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…
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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…
No America, Please, We’re Global
…what they do, they tend to mention studies that have long been part of the traditional curriculum – science, technology, environment, economics, foreign languages, geography, anthropology, religious studies, world history….
Contest Winner
Readers of this web site were challenged to translate into English an incomprehensible call by the Society for Cultural Anthropology for papers to be delivered at the society’s convention next…
Aestheticization of Relationality? Really?
The following is a call for papers to be delivered at the Society for Cultural Anthropology meeting next May aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Frankly, it doesn’t…
Columbia Hunger Strikers Have No Brain Mass To Lose
…Languages and Cultures Spanish and Latin American Culture Women’s and Gender Studies That’s not to mention, say, Anthropology, whose offerings were filled with classes such as “Women and Gender in…
Anthropology’s Holy Trinity
…and crisply. But in Anthropology a new holy explanatory trinity has emerged to replace the good old simple one: Race/Class/Gender. You can barely refer to the weather without taking into…
Duke Lacrosse And The Professions of Diversity
…established programs in new fields such as black studies, women’s studies, and ethnic studies or transformed some traditional liberal arts disciplines-such as sociology, history, English, literature, and anthropology-to stress issues…