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
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences
Shannon Mattern, Professor of Anthropology
Princeton University Press, 2021
On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience
Abou Farman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Minnesota Press, 2020
Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists
Nicolas Langlitz, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Princeton University Press, 2020
The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
Hugh Raffles, Professor of Anthropology
Penguin Random House, 2020
Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice
Ann Stoler, Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and History (co-editor)
Fordham University Press, 2020
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media
Shannon Mattern, Professor of Anthropology
University of Minnesota Press, 2017
Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
Ann Stoler,
Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and History
Duke University Press, 2016
Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination
Ann Stoler, Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and History
Duke University Press, 2013
Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain
Nicolas Langlitz, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012
Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France
Miriam Ticktin, Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of California Press, 2011
Recent Dissertation Titles
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