Messeri was recognized by the Society for Cultural Anthropology for her book "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles."

Nana Osei Quarshie, Assistant Professor of History, has been named the winner of the 2026 Cheiron Book Prize for his book African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return.

A Yale-led study co-published by Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Professor of Anthropology, finds that Azara’s owl monkeys have gotten heavier as temperatures rise — a result that defies long-standing expectations about how animals adapt to warm climates.

The fifth round of Yale Planetary Solutions grants will award more than $1.9 million to 19 projects, including four projects that will also receive support from the newly created Planetary Solutions Impact Accelerator.

Industrialized lifestyles — and feeding infants with formula — are changing the gut microbiome in ways that significantly increase estrogen recycling, potentially affecting people’s health, according to a new Yale study co-authored by Richard Bribiescas, J. Clayton Stephenson/Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Heng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, discusses his excavation of Angkor, the onetime seat of the great Khmer Empire in Southeast Asia and once the biggest city in the world.

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."

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.

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.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jessica Thompson appeared on NPR to discuss a 10,000-year-old cremation pyre her team helped excavate in Malawi.