Rice University's department of Anthropology is engaged in a variety of research projects listed below. Some of these projects are password-protected, as they are currently underway, or contain material that cannot be made fully public. If you are an interested researcher, you can always email Christopher Kelty (ckelty at rice dot edu) to learn more, or to participate.

research project: The Ethics and Politics of Information Technology was conducted between 2002 and 2004, and includes interview transcripts, annotated transcripts and analyses by students and faculty. A workshop was convened in May of 2004 in which anthropologists and computer scientists discussed the materials. The project was funded by CITI

research project: The Ethics and Politics of Nanotechnology project is currently underway. It started in 2004 and was funded by CBEN

nodule: We are a nodule in the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory, an experiment in collaborative ethnographic work on contemporary issues, with nodules in Berkeley, San Diego, and New York.

proseminar: Homo Academicus Anthropologus is a wiki project for the Anthropology proseminar. It is not currently public.

fieldwork class: fieldworki is a wiki for the Anthropology 605 "Fieldwork". It is not currently public.

people:
Michael G. Powell blog | website
Erkan Saka blog
Tish Stringer website
Elitza Ranova
Anthony Potozcniak
Michael Kriz
at least one faculty member contributes semi-regularly to the group blog Savage Minds