Anonymous Reviewer – we need to talk! #rejection
A while back I experienced bitter disappointment as yet another funding application was rejected. The fact that I was only one of thousands of disappointed applicants did little…
Tag: writing
Happy 2016 Everyone!
We’re back – and full of energy for YET another exciting Allegra year! We hope that your break was enjoyable and relaxing (and do not tell us that…
2016 – Writing
So it’s now 2016 and all that, and apparently that means you’ve got to wrap up the previous year and make a change and so on. A…
2016 – Writing
So it’s now 2016 and all that, and apparently that means you’ve got to wrap up the previous year and make a change and so on. A…
2016 – Writing
So it’s now 2016 and all that, and apparently that means you’ve got to wrap up the previous year and make a change and so on. A…
Will the Next Margaret Mead Please Stand Up? The SAPIENS-Allegra Competition to Discover New Public Anthropologists
The anthropologist is a peculiar creature. We study the world, yet too often do not share our insights with the world. Our work explores some of the most…
How does an Anthropologist add value in the workplace?
At work I’m not employed as an anthropologist. Not directly anyway; my skills in research and higher education certainly helped…
Revisiting a Writing Process: Ode to Academic Freedom #humanrights
This week we have dedicated an unusual amount to one single publication. This has in part been because of the unabashed claim – from one of Allegra’s founders…
An article! An article!
If there’s one thing that helps to ground you when you’ve felt voiceless or powerless in the past, it’s when you see the writing equivalent of your name…
Return of the Anthro/Zine
Last May I introduced you to Anthropozine, a new undergraduate venue associated with the journal Anthropology Now. The concept behind the zine was to get college students interested in…
Niccolo de’ Conti (and others) on the Lontar Palm
Yesterday I put up a post about Niccolo de' Conti, one of the more interesting Europeans to visit Indonesia before the sixteenth century. His account…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What that something else is has been notoriously difficult to name, pre…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
Truthtelling
At some point this year, my dissertation shifted from a (largely unwritten) traditional ethnography to an intentional experiment on writing/thinking/doing disability as a scholar. This was a change…
So You’re an Undergraduate and You Want to Get Published
By Rayna Elizabeth If you are thinking of pursing a career in academia or as a writer in general, you might want to attempt to submit your research…
Reading fiction as therapy
Recently I found a website that offers fiction as therapy. You have a consultation of sorts and they send you away with a list of novels to read…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the task of writing a literature review? Frustrated by your students…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…