How to approach a research proposal
No matter where I have taught, one job that often challenges graduate students is the writing of a research proposal. When first encountered, it is a peculiar piece…
Tag: Blog
Mihai Varga: Crisis-tested, yet forgotten: Family farms in wartime Ukraine
It was often said, in the course of the transition from communism to capitalism in the 1990s and 2000s, that Eastern Europeans are good at surviving. The IMF…
Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class
Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction …
Sina Ma Tinirau wins Best Animation Short
A true story: Eight women from Santa Rosa wanted to see a movie set on their home island of Rotuma. And so they got in their cars…
Alasita: La feria aymara
Enero es un mes de intensa actividad en los talleres artesanales de las ciudades de El Alto y La Paz…
Master’s positions (MA & MSc) in plastics and justice-based research methods
CLEAR has four Master’s positions (MA or MSc) for September 2023
Welcome back to in-person teaching – or is it?
Sherry Fukuzawa, University of Toronto Mississauga, Toronto Canada My post-COVID in-person lectures seem to have significantly less attendance than my pre-pandemic courses and I am wondering if thi…
Twelve Tips for Item Care in Your Home
By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager, Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research After teaching an SAR member class in early December, Caring for Your Personal Collections…
Accolades for the Landmark Exhibition Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery
On July 31 this year Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery opened in Santa Fe at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. The exhibition, curated…
SAR Artist Alumnus Co-Curates Important Exhibition of Native American Photography
Will Wilson, William Wilson, citizen of the Navajo Nation, trans-customary Diné artist, 2012. Will Wilson, the Santa Fe-based Navajo photographer and 2013 Rollin and Mary Ella King…
FocaalBlog: Eric Wolf, Europe, Histories, Capitalism. Where are we now?
This panel was convened by Ida Susser at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2022 – Unsettling Landscapes. It builds on the workshop Vision and Method in Anthropology:…
Lives and Afterlives: Reflections on the 2022 Resident Scholar Colloquium Series
Written by Paul Ryer, Scholar Programs Director With the end of Robert Weiner’s compelling presentation about the roads of Chaco Canyon on December 14, we successfully concluded SAR’s…
2022 Staley Prize Awarded to J. Lorand Matory at Duke University
On November 3, 2022, SAR President Michael F. Brown presented the 2022 J.I. Staley Prize to J. Lorand Matory, Duke University, at an event in Durham, North Carolina,…
Film Day Rewind
Written by Paloma López, Educator, Indian Arts Research Center Sunday, November 6 was Film Day at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC). The School for Advanced…
President’s Circle Annual Winter Party: Fireside Chat
On a cold and rainy December night, the School for Advanced Research (SAR) welcomed sixty members of the Presi…
Sāmoan Multiplicities in Sāmoa: Reflections on field trip
In early November, Safua Akeli Amaama, Annika Sippel, and Philipp Schorch spent a week together in Apia, Sāmoa…
Another New Resident Scholar Book: Undocumented Saints
Did you know that La Santa Muerte (“Saint Death”) is worshipped by some residents of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands? Likewise Santa Olguita, a feminist saint associated with border womenR…
Purity, Danger, and Handwashing
Author: Michael Dunford is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Culture History and Language. His research asks how how agrarian economies and agrarian ecologies intersect with…
In Memoriam: Pat Courtney Gold (1939-2022)
In Memoriam: Pat Courtney Gold (1939-2022) …
Discussion on ethnographic collections
14 November 2022. The lecture room at the Münchner Volkshochschule (Munich adult education centre) was filled and…
OFI short term visiting fellowship
There’s a paid opportunity for a visiting fellow to work with CLEAR at Memorial University for 2 weeks-4 months on ocean-related research. Details of the competition are here:…
Victorian Pseudoscience on a Netflix Budget: “Ancient Apocalypse” and the Paradox of Science Communication Online
As scholars and investigators of conspiracy theory communities have noted, people who cling to these ideas long after they have been demonstrated to be factually false tend to…
SAR Alumna Publishes Award-Winning Book on Community & Ethnic Change in South Central L.A.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Sociology, USC), a 2017-2018 Weatherhead Fellow, was recently honored for a book written during her time at SAR. South Central Dreams: Finding Ho…
Research Assistant positions for MFN, NG, and NCC students (MUNL St. John’s campus)
CLEAR lab has openings for undergraduate and graduate student research assistants to work on environmental samples from Miawpukek First Nation, the Nunatsiavut Government, and NunatuKavut Community Co…