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Welcoming Eduardo Romero Dianderas

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:35:54 +0000

The Institute for the Study of International Development is pleased to welcome Eduardo Romero Dianderas to its full time academic staff.

Eduardo Romero Dianderas is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Development, 91��. He holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University (2022) and specializes in the study of media technologies, technical infrastructures, and global environmental governance in Latin America.

New ISID Policy Brief: Climate Resilience in Small Island States: Realizing the Major Macroeconomic Benefits from Adaptation Investments

admin — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:51:01 +0000

ISID welcomes the publication of a new policy brief by Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir and his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez. In this brief, Saghir and Ijjasz-Vasquez examine how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are increasingly affected by the growing impacts of climate hazards, including tropical cyclones, storm surges, increases in temperature, heatwaves, droughts, coastal and riverine flooding, changing precipitation patterns, and sea level rise, among others.

Perimeters Graduate Conference

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:01:57 +0000

Perimeters, a new graduate conference by AGSA, invites paper proposals on the topic of the “field” for our inaugural conference - to be held March 21, 2026, at Thomson House.

Collaboration with Mexico's School of Anthropology (ENAH) Field School

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:15:17 +0000

During the summer of 2025, the Guiengola Archaeological Project, directed by Guillermo Ramón Celis--Banting Postdoctoral Researcher in the Anthropology Department at 91��--mentored twelve students from Mexico's National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH). Together, they surveyed a neighborhood of Guiengola, a fortified Zapotec city in southern Oaxaca that was occupied during the period when Europeans first arrived in the region.

Salisbury Memorial Lecture with Anna Tsing

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:24:01 +0000

Fish that Empty the Water: Co-Species Invasion as Occupation

Speaker Series

shameem.mooradun@mcgill.ca — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:14:52 +0000

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Samar Zora Memorial Event

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:13:09 +0000

Roundtable discussion: The Difficulty of Reality

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Re-Personalizing the State: Persianate Sociability as Political Ethic (Mana Kia - Columbia University)

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:53:53 +0000

The Old Women of Nishapur Initiative,

The Institute of Islamic Studies and The Department of Anthropology

invite you to a public talk

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Mana Kia (Columbia University)

Belonging as Freedom: Post-Slavery Trajectories of Emancipation from Southern Senegal, 1950s to Present

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:11:10 +0000

91�� Department of Anthropology Speakers’ Series

Alice Bellagamba
Università di Milano-Bicocca

Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis, Ph.D. - Lidar mapping in a Zapotec sacred mountain: Archaeology of Guiengola, a fortified Mesoamerican city

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:30:36 +0000

Lidar mapping in a Zapotec sacred mountain: Archaeology of Guiengola, a fortified Mesoamerican city

Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis, Ph.D.
Banting Postdoctoral Researcher, 91��

Basit Iqbal (McMaster University) - To the Threshold of Capacity: Tribulation and Ambivalence in Zaatari Camp

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:36:45 +0000

The Old Women of Nishapur Initiative on Gender, Knowledge and Religion

Invites you to a public talk by

Basit Iqbal (McMaster University)

Dean's Reception for Fellowship Recipients

hillary.muller@mcgill.ca — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:02:30 +0000

Being honoured at this event were Lily-Cannelle Mathieu (Trudeau Scholarship and Vanier Scholarship) and Camilo Mireles (Tomlinson Fellowship)

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New Ecozoic Initiative - Dept. of Anthropology seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow

heidi.cheung@mcgill.ca — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 18:44:09 +0000

The Department of Anthropology is seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow, newly housed in our department under the umbrella of the Anthropology for the Ecozoic (A4E) hub, which also includes the Critical Media Lab, a practice-based research space for audiovisual and multimodal ethnography.

Sandra Teresa Hyde - Editor for a 2020 Special Issue of the journal Medical Anthropology

shameem.mooradun@mcgill.ca — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:18:17 +0000

Sandra Teresa Hyde was the Editor for 2020 Special Issue of the journal Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness titled "Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology's Storytelling."

Winter term: Professional Development Seminar Winter 2021 ANTH 609 with Prof Sandra Hyde

shameem.mooradun@mcgill.ca — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:12:26 +0000

Time: Select Mondays Livestream on Zoom from 12:35-1:35 pm on zoom Office hours: Wednesdays 2-4pm or by email request Email: sandra.hyde [at] mcgill.ca Please kindly contact during working hours.