UCL Anthropology

Ruth Mace, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology in UCL Anthropology, took part in a panel discussion at The Royal Society on ‘What it means to be human’.

Wednesday Afternoons (2pm-5pm), 2nd- 30th May, 2012.

Do you ever visit museums and feel that you lack the specialist knowledge, skills and experience to critically analyse and evaluate ethnographic objects and displays? This training course, run by the UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies, is designed to provide the skills necessary to do this.

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Organised by UCL and University of East London in collaboration with Brunel University, SOAS, Goldsmiths and LSE, the conference is now calling for panel proposals and individual papers.

Dr Kaori O'Connor, a Senior Research Fellow in UCL Anthropology, has been awarded the Pasold Prize 2011, for the best paper published in Textile History in 2011, for her paper entitled:

There is a vacancy in the department for a Research Associate in Anthropology (Ref:1237707).

This is a 6 month full time post-doctoral research position to work on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Ancestry, Admixture and Breast Cancer in Brazil: an ethnographic investigation of population genetics, disease risk and identity’.