Congratulations Jared!

Jared Hogan has been awarded The William H. and Bertha Baird Memorial Scholarship for the 2021/2022 scholarship year. The scholarship is awarded annually to a full-time graduate student enrolled in any program of study and is awarded on the basis of academic excellence. 

Anthropology 4073

Come check out this course with Professor Rex Clark!                                                            " No Pre-Req's Required!"

Check Out Guest Speaker: Dr. Sadeka Halim

Dr. Sadeka Halim will touch on the major challeges women from diverse backgrounds face in Bangladesh to secure equality in the socio-economic and political spheres. 

Check Out Guest Speaker: Dr. Ario Seto

The Department of Anthropology invites you to join a presentation this Friday, March 12th at 1 PM by Dr. Ario Seto.

The title:  "The Temporality of Mediatized Morality: On Resistance and Conformity." 

Guest Speaker: Dr. Adrienne Lo, University of Waterloo, Department of Anthropology

  Contact for Webex Link: wc4654@mun.ca

Check Out Guest Speaker: Dr. Nasir Uddin

The Rohingyas, an ethno-linguistic and religious minority of Myanmar known as the world’s most persecuted people, experienced a brutal atrocity in 2017 perpetrated by Myanmar security forces what the United Nations Human Rights Council explained as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and some scholars called “genocide”. In response to an attack made by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on August 25, 2017, Myanmar security forces launched a clearance operation, which, a report of an Independent Facts Finding Committee appointed by the United Nations confirmed, forced 725,000 Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh, about 10,000 Rohingyas were killed in the first two months, 1900 of women and girls were (ganged) raped, and 392 villages were partially or totally destroyed. Combined with the previous ones, Bangladesh now hosts more than one million Rohingya in its Southeastern part, Ukhia and Teknaf, in 34 temporary refugee camps. Considering the intensity of atrocity committed by the state forces, the ways the Rohingyas dealt with in Myanmar as if they were not human beings. In Bangladesh, the host community are gradually becoming ‘unwelcoming’ since more than one million additional people began to share local resources, livelihood sources, and social utilities. The Rohingyas are ‘struggling for existence’ having an obscured past, critical present and an uncertain future. The Rohingyas belong to no state as Myanmar stripped of their citizenship four decades ago and Bangladesh does not recognize them even as refugees. Given the context, the talk with empirically grounded evidences presents the current states of Rohingya in the Borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar within the broader spectrum of statelessness, refugeehood and “subhuman life”.   

Come take a course with Dr. Gordon this Winter semester

Anthropology 2413-001, CRN 92013. 

Congratulations Angeline Jones for winning The Newfoundland St. Andrews Society Scholarship Award!

We are so proud of all your accomplishments!

Dr. Wayne Fife's New Book!

Check out Dr. Fife's second book on research methods with Palgrave Macmillan!

Guest Speaker - Dr. Letha Victor

The World Outside, the World Inside: Wounded Possibilities in Acholi, Uganda Dr. Letha Victor, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

3MT Competition Winners!

3MT Competition was a huge success! Congratulations Olatunji Anthony Akerele for winning first place and to Heather Elliott for winning second place and People's Choice!

Come Check out this Book Launch

Please Join Dr. Lincoln Addison for the Launch of his book, Friday, November 29, 2019, 2pm, Queen's College, Great Hall, at Memorial University.

Meet grad student Miranda Carlson-Strain

Miranda Carlson-Strain is an anthropology MA student whose thesis topic is LGBTQ \tattooing in St. John’s. She is interviewing both tattooed and non-tattooed LGBTQ individuals to collect narratives about tattoos as a way to better understand what it means to be LGBTQ in St. John’s. Read more about her and her research here.

Entrepreneurial alumnus

Katie Baggs is an anthropology grad (with an English minor) and is co-owner of Little Nest Children's Community, an alternative preschool with a focus on nature education and creative play. Katie is also known for her work as as a singer-songwriter. Read more about her journey to entrepreneurship here.

Across the Tickle

Anthropologist Dr. Sharon Roseman is examining what happens when a daily commute includes ocean travel in her study of people’s current and past experiences of using ferries to commute to work between Bell Island and mainland Newfoundland.  Read more in the Gazette.

ATIKU NAPEU - Documentary Screening February 24th, 6:30pm

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The Department of Anthropology Speaker Series

The Department of Anthropology Speaker Series

Dr. Sharon Roseman Presents

Honk If You Want Me Off The Road

Dr. Jaro Stacul's Presents

History into Debris: Demolition Politics and the State in Contmeporary Poland

Studying Anthropology at Memorial: What students have to say

In the winter of 2015 six undergraduate students  met with videographer and fellow student Shannon Cymbaly to reflect on their experiences studying Anthropology at MUN. The final result is a short video that offers their insights into what studying Anthropology has meant to them, and how it has prepared them for their future lives. 

Dr. Tanner's Book Nominated for an Atlantic Book Award

Dr. Adrian Tanner's (Honorary Research Professor) book, Bringing Home Animals, has been nominated for an Atlantic Book Award in the Scholarly Writing category. 

Anthropology Presenters at Arts on Oceans Event

Joonas Plaan (Anthropology PhD candidate) and Reade Davis (Assistant Professor, Anthropology) will be presenting at the Arts on Oceans Symposium on Tuesday, April 7, 2015.  Registration is required. RSVP to marinat@mun.ca.

Dr. Sharon Roseman Receives Award

Dr. Sharon Roseman received the Dean's Award for Graduate Supervision

Dr. August Carbonella Publishes Book

Dr. August Carbonella (Associate Professor, Anthropology) has published a book entitled Blood and Fire: Toward and Anthropology of Labor. This book was published through Berghahn Books.

For more information or to purchase this book please visit the publisher's website.