Connecting the daily lives of rural people to large-scale cultural change in 15th and 16th Portugal is the cornerstone of second-year doctoral student Shannon Casey’s research.

Veronica Ramirez, a global health major stepped far outside her comfort zone to complete an internship in South Africa, gaining professional experience while immersing in a new culture.

Learn more about Isabel Ruston being awarded the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Slovakia.

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.

Third-year student Seren Castellano was named a 2025 Goldwater Scholar, the nation’s most prestigious scholarship for undergraduate students pursuing careers in research.

Meena Khandelwal, associate professor of anthropology, received the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad award from the U.S. Department of Education and the International Engagement Teaching Award from CLAS and UI International Programs.