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If you like history, people, and hands-on learning, studying anthropology at the University of Iowa is the place for you.
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Graduate student Binit Gurung presents paper at Stanford
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Binit recently presented his paper titled “Ghar Janu”: Ethnographic Studies of Return Migration among Indigenous Sikkimese Youth at the Stanford Humanities Center organized workshop called Writing the Life Process.
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