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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

Anthropology News

“Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Merging anthropology and journalism was attempted through the ‘70s into the aughts. Grindall and Robin Rhodes. What happened?

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

But they seem to miss the most important education of all: how to relate their specialization to others in an increasingly interconnected world. The National Academy of Engineering has categorically stated that today’s engineers need to be more than individuals who simply “like math and science.” So, where and how did we lose our way?

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Alan Harwood

Anthropology News

(1935-2024) On July 5, 2024 Dr. Alan Harwood, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, died at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, Massachusetts surrounded by his children, Jessica and Seth Harwood, and his wife, Margot Welch.

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Leonard B. Glick

Anthropology News

1929-2024 Leonard Glick Leonard Glick—educator, scholar, anthropologist, former psychiatrist, and wit—passed away peacefully at home with his family shortly after turning 94. In 1957 Len left medicine for a field that interested him far more, beginning the study of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and getting his PhD in 1963.

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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

for work, education, or commerce. Prior to this position, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kaneb Center and received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine’s Department of Political Science. In particular, she focuses on the perspectives of transborder commuters, who are U.S.

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Culture and Personality with special emphasis on Margaret Mead

Anthropology for Beginners

Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to 1955. After 1960s the field becomes known as psychological anthropology. Thomas Barfield (1996) Dictionary of Anthropology. Philip Bock (1999).

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