Now’s a good time to check out the following article from Wenner-Gren Grant recipient Elias Plata Espino, in, “The Journal of Peasant Studies.”

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What's Behind a Michelin Star? As judges scout new restaurants in the U.S., an anthropologist investigates the elite, Eurocentric history of the Michelin Red Guide.

From the SAPIENS archive. www.sapiens.org/culture/mich...

Webinar - On April 27th join the Foundation’s president, Danilyn Rutherford, for a discussion of the Engaged Research Grant program. wennergren.org/workshop/pro...

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Call for Application - The Ethnographic Writing Workshop, in partnership with the Mosaicc Creative Hub and the CRESSON laboratory, is launching the second edition of its free photography workshop for researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and doctoral students. fabecritures.fr/workshop-pho...

Medical Anthropology Quarterly | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library In this ethnographic research project involving disabled and non/disabled siblings in Canada, we have found that during major life-changing transitions, such as the death of a parent, siblings face m....

I am really excited to share that our article Extraordinary measures of sibling worldmaking (Block, Ries, and Kassem) is now published in MAQ.

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Save the date! BOAS Seminar: Angela Reyes 'From Conyo to Rizal: Elite Emanation and Inversion' April 22, 2026 2:10 PM - 4:00 PM. anthropology.columbia.edu/events/boas-...

Kinship Without Blood: What Ancient DNA Can’t See Genetics is rewriting prehistory. It is also quietly misleading us about what a family is.

Ancient DNA can map family trees with precision. But in prehistoric graves, many “families” weren’t biologically related at all. Kinship wasn’t just blood. It was something people made. #Archaeology #AncientDNA #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/kinship-wi...

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Drilling the Marathousa palaeo‐lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site The Megalopolis Basin is located in the central Peloponnese (Greece), a region that is situated along one of the primary Pleistocene biogeographical corridors for intracontinental hominin migration. ...

✨I am so pleased that our latest paper on the Megalopolis basin and its paleoenvironment is published online today in Boreas! 🐘🏔️✨
Many congratulations to Ines Bludau and the entire team! 🎉👏

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Current Anthropology | Vol 67, No S28

We're very excited to share the news that the special issue of, "Current Anthropology" is available now! This issue is a direct outgrowth from WG supported symposium, "Populism: Anthropological Approaches," www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ca/2026/...

Decentering Anthropology by Way of Malinowski: Critical Perspectives on Power, Place and Colonialism | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

Take note! "Decentering Anthropology, by way of Malinowski," edited by Wenner-Gren grant recipients Dorothy Louise Zinn and Chandana Mathur will be available this May! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Mathur...

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The Wenner-Gren Foundation seeks proposals for its new Seminar program. Deadline for submissions is April 8, 2026. wennergren.org/article/call...

Reducing the threats of rodent-borne zoonoses requires an understanding and leveraging of three key pillars: disease ecology, synanthropy, and rodentation Rodents have co-existed with humans for centuries, and frequently exchange pathogens. Historically, rodent-driven plague outbreaks scoured the Old Wor…

New review out in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social from our rodent-borne zoonoses workshop @ciddpsu.bsky.social 🐭🌍

Humans & rodents share a long history and many pathogens -from plague to mpox. Outbreak prevention needs socially + ecologically grounded solutions

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Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes - Nature In the Uspallata Valley, agriculture was adopted by local populations, as evidenced by genetic continuity from earlier hunter-gatherers to farmers; maize-dependent groups from the same regional p...

How did farming reach the Southern Andes? Through migration or cultural transmission? Our new paper in @nature.com combines ancient DNA, isotopes, archaeology & paleoclimate to reconstruct 2,000+ years of history in Uspallata, Mendoza.
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have a new publication with Craig Ryder called The Augmented Interview. It's a methodology paper that shows how and why an interview based around an object or image can be far more productive than a purely language-based interview
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On April 7th join Wenner-Gren's own Chip Colwell for, "The Basics of Publishing for Archaeologists."
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM Eastern Time. Location: Zoom.
Register: archaeologyincommunity.com/workshops/

So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

How Allocating Work Aided Our Evolutionary Success Many societies divide labor by gender and age. A biological anthropologist considers when and why this behavior arose.

From the SAPIENS.org archive. www.sapiens.org/biology/labo...

AAA Selects 2026 OpEd Project Participants! - American Anthropological Association Thanks to a generous grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and our donors, the AAA is once again pleased to offer a huge congratulations to the 20 members selected for this […]

The AAA is once again pleased to offer a huge congratulations to the 20 members selected for this year’s “Write to Change the World” OpEd Project! americananthro.org/news/aaa-sel...

Annual Meeting Registration - Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)

The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (sessions, papers, posters, and videos) for the Program of the 87th Annual Meeting in Norfolk, VA, March 23-27, 2027. Deadline for abstract submission: Oct. 1, 2026.
Info: appliedanthro.org/annual-meeti...

Excited to share two articles from Wenner-Gren grant recipient Tsering Bum!

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A landscape with a sign reading: Igreja De Deus Em Cristo Menonita Cultos dos domingos as 10:00 a 19:30 horas Todos sao bem vindos Everyone Welcome With a cloudy sky and fields of sugar cane in the background.

Out today in the Journal of Political Ecology - "Gelasenheit in Goiás: A Mennonite political ecology" @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social
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Our special issue on (the #anthropology of) #Restoration in Environment and Society is out: a diverse collection of #review articles covering various regions, habitats and species. With Jessica Vandenberg.