Announcements

The Critical Urban Anthropology Association selected Dr Samantha Maurer Fox's paper for the prestigious City and Society Best Paper Prize at this week's annual conference. The paper, "A City of newcomers: migration and solidarity in the former East Germany" was first published May 17, 2024 and "examines how urban temporalities have come to alternately foster and hinder migrants' incorporation in the larger social body."  Here's a link to the article: https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12484

Pictured with Dr Fox (center) are Kristin Monroe, editor of City and Society and the executive editor, Andrew Newman.  CUAA is  a section of the American Anthropology Association, which is holding its annual meeting in Tampa, Fl this week (November 20-23, 2024).

Lehigh News recently featured Assistant Professor of Anthropology Armando Anzellini and his bone research that looks at the past to learn about the present.  One of many research projects he is actively engaged in, Dr Anzellini is assisting in analyzing three different burial methods used in a Romanian graveyard. Read the full article by Stephen Gross here: 

https://www2.lehigh.edu/news/bone-research-studies-romanian-social-structure-health-in-aging

Dr. LaToya Council, Assistant Professor of Sociology, was recently awarded a Faculty research Grant from OVPR to work on her book project, Wellbeing: Marriage, Family and Gender in the Black Middle Class.  The resulting research and book are expected to address a significant gap in the literature while also providing a more nuanced understanding of the intersectionality of race, gender, and class.

Dr. Armando Anzellini, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, has been awarded a Faculty research Grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research.  His project is entitled: "Power in Life and Death: Elite Demographics, Identity, and the Embodiment of Inequality at the Cliff Tomb Sites of Chachapoyas, Peru" and continues ongoing research on the ancient Andean culture.  Dr Anzellini and 3 undergraduate students will travel to Peru this summer as part of this project.

After earning a BA in Anthropology here in 2022, Isabel is now earning her Master's at Yale in Archaeological Studies, with a concentration on the evolution of the human diet in eastern Africa. Her field work has been based in Malawi.  The photo shows her in Karonga Museum. 

This is how the threat of deportation affects the mental health of Latinos in the US

The threat of deportation has affected the mental health not only of undocumented Latino immigrants, but also of naturalized immigrants, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While there are direct impacts from changes to the federal government and its immigration policies, it is not just the presidential election that has consequences, Forbes Mexico reports. “How people talk about immigration and how relevant immigration and deportation are to everyday life is potentially as important as the most significant events and changes,” said the study’s author and professor of sociology Amy Johnson.  (this taken from Lehigh Today on 2/22/24)

See the Forbes article here: Read story from Forbes Mexico   or  View translated Forbes Mexico PDF

"Mapping Texts: computational text analysis for the social sciences" was co-authored with Marshall A. Taylor and released in February 2024. Dustin S. Stoltz is an assistant professor of sociology and cognitive science.  The book offers a practical introduction to computational text analysis with step-by-step guides on how to conduct actual text analysis workflows in the R statistical computing environment.

The Biblical Archaeology Society recently awarded Dr Allison Mickel, Associate Professor of Anthropology, the "Best Book in Archaeology" for "Why Those who Shovel are Silent."

A letter to Dr Mickel from the Editor-in-Chief Glenn G. Corbett said:

On behalf of Biblical Archaeology Review magazine and the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS), I am pleased to inform you that your Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor has been selected by our judges to receive a 2023 BAS Publication Award in the category “Best Book on Archaeology.”

This prestigious award, for the best books of 2021–2022 in archaeology and biblical studies, carries with it a prize of $500 and an award certificate. 

Congratulations on this recognition of your research and book!