The News-Times (based in Danbury, CT) has featured the work of Scott Lacy, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Fairfield University and executive director of African Sky, a non-profit that plans to build ten rural schools in the African country of Mali in 2010.
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Not only did AAA member Dr. Eugenie C. Scott deliver a commencement speech to graduates at the University of Missouri on Saturday, May 15, 2010, but she also just received her 8th honorary doctorate! Dr. Scott has notably had a career devoted to defending the teaching of evolution in public schools, and is currently Executive Director [...]
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AAA member Joan Vinyets’ work, and that of her ethnography-based market research agency, A Piece of Pie, were recently highlighted in a CNBC article. The article focuses on the rising trend for companies to use ethnography-based research to fill in the gaps between traditional market reasearch techniques, and the place of ethnographers, such as Vinyets, in providing better and [...]
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Finding a job in anthropology starts here. California State University, Sacramento. The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor beginning Fall 2010. We are seeking an anthropologist with collections-related NAGPRA experience. The Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia is seeking applicants for a non-tenure track Visiting Lecturer position [...]
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AAA member David Harvey (CUNY) was recently featured on BBC 4′s Thinking Allowed discussing today’s financial crises. Harvey says: Capital is the lifeblood that flows through the body politic of all those societies we call capitalist, spreading out, sometimes as a trickle and other times as a flood, into every nook and cranny of the [...]
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