MIT named No. 1 university worldwide for social sciences
Times Higher Education ranks MIT’s social sciences the best in the world.
Department
Anthropology
Hundreds of MIT students explore fields at the 2015 TOUR de SHASS
Academic expo connects students with MIT-SHASS faculty and courses.
Announcing MIT-SHASS new faculty for fall 2015
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes a new group of standout scholars.
Medical anthropology
Erica Caple James investigates how behavior, culture, and structural inequalities impact health.
Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship celebrates 50 years
New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT.
An anthropologist’s lasting legacy at MIT
Longtime professor and MacVicar Faculty Fellow Jean Jackson retires after 42 years at MIT.
3 Questions: Stefan Helmreich on wave science
MIT anthropologist of science explores how scientific “things” emerge.
MIT Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative launches
Inaugural event, “Examining Ebola,” probes the current global public health emergency from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Female scholars led by MIT anthropologist Susan Silbey illuminate path to commonsense regulation
Journal volume advances research stalled by political agendas
The anthropology of humanitarianism
Anthropologist Erica James examines the effectiveness of aid to those on the margins of society.
Anthropologist Manduhai Buyandelger wins the 2013 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
The $25,000 research grant will go towards supporting the professor's ethnographic study of parliamentary elections in Mongolia.
The surprising story of Mongolian shamanism
MIT anthropologist finds that after Soviet domination, a rebirth of shamanism helped Mongolia rewrite its own history.