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I met Jon Marks in 2015, when I enrolled in the Masters program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I had just finished a Bachelors degree in anthropology and philosophy at East Carolina University, full of ideas but unsure where they might lead. I was lucky to have been mentored by Linda Wolfe at ECU, a biological anthropologist with sharp instincts and a habit of cutting straight to the point.
Unable to vote in her home country, a Venezuelan immigrant in Chile decides to organize her own mock election. In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceo Gonzlez talks about his experiences as a foreign researcher in Chile. During his fieldwork, he met Marta, a Venezuelan woman residing in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Santiago.
Life After the Ice The windswept floor of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert doesn’t readily reveal its secrets. But beneath its cracked sediment and the shifting shoreline of long-vanished lakes, archaeologists are beginning to piece together a story not just of survival—but of deep cultural adaptation. Pottery from FV 139 B - bottom of layer 1 (0–10 cm).
Gen Z is in an awkward phase. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). The youngest Zoomers, as theyre also known, are around 13 years old and still have years left in public school systems dealing with frequent upheavals due to federal-level uncertainty , politicization of essential servic
This week was about layering, connecting, and getting students to own the contentnot just memorize it. Every protocol, every sequence was designed to move students from basic retrieval to deeper understanding without overwhelming them. Nothing fancy. Nothing over the top. Just intentional teaching. Monday – Abolitionist Reformers Thick Slide Tuesday/Wednesday – Superlatives Thursday – Abolitionists/Women’s Suffrage Reading and AI Evaluation Friday – Reform Movements
Invited to attend a TAH multiday seminar on the Cold War at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, social studies teacher Cade Lohrding was thrilled. Lohrdingborn in the late ninetieshas no memory of Reagans presidency. Yet he feels nostalgia for the decade which culminated in the end of the Cold War, and for the president whose actions helped end it.
Im thinking about a theory for using AI in history education. By theory, I mean what I expect to be true based on general ideas and principles, but something that has not been proven in practice. ( Of course, theory may be proven in practice at which point it becomes something more ). I decided to talk to my AI companion, CHAT GPT about this (a friend indeed) ( Im speaking here to ChatGPTo1 pro mode – edited ) I would like your assistance in developing some ideas (and principles) that may
The Myth of the Migrating Phoenician In classical texts, the Phoenicians are seafaring masterminds—shipbuilders, traders, and creators of the world’s first alphabet. Their imprint stretched from their Levantine heartland across the Mediterranean: Tunisia, Sicily, Sardinia, even Iberia. When Carthage rose to power in the first millennium BCE, it carried the banner of this civilization to new imperial heights.
The Myth of the Migrating Phoenician In classical texts, the Phoenicians are seafaring masterminds—shipbuilders, traders, and creators of the world’s first alphabet. Their imprint stretched from their Levantine heartland across the Mediterranean: Tunisia, Sicily, Sardinia, even Iberia. When Carthage rose to power in the first millennium BCE, it carried the banner of this civilization to new imperial heights.
From the time were kids, were asked, What do you want to be when you grow up? Its a big question one that many students struggle to answer. Without real exposure to different career paths or learning about careers they may never have heard of, students often make choices based on limited information, missing out on opportunities that align with their skills and interests.
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas B. Pepinsky, “Voting in Authoritarian Elections.” Elections are often taken as a defining feature of democratic regimes.
When AI first came out, I was intrigued. I started thinking of ways to use it creatively to help me. Ways to boost engagement. Ways to support learning. I was the guy making presentations with titles like 10 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Class or 5 Ways to Increase Engagement with AI. And those were usefulat the time. But were past that now. AI is here. It’s constantly evolving.
Please accept statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video. For Spring 2025, were excited to introduce new features based on your feedback. These updates will help you teach key social studies skills, streamline assigning and grading, and improve administrative tasks. Sign in to your TCI teacher account to explore these features. Building Social Studies Skills New Economics Library: Economics concepts can be complex, but you can support student understanding of these concepts with the tools
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Demystifying Post-Docs Wednesday, April 30, 2025 3:00 p.m. Eastern | Register Here Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for a virtual workshop sharing best practices and uncovering the hidden curriculum surrounding the post-doc. Post-docs are a common entry point for new political science PhDs to enter the academic workforce while advancing their research and teaching portfolio.
The next set in the Collections series covers both Sociology and Psychology and covers a mix of PowerPoint Presentations, some of which Ive lifted for the Web but most of which Ive created.
When I went to college, I knew one thing: I wanted to play tennis. Beyond that, I had no clue. I went to an open house at NKU, and during the welcome session they told everyone to go meet with their major. I didnt know if that meant I had to choose right then, but I assumed I did. And once I pick something I stick with it. So, I chose education. It wasnt some deeply thought-out decision.
Willing but Unable: Reassessing the Relationship between Racial Group Consciousness and Black Political Participation By Jasmine Carrera Smith , George Washington University ; Jared Clemons , Temple University ; Arvind Krishnamurthy , University of California, Berkeley ; Miguel Martinez , Duke University ; Leann McLaren , Duke University ; Ismail K.
Its just about been a week or so since I came back from the Geographical Association Annual Conference in Oxford, and I thought Id share some reflections.
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The Forgotten Burden In the sun-drenched valleys of Bronze Age Nubia—modern-day Sudan—women moved through the rural landscape with baskets balanced on their heads and tumplines wrapped tightly around their foreheads. These were not symbolic acts of endurance. They were survival. More than 3,500 years later, the imprint of that daily labor is still inscribed in bone.
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia By David Szakonyi , George Washington University. Do corrupt officials govern differently in elected office? This article develops a theoretical framework and analyzes new data from financial disclosures to estimate the governing costs of corruption. First, I uncover substantial hidden wealth held by roughly one quarter of the legislators in the Russian Duma; these kompromat deputies are vulnerable to damaging information being used
Something has been happening on college campuses thats as surprising as it is dramatic: The number of women enrolled has overtaken the number of men. Women now outnumber men by about 60 percent to 40 percent, and that gaps keep getting wider. And men who do enroll are also more likely to drop out. There are a lot of reasons for this. Boys get lower grades than girls, on average, in elementary and middle schools.
When the Eaton and Palisades fires raged through Los Angeles, home of the second-largest school district in the country, they took lives and turned thousands of homes to ash, causing billions of dollars in damage. Much of the devastation was immediate and visible. But some scars will emerge slowly and last for years to come. A subtly pernicious one?
Traveling Treasures is a new project led by a team of anthropologists that puts Liberians directly in touch with their dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to bridge continents and histories. WHEN STUDENTS DONNED virtual reality headsets for the first time last year at William V.S. Tubman High School in Monrovia, Liberia, it wasnt to play the latest viral video game.
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Jurezs Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico By Mai Hassan , MIT , Horacio Larreguy , ITAM and Stuart Russell , World Bank Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local politicians incentives to distribute government positions to partisan supporters. Other studies instead point to the role of bureaucratic managers in allocating government jobs to close contacts.
The Devastating Floods in Eastern Kentucky (Part 1) (From of the last chapter in my book entitled, “Surrounding the Kentucky River, from its beginnings to the end.”) The deluge began in Eastern Kentucky on the night of July 27, 2022. I was informed by a resident of Sergent, a mining town on the upper North Fork of the Kentucky River, that when he was woken up at 6:00 AM the next morning, waters had surrounded his home, lifting up whatever they came in contact with, and thrusting the
This piece is also published in Hindi, which begins below the English edition on this same webpage. In the Indian society, caste is a continuing reality of everyday life. I am an Assistant Professor in a local college in the regional state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state of India, and here caste heterogeneity is structured by a deep social hierarchy.
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The Devastating Floods in Eastern Kentucky ( PART 2 ) (From of the last chapter in my book entitled, Surrounding the Kentucky River, from its beginnings to the end.) The great deluge began the night of Wednesday, July 27, 2022. By the next morning, the rising swamp of floodwater had swept through its sinewy drainageways, bulldozing with water as irate as iron, anything that would obstruct its passage downstream.
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