Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

05/18/2026

The Department of Anthropology is thrilled to congratulate Gloria D’Alessio on her prestigious visual anthropology award from the SVA/Robert Lemelson Foundation Fellowship!

Please join us in celebrating Gloria in receiving this well-deserved recognition! 🎉🎥🎬

05/05/2026

Congratulations to Gloria D'Alessio (CITE) on her Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant!

Haya Mortada (CITE) also won a Wenner Gren this year to support her fieldwork on return migrant investment i Tripoli, Lebanon. Congratulations!

🎉 Join us in congratulating Gloria D'Alessio, Anthropology PhD candidate, on receiving the prestigious Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for her research on the Darién borderlands!

This grant is awarded annually to support doctoral research in anthropology. This cycle was particularly competitive, with more than 1,600 applications received from around the world.

Gloria, we wish you the best of luck in your fieldwork and look forward to following your research as it unfolds in the field!✨

Read more: https://clas.rutgers.edu/news-and-events/news-and-announcements/news-details/1391-gloria-dalessio-wins-wenner-gren-grant-for-darien-borderlands-research

01/31/2026

Professor Ulla D Berg and graduate Gloria D'Alessio Martinez participate in the World Anthropological Union Congress (Antigua, Guatemala). Read about their contributions here!

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01/31/2026

Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute!

The Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute is a four-week fellowship program is open to rising college seniors who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The deadline to apply is February 6, 2026. The program will take place from June 1–26, 2026.

The in-person summer institute will provide archival research at the Schomburg Center, dormitory housing, meals each day, and a stipend for 10 rising college seniors. There is no virtual format offered.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation created the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute to encourage students of color and others with interests in African-American, African, and African Diaspora Studies to pursue PhDs in the humanities.

The Institute encourages underrepresented students and others with an interest in African American, African, and African Diasporan studies.

12/12/2025

PhD student in CITE, Gloria D'Alessio, won the Honorable Mention Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology's Film and Media Festival.

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12/04/2025

Please join us tomorrow at 2PM in RAB 3rd Floor Atrium!

10/24/2025

New book award to Anthropology Department faculty member Ulla D. Berg for the edited collection (with Aldo Lauria Santiago) Latinas/os in New Jersey: Histories, Communities, Cultures!

Latinas/os in New Jersey Wins 2025 NJSAA Author Award October 23, 2025 | By Luis Contreras | News We are proud to announce that Latinas/os in New Jersey: Histories, Communities, and Cultures (Rutgers University Press, 2025), edited by Aldo A. Lauria Santiago and Ulla D. Berg, has received the 2025 A...

09/02/2024

Prof. Berg published edited volume on Latinas/os in New Jersey with History Professor Aldo Lauria Santiago!

Contributors include: Aldo A. Lauria Santiago, Ulla D. Berg, Raymond Sanchez Mayers, Lyna L. Wiggins, Elsa Candelario, Laura Curran, Giovani Burgos, Alex F. Trillo, Anil Venkatesh, Johana Londoño, Jennifer Ayala, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, Giancarlo Mu**hi, Ismael García Colón, William Suárez Gómez, Benjamin Lapidus, Lilia Fernandez, Elena Sabogal, Melanie Z. Plasencia, Daniela Valdes, Yamil Avivi and Kathleen López.

Published by Rutgers University Press. Available for purchase in January 2025!

Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state’s rich economic history, high-income su...

06/27/2024

Many congratulations to newly minted Dr. Gabrielle Cabrera who defended her dissertation “Migrant Futures: Hope, Waiting and Fieldwork in the San Joaquin Valley” today.

Thanks to committee members Angelique Haugerud, Christien Thompkins, Alyshia Galvez (CUNY), and Ulla Berg (chair). The Department and the CITE program are celebrating! 🍾🎉🎈

05/01/2024

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday May 1, 2024, at 7PM for a screening of films made by Rutgers students in the context of the class Documenting Latinx Lives taught by Prof. Berg.

Free popcorn and soda courtesy of the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies! All are welcome!