News and Events
News and Accomplishments
November 2025: and by Fulya Pinar, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, were published in the latest issue of Otherwise Magazine. You can read the corresponding interview with her .
September 2025: Marybeth Nevins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, gave the keynote presentation at the conference on September 26, 2025. Her talk was titled, Born in a Storm: A Short Narrative History of Linguistic Anthropology.
August 2025: A group of Middlebury anthropology students created a new online magazine called “Anthro Action.” Check out the here!
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Recent Faculty Publications
Fitzsimmons, James L.
2024 “Centuries ago, the Maya storm god Huracan taught that when we damage nature, we damage ourselves,” The Conversation;
2021 “Termination and regeneration: the use of ash in ancient Mesoamerica,” in Agent of Change: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past, edited by Barbara Roth and E. Charles Adams, pp. 213–238. Berghahn Press, New York.
2018 “Transformations at Cuello: Results from the 2017 Season of the Classic Cuello Archaeological Project,” in Archaeology in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2017 Belize Archaeology Symposium, John Morris, Melissa Badillo, and George Thompson, eds., pp. 121–130 (with Natalie Figueroa ’18 and Prasanna Vankina ’18). Belmopan, Belize: Institute of Archaeology.
Nevins, M. E.
2024 Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Oxfeld, Ellen
2020 “,”&Բ;Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.
2020 “Life-Cycle Rituals in Rural and Urban China: Birth, Marriage and Death,” in Handbook on Religion in China, Stephan Feuchtwang, ed., pp. 110–132. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2020 “Bitter Greens and Sweet Potatoes: Food Practice and Memories of Hunger in Rural China” in Food Insecurity: A Matter of Justice, Sovereignty, and Survival, Tamar Mayer and Molly Anderson, eds., pp. 166–179. New York: Routledge.
2020 “Rural Chinese Families: The Continuing Relevance of Moral Obligation,” in Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society, Kevin Latham, ed., pp. 174–194. New York: Routledge.
Pinar, Fulya
2025 “Deportation as punishment and the everyday war on migrants from Turkey to the United States,” Middle East Research and Information Project,
Sheridan, Michael
2024 Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants. London: Routledge. Paperback edition.
Stoll, David
2024 “Why immigrants need U.S. border enforcement,” Quillette, November 24, 2024.
2018 “” (critique of the Jerry Sandusky trial), vtdigger.org, April 6.
2019 “,” American Interest, April 10.