The School of Language, Social and Political Sciences | Te Kura Mātāpuna Tangata at the University of Canterbury invites applications for a full time (37.5 hours per week) permanent Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor in anthropology. Applicants must have a PhD degree and a record of published research. Preference will be given to Māori/Pacific scholars with an understanding of Indigenous knowledge in Pacific contexts. Applications close on Sunday 12 June 2022 (midnight NZ time).
2019 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards
ASAA/NZ is delighted to announce the 2019 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards: Maria Blanca Ayala (University of Canterbury); Nicola Manghi (Università di Torino/University of Waikato); Mona-Lisa Wareka (University of Waikato); and Brodie Quinn (University of Auckland). These awards recognise excellence in conference presentation skills by ASAA/NZ graduate student members.
Graduate Stories: Mohseen Riaz Ud Dean, PhD
This instalment of our Graduate Stories features Dr Mohseen Riaz Ud Dean, who was recently awarded a doctorate in Anthropology from Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato (University of Waikato). His thesis, Smallholder Sugarcane Growers, Indigenous Technical Knowledge, and the Sugar Industry Crisis in Fiji, was supervised by Dr Keith Barber, Dr Fiona McCormack and Dr Fraser Macdonald.
Graduate Stories: Mona-Lisa Wareka
Position available: 3-year, full-time lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Otago
Applications are invited for a 3 year, full-time Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Otago, available from 1 February 2020. We are especially interested in hearing from applicants who specialise in environmental anthropology, sounded or visual anthropology or Indigenous anthropology. Applications close on Sunday 14 July 2019 (NZ time).
Graduate Stories: Jacinta Forde
Feral: A Nearly Carbon Neutral Conference, 12 Nov-2 Dec 2018
All are welcome to join Feral: A Nearly Carbon-Neutral Conference, a free online conference examining the concept of the ‘feral’ through the lenses of political ecology and ecocriticism.
Environmental anthropologist Trisia Farrelly appointed to United Nations taskforce to help fight marine pollution
10 questions with ... Jenny Bryant-Tokalau
In this episode of ‘10 questions with …’ we chat with with Associate Professor Jenny Bryant-Tokalau about her new book Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Pacific Island Countries (2018), which is a companion to Dr Lyn Carter’s recently released book.
10 questions with ... Lyn Carter
Graduate Stories: Hayley Phillips
10 questions with ... Fiona McCormack
Call for papers - Feral: A nearly carbon-neutral conference
Fulbright Scholar and biological anthropologist Wendy Erb visiting New Zealand
Dr Trisia Farrelly leads interdisciplinary plastic waste workshop in Galway
10 questions with ... Piers Locke
In this edition of '10 questions with ...' we chat with Dr Piers Lock about his recently published book, Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence: Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia.