Faculty and students in the Department of Anthropology explore analytic, social, and political issues through ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and theoretical reflection. They lead cutting-edge research and develop projects both individually and in collaboration with other graduate programs and centers at The New School.
Recent Faculty Books
On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience
Abou Farman, Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of Minnesota Press, 2020
Interior Frontiers: Essays on the Entrails of Inequality
Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and History
Oxford University Press, 2022
Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice
Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and History (co-editor)
Fordham University Press, 2020
Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and History
Duke University Press, 2016
Democracy's Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid
Antina von Schnitzler, Associate Professor of International Affairs
Princeton, 2017
Design as Future-Making
Barbara Adams, Assistant Professor of Art, Design and Social Justice (co-editor with Susan Yelavitch)
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015
Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies
Benjamin Lee, Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy (co-editor with Randy Martin)
University of Chicago Press, 2016
Labor and Creativity in New York’s Global Fashion Industry
Christina Moon, Associate Professor of Fashion Studies
Routledge, 2020
"The Many Care Worlds a Butterfly Crosses" in Environmental Humanities
Columba González-Duarte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Duke University Press, 2024
"The Blue Planet Event" in Future Histories of Life, Otherwise
Dana Burton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (co-author with Valerie Olson)
Berggruen Institute, 2024
The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
Hugh Raffles, Professor of Anthropology
Pantheon Books, 2020
Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention
Jaskiran Dhillon, Associate Professor of Global Studies
University of Toronto Press, 2017
What Remains
Jonathan Bach, Professor of Global Studies
Columbia University Press, 2017
"Collections, collectives, and individuals: Preschoolers’ attributions of intentionality" in Cognition
Lawrence Hirschfeld, Professor of Anthropology and Psychology (CSD) (co-author with H. Sheikh)
Elsevier BV, 2019
Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists
Nicolas Langlitz, Professor of Anthropology
Princeton University Press, 2020
The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
Hugh Raffles, Professor of Anthropology
Penguin Random House, 2020
Driving after Class: Anxious Times in an American Suburb
Rachel Heiman, Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of California Press, 2015
Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin
Sareeta Amrute, Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management
Duke University Press, 2016
Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education
Ujju Aggarwal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Experiential Learning
University of Minnesota Press, 2024
Recent Dissertation Titles
2024
Vaida Norvilaite
Dissertation: The Afterlife of Positivism: Intellectual Ethnography of Auguste Comte’s Church of Humanity in Brazil
William Scarlett
Dissertation: Being There and Not There: Making Presence in Virtual Reality and Forest Therapy
2023
Chellie Bowman
Dissertation: Towards an Anthropology of Birds: How the Knowledge Practices of Amateur Birders & Bird Scientists Amplify and Access Nonhuman Life
Lee Brando
Dissertation: Rehabilitating Medicine: Chronic Pain, Opioid Prescribing, and Telementoring Technologies in the Pacific Northwest
Sarah Elizabeth Chant
Dissertation: Feeling It Out: Imaginative and Affective Strategies of Queer and Trans Life in Alabama
Liliana Gil Russo De Sousa
Dissertation: Beyond Make-do Innovation: Practices and Politics of Technological Improvisation in Brazil
Chang-Chen Shen
Dissertation: Dwelling Politically: Political Ontology and the Everyday Life of Chinese Undocumented Migrants in the US
2022
Katheryn Marie Detwiler
Dissertation: Science Fell in Love with the Chilean Sky: Data as a Speculative Resource in the Atacama Desert
Chi Chung Lau
Dissertation: Digitized China: Technology, State, Everyday Life
Felipe Vieira Meres
Dissertation: Art/facts Rerendered
2021
Chi Chung Lau
Dissertation: Digitized China: Technology, State, Everyday Life
2020
Tamara Alvarez
Dissertation: The Eighth Continent: An Ethnography of 21st Century Euro-American Plans to Settle the Moon
Frederick Charles Howard III
Dissertation: No Refuge in Return: A Study of Landscape, Home, and Colonial Power for Oglala Veterans on Pine Ridge
2019
Katyayani Dalmia
Dissertation: Inhabiting One’s Skin: An Ethnography of Body and Color in a North Indian City
Randi L. Irwin
Dissertation: Derivative States: Property Rights and Claims-making in a Non-self-governing Territory
Charles Alan McDonald
Dissertation: Return to Sepharad: Citizenship, Conversion, and the Politics of Jewish Inclusion in Spain
Viana Muller
Dissertation: Gender Structures and Stratification in Prehistoric Northwest and Central-West Europe: 1500 BCE-800 CE
Alexios Tsigkas
Dissertation: Discerning Value: Taste as an Economic Fact
2018
Tyler James Boersen
Dissertation: Greek Liquidity: Housing, Credit, and the Globalization of Insolvency
Jason Duane Euren
Dissertation: In Search of Innovation: Hacking Technocracy, Participation, and Politics in the Bay
Brie Marina Gettleson
Dissertation: The Desaparecidos of Everyday Life: Militarism and Femicide in Guatemala
Frederick C Howard III
Dissertation: Talking to Hide Things: Colonial Recursions and Veteran Care on Pine Ridge
Rhea Bonita Rahman
Dissertation: Global Muslims Doing Good: Islamic Humanitarianism in Practice
Emily Sekine
Dissertation: The Unsteady Earth: Geological Kinships in Post-Fukushima Japan
Marisa E. Solomon
Dissertation: Letting Trash Talk: Garbage in the Order of People
Ana María Ulloa Garzón
Dissertation: After Flavor: An Ethnographic Study of Science, Industry, and Gastronomy
2017
Monica Fagioli
Dissertation: Mobilizing the Somali diaspora: techno-politics and complexities of state-building in Somaliland
Christina Kim
Dissertation: From Security to Speculation: An Ethnography of Economic Activities Along the Border of China and North Korea
Julienne Obadia
Dissertation: Assembling Persons: Entanglement and Fragility in American Individualism
Emily Sogn
Dissertation: Internal Frontiers: Health, Emotion, and the Rise of Resilience-Thinking in the U.S. Military
Grzegorz Stanislaw Sokol
Dissertation: Working Through What Is Depression and Agency in Poland’s ‘New Reality’
Carol Wang
Dissertation: Blood, Rights and Money: An Ethnography of HIV/AIDS Activism in Contemporary China