Perimeters, a new graduate conference by AGSA, invites paper proposals on the topic of the “field” for our inaugural conference - to be held March 21, 2026, at Thomson House.
Notoriously messy and elusive, the “field” is a thorny problematic for many of us before, during, and after fieldwork. This conference invites papers that sit with this trouble in order to engender new ways of thinking and theorizing the “field.” Some of our questions include:
- How do we find and make sense of the contexts we step into?
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Published on: 19 Nov 2025
During the summer of 2025, the Guiengola Archaeological Project, directed by Guillermo Ramón Celis--Banting Postdoctoral Researcher in the Anthropology Department at McGill University--mentored twelve students from Mexico's National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH). Together, they surveyed a neighborhood of Guiengola, a fortified Zapotec city in southern Oaxaca that was occupied during the period when Europeans first arrived in the region.
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Published on: 18 Nov 2025
Doctoral
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship: Camilo Mireles Salcedo
Canada Graduate Scholarship: Anna Horton, Lynn Jacobs, and Sabine Plummer
FRQSC Doctoral Scholarship: Sara Hosseini, Lynn Jacobs, Wenrui Li, Camilo Mireles, Enke Tuyaa Montgomery
SECIHTI (Mexico): Alondra Pérez Rojas
Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowship: Alondra Pérez Rojas
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Published on: 15 Oct 2025
Wednesday, April 3 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in LEA 738
Please see attached flyer for more information.
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Published on: 18 Mar 2024
Being honoured at this event were Lily-Cannelle Mathieu (Trudeau Scholarship and Vanier Scholarship) and Camilo Mireles (Tomlinson Fellowship)
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Published on: 6 Feb 2024
Congratulations to the 2023-2024 fellowship recipients!
Trudeau Scholar: Lily-Cannelle Mathieu, https://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/member/lily-cannelle-mathieu
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship: Lily-Cannelle Mathieu, https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/achievements/vanier-canada-graduate-scholarship/2023-vanier-scholars
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Published on: 21 Nov 2023
Weaver-Tremblay 2023: Anthropological Activism for Territories of Life
11/16/2023 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM, TMCC Hall F
Prof. Colin Scott has received the prestigious Weaver-Tremblay Award in Canadian Applied Anthropology for his “longstanding commitments to the territorial rights, sovereignty, and self-determination of Indigenous peoples in Canada.”
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Published on: 30 Oct 2023
The Department of Anthropology is seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow, newly housed in our department under the umbrella of the Anthropology for the Ecozoic (A4E) hub, which also includes the Critical Media Lab, a practice-based research space for audiovisual and multimodal ethnography.
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Published on: 1 Dec 2021
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Published on: 8 Jul 2021
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Published on: 6 Jul 2021
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Published on: 30 Jun 2021
The McCall MacBain Scholarship enables students to pursue a fully funded master’s or professional degree at McGill University while connecting with mentors and participating in an intensive leadership development program.
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Published on: 29 Apr 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Katherine Lemons whose book Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press, 2019) has just received an Honourable Mention in the inaugural South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA) Book Award, which recognizes scholarship taking place within the field of South Asian Muslim Studies.
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Published on: 19 Apr 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Ronald Niezen, , for being awarded a Distinguished James McGill Professorship
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Published on: 22 Mar 2021
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