Not Doing Anthropology Like an Anthropologist Would: Professionally Trained Anthropologists Reskilling Themselves

Not Doing Anthropology Like an Anthropologist

Would: Professionally Trained Anthropologists

Reskilling Themselves

 

CHAIR: BENDIXSEN, Casper (Marshfield Clinic Rsch Inst)

FLYNN, Michael A. (NIOSH) Creating Space for a

Social Perspective in a Technical Field: Integrating

Anthropology into Occupational Safety and Health

RISSING, Andrea (ASU) Hybridizing Anthropology:

Early Career Reflections on Evolving towards

Interdisciplinarity

RODRIGUEZ-MEJIA, Fredy (Purdue U & NW State

1. CC) Learning to Work in Multidisciplinary Teams:

Anthropologists, Engineers, and Short-Term

Ethnographic Research

 

BENDIXSEN, Casper (Marshfield Clinic Rsch Inst) Not Doing Anthropology Like

an Anthropologist Would: Professionally Trained Anthropologists Reskilling

Themselves. This invited panel invites colleagues with anthropological

pedigree to reflect on how they’ve established themselves in other fields of

research, service, or education. Of particular interest is how anthropological

training created the ability, perhaps even desire, to reskill and become some

new form of professional. What are motivations and techniques to reskill?

What skills and ways of thinking remain? What has been augmented or lost?

It’s valuable for students to witness how careers form outside of the traditional

academic framework. There is value in codifying the process, making “studying

anthropology to not be become an anthropologist” track accessible and

acceptable.

 

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