More maps!
Maps are a useful tool for helping us make sense of our world. For anthropologists, they are also useful tools for critically thinking about the kinds global-local social…
Tag: instruction methods
Free Online Tools for Instructors
This list of free online tools for instructors began from thinking about the kinds of tools that we use in our own teaching and researching — but also…
Free Online Tools for Instructors
This list of free online tools for instructors began from thinking about the kinds of tools that we use in our own teaching and researching — but also…
Ethno everywhere! Workshop
The American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting hosted a workshop on November 16th about Ethnographic Writing. In this workshop, Ruth Behar from the University of Michigan and Marcia Ochoa…
Ethno everywhere! Workshop
The American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting hosted a workshop on November 16th about Ethnographic Writing. In this workshop, Ruth Behar from the University of Michigan and Marcia Ochoa…
Climate Change Resource for the Classroom
Leonardo Di Caprio has given open access to his environmental documentary on climate change. Entitled Before the Flood, Di Caprio wants to engender a sense of urgency regarding climate chang…
Climate Change Resource for the Classroom
Leonardo Di Caprio has given open access to his environmental documentary on climate change. Entitled Before the Flood, Di Caprio wants to engender a sense of urgency regarding climate chang…
Undergraduate-Paper-Grading-Ophobia
At times, student writing activities and assignments seem like more of a chore for instructors than the students (although I hear them complain too). In a recent article…
Advice for Grad Students
With the new academic year now underway, anthro everywhere! is happy to finally launch a page that we’ve been putting together for some time: Advice for Grad Students.…
A historical view of a long heated debate: what could be more menacing than the singular "they"?
The use of ‘they’ as a replacement for ‘he or she’ pronouns has been gaining momentum not only because it lets one slip around those steadfast predefined gender…
Anthropoliteia’s #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus
Anthropoliteia (@anthropoliteia) is another great anthropology resource publishing in blog form, offering “critical perspectives on police, security, crime, law and punishment around the world.” One of…
Decolonial Atlas
This blog — The Decolonial Atlas — is a really interesting tool for discussions of representation. As the authors explain, The Decolonial Atlas, started in 2014, is an…
Creating classroom culture on "Syllabus Day"
In this Vitae piece, Kevin Gannon argues that “Syllabus Day” is The Absolute Worst Way to Start the Semester (2016). Instead, course instructors are encouraged to employ a “a mindful…
How a Teacher’s Race Affects their Ability to Teach about Race
I met with someone from the Diversity and Equity Office at the University where I teach part-time yesterday. We’ve agreed to collaborate on a few classes for my…
Course Workload Estimator tool
With syllabus prep now underway for many university instructors, we share this interesting tool from Rice University’s Center for Teaching Excellence: Course Workload Estimator. As the tool’s crea…
MIT Open Courseware
If you are looking for a little inspiration for the next syllabus you’re developing, or if you’ve been following this blog because you’re interested in learning more about…
Podcasting (ethnography) in the classroom
Anthropologist Lindsay A. Bell has written a two-part post for Teaching Culture on “her attempt to organize a senior seminar course around producing a podcast based on student research”…
How To Support Blacademics & Be an Ally
If you are working in academia, this post is for you. Ellie Adekur has created this important resource on How To Support Blacademics: For Non-Black Faculty and Grad…
Critiquing Anthropological (textbook) Images
Google images: “anthropology textbooks” from Dori Turnstall Think about the typical cover images of anthropology textbooks. Most likely, you are thinking about exotic images of non-Western p…
Teaching tools via Cultural Anthropology
In case you missed it: Since going open-access Cultural Anthropology has created some really interesting resources, including their Fieldsights and Teaching Tools pages (both listed in the sideba…