All Is Not Well at Syracuse
…comes along with limited insight into the many alternative ways that people create meaningful lives,” wrote Robert Rubinstein, a professor of anthropology and international relations, in a Feb. 24 letter….
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A Double Shock to Liberal Professors
…a host of academic disciplines, psychology being just one. Sociology, anthropology, and women’s studies have been found to be even more ideologically skewed than psychology. People outside the left-liberal hegemony…
A Case of Stigmatism
…example of rampant stigmatism can be found in Disrespected?, a recent article by Penn anthropology professor John L. Jackson Jr., who apparently is the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s designated commentator…
A Terrible Time for New Ph.D.s
…a woman who had apparently spent eight years acquiring a Ph.D. in anthropology, plus another seven years trying unsuccessfully to get an entry-level tenure-track professor’s job—a position whose average starting…
Do We Need More Black Philosophers And Anthropologists
(And Fewer Black Scientists)?
…also fixated on race. In an argument posted on an American Anthropology Association website, four Howard anthropologists assert that [t]he consequences of a closure … will also have a bearing…
A Footnote to the Anthropology Debate
…on science itself. Perhaps the inability to get to the bottom of this intricate, highly charged tribal controversy reveals the limits of anthropology as a discipline, whether scientific or cultural….
Rigoberta’s Revenge: The Implosion Of Anthropology
…idea that anthropology is a science. It also blurs the intellectual boundaries of the discipline and, ironically, inserts a stronger warrant for using anthropology to engage in public advocacy…. The…
A Small-c Conservative (Lukewarm) Defense of Tenure
…to fields like English, philosophy, or anthropology. Whether giving today’s students a brief window of access to a more pedagogically diverse academy that is rapidly passing us by is worth…
Seeing Academic Repression Everywhere
…really? A quick glance at the syllabi of the average Sociology or Anthropology department, not to mention Hispanic Studies, Peace Studies, or Community Studies, would suggest that leftist politico-economic perspectives…
Whatever Happened to the Group of 88?
…chair the African-American Studies Department, the school brought in J. Lorand Matory, best-known as the Harvard sponsor of the resolution of no confidence in Larry Summers. The Cultural Anthropology Department,…
Sustainability—More Cash and a Softer Side
…of learning from the social sciences, including economics, politics, and the anthropology of the developing world, all with the aim of “making sure the planet will continue to produce wealth…
On Women, STEM and Hidden Bias
…degrees in public policy, cultural anthropology and education, respectively, and 12 of the 15 female members of its advisory committee are social scientists with PhDs in psychology or education. Not,…
Why Do Anthropologists Have Their Own Foreign Policy?
…in 1902 to “promote the science of anthropology, to stimulate and coordinate the efforts of American anthropologists, to foster local and other societies devoted to anthropology, to serve as a…
The 10 Youngest College Graduates In U.S. History
…completed an Associate of Science degree in geology while at Santa Rosa Junior College. He would then go on to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from University of…
Why So Few Conservative And Libertarian Professors?
…more likely to have landed outside of academia. For example, in Anthropology/Sociology, 43% of the Republican scholars were working outside academia, compared with only 24% of Democrat scholars. In History,…
Opening Old Wounds
…of the Yanomami, the sociobiological approach versus the blank-slate theory, and respect for traditional field work versus the post-Sixties politicized view that anthropology is little more than a destructive form…
The University Of Chicago – What’s Been Lost
…takes a different approach: an empirical, scientific approach to understanding the functions of the mind. Drawing on psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, and a number of other social as well as…
Rescuing the University, I
…the intellectual desolation in political science may be minor compared to the “no go” zones in sociology, psychology, anthropology and English. No wonder today’s academics are seldom consulted in these…
Does Texas Hiring Run Afoul of Ricci?
…counter-offers after the professors’ existing employers offered to match. Here is how Inside Higher Education described UT-Austin’s hiring of Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, an anthropology professor at UC-Berkeley just hired by UT-Austin…
Erasing Israel At York University
…anthropology professor who runs the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Dana Olwan, national chair of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, and Hazem Jamjoum, communications officer for Badil, a militant right-of-return…
An Academic(?) Conference to Combat the Right
…University assistant professor of anthropology Nicholas DeGenova (notorious for wanting to see “a million Mogadishus,” i.e., the slaughter of tens of millions of U.S. troops); Attorney Eunice C. Lee, a…
Probing The Black-White Achievement Gap
…late Berkeley Anthropology Professor John Ogbu found that black parents often aren’t aware of how closely they need to attend to their children’s homework and are less likely to confer…
Knocking Out Speech Codes, Keeping Everything Else?
…was a useful reminder that the AAUP seems to have implicitly foreclosed on any grounds from which a criticism of a discipline could possibly be mounted (if Anthropology says it’s…
Incredible Vanishing Humanities Doctorates
…saw an overall increase of 5.1 percent from 1998). Even the social sciences (sociology, anthropology, political science, and the like) did not fare too badly, their number of doctorates growing…
Work With The U.S. Military? Not If You’re An Anthropologist
…idea that it’s unethical for an anthropologist to consult for the U.S. military—even though that is exactly what many of the AAA’s 11,000 members, mostly anthropology professors and graduate students…
Who’s Acing The GREs?
…students in religion (No. 16), history (No. 18), and anthropology/archaeology (No. 20) fared even worse overall. There is an elephant in this GRE living room, a female elephant. The academic…
Fixing the Anything-Goes Philosophy at Brown
…Brown, whether in biology or history or anthropology or economics. Why should there be? Students at Brown don’t have study anything outside their chosen (and often self-designed) fields. Even given…
Milton Friedman Still Haunts Chicago Faculty
…essential role of markets in allocating goods and services.” Non state-controlled markets and individual freedom seem to be anathema to the literature, music, anthropology, and divinity professors who signed the…
Preserving The Core At Georgia
…its “general education core” – to require more courses in the hard sciences, especially the physical sciences, and fewer in the social sciences. The latter, especially anthropology, have grown increasingly…
What Trustees Must Do
…and identity scholarship, like women’s studies, ethnic studies, together with spheres of cultural studies, “science studies”, and anthropology, have experienced just this kind of devolution, with practitioners often dismissing objectivity…