American Ethnological Society Online Call for Proposal Promised Futures Editors Ibrahim Ince, University of Oxford Erick Moreno Superlano, University of Oxford Superbloque under construction, Caracas, ca. 1953. Curtesy [...]
The American Ethnological Society is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 AES Graduate Student Research Grant. The AES small grants competition received many excellent proposals, and the [...]
Interested in getting involved with the discipline in a new way? Consider applying to the American Ethnological Society Editorial Intern program! We are pleased to announce we are accepting [...]
In The Vulnerable Observer, anthropologist Ruth Behar notes “anthropology that doesn't break your heart just isn't worth doing anymore.” The theoretical nuances and narrative flourishes achieved by this level [...]
The AES awarded two Senior Book Prizes and an honorable mention at the 2024 AAA meetings in Tampa, Florida on November 21. The two co-winners were Suzana Sawyer for The Small [...]
The 2024 AES Senior Book Prize celebrates outstanding ethnographic works that address contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the academy. This year’s winners exemplify the innovation, depth, and impact [...]
AES is delighted to announce this year’s Senior Book Prize joint winners, Adriana Petryna and Suzana Sawyer, and honorable mention, Gilberto Rosas. 2024 Prize Committee: Daromir Rudnyckyj (University of [...]
We are looking for ethnographically-driven commentaries, research articles, and other formats, addressing international issues relating to sexual and reproductive rights and contemporary legal regimes (currently in place or under debate). Submissions can [...]
Anthropology is a discipline that has staked its whole methodological approach on the possibility of mistake and failure. When Jean Briggs was ostracized by the Inuit community she was [...]
The American Ethnological Society is delighted to announce the appointment of Gina Athena Ulysse as the section’s first Artist-In-Residence. Professor Ulysse is a Haitian American feminist artist-anthropologist and self-described PostZoraInterventionist who earned her Ph.D. from the [...]
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AES, a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), publishes the journal American Ethnologist, which can be found in AnthroSource.
