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  1. The Chronicle noted that Quarshie, Assistant Professor of History and of Anthropology and in the History of Medicine, "takes no shortcuts" to understanding the history of psychiatry in Ghana in his 2025 book "African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return."

    A headshot of Nana Osei Quarshie alongside the cover of his 2025 book, African Pharmakon.
  2. In a Q&A, Piphal Heng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, discusses his investigation into everyday life in Cambodia’s City of Angkor, using material evidence and spatial analysis to understand the way the city evolved.

    Piphal Heng. Photo credit: Allie Barton
  3. A new study led by Catherine Panter-Brick, the Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, uses visual mapping to show that peace is understood differently across different stakeholders in conflict-affected countries.

    A Yale-led research team, pictured here in front of the Diplomatic Academy of Mauritania, used visual mapping exercises to chart how different societal groups view pathways to peace.   (Photo courtesy of Catherine Panter-Brick)
  4. Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jessica Thompson appeared on NPR to discuss a 10,000-year-old cremation pyre her team helped excavate in Malawi.

  5. A new study coauthored by Yale paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson provides evidence of the earliest intentional cremation in ancient Africa.

    Hora Mountain from afar. Photo credit: Jacob Davis
  6. In the new episode of the YDS “Quadcast,” Todne Thomas, Associate Professor of Divinity and Religious Studies, discusses her research on a Tennessee church burning and the value of ethnographic study of religious life in America.

    Todne Thomas
  7. Dudley, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, received the lifetime achievement award in honor of her outstanding contributions to the anthropological study of work.

    Kathryn Dudley
  8. Chinchilla, Associate Professor of Anthropology, spoke to Scientific American about a recent discovery made by archaeologist Takeshi Inomata.

    A cross-shaped pit found at the Aguada Fénix site in Mexico after excavation. Photo credit: Takeshi Inomata
  9. Inhorn, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, has been awarded the 2025 AFA Career Award for her many contributions to the field of feminist anthropology.

    Marcia Inhorn
  10. The New York Review of Books reviews Inhorn's 2023 book as part of an exploration into why more women are freezing their eggs.

    Headshot of Marcia Inhorn alongside the cover of her book, "Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs." (NYU Press, 2023)