Conferencing: Working the (Reception) Room
#AmAnth17, CASCAinCuba, and SfAA 2018 Sustainable Futures meeting, oh my! Here at #anthroeverywhere!, we’ve used the last number of posts to cover various topics related to best and…
#AmAnth17, CASCAinCuba, and SfAA 2018 Sustainable Futures meeting, oh my! Here at #anthroeverywhere!, we’ve used the last number of posts to cover various topics related to best and…
Our past few posts have focused on tips for conference-goers, which are timely with the upcoming #AmAnth17 in November. To date we’ve shared some tips on Writing better Conference Abstr…
To say that a PhD in anthropology represents a journey is equal parts cliché and “social fact,” at least for some students. In this short blog post, I…
On September 27th, McMaster University will host Dr. Paul Hartley, a Senior Anthropologist at Idea Couture in Toronto, ON and now, co-founder and Director of the Institute for…
The American National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a thorough Career Services blog providing a wealth of advice that will be of use for recent grads and graduate students.…
To PhD or not to PhD… this is a question that many prospective and current students haven’t thoroughly considered. As Daniel McCormack notes in “Some Lesser-Known Truths About Academe”…
Today we will reflect on what it means to ‘encounter, dwell in, read, critique and make use of theory’. The idea of an ‘encounter’ with theory is particularly…
From Anthropology Matters come this article by Amy Pollard: “Field of screams: difficulty and ethnographic fieldwork.” As explained in the abstract, many novice field researchers — here, PhD…
From Anthropology Matters come this article by Amy Pollard: “Field of screams: difficulty and ethnographic fieldwork.” As explained in the abstract, many novice field researchers — here, PhD…
I’ll admit, my love of cardigan sweaters was what first caught my attention and prompted me to read this article about professional development and careers beyond academia: Life After…
I recently gave a workshop for anthropology graduate students in my department on strategies for professional development. One of the most interesting things for me about this workshop…
Can’t imagine the mad thinking behind this branding. In several ways a sign of the downward spiral. Or, a niche marketing gambit. What next: administrative razor blades, higher…
If you are thinking about what you’d like to do with your degree in anthropology (or degrees in anthropology), or are just looking for some good answers to…
If you are thinking about what you’d like to do with your degree in anthropology (or degrees in anthropology), or are just looking for some good answers to…
One of the things that we try to do on the blog besides offer interesting examples of anthropology everywhere, is to try to highlight advice on professionalization for…
One of the things that we try to do on the blog besides offer interesting examples of anthropology everywhere, is to try to highlight advice on professionalization for…
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.…
At times throughout my (short) career as an anthropologist, I’ve struggled with answering the question of how would an anthropological stance/investigation/insight influence the bottom line? This strug…
From the poetic notes written this morning for today’s opening lecture – I communicated this but not as ‘poetically’: A PhD today is an anachronism. It is hard…
One of the motivations for starting anthro everywhere! was to create a page where teachers and students (and skeptical relatives) alike could get a better idea of the wide…
The Canadian government’s program of cultural genocide in residential schools included the erasure of aboriginal languages. In Undoing Linguicide (an hour long audio documentary for CBC Radio’s Ideas…
Two pairs of eyes looked at me from across the table waiting for my response. A third pair joined them. The four day old lamb cradled in my…
You get to a point in your life where you start to reflect on your skill set and your current responsibilities and you wonder whether these match up…
This is the time of year when our Masters students are starting to think about how they’re going to write their theses. It can be a daunting concept!…