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…
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A Short Resource Guide to Food, Race, and Cultural Appropriation
Cultural appropriation has been almost a buzzword lately, giving us anthropologists a lot of popular culture fodder on the topic — and perhaps more importantly, spurring critical discussion…
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…
The Flexibility of Language
An interesting article came out today entitled Bojophrenia: a new word for a new world. Of interest to linguists, discourse analysts or anthropologists looking to describe the ever changing…
Language learning
Although more and more anthropology students choose to research in sites ‘at home’ where they are already familiar with the language, it has been a long tradition in…
Anthropology Newspaper (beta)
If you felt a little overwhelmed by the wonderful (and extensive!) variety of current anthro blogs posted in the 2016 Anthropology Blog Report last week, you might want to check…
DNA Discovery and Taking a Trip around the World
There is a very interesting project happening through Momondo right now. It’s called the DNA Journey. As explained on Bloghizzle‘s website:We are currently populating an earth that is…
A guide to academic conversations
It can be a little daunting to approach a speaker after an academic talk. We’ve all been there at one time or another. You’ve just heard an inspiring…
Anthropology Blog Report
Anthropology Report has updated their list of over 200 active blogs sharing information and thoughts on anthropology. We are thrilled to see anthro everywhere! listed in the company…
Avoiding gendered bias… for instructors
Writing a reference letter for a student? The Feminist Philosophers blog has shared a handy infographic from the University of Arizona that will help instructors write great reference letters…
Correlation (and causation…)
Just as every year I make a point of telling students that Africa is not a country, many instructors often find themselves lecturing students about how correlation is not…
Black Disabled Woman Syllabus
Vilissa Thompson, Disability Rights Consultant & Advocate, has created the Black Disabled Woman Syllabus in response to the lack of intersectionality she has seen in disability studies. …
How to email your professor
“How to Email Your Professor (without being annoying AF)” (Medium.com) by former professor turned academic writing consultant Laura Portwood-Stacer provides an easy step-by-step guide for students on …
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…
Making Anthropology Public… Again
8 Awesome Anthropologists Advancing Public Outreach (2016, Forbes) What’s not to love about this headline?! Kristina Killgrove lists off 8 awesome (women) anthropologists whose blogs and work (ran…