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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.
This week was all about keeping the momentum goingconnecting reform movements, industrialization, and women’s rights in ways that actually made sense to students. Some lessons flowed just like I hoped. Others forced me to think on the fly (shoutout to the surprise Wi-Fi outage). But through it all, I leaned on purpose-driven protocols, reframing simple tasks to get kids thinking deeper, and using toolswhether AI or no-techintentionally.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
At first glance, Tel Shiqmona appears unassuming—a rocky outcrop overlooking the Mediterranean just south of modern-day Haifa. But beneath its surface, archaeologists have found what may be the most robust evidence yet of a long-standing, industrial-scale dye production facility operating between 1100 and 600 BCE. Not for clay, copper, or olive oil, but for something far more elusive: color.
Read Rajiv Vinnakota and coalition voices Marlene Tromp, Lori S. White, Tania Tetlow, Roslyn Clark Artis, and Michael Roth featured in The New Yorker. Emma O. Green's article discusses the ongoing work across higher education to help our students develop the skills they need to live in a productive democracy. The examples here underscore our mission to equip America's next generation with the necessary civic skills to navigate a divided nation and lead effectively.
Boosting Student Success with Studies Weekly at Empower Community School | Customer Success Story Apr 21, 2025 Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER Join us as we step inside Empower Community School to hear from educators dedicated to creating meaningful learning experiences with the help of Studies Weekly. ▶ Your browser does not support the video tag.
This blog post has been percolating for the past few weeks and is inspired by a post on a listserv where someone in faculty development was asking about common practices to cite resources from other teaching and learning centers (CTL) if that information was in turn used for another CTL as a resource or part of a presentation. The conversation that ensued was rather brief for such a great (and on the surface obvious, but not so obvious) question.
This morning started in chaos. The WiFi was down. I scrambled. I needed something fast, something engaging, something that didnt rely on the internetbut still moved our learning forward. I couldve defaulted to a worksheet. Basic questions. Called it a day. But thats not really my style. I knew todays goal: students needed to be able to explain the importance of suffrage to the womens rights movement.
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.
Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media By Franziska Pradel , Technical University of Munich ; Jan Zilinsky , Technical University of Munich ; Spyros Kosmidis , University of Oxford ; Yannis Theocharis , Technical University of Munich. When is speech on social media toxic enough to warrant content moderation? Platforms impose limits on what can be posted online, but also rely on users reports of potentially harmful content.
Cosmos the Stellar Stalker, a novel of Fiction Science by Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. Buy it here, click my store link on the menu! Also available on Amazon, Audible and Kindle (Click on the Vimeo link if the video doesn’t immediately show below!) The Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at: www.vanstockum.blog/lookin Also find me at: www.facebook.com/reggievanstockum www.instagram.com/reggievanstockum www.vimeo.com/reggievanstockum www.youtube.com @reggievanstockum1097 www.tiktok.com/@reggiesr
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.
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
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming By Jennifer Forestal , Loyola University Chicago. While there is disagreement over the value of public shaming, scholars largely agree that social media introduce pathologies. But while scholars rightly identify the effects of online public shaming (OPS), they misidentify the cause. Rather than solely a problem of scale, OPSs effects are also shaped by the network structure within which they take place.
The Marsh Ambush: What a 300,000-Year-Old Horse Hunt Reveals About Early Human Cooperation A horse bone bed in northern Germany offers rare insight into the minds and methods of pre-modern humans—and how deep the roots of social intelligence may go. On the edge of a shallow lake in what is now Lower Saxony, Germany, a group of hunters closed in on a herd of wild horses.
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
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?
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.
In the shadows of the Beni-Snassen Mountains, tucked into a cave called Taforalt, archaeologists have been piecing together an unexpected story about the rituals of late Pleistocene humans. Not just about who they buried—but what they buried with them. Among the artifacts and bones of those interred are the carefully butchered remains of Otis tarda , the great bustard, a bird that once roamed the open plains of North Africa in numbers.
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.
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.
I used to be proficient at Photoshop in a past life. It's just easier for ChatGPT to do this for me instead (because it did). Are you explaining it or are you just talking about it? This is a question I routinely raise on student papers in my department in a curriculum that is wedded to the so-called isms. Its pervasive here. Students think firmly inside those boxes.
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.
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As lessons at the Zinn Education Project demonstrate, the U.S. war against Vietnam began in 1945 at the end of World War II , with the U.S. refusal to recognize Vietnams independence. Every U.S. president from Truman through Nixon waged war on Vietnam. And as the Pentagon Papers demonstrate, each of these presidents lied about it. The human suffering and the ecological devastation is impossible to calculate.
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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.
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The Supreme Court over the next two weeks will hear two cases that have the potential to erode the separation of church and state and create a seismic shift in public education. Mahmoud v. Taylor, which goes before the court on April 22, pits Muslim, Roman Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox families, as well as those of other faiths, against the Montgomery County school system in Maryland.
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