Anthropology
Funded MA: Environmental Anthropology
Funding is available for an MA student in environmental anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan, beginning in September, 2017. Prof. Clint Westman is leading a community-engaged research project focusing on the resource extraction sector’s impacts and processes with respect to Aboriginal people in northern Alberta. The project provides an opportunity for MA students to undertake […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Environment #Ethnography #Resource extraction
Funded PhD: Human Rights
The Department of Anthropology at UCL is seeking applications for an MPhil/PhD candidate fully funded by The Sigrid Rausing Trust, to commence in the academic session 2017/18. The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a UK grant-making foundation, founded in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing to support human rights globally. In conjunction with potential supervisors, the successful applicant will be expected […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Human Rights
Funded PhDs (10): Muslim Cultures and Societies
10 Fully Funded PhD Programmes 2017 at Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies Funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments, the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies will admit up to ten new students to its next doctoral programme, which begins on *1 October 2017*. The formal prerequisite for application […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Ethnography #Islam #Muslim Culture #Sociology
Post-doc: National Anthropological Archives
The National Anthropological Archives (NAA) at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Department of Anthropology is offering a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship that focuses on research with the NAA to establish methods, standards, and criteria for enhancing the discoverability of cultural anthropology data and materials within its holdings. Candidates should hold (or have […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Archives #Ethnography #History #Research Methods
Funded PhD: Place-based knowledge
Place is not just the surface upon which life happens, but an ongoing state created by process and relations (Massey 1994, 2005; Rose 1993); places are practices (Dehyle 2009). In Indigenous studies, Land refers not only to soil, but to water, air, animals, and most importantly, the relations between them, as Land constitutes the life […]
Tags: #Action Research #Anthropology #Indigenous studies #Interdisciplinary Studies #Place-based knowledge
People of the Plow
James McCann’s People of the Plow (1995) presents the agricultural history of Ethiopia from 1800 to 1990. While historical, it is also in many ways anthropological, particularly in the parts wherein the author draws on years of fieldwork. What I found particularly interesting in the book is the broader discourse within which the book is […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Anthropology #Ethiopia #History #Politics
Funded PhD: Social History of the Ebola Epidemics: Ethnography of a Neighbourhood
As partners of a European research project aiming at studying the conditions of a more efficient response to the epidemic risk of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Guinea-Conakry, funded by Horizon 2020, we offer a three-year PhD contract at the prestigious Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon). The PhD student will join a team […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Ebola #Epidemics #Ethnography #Social History
Postdoc: Big Data
The Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington (UW) Seattle seeks an ethnographer of data science for a 36 month (2.5yrs) postdoctoral research scientist position, starting January 2017. The hired candidate will work with Prof. David Ribes in Seattle, and in collaboration with Geoffrey C. Bowker (and an additional postdoc) […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Big data #Ethnography #Interdisciplinary #interdisciplinary Research
PhD Studentship: Public History of the Middle East
The Public History program and the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at NC State University are looking for a Doctoral Candidate in the Public History of the Middle East to start in fall 2017 for a period of three years. Acceptance into the program includes a competitive stipend, full tuition waiver, and health coverage. […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Culture #Ethnography #History #Middle East
Post-doc: Migration & Health (Singapore)
Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS), invites applications for TWO Postdoctoral Fellows to work on a research project entitled CHILD HEALTH AND MIGRANT PARENTS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA (CHAMPSEA): WAVE II. Both positions will be based in Singapore. AREA OF EXPERTISE The successful candidate will be someone who holds a PhD degree (or […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Development Studies #Geography #Health #Migration
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Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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