Anthropological Airwaves

In Episode 10 of Anthropological Airwaves, we talk with Tiffany Earley-Spadoni (University of Central Florida) and Stefani Crabtree (Penn State) about digital archaeology, covering both its more humanistic and computational modes. Earley-Spadoni shows us how collaboration with local community stakeholders and colleagues abroad can produce rich digital narratives, allowing people to tell and hear s...

In this two-part special feature we think with the Museum Ethnographer's Group conference "Decolonizing the Museum in Practice" , held in April of this year . The second part focuses on the stories and objects around which much decolonizing work revolves and features a read paper by JC Niala and an interview with Laura Peers. Niala relates to us a story that illustrates, among many other insights,...

In this two-part special feature we think with the Museum Ethnographer's Group conference "Decolonizing the Museum in Practice" , held in April of this year. The first part focuses on the legacies and futures of ethnographic museums and features interviews with Faye Belsey, Laura Van Broekhoven, and Rachael Minott. Together, these conversations ask us: what does decolonization look like in practic...

In the fourth and final episode of the series, "The Military Present," anthropologist and physician Omar Dewachi (American University of Beirut) discusses war as a form of governance, drawing on years of ethnographic research on the breakdown of health care in Iraq as well as the travelling wounds of injured Iraqi patients forced to seek medical treatment in other Middle Eastern countries. Dewachi...

This four-part series on “The Military Present” features interviews with scholars of war and militarism that explore how our present is shaped by the technologies, logics, histories, and economy of war. Episode 3 features an interview with Wazhmah Osman, filmmaker and professor of Media Studies and Production. Building on discussions with scholars Joe Masco (Episode 1) and Madiha Tahir (Episode 2)...

This four-part series titled, "The Military Present," explores various aspects of how the present is shaped by war. To do so, we've invited anthropologists to help us make sense of the current political moment. Each of these episodes asks anthropologists (or scholars in related disciplines/trained as anthropologists) to engage with pressing issues of our present. Our hope is that the episodes woul...

In Episode 7 of Anthropological Airwaves, we sat down with Ralph Holloway (Columbia) and Shara Bailey (NYU) to talk about the different methods biological anthropologists use to study human evolution through comparative anatomy and more! Full episode transcript .  Credits: Interviewer -  Volney Friedrich  Producers - Diego Arispe-Bazán and Kyle Olson  Featured Audio:  Pear...

This episode features timely interviews with Jason De León and Hilary Parsons Dick about immigration policy and immigration discourse in relation to Trump's border wall, as well as the roles and responsibilities that anthropologists have in the public sphere. Full episode transcript .  Credits:  Interviewer - Diego Arispe-Bazán  Executive Producer - Arjun Shankar  Producer - Di...

On this episode of Anthropological Airwaves, we sat down with Stephanie Mach of the Penn Museum for two conversations, the first with Monique Scott of Bryn Mawr College and the second with Salam Al Kuntar of the Penn Cultural Heritage Center. Both of our interviewees discuss their museum work, whether ethnographic research or exhibition design & curation and the role of the museum in today's s...

In this episode, Penn Ph. D. Candidate Diego Arispe-Bazan interviews Dr. Damien Stankiewicz of Temple University about his recent article in American Anthropologist entitled "Against Imagination: On the Ambiguities of a Composite Concept" and his thoughts on public engagement and politics. A full transcript of this episode is available on the episode page on the American Anthropologist website.

This episode features two interviews, with Dr. Nazia Kazi of Stockton University and Dr. Mariam Durrani of Hamilton College. In their remarks, they interrogate anti-Muslim racism in today's America and trace its continuities with other forms of oppression in society.   Full episode transcript.   Interviewers: Fatima Tassadiq & Michelle Munyikwa  Producer: Nooshin Sadeghsamimi&nb...

Episode 1 includes an interview with Deborah Thomas about her vision for the journal and website as well as a discussion about the nexus of race and science featuring Dorothy Roberts, Michael Yudell, and Sarah Tishkoff. Full episode transcript .  Credits: Interviewers - Arjun Shankar, Kyle Olson, Amber Henry  Featured Audio: Richie Dagger’s Crime Methods - "Methods" Roulet – "Amor"...