Destination Unknown: How We Found Professions That Want Anthropologists Without Those Professions Actually Knowing It

Destination Unknown: How We Found Professions That Want Anthropologists Without Those Professions Actually Knowing It

CHAIR: BEVER, Sandra Weinstein (Walden U) 

 

Participants: BENNER, Timothy (Samsung) All I Really Need to Know about Anthropology I Learned Outside of Grad School, Or How I Learned What Employers Really Want HUDSON, Penny (U Montana) Ethnographic Entanglements: Opportunities Found in an Era of Economic Change and Uncertainty M MASON, David (World Bank, UCLA) “Make [Only] Little Plans”: Anthropology and Incrementalism in Urban Planning M WILLIAMS, Nathan L. (UNHCR) Heard but Not Seen: Anthropology and Anthropologists in Humanitarian Assistance BEVER, Sandra Weinstein (Walden U) Administrative Destination: Bringing Anthropology into Academic Assessment

Abstract: Graduates with an anthropology degree are often faced with the question of how such a degree will help them reach their desired destination. The purpose of this session is to explore the ways to seek or create employment opportunities as anthropologists. We are a panel of working anthropologists whose trajectories, or “destinations,” have landed each of us outside of a traditional academic location. Despite our varied professional settings, we all utilize our anthropological background and training on a daily basis. Further, we argue that our anthropological “stamp” often sets us apart in our chosen professions. 

 

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.