Founded in 1980, the Society for the Anthropology of Work seeks to advance the study of work in all its aspects by scholars from across the discipline.
Joined January 2014
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5 Mar 2025
This book is hella good. Can't believe I haven't read it til now, seems like something everyone should read in college, even just to see research done so well
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14 Feb 2025
I co-wrote this piece with my brilliant students, Alice Devoy, Elena Gonzalez-Davila-Boy, Rojin Shirwan & Marie Vandermeulen @LSEHumanRights @LSEsociology on teaching with film, social reproduction, & refusal in times of horrific violence. Huge thanks to Shruti Iyer @anthrowork
13 Feb 2025
Lovee this piece by Mai Taha @mtaha1871, Alice Devoy, Elena Gonzalez-Davila-Boy, Rojin Shirwan & Marie Vandermeulen - so rich & expansive 💙
Thinking with Chantal Akerman’s Cinema: a conversation on reproductive labour, pedagogy and radical refusal · saw.americananthro.org/pub/l…
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🎥Severance Season 2 drops Jan 17!
Dive into SAW’s @anthrowork “Exertions” Thematic Collection for short commentaries on Season 1, exploring its themes through an anthropological lens.
👉Severance Collection: saw.americananthro.org/sever…
#Severance #Anthropology #SAWExertions
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1 Jan 2025
🏆 we revamped our distinguished scholar award to a Distinguished Service Prize, to acknowledge the invisible labor that goes into creating community and institutions
and our winner is Zeina Zaatari, Director of the Arab American Cultural Center (@ArabAmCC) @thisisUIC
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31 Dec 2024
This year I finally finished my book, Free Gifts, which will be out in August with @PrincetonUPress press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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17 Dec 2024
@SarahBesky explores the unseen side of Indian tea plantations: labor, social reproduction, and the everyday acts that sustain these spaces. Workers' lives aren’t just about crops they're about care, community, and survival within systems of production. 🔗 bit.ly/49p69hr
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2-year postdoc available at Tufts University, as part of a @MellonFdn engaged project on environment, labor, agriculture, commons, and education. Open to all humanities and hum soc sci fields, including anthropology and geography. Applications due Feb 1.
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11 Dec 2024
In our new issue, Gregory Hallin on professional wrestling & work:
"Through consideration of a unionization drive in British pro wrestling, I explore how wrestling speaks to labor at the intersection of the precarious gig economy & post-truth politics."
journal.culanth.org/index.ph…
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10 Dec 2024
I encourage everyone interested in cultural anthropology to read David C. Thompson's and Tarini Bedi's award-winning work and our accompanying jury note. Their bold and innovative insights into social life are sure to expand your thinking about our world! culanth.org/about/about-the-…
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16 Dec 2024
The Life and Death of the American Worker- book review by @tomphilpott
The powerless—and courageous—immigrants fighting for dignity inside the country’s slaughterhouses.
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4 Dec 2024
I am honored to be co-winner with @anthrodave of the 2024 Cultural Horizons Prize. Thank you @culanth for this and especially to the jury of graduate students who read the work so thoughtfully and imaginatively.
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3 Dec 2024
Congrats to Naisargi N. Davé whose book "Indifference" is the winner of the 2024 Gregory Bateson Prize, given by @culanth!
dukeupress.edu/indifference
ALT Cover of Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being by Naisargi N. Davé. The cover is light gray, and features drawings of different people from the torso up, with empty thought and speech bubbles over their heads. There are several animals around the people, including a cheetah, deer, birds, a cat, and a dog. There are also multicolored circles patterned around the people.
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Come to the SAW business meeting this Wednesday (the 20th) at 11:45am EST. Come find out how to get involved, and our new initiatives. ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
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11 Nov 2024
Last call for this wonderful proposed AWR special issue on 'Radicalization and Gig Economies.' Manuscripts due this Friday: saw.americananthro.org/pub/c…
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6 Nov 2024
Proud to have edited this incredible collection of essays on Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On Nakba and Return with Kamala Visweswaran. Part one: culanth.org/fieldsights/seri…
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27 Oct 2024
RT @ZoeSTodd: My late Métis grandfather stood up for his fellow workers on dangerous road building projects he worked on as a heavy machine…
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22 Oct 2024
In our latest issue, @amrita_kurian traces connections between experts’ pedagogies & a parasite's attractive bloom, examining the affective responses surrounding experts’ day-to-day technoscientific management of environmental sustainability initiatives
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It has come to the AAUP's attention that there has been misinformation regarding the ad hoc Committee of Inquiry at @Muhlenberg College.
The Committee is proceeding with its work & will be conducting interviews from October 31 - November 2 via ZOOM.
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Anyone can sign this, you do not have to be from the Lehigh Valley.
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