I am eager to share the following call for CMA award nominations. Check it out and nominate the wonderful colleagues in your world. –Jason Michael M. Ames Award The Council for Museum Anthropology is seeking nominations for the Michael M. Ames Award for Innovative Museum Anthropology. The award is given to individuals for an innovative […]
During a semester (and a year, and a period) filled with woe, my graduate course was one of the most meaningful and rich educational experiences of my career. I jumped with my students into a deep and unfamiliar pool. Thankfully they were excellent swimmers, and everything turned out better-than-well. For the past ten years I […]
There are too many things needing to be written about. Many of them are grim. Here I want to begin the work week with positivity. This past semester, I taught one wholly new graduate course and one substantively new undergraduate course. I do not yet have confirmation from course evaluations, but I think that they […]
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Shuikou, Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited July 10, 2019 This is the Twentieth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the Southeast Asian Massif. Approximately: 25° 54′ 31.7514″ N, 109° 19′ 7.5354″ E
This week in my undergraduate museum practices course, we will discuss museum careers (and graduate school). For the first time since 2017, I have again done my calculations based on the AAM (American Alliance of Museums) job ads currently posted (N=140). The big story is the rise of the “no degree requirements listed ad.” This […]
Luoxiang Town, Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited July 8, 2019 This is the Nineteenth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the Southeast Asian Massif. Approximately: 25° 54′ 42.762″ N, 109° 6′ 34.74″ E