CUNY IRG 2021 Recipients They propose a pilot project that will bring together an interdisciplinary team at Brooklyn College with groups from the Great South Bay to assess the impacts on cultural heritage from climate change through a robust community engagement process. Read More
College Group Launches Asian American Faculty and Staff Association Spurred by events across the country and support from the BC administration, a group that had been in discussions for some time makes it official. Read More
Kelly M. Britt—2021 Recipient of the CUNY Henry Wasser Award for Outstanding Assistant Professors Assistant Professor Britt’s work focuses on community-based historical archaeology of urban spaces. Read More
Brooklyn College Professor of Anthropology Helps Describe the Earliest Primate Fossils First fossils of ancient, small-bodied primates provide a big glimpse into how our earliest primate relatives lived 66 million years ago after an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs. Read More
Department of Anthropology Announces Freed Foundation Awards: Deadline—September 30, 2020 Apply now to support your research endeavors and academic career development activities. Read More
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Stephen Chester Part of Team That Unearths Rise of Mammals in Groundbreaking Discovery Research chronicling one-million-year fossil-rich timeline with Denver Museum of Nature & Science researchers to appear in Science magazine and highlighted on PBS’ NOVA. Read More
Research Chronicling One-Million Year Fossil-Rich Timeline with Denver Museum of Nature & Science Researchers to Appear in Science Magazine and Highlighted on PBS’ NOVA Stephen Chester, an assistant professor of anthropology and paleontologist from Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center from The City University of New York, was a key collaborator in a groundbreaking Read More
Message From the Chair of Anthropology We are so proud of all our graduating anthropology majors. Read More
2019 Summer Session II Course: ANTH 3016 Field Work in Anthropology Brooklyn has been undergoing rapid waves of gentrification since the end of the 20th century and the community of Bedford Stuyvesant is no exception. Read More
Award-winning Poet Sonia Sanchez Examines the Power of Black Women’s Politics at Brooklyn College’s Shirley Chisholm Day Celebration The event, which commemorated the 50th Anniversary of alumna Shirley Chisholm’s historic election to the U.S. Congress, also featured other preeminent scholars in the world of black women’s politics. Read More
