Creating One’s Own Postdoc Position

An NSF-funded Investigation of Cultural Change in Amazonia I work at an ethnic boundary. “When they [the Matsigenka] first come, they have many problems, and they are used to not working. That is one... 

Climate Change and Social Murder

Agreeing to Kill the People of the Maldives Earlier this year researchers described huge collapses on the Western Antarctic ice sheet. A NASA study involving an assessment of 40 years of ground, air, and... 

The Raw and the Reviewed

My Experiences with the NSF One of the most significant moments in my early career was being awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF DDRIG). Another... 

To the Field!

What do anthropologists do? For many of us, it seems that we spend an inordinate amount of time teaching college classes, grading student papers, writing grant proposals, and making research presentations. ... 

A Defense of NSF Funding from the Field

Every day since arriving in Tokyo this past April to do anthropological fieldwork, I have been thinking about earthquakes. That is to say, I catch myself imagining the very real possibility that the earth... 

Immigrant Workers, Workplace Abuses and the US Law

María worked in a vitamin factory in central New Jersey, where she lived with her husband and two small children. María was from Mexico, having crossed the border into the United States five years earlier,... 

Mobilities, Migration and Displacement

The AAA’s Public Education Initiative Over the past two years we have been aggressively planning the new Public Education Initiative (PEI) on Mobility, Migration, and Displacement, now titled “World... 

Contextualizing the Discourse of Unaccompanied Minors

Over the last couple of weeks, multiple US media venues have reported on the presence of thousands of children traveling on their own to the US Mexico Border with the intent to enter the United States...