Behind Anthropology Watch: An Interview with Jeff Maskovsky and Emily Metzner

Across the country, anthropology is under threat—a target of budget crunches and institutional restructuring sweeping through higher ed as well as broader attacks on the social sciences, humanities, and DEI. In response, the American Anthropological Association, through its Anthropology Advocacy Council (AAC), developed Anthropology Watch: a tracker documenting every closure, cut, and admissions freeze as […]

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Bleeding Anthropology

Ethnographic fieldwork often causes strong physical and mental strain to the working anthropologist, yet the vocabulary to address such issues within the discipline seems stagnated. This article argues that anthropology’s loss of vocabulary for address…