Preparing a syllabus in Enviro #anthro?? My GSI and I had SO MUCH FUN with this project, inspired by the question: “How can we teach our students to combat the environmental reductionism without leading them down a path of cynicism or fatalism?” Feat. incredible student work!

Calling graduate students for the 2024 SAW Eric R. Wolf Prize! Due Sept 1, the #prize honors excellence in graduate student research that integrates political economy and bold political action into the analysis of social life. #anthro saw.americananthro.org/pub/2024-wolf-…

Excellent new essay by Mariel Garcia-Montes [Mariel García-Montes @[email protected]] on the normalization (and contestation) of surveillance in Mexico. #surveillance CASTAC blog.castac.org/2024/08/challe…

☎️[External Call for Submissions] Submit your dissertation for the 2024 SKLAC/RECSLAC (RECSLAC) Dissertation Prize. Deadline is September 1st, 2024. 📄 🔗Don't miss out and check the info at tapuya.org/category/exter… #CFP #RECSLAC #SKLAC

We've just published Society for Cultural Anthropology August issue! With essays on climate cosmological contracts in Kenya, datafication in humanitarianism, Eritrean refugee activism, Mexico's car assembly lines, urban renewal in Mongolia & postcolonial agro expertise in India journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca

Meet the 2024–2025 Academy Scholars! Most will be working on transforming their dissertation into a book manuscript or series of articles, while some will be embarking on new writing. Learn more about them at: wcfia.harvard.edu/people/affilia…

Check out this piece I contributed to on NPR! npr.org/sections/shots…

Our ⁦Critique of Anthropology⁩ special issue “Contesting Transitions” is out in the world! 🐣 Superb collection of articles taking anthropology of energy towards exciting directions ✨Thanks to our brilliant contributors. Mostly open access & available here: 👇🏼 journals.sagepub.com/toc/COA/current

Lithium is a key part of the backbone of the green energy transition, but what stories of extraction and exploitation lie beneath the surface? Our latest post digs into its social biography, exploring the many layers that shape our 'clean' energy future: blog.castac.org/2024/09/critic…

Some excellent resources on #AcademicAbleism, #accommodations, #HigherEd and #Disability… for absolutely no reason at all: 1/?

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Very excited to announce that my article Traceable Futures was just published in Tapuya. Many thanks to Andrea Ballestero , Kregg Hetherington , Eden Medina and Vivette Garcia Deister for their editorial labor, and to the entire Future of Facts working group for their support.

The USC Department of Anthropology is searching a colleague to join us at the advanced assistant professor level. I am part of the search committee, and would be happu to answer any questions you might have on the Department, USC, etc. Spread the word! usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angele…

CFP: Techno-Environmental Racialization. Science, Technology, & Human Values We invite contributions that explore racializing techno-environmental processes and how these are un/done, contested, or disrupted by knowledge practices and multispecies relations. Submit here 👇🏾 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Anthro + STS community: we're looking for Contributing Editors & Multimodal Contributing Editors for the Platypus blog -- come join us! I will be taking over from the incredible Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social) as Managing Editor starting Jan 2025 happy to answer any Qs Deadline: Dec 5 👇 1/x

As we finalize the book in the coming year, we would like to collaborate with 10 early-career scholars from around the world who have benefited from the idea of patchwork ethnography. Please tell us how this theoretical and methodological framework has helped you!

Excited to co-host a book party at #AAA2024 with incredible friends and colleagues. Come celebrate five new books by Karl Swinehart, Chloe Ahmann, Christien Tompkins, Aisha Beliso-DeJesus, and yours truly. Friday, November 22 at Earth and Bone Studio (108 N 11th St., Tampa, FL).

Hey #AAA2024Tampa, we're excited to announce this year's Culture@Large—Ghassan Hage, Marianna Reis, and Alpa Shah in conversation about how anthropologists are responding to repression. You must register beforehand to attend. Details here: usc.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

How might anthropology think about substitutions as a way to understand how change is (or often isn't) enacted? This collection edited by Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social), Véra Ehrenstein and myself for Society for Cultural Anthropology collates 14 essays addressing this topic! culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

In Brazil Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social) shows us that sugarcane-based bioplastics are startlingly similar to petroleum-based plastics (non-biodegradable, single-use), to the point that “the original haunts the copy”. culanth.org/fieldsights/im…