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Courtney T. Wittekind @ctwittekind

Anthropologist | Assistant Professor @PurdueANTH | Postdoc @YaleCSEAS & Program in Agrarian Studies | အရေးတော်ပုံအောင်ရမည်။

Joined March 2015
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Courtney T. Wittekind@ctwittekind
28 Feb 2024
My new article, appearing in the February issue of @culanth, begins with a puzzle. Why would farmers support a controversial new city project so fervently as to hold a mass demonstration, demanding it be built “as fast as possible?” 1/3
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Burma Studies BSG@TheNotoriusBSG
28 Jan 2025
New pubs 27-1-25 features @ctwittekind on speculation as subsistence in peri-urban Myanmar; Selth on Myanmar’s authoritarian intelligence apparatus; and Wu on Burmese exiles on the Thai border during this revolutionary era. burmastudiesgroup.com/recent…

Recent Publications

(source: Yangon Coconuts, 2015) Journals dedicated to Burma topics Journal of Burma Studies recent issues: 2025 (29.2): Special Issue: “Rebuilding Prospects for ‘Peace’” edited by Julia Palmi…

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Kalindi Vora @kalindivora@bsky.social@chipkalii
13 Jun 2024
Postdoc (feminist intersectional STS) opportunity in one of following areas: critical data studies, artificial intelligence and/or automation technologies; or social science of medicine and medical technologies. Closes 7/10/24 postdocs.yale.edu/postdoctor…

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@mattyrdubs.bsky.social@mattyrdubs
8 May 2024
1/5 - Grim data in latest IDP update from CIDKP, a local Karen CBO delivering humanitarian aid in SE Myanmar. 1 million IDPs across the 7 Karen districts, with recent increases in Brigades 3 & 6; small reduction in B5, as SAC forces pushed out. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
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Karenni Human Rights Group@KarenniHR
24 Apr 2024
We must never forget that these initiatives are possible because of the people who are determined to not be left behind. Education is a powerful pathway forward in ensuring the success of the People's Revolution 💪
Kantarawaddy Times@KantarawaddyTim
24 Apr 2024
Phansaw, the first autonomous university, commenced operations in March at a certain location within Karenni State. Read More - ktnews.org/first-autonomous-…
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Kyaw Hsan Hlaing@kyawhsanhlaing1
21 Apr 2024
“Why doesn’t the world care,” about Myanmar, @hkbeech, @nytimes nytimes.com/video/world/asia…

Video: A Trip to the Front Lines of a Forgotten War

A new generation of democracy fighters has taken up arms in Myanmar. If they push into the nation’s heartland, the rebels could unseat a military that’s had the country in its grip for decades....

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Thomas Birmingham@thomasbirm
20 Apr 2024
BREAKING: In solidarity with Columbia, hundreds of Yale students have just constructed an encampment of tents outside a Board of Trustees meeting. Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing. FREE PALESTINE!
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Esmat Elhalaby@thaqafatalhind
18 Apr 2024
The great anthropologist Susan Slyomovics—known for her study of the Palestinian village of Ein Houd—on being arrested as a seventeen-year-old Barnard student in 1968.
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Honored to be a part of this @NEHgov cohort and the @NEH_ODH initiative on the dangers and opportunities of new technologies. Grateful to my @LifeAtPurdue and @YaleMacMillan colleagues for their enthusiastic support of my proposal.
Purdue Liberal Arts
@PurdueLibArts
19 Apr 2024
#Congratulations to @ctwittekind, assistant professor of @PurdueANTH, on winning a $74K @NEHgov grant for her project "Influencing the Revolution: Social Media and Digital Fundraising in the United States and Myanmar!" Excellent work, Professor Wittekind!
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Indiana Humanities@INHumanities
16 Apr 2024
Congrats to @TCMIndy, @HanoverCollege, @NotreDame, @LifeAtPurdue, @saintmarys, @uindy and @DePauwU for being on this list! Learn more: neh.gov/news/neh-announces-2…

NEH Announces $26.2 Million for 238 Humanities Projects Nationwide

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National Endowment for the Humanities@NEHgov
16 Apr 2024
NEH announces $26.2 million for 238 humanities projects across the U.S. Grants will support exhibitions, films, digitization of historic collections, sustainability projects at museums & archives, advanced research, & programs in higher ed. tinyurl.com/5fpch689 #NEHgrant
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David Moe@davidmoe83
7 Apr 2024
A good opportunity for those interested in writing topics related to Burma: burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/0…

Opportunity: Okell Burma Studies Paper Prize

The Burma Studies Group is pleased to announce its second John Okell Burma Essay Prize, which will be awarded to the strongest essay on a Burma/Myanmar related topic submitted by a graduate student…

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Dr. Luis F. Alvarez León@lfalvarezleon
3 Apr 2024
#TheMapInTheMachine is real and it’s here* thanks to the good people at @ucpress. Pre-order it, and you too can be a happy customer, like the author! ucpress.edu/book/97805203893… * See Fig. 1 for successful unboxing results.
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The Irrawaddy (Eng)
@IrrawaddyNews
27 Mar 2024
Military media’s warning that young people risk being ‘shot in the head and back’ is a tacit admission of what protesters already know: they are being targeted for death. Read more: bit.ly/3w1w2zT #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar ------------------- Help The Irrawaddy Report the Truth from Myanmar bit.ly/3btQYpR

Myanmar Regime Unwittingly Acknowledges ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ Policy Against Protesters

Military media’s warning that young people risk being ‘shot in the head and back’ is a tacit admission of what protesters already know: they are being targeted for death.

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Hsan@HsanLoatheCoup
13 Mar 2024
App forms were distributed in some townships in Yangon in order to carry on with the conscription law. Kids, if you can't afford to bribe your way out, leave the town before it's too late, when you are the only one in front line walking under constant fire in the mine field.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology@culanth
14 Mar 2024
In this article, @ctwittekind traces demonstrations-turned-spectacles organized in Yangon’s outskirts & asks how spectacle functions when it is devised by those living at the center of a speculative urban plan.   journal.culanth.org/index.ph…
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Veronika Kusumaryati@VKusumaryati
1 Mar 2024
Just happened after the elections: My piece on pig‐feast and elections in West Papua is out from @AmEthno. It is open access. Wiley Online Library anthrosource.onlinelibrary.w…

American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library

In most Melanesian societies, pig feasts have been declining in recent years, owing to the incursion of Christianity and the modern economy. But in Indonesia-occupied West Papua, pig feasts are...

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Kevin Lozano@kevlloydlozano
28 Feb 2024
Proud to work at @thenation on a day we can publish an absolutely essential and heartfelt essay on Aaron Bushnell by @rubin_lyle thenation.com/article/societ…

Taking Aaron Bushnell at His Word (and Deed)

The airman who set himself alight on Sunday signed up to sacrifice himself for the greater good—only to discover that he had become an accomplice to evil.

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Gwen Robinson@RobinsonBKK
15 Feb 2024
Myanmar's draconian conscription order is not just youth: targets professionals UP TO 45 years old. Get ready, Thailand... asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/My…

'I'd rather cut off a few fingers': Myanmar's draft fuels popular backlash

Critics say order will send new waves of recruits to resistance forces

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soe zeya tun@soezeya
15 Feb 2024
Long queues at the Thai embassy in Yangon today as people rush to leave the country following the Myanmar's junta announces enforcement of military service laws for the youth. Video via Khing Maung Htwe Facebook #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Kevin M Woods@Kevin_M_Woods
28 Feb 2024
I should have known better: I have pulled out of my planned talk on climate change, agrarian change and armed conflict in Myanmar, sponsored by the UN’s new climate change network
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The Irrawaddy (Eng)
@IrrawaddyNews
28 Feb 2024
Scores of young people have been arrested in Mandalay since the junta activated the conscription law early this month, residents of the country’s second-largest city say. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/49ujLHH

Conscription Graft: Myanmar Military Arrests Scores of ‘Recruits’ in Mandalay

Scores of young people have been arrested in Mandalay since the junta activated the conscription law early this month, residents of the country’s second-largest city say.

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Society for Cultural Anthropology@culanth
22 Feb 2024
Our new issue features six new articles from Brazil, Peru, and Trinidad to Myanmar, Zambia, and Egypt - as well as an inaugural guest commentary on NAGPRA by members of the Choctaw Nation. Check them all out here! journal.culanth.org/index.ph…
Journal issue cover for Cultural Anthropology featuring a photo of a logging camp with piles of timber.

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