Explaining Anthropology to Others: Developing Our Disciplinary Narrative-A Career Readiness Commission Panel

Explaining Anthropology to Others: Developing

Our Disciplinary Narrative-A Career Readiness

Commission Panel

 

CHAIRS: NOLAN, Riall (Purdue U) and STUDEBAKER,

Jennifer (Ewing Marion Kauffman Fdn)

PANELISTS: NOLAN, Riall (Purdue U) and

STUDEBAKER, Jennifer (Ewing Marion Kauffman Fdn)

 

NOLAN, Riall (Purdue U) and STUDEBAKER, Jennifer (Ewing Marion Kauffman

Fdn) Explaining Anthropology to Others: Developing Our Disciplinary

Narrative-A Career Readiness Commission Panel. Recent Commission research

revealed that many practitioners don’t feel they were well prepared in school

to explain anthropology to recruiters, supervisors, or workplace peers.

This panel will present our findings, and then invite participants to join in a

discussion of how to a) explain our discipline to those unfamiliar with it; and

1. b) provide them with concrete examples of its usefulness in the workplace.

Instructors who teach practice and application will find this session useful,

as will practitioners, and students intending to pursue careers in practice.

 

Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.