Prof. Andrea Ballestero has been awared a Design Studio Grant by the Humanities Research Center for her Underground Spatialities project. In collaboration with Dr. Marie Saldana and Dr. Johannes Birringer she is leading a group of ten graduate and undergraduate students in exploring, modelling and producing an interactive installation of subterranean space. The studio will include fieldwork at the Rice University tunnel system, the Houston Cistern, and the Natural Bridge Caverns.
Prof. Andrea Ballestero has be named program co-chair for the 2019 Social Studies of Science Annual Conference to be held in New Orleans, September 4-7.
The Department of Anthropology at Rice University is pleased to invite nominations (including self-nominations) for its second annual Chair's Lecture.
Anthropology Alumnus, Andrew Webber '96, is profiled in Rice Magazine Summer 2018 as CEO, co-founder and co-distiller at Corsair Distillery in Nashville, the first distillery in the city since Prohibition. He discusses how his Anthropology major impacted his current work as a distiller.
Social Sciences undergraduate majors are on the rise according to College Factual and NICHE.
Q: How many summers have you taken students to Zambia?
PhD Alumnus Laura Jones publishes article, "Ethological observations of social behavior in the operating room" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) journal. You can access the full text at the link below.
