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Annual Meeting

Breaking Down Silos in Anthropology: New Collaboration Models to Improve Integration between Academia and Practice

Many anthropologists recognize that there are silos within the discipline between practitioners and academics. At a Presidential Session at the 2019 AAA meetings, this topic and ways to break down the barriers were discussed. Session presentations are now available on a special archive page; review the videos and add your comments, thoughts, and ideas.

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May 26, 2020
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Guest Blog, Main Blog

How can a Business Anthropologist and Data Analyst dance together?

Pure Logical Thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.” (Einstein, A. Ideas and Opinions (p.271). Crown Publishing Group. Anthropology, at its core, is known for its…

Touhid Kamal
May 5, 2020

Guest Blog, Main Blog, Design by Anthropologists

Working in Enterprise User Experience (EUX)

Interested in working in enterprise user experience (EUX)? Matt Artz discusses the opportunities and challenges of working with enterprise software and offers some tips for finding a job and being successful in EUX.

Matt Artz
February 11, 2020

Design by Anthropologists, Guest Blog, Main Blog

Esports and the Built Environment: Where the Digital Meets Reality

IntroEsports has emerged as a multibillion dollar industry, all within the past few decades. The global games industry is predicted to have produced $152.1 billion in 2019, with esports events in the last year handing out over $700 million in…

Angela Ramer and Logan McLaughlin
March 3, 2020

Main Blog, Volunteer of the Year Award Interview

MEET NAPA’s 2018 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR: Joshua Liggett

How did you get your start in anthropology? What drew you to the field? I’ve always been a huge science fiction nerd and one of my heroes growing up was Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation. In…

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January 17, 2019

Volunteer of the Year Award Interview

MEET NAPA’s 2019 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR: Brandon Meyer

NAPA recently conducted an online interview with Brandon Meyer, the designer of the new NAPA website, and NAPA’s 2019 Volunteer of the Year Awardee for the November 2019 issue of NAPA Notes: How did you get your start in anthropology?So…

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January 17, 2020

AnthroJobs

AnthroJobs of the Week, 15 January 2020

There are so many great and challenging opportunities for anthropologists out there that it was hard to choose which one’s to include in this week’s AnthroJobs! We have a grant-funded tech start-up researching the modern workplace, a research firm looking…

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January 15, 2020

Announcements

SfAA 2020 Podcast Session Selection Survey

A new year brings new opportunities for connecting at conferences and conventions. But if you can’t make all or part of the SfAA meeting in March, help us decide which sessions will be recorded for the 2020 SfAA podcast. Please…

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January 10, 2020

AnthroJobs

AnthroJobs of the Week, 8 January 2020

Happy New Year to everyone! This years’ first week of AnthroJobs rings in the New Year with a slew of new and coveted job opportunities from Facebook, who are on-boarding qualitative researchers across departments! We’ve broken these down so you…

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January 8, 2020

AnthroJobs

AnthroJobs of the Week, 18 December 2019

For this week’s AnthroJobs, our very own American Anthropology Association has got a job opening. Then we stay in the Arlington, VA area to review some other jobs in this hotbed of non-profit and government sector research positions. To begin,…

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December 18, 2019

Guest Blog, Main Blog, Design by Anthropologists

Skip the CV. Reinvent the Resume: A discussion of how to present the content of your career

Last year, I reviewed over 150 User Experience (UX) Researcher applications to fill an open position on my team. Of those, less than twenty percent were crafted in a way that made my job as a hiring manager easy. I…

Molly Rempe
December 4, 2019

AnthroJobs

AnthroJobs of the Week, 4 December 2019

This week’s anthrojob selections highlight anthropologists’ aptitude for discovery. Take up the challenge to explore the future of food or share your anthropological insights into the consumer’s point of view with R&D labs of an internationally-recognized personal care company. Maybe…

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December 4, 2019