Cool Anthropology

Prepping for your Spring courses? You could be like cool anthropologist Prof Andrew Flachs who is using his favorite textbook for his public engagement class! 😎 check out our website as well for the digital companion and check out the cool, engaged work of our authors and collaborators! Are you and your students working on a public facing project you’d like to share? Send us a message or let us know in the comments!

Such cool anthropology at this year’s AAA meeting! Some of our favorites are pictured here 💜 Find these folks, collaborate and be inspired in your own public work! 🎥🌱🪸📻📸📒 Sonic Anthropology, Spectral Remix

We are so inspired after our conversations with you all at our 6th annual social mixer for public scholarship at in New Orleans 👻 last week! Thanks to everyone for coming out and sharing your successes and challenges in doing engaged scholarship, building and growing community is essential in this work and we are in this together! Our favorite moment: when a young scholar, now a PhD student, shared how her first paid position ever was working as one of our moderators for our workshop in 2021! (Shout out to Wenner Gren for the workshop grant funding to enable us to support the growth of new public scholars!)

Come join us for drinks, snacks and conversation! 👻

This evening! Join us for snacks, drinks and conversation 👻🥂 American Anthropological Association

Join us next Saturday in Brooklyn at the incredible Biobat Art Space as we discuss our collaboration with filmmaker Egor Subbotin on the Organic Media Project and screen his award-winning pilot film — and check out their current Water Stories show! Registration is free and open to the public: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/organic-nature-documentary-screening-panel-discussion-tickets-1099074694999?aff=oddtdtcreator

We were so fortunate to learn from the community members and artists of Tampa Heights on a walking tour that connected histories, land and well being in multi-faceted ways 🌳 Thank you to longtime collaborator and exemplar of engaged anthropology for bringing this opportunity to 🆒 Our hope is that more and more anthropologists will share their work in this way!

Big thanks to everyone who joined us for our 5th annual Social Mixer for Public Scholars at 💗🆒🎉 it was inspiring to join so many of our longtime supporters and senior scholars who paved the way for this critical work including chapter authors Maria Vesperi from and Agustin Fuentes, Michael Muse from Wenner Gren, Carli Hansen from and many more in conversation with junior scholars and students taking up the mantle of creating cool, public-facing anthropology with such innovation and enthusiasm! Please keep in touch and let’s keep growing this community and showcasing this work to pave the way for generations to come!

We’re headed to 🆒 Come find us Thursday and check out our updates and other cool events in today’s newsletter! - https://mailchi.mp/215e8693f798/coolanthroaaa2024

We’re excited to be kicking off the Fall academic term workshopping strategies for engaging communities and challenging stereotypes with academic projects with Prof Pinar’s students of global migration at Middlebury College on September 18th 🌍Communities are best served when public engagement strategies are built into projects at the beginning and not “tacked on” at the end, and we are heartened to see this growing trend in academia! 🧡 Registration is open!