Alex Blanchette is 2021 Diana Forsythe Prize winner
Dr. Blanchette received the award for his book "Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm"
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Alex Blanchette co-edits prize winning book
"How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet", co-edited by Alex Blanchette, is the winner of the 2021 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize
Alex Blanchette's book awarded prize
Alex Blanchette's book "Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm" (Duke University Press, 2020) was awarded second prize of the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing by the Society of Humanistic Anthropology
How to Pay Attention
In a Tell Me More podcast, Tufts experts explore the nature of attention, from the trouble with multitasking to the costs of staying too focused
No Grumpy Old Men in the World of Chimps
Older male chimps follow a pattern that researchers also see in humans, preferring to have positive relationships with a few good friends
Covid-19 shows factory food production is dangerous for animals and humans alike
With huge numbers of infections in slaughterhouses, workers and environmentalists must join forces for change
In Conversation with Alex Blanchette, Author of 'Porkopolis'
Editor Ken Wissoker talks with Alex Blanchette about his new book, "Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm"
Class & Inequality: Pigs and Capital
In a world unraveled by COVID-19, the brutality of factory farming demands we rethink our relationship to animals
Sarah Pinto on the Perceptions of Mental Illness in India
Dr. Sarah Pinto, anthropologist at Tufts University, is in conversation with Karla Bookman, founder-editor of The Swaddle