduates of the College. 这些新职位, which are fully funded by donors, will focus on the interdisciplinary study of race, 种族歧视, and racial justice and across themes of environmental justice and belonging, 公民身份, 和自由.
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With the heavy lifting now complete, Bowdoin’s newly relocated 北极的博物馆 starts to take shape. As it prepares to open its doors in May, museum staff are excited by what the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies has to offer.
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A Bowdoin graduate is among the diplomats and other senior government officials from the US and Greenland who convened on campus this week to discuss the strengthening of ties between America and the Arctic island nation.
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Over 200 students received fellowships from Bowdoin this summer to pursue independent research with a faculty advisor.
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今年夏天, Meghan Gonzalez, 23岁, a recipient of the Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Coastal and Environmental Studies, is combining her interest in anthropological research with her desire to forge a deeper connection to the Midcoast Maine community.
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Assistant Professor of 人类学 Willi Lempert has some advice for scientists looking for signs of extraterrestrial life: If you’re successful, think very carefully about what to do next.
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一年前, Adaiah Hudgins-Lopez was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study for a master's degree in social anthropology at University of Cambridge. 最近, she learned she would receive a second scholarship to pursue a social anthropology doctorate there.
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公开信 on Police Violence and Anti-Black Racism
The 部门 人类学 condemns White supremacy, 反黑人种族歧视, and the state-sanctioned violence that has ended the lives of so many Black people. 和我们的学生, 的同事们, 朋友, and community members, we stand in solidarity with the movement for Black lives. The resources we share (including recent articles, 网站, 视频, podcasts and books) offer critical insights on these issues within and beyond the discipline and amplify the voices of Black anthropologists and other scholars and activists.