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Tag Archives: Academia
Uniformitarianism and the stratigraphic profiles of academia
One of the great challenges in paleoanthropological field work is understanding the sequence of events that led to the accumulation of materials at a site. How did these sediments get here? What agents led to the assemblage of fossils that … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution, Teaching
Tagged Academia, family, Graduate school, job training, tenure
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What I am reading this weekend (August 30, 2013)
…prior to the arrival of students, the beginning of school, and the traditional ramping up of Fall. The Academy Fight Song, by Thomas Frank (The Baffler) The coming of “academic capitalism” has been anticipated and praised for years; today it … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Geology, Teaching
Tagged Academia, China, Lower Pleistocene, Nihewan basin, poetry, taphonomy
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Gender and academic publishing
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a fascinating information graphic on the representation of women in academic publications, extending from 1665 to 2010. The graphic is based on work by Jennifer Jacquet, Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom using an index … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology
Tagged Academia, gender, publication, women
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The special joys of academia
Tara Smith, newly-minted Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Iowa, celebrates her tenure promotion: Received the official letter from the Provost–the Board of Regents approved my application for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. … To celebrate, I’ve … Continue reading
Motherhood and Academia
There are a lot of interesting stories and articles that have come out this week that I hope to get to at some point but am too busy at the moment to address. But in honor of the conclusion of … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology
Tagged Academia, children, motherhood
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Embracing digital academia (UPDATED)
Daniel Lende has a wonderful post, both recapping and expanding on a AAA session devoted to digital anthropology. The post discusses a number of exciting and innovating digital projects designed to find new ways of “doing anthropology” and facilitating broad … Continue reading
More on why anthropology matters
Rex, at Savage Minds, makes some good points: Education for citizenship is a unique challenge because the world is a uncertain place, and solving the problems we face as a country is not like learning a recipe or performing rote … Continue reading