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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

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Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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Transforming Data into Human Stories: Machine-Learning-Based Models to Estimate Age-at-Death of Undocumented Migrants

Anthropology News

In 2023, we witnessed a tragic surge in migrant deaths along migratory routes worldwide, marking it as one of the deadliest years on record according to the statistics from the Missing Migrant Project , with an estimated more than 8,000 cases.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

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In December 2023, I attended an online seminar featuring the anthropologist Ghassan Hage , a leading expert on race and migration. But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.