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Masons of Djenne Book Cover Marchand's Study of Mud City Masons Wins Book Award

The Masons of Djenné, a book by  Professor of Social Anthropology Trevor Marchand, has won the Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association for Africanist Anthropology.

15th October 2010

Excellence Award for SOAS Anthropology of Food Excellence Award for SOAS Anthropology of Food

Professor Johan Pottier, Dr Harry West, and Dr Jakob Klein, all from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, have received the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) 2009 Excellence in Instruction Award, in recognition of their outstanding teaching in the anthropology of food.

23rd July 2009

SOAS AHRC Postgraduate Studentships

The School of Oriental and African Studies would like to invite applications for the following AHRC studentships commencing in October 2009

23rd April 2009

SOAS graduate student wins 2008 University of California Press / Public Anthropology Competition

SOAS graduate student wins 2008 University of California Press / Public Anthropology Competition

29th January 2009

RAE results confirm SOAS is leader in Asian Studies

SOAS's Asian Studies submission to the RAE has been a spectacular success. In 2001, along with several other universities we received a 5 rating for Asian Studies, while both Oxford and Cambridge were awarded 5*. To put it simply: we have regained our national pre-eminence in this field of research, and by a significant margin. 

18th December 2008

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