You Got Kitty Bombed!
Below find the third of a series of guest posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University…
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Lessons of Accountability
Below find the second of a series of guest posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University…
Cracking the Vault: A Celebration of Daniel Swan
Below find the first of a series of guest posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University…
Two Short Courses in Tartu
#fulbrightspecialist #fulbright #exchangeourworld In an earlier post, I expressed my appreciation for the opportunity to visit the University of Tartu as a Fulbright Specialist. Among my tasks w…
The University of Tartu, Appreciated
I recently spent an extended time in Tartu, Estonia. I had the wonderful opportunity to be a Fulbright Specialist visiting the Departments of: (1) Estonian and Comparative Folklore,…
What is the Museum Anthropology Review Business (Labor) Model?
Alternate title: How to give away $99,000 worth of articles. Although it has become normalized in open access/scholarly publication reform discussions to speak in this way, it often…
What is the current status of confidentiality and non-disclosure policies at HAU?
What is the current status of confidentiality and non-disclosure policies at HAU? Why can’t the policies be published? Those are my questions. This is my context. Alex Golub…
New Zealand-born and internationally raised
I am delighted to welcome writer Cileme Venkateswar to anthropod. This is the third post in my series on doing fieldwork with kids, and in it Cileme (who…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part II
Thanks to some amazing role models in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, where I studied, I have always known that it is possible…
Early Career Jobs for IU Folklore and Ethnomusicology Ph.D.s in 2014
In order to answer a question that was posed during the recent Future of American Folkloristics conference, I took a few moments recently to crunch some placement data…
Reflections on The Mind is a Collection
On September 22, 2016 Indiana University’s Center for Eighteenth Century Studies held the 2016 Kenshur Prize celebration at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. The museum was an…
Improving Access to Scholarship: Material Vernaculars as Milestone and Experiment
First the take away, then the story. While produced in very nice and reasonably priced hardback, paperback, and ebook editions, works in the new Material Vernaculars series are…
An Interview with Curator and American Music Specialist Levon Williams
Levon Williams will return to Indiana University in the fall of 2016 to pursue a MA degree in Non-Profit Management in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.…
An Interview with Dr. Lori Hall-Araujo, Curator and Assistant Professor at Stephens College
In fall 2016, Lori Hall-Araujo will begin a position as Assistant Professor and Curator in the School of Design and the Costume Museum at Stephens College in Columbia,…
Is #Slow Academia Conservative?
In this post, Heather Mendick argues that some calls for slowing down scholarship mask a conservative politics. Last July I blogged about how, despite my love for online communication,…
When Worlds Collide: A tale of parenting and an optimistic undergraduate
I am pleased to welcome guest blogger Jess Thompson to anthropod. In this post Jess shares her experiences of being a parent and university student, adding to our…
Doing the squiggly writing – a guest blog post
I am delighted to welcome guest blogger Charlotte Weston, who agreed to write this piece following my earlier post on Doing fieldwork with kids: Part I. These posts…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part I
Recently I started a new research project looking at the social impacts of three Sistema-inspired orchestral music education programmes operating in low decile schools in the Wellington region,…
Value, Ownership, and Cultural Goods: Regina F. Bendix to Deliver 2016 Richard M. Dorson Memorial Lecture
This is the season’s big lecture. With many heritage studies projects underway, it is a perfect time to welcome Regina back to Bloomington. Here are the details: 2016…
Confessions Of a Poverty-Class Academic-In-Training
Thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on class differences in academia. I found a lot to identify with in this essay (although, unlike the author, I became bogged down with…
Notes on Thoughtfulness in Scholarly Publishing (3): In This, I Support Elsevier
[Updated] This series began in the wake of an instance in which I, to the irritation of most observers, questioned a case of self-piracy. Soon thereafter, self-piracy was…
Good News Roundup
There is way too much stuff going on in my life and work these days. Most of it is really good stuff, but it is hard to keep…
Its Like Woodie Guthrie’s Grand Coulee Dam, Only Its a Green #OA Policy for the UC System
“But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam’s fair land…” Someone needs to write a song in the style of Woodie Guthrie’s tunes celebrating the impressiveness and…