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Anthropology PhD student explores Urban Farming in Canada
During the Summer of 2019, PhD candidate and IRC recipient, Stuart Lang, spent a month in the city of Toronto, Canada. Funded by the ICUF (Ireland Canada University Foundation), Stuart flew to the city to speak with urban farmers/gardeners who work in and around the concrete jungle.
Date: Tuesday, 27 August 2019
Graduate Teaching Studentship in Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that a departmental PhD Teaching Studentship will be available for one student intending to commence PhD studies in October 2019.
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Teaching Assistant Positions available in the Department of Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology is now recruiting 1st Year Teaching Assistants for the academic year 2018-2019:
Date: Friday, 14 June 2019
Wenner Gren: Engaged Anthropology Grant - Ivo Syndicus
While a doctoral student at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ivo Syndicus received a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant in 2012 to aid research on “Culture, Development, and Higher Education in Papua New Guinea,” supervised by Dr. Thomas Strong. In 2018 Dr. Syndicus was then awarded an Engaged Anthropology Grant to aid engaged activities on “Experiences and Challenges of University Students in Papua New Guinea: Research Results and Ways Forward.”
Date: Tuesday, 04 June 2019
Department of Anthropology Photography Competition 2019
Student entries represented their ideas of identity in today’s society or told a story of cultural integration and/or diversity.
Date: Thursday, 25 April 2019
Prof Marilyn Strathern delivers keynote speech at the Anthropology Ethnography Winter School 2019
The Department of Anthropology this week hosted world-renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern as a guest during its annual Ethnography Winter School.
Date: Monday, 04 February 2019
Dr Jamie Saris participates in discussion on Technology & Intimacy
How do we find intimacy in the 21st century? Can technology help us to fundamentally fulfil our desire for connection, or are we ultimately re-programming ourselves for future loneliness? Cyberpsychology Researcher at the University of Wolverhampton and Lecturer at IADT, Nicola Fox Hamilton, Dr Jamie Saris, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Maynooth University, and Dr. Kris Gowen, sexuality educator and Director of Community Engaged Evaluation at Oregon Health and Science University debate if technology really is the future of human connection or if we should disconnect to get close.
Date: Thursday, 24 January 2019
American Anthropological Association’s Presidential Award goes to Maynooth anthropologist
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has presented a Presidential Award to Maynooth University academic Dr. Chandana Mathur for her “leadership in uniting global anthropology under the World Anthropological Union”.
Date: Tuesday, 18 December 2018
Maynooth Academic launches ground-breaking book on IKEA
Dr Pauline Garvey, Anthropologist at Maynooth University, this week launched her ground-breaking book ‘Unpacking IKEA: Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses’.
Date: Friday, 05 October 2018
Dr Thomas Strong on the stigma still associated with HIV
Dr Thomas Strong recently featured in the Irish Times Health Supplement magazine
Date: Monday, 27 August 2018