September Issue: Anthropology Education

September AN features three In Focus commentary series focusing on anthropology education, with PDFs of series articles available on the AAA website. Series include:

1. Student Experiences: Commentaries on the variety of educational opportunities now available to anthropology students who seek interdisciplinary or applied training and experiences outside of the traditional. Featuring: Jennifer Cardew, Robert Chidester, Graça Índias Cordeiro, Alexandra Crampton, Jason E Miller and Puneet Chawla Sahota.
2. Educational Partnerships: As anthropology students, educators and partner groups pursue university-community partnership initiatives, they increasingly recognize the benefits, risks and challenges these opportunities provide. Featuring: Brian J Burke, Ben McMahan, Gigi Owen, Jennifer Coffman, Marc K Hébert, Nila Ginger Hofman, Howard Rosing and Julia Offen
3. Work-Life Balance: An ongoing series, introduced this month, that addresses the challenges of maintaining a comfortable work-life balance, as well as strategies developed to meet those challenges. Featuring: Gabriel Asselin, Christopher Dana Lynn. AN welcomes proposals for future articles on this topic.

The September issue also features a photo essay by Meg Gaillard, with online photo gallery, as well as additional content that will be available online soon through AnthroSource.

Read In Focus series articles online at the AAA website and share your comments here.

Anthropology of YouTube

Welcome to the final installment of this month’s four-part Michael Wesch video series, posted as an introduction to our upcoming September issue on the anthropology student experience.

Michael Wesch and the Kansas State University Digital Ethnography Working Group continue to explore opportunities to incorporate web 2.0 technologies as core components of anthropology courses. “Introducing our YouTube Ethnography Project” presents viewers with a quick snapshot of Wesch’s digital ethnography course, with more information and student videos available on their website. “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube” documents Wesch’s June 23, 2008 presentation at the Library of Congress, prepared in collaboration with his digital ethnography students.

For further discussion of diverse anthropology student experiences and new educational opportunities in anthropology see the forthcoming September issue of Anthropology News. We also welcome you to submit your own comments on anthropology education today.