The Mangling of American History
…New subjects of enquiry — gender, race and ethnicity — have developed. Never have historians been so influenced by the methodology and contributions of other disciplines, from anthropology to sociology. …
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Should We Charge Different Fees for Different Majors?
…amount students pay to the costs and benefits of various degrees. For example, if we have underutilized anthropology professors, the cost of educating one additional anthropology major may be close…
A Survival Guide for the Right in Leftist Academia
…in Economics, more than 5-1 in Political Science, 10-1 or more in History and English, and well over 20-1 in Sociology and Anthropology. Exacerbating the imbalance, whereas Democratic faculty hold…
A Social Scientist Who Made a Difference
…him in their USPS mailboxes and bewilderingly confounded that there’ll be no more. Who can replace him? No one. —————- Lionel Tiger is Darwin Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Rutgers University….
The ‘Inequality’ Movement–A Campus Product
…go on to graduate work in anthropology, economics, government, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public policy, or sociology.” At the University of California, Berkeley, students study “Social Inequalities, American Cultures.”…
A Funny Book about Worthless Degrees
…sociology, anthropology, psychology, or environmental studies–by guidance counselors and proselytizing professors. There’s the graduate of the University of Oregon “with degrees in international studies and sociology and a double minor…
A Harvard Apologist for China’s One-Child Brutality
…of Susan Greenhalgh, “the newest professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences” at Harvard. The profiler, Katie Koch of the Harvard Gazette staff, says Greenhalgh “seized the…
The Worst College Professors Ever?
The Chronicle of Higher Education had a cover story last week by Peter Schmidt on Angana P. Chatterji and Richard Shapiro, two anthropology professors at the California Institute of Integral Studies…
The Chilly World of the Campus Male
…from departments of women’s and “gender” studies and is adapted by psychology; social work; sociology; anthropology; literature; schools of education; and the seminaries. At the prestigious universities, most of these…
College Budget Cuts: How Course Corrections Can Undermine Students
…will secure jobs. The way to do this, he says, is to stop training students to get degrees in subjects such as psychology and anthropology–especially anthropology, a subject I’ve taught…
Women’s Studies Professor Takes a Vacation
…for Social Research, May 1996, and her B.A.(Highest Distinction) in Psychology, with minors in Anthropology and Women’s Studies, May 1990. Her research and teaching interests include media and popular culture,…
Literature Professors Discover Animals
English professors have long been straying far afield from literary studies, expanding into women’s studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, even fat studies. Recently they have migrated into animal studies. An…
A Minor Cut at Harvard Is an Amputation at UNLV
…universities as the University of Las Vegas at Nevada struggle with whether to retain some departments in the liberal arts, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and women’s studies. It is easy…
Conservatives Should Drop the Apology Demand
Some readers of Minding the Campus may have noticed the little fracas at University of Iowa between College Republicans and anthropology/women’s studies professor Ellen Lewin. You can read about it…
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….
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…