…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.”…
…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…
…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 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…
…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…
…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…
…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,…
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…
…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…
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…
…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 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…
…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 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…
…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…
…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….
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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,…
…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…
…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,…
…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…
…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…
…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,…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…