History of U.S. Jobs Ads
by Ilana Gershon American newspapers carried announcements about jobs from as early as 1705. The first job ad I found was in The Boston News-Letter, asking for a…
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Job Advice That Has Lasted Over the Years
by Ilana Gershon Job Advice I Was Surprised to Find in the 1920s In 1917, employers were paying for employee referrals – I had no idea that this…
Histories of the job ad, the resume, and so on
by Ilana Gershon This is my application to be a member of the Society for the Study of Boring Things. To write my book, Down and Out in the…
Erin Yerby take the page 99 test on her dissertation
On page 99: “Spiritualism troubles the separation between here and there: as modern, western and mostly ‘white,’ but also because Spiritualists inhabit the problematic prejudices of modernity as…
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway on her new book, Signing and Belonging in Nepal
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/SABINbookpage.html Interview by Rebekah Cupitt Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway’s book, Signing and Belonging in Nepal (2016) captures the ongoing and changing nature of …
Miranda Weinberg takes the page 99 test for her dissertation
Page 99 of my dissertation, Schooling Languages: Indigeneity, Language Policy, and Language Shift in Nepal, is both representative and anomalous as part of my dissertation. In my dissertation…
Suk-Young Kim on her new book, K-Pop Live
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29375 Interview by Chuyun Oh Chuyun Oh: What were some of the questions you want to explore when you first decided to write a book on K-pop, and…
Harri Englund on his new book, Gogo Breeze
Interview by Ilana Gershon http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo27256361.html Ilana Gershon: While this book ostensibly focuses on one radio presenter, because Gogo Breeze interacts w…
William Mazzarella on his new book, The Mana of Mass Society
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo25265716.html Interview by Elayne Oliphant Elayne Oliphant: As you acknowledge, this is clearly a “theory book.” But I’d like to start by asking y…
Damien Stankiewicz on his new book, Europe Un-imagined
https://utorontopress.com/us/europe-un-imagined-2 Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: You open Europe Un-Imagined by suggesting that while the television channel you studied aimed to fashion a …
Llerena Searle on her new book, Landscapes of Accumulation
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo24117771.html Interview by Liza Youngling Liza Youngling: In Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporar…
Sirpa Tenhunen on her new book, A Village Goes Mobile
h https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-village-goes-mobile-9780190630270 Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: What is so fascinating about A Village Goes Mobile is how effectively you use yo…
Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein takes the page 99 blog test
My dissertation looked at how media impacts community. Specifically, how does the global circulation of regular publications help create a sense of community among 8 million Jehovah’s Witnesses…
Gil Hizi flips to page 99 of his dissertation
My dissertation deals with pedagogic programs for self-improvement in a city called Jinan, northeast China. I focus on workshops that cultivate interpersonal “soft” skills, namely emotional expression…
David Parisi on his new book, Archaeologies of Touch
Archaeologies of Touch (US & Canada: use promo code MN82600 for 30% off): https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/archaeologies-of-touch Archaeologies of Touch (EU: use promo code f…
Naomi Haynes on her new book, Moving by the Spirit
https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520294257 Interview by Jon Bialecki Jon Bialecki: The center of your ethnography is about the Prosperity Gospel’s economy of faith and social ambition in the…
Deborah A. Jones’ “Afterlives & Other Lives: Semiosis and History in 21st Century Ukraine”
Page 99 of my dissertation falls toward the beginning of a monster chapter exploring my rural interlocutors’ fight for land rights, encounters with the legal system, and conceptions…
Leigh Chavez-Bush’s “Chefs, Cuisine, and Convergence”
My dissertation explores media networks within the Chicago culinary industry. At three fieldwork sites I conducted participant observation and employee ethnography with media producers, chefs, and sof…
Daniel Fisher on his book, The Voice and Its Doubles
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-voice-and-its-doubles Interview by Georgia Ennis Georgia Ennis: Throughout your book, you follow both the imaginations and instantiations of an Aboriginal voice in radi…
Coleman Nye and Sherine Hamdy on their new graphic novel, Lissa
https://utorontopress.com/us/lissa-2 Interview by Perry Sherouse Perry Sherouse: In your article in George Marcus and Dominic Boyer’s volume on collaborations, you write that “comics – fa…
Helena Wulff on her new book, Rhythms of Writing
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rhythms-of-writing-9781474244152/ Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: When you are at a book event for an Irish author, how do you explain what an anthropologist b…
Alex E. Chávez on his new book, Sounds of Crossing
https://www.dukeupress.edu/sounds-of-crossing Interview by William Cotter William Cotter: In the introduction to your book you mention that for Mexican migrants, transnational forms of music making c…
Rihan Yeh on her new book, Passing
Interview by Héctor Beltrán Héctor Beltrán: In your book you conceptualize the hearsay public to provide a critique of liberal notions of publicity. Can you unpack how this relationship…
CaMP Anthropology Virtual Reading Group
Dear colleagues, Many of you have been able to join us over the past few months for our new virtual reading group. We meet the last Friday of…