Why Do Our Disciplines Matter?

by Katharine Napora, Anthropology, ’18-19 I don’t care if, in a year from now, my students remember which hominin is associated with the Acheulean stone tool tradition, which dicotyledon species have semi ring-porous wood, or what the appropriate symbology is for relationships in a kinship chart. What I do care about is that all students…

Oh, the Humanities! Challenges and Triumphs of Teaching Anthropological Writing

by KC Jones In hiring practices and career development, humanities students historically begin their academic journeys behind the proverbial eight ball. Anthropology students in particular are at a disadvantage, with 12,000 recent graduates as of 2016 fighting for only a few hundred jobs in their field. 1 For three consecutive years, both Kiplinger Business Forecast…