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Founded in 1980, the Society for the Anthropology of Work seeks to advance the study of work in all its aspects by scholars from across the discipline.
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It has come to the AAUP's attention that there has been misinformation regarding the ad hoc Committee of Inquiry at Muhlenberg College College. The Committee is proceeding with its work & will be conducting interviews from October 31 - November 2 via ZOOM. 1/2





Congrats to Naisargi N. Davé whose book "Indifference" is the winner of the 2024 Gregory Bateson Prize, given by Society for Cultural Anthropology! dukeupress.edu/indifference


I am honored to be co-winner with @anthrodave of the 2024 Cultural Horizons Prize. Thank you Society for Cultural Anthropology for this and especially to the jury of graduate students who read the work so thoughtfully and imaginatively. culanth.org/about/about-th…


The Life and Death of the American Worker- book review by Tom Philpott The powerless—and courageous—immigrants fighting for dignity inside the country’s slaughterhouses. democracyjournal.org/magazine/75/pl…

sarah besky explores the unseen side of Indian tea plantations: labor, social reproduction, and the everyday acts that sustain these spaces. Workers' lives aren’t just about crops they're about care, community, and survival within systems of production. 🔗 bit.ly/49p69hr


2-year postdoc available at Tufts University, as part of a Mellon Foundation engaged project on environment, labor, agriculture, commons, and education. Open to all humanities and hum soc sci fields, including anthropology and geography. Applications due Feb 1. humanities.tufts.edu/postdoctoral-f…

This year I finally finished my book, Free Gifts, which will be out in August with Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…


🏆 we revamped our distinguished scholar award to a Distinguished Service Prize, to acknowledge the invisible labor that goes into creating community and institutions and our winner is Zeina Zaatari, Director of the Arab American Cultural Center (Arab American Cultural Center) University of Illinois Chicago



I co-wrote this piece with my brilliant students, Alice Devoy, Elena Gonzalez-Davila-Boy, Rojin Shirwan & Marie Vandermeulen LSE Human Rights LSE Sociology on teaching with film, social reproduction, & refusal in times of horrific violence. Huge thanks to Shruti Iyer SAW
