Anthropology in Action

Ezriella Tang ’27 (pictured) presented her poster, “Immigration Diaspora: Identity, Statehood, and Perpetual Foreignness.” The AAA’s Archaeology Division gave Tang the Student Membership Award for her work. Tang is pursuing a double major in anthropology and cognitive science, with a minor in French and francophone studies. 

Xinyi Wu (吴心怡) ’25, an environmental analysis major, presented her research about how bone ash apartments are an under-the-radar alternative to cemeteries in urban China. She published her research in “Platypus,” the blog of the AAA’s Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. 

Professor Claudia Strauss was co-organizer of a panel on “Political Subjectivities in a Time of Ontological Threats, Trauma and Social Turmoil.” She presented a paper titled “Personal/Political Storylines in Turbulent Times.” 

Professor Timothy Hartshorn represented Pitzer at two roundtable sessions that engaged anthropological practice in the academy and in real life. 

Professors Jo Ann Wang and Eduard Fanthome organized a panel that examined the politics of “presence” and “presencing” as described by James Ferguson (2021). They also presented their research into diaspora-turned-minority Chinese Malaysians.