Leeds Prize and CORI Update
Leeds Prize SUNTA’s Leeds Prize is awarded each year for the outstanding book in urban, national or transnational anthropology in honor of the late Anthony Leeds, a distinguished pioneer in urban...
View ArticleSUNTA Graduate Paper Prize Competition
The Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology is pleased to announce its graduate paper prize competition. We are seeking nominations – by faculty – of student papers that...
View ArticleUpcoming SUNTA Prize Announcements and Deadlines
SUNTA Graduate Paper Prize Submissions due September 15, 2012. SUNTA is pleased to announce its graduate paper prize competition. We are seeking nominations – by faculty – of student papers that...
View ArticleSUNTA and a Sense of the City
In conversations with other urbanists the last few years, I have become convinced that we have an opportunity to increase our audience for our work. I would like to begin a conversation with interested...
View ArticleReview of Jennifer Tilton’s Dangerous or Endangered? Race and the Politics of...
In Dangerous or Endangered? Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America (NYU Press, 2010), Jennifer Tilton maps eroding and starkly unequal landscapes of childhood and youth in Oakland, California,...
View ArticleBook Review on Suzana Maia’s Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers...
Suzana Maia’s (2012) provocative Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York [Vanderbilt University Press] offers a unique view of the entanglement of nationality, gender, class, race...
View Article2012 Undergraduate Prize Runner Up Summary
Look on Our Works: Ethnography and Aesthetics at the Musée du Quai Branly The Musée du Quai Branly, opened in Paris in 2006, acts as a window onto non-Western cultures. In its permanent collections,...
View ArticleFighting Foreclosure in the Bay Area and Beyond
SUNTA’S Conversation with Housing Activist Jesse Trepper On November 16, 2012, the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) hosted its annual community interlocutor...
View Article2012 SUNTA Highlights and Developments
The Society of Urban National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) is an association of anthropologists engaged in research on the cultural formations of urban areas, nation-states, and...
View ArticleSUNTA Best Graduate Prize 2012 Goes to Claudio Sopranzetti
The SUNTA Best Graduate Student Paper prize for 2012 was awarded to Claudio Sopranzetti for his paper “The Owners of the Map: Mobility and Mobilization among Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in Bangkok.” Here...
View ArticleAndrea Chiriboga-Flor Awarded 2012 SUNTA Best Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
The 2012 SUNTA Best Undergraduate Student Paper prize was awarded to Andrea Chiriboga-Flor for her paper on Occupy Portland. Congratulations...More
View Article2012 Undergraduate Prize Runner Up Summary
Look on Our Works: Ethnography and Aesthetics at the Musée du Quai Branly The Musée du Quai Branly, opened in Paris in 2006, acts as a window onto non-Western cultures. In its permanent collections,...
View ArticleFighting Foreclosure in the Bay Area and Beyond
SUNTA’S Conversation with Housing Activist Jesse Trepper On November 16, 2012, the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) hosted its annual community interlocutor...
View Article2012 SUNTA Highlights and Developments
The Society of Urban National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) is an association of anthropologists engaged in research on the cultural formations of urban areas, nation-states, and...
View ArticleSUNTA Best Graduate Prize 2012 Goes to Claudio Sopranzetti
The SUNTA Best Graduate Student Paper prize for 2012 was awarded to Claudio Sopranzetti for his paper “The Owners of the Map: Mobility and Mobilization among Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in Bangkok.” Here...
View ArticleAndrea Chiriboga-Flor Awarded 2012 SUNTA Best Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
The 2012 SUNTA Best Undergraduate Student Paper prize was awarded to Andrea Chiriboga-Flor for her paper on Occupy Portland. Congratulations...More
View ArticleSUNTA Graduate and Undergraduate Prizes
The deadline to submit your or your student’s paper for the SUNTA Graduate and Undergraduate Essay Prize is coming up soon. Be sure to get your excellent work in in time for consideration! Details and...
View ArticleCFP for 2014 Urban Affairs Association Meeting, San Antonio, TX
“New Engagements: Comparative Urban Theory and Research” Please find our CFP for panel on comparative urban research and theory at the 2014 Urban Affairs Association “Borders and Boundaries in an Age...
View ArticleHalperin Memorial Fund Announcement
The Rhoda Halperin Memorial Fund celebrates the life and scholarly work of Rhoda Halperin by supporting PhD students in anthropology and related fields who reflect her love of economic anthropology and...
View ArticleEnergy and Economy Call for Papers
Anthropologists have a long, if uneven, history of engagement with studies of energy and economy – from the use of wind in ancient exchange and the effects of domestication on production, to the...
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