The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies (TIJS) provides awards and grants to graduate students to support activities that enrich the academic experience, such as study abroad, intensive language training, and travel for research or participation in conferences and workshops. The Institute supports a wide range of subject matter and experiences, as evidenced by how recent graduate student recipients have utilized their respective grant funding.

Does anthropology have a Jewish problem? What are some of the contested ways in which writing (or not writing) about Jews has helped to shape the whole discipline? How should we be thinking about the ethnography of Jews at this moment of racial reckoning in the United States, what are some of the different ways in which debates about modern Israel have shaped anthropological writing, and is "anthropology of the Jews" similar to "anthropology of Christianity or of Islam?"  Emory undergraduates now have the opportunity to explore these ideas in depth in JS 258-1: “Anthropology of the Jews,” cross-listed with the Departments of Anthropology and Religion, respectively.