Part One: Applying Anthropology beyond Academia (NAPA)

Applying Anthropology beyond Academia (NAPA) 

 

CHAIRS: VITOUS, C. Ann (U Michigan) and TEZAK, Ann (Vanderbilt U Med Ctr) 

 

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: TYREE, Rachel (Int’l Assoc of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental & Reinforcing Iron Workers), KELLER, Kristin (HomeownershipSF), DAUGHTREY, Cannon (Pima County Office of Sustainability & Conservation), ROIJMANS-LATTA, Sanne (ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Rsch Hosp), WENDEL, Kendra (USFS PNWRS)

 

Applying Anthropology beyond Academia. This roundtable will include alumni with Masters from USF, SJSU, UA, U of M, PSU, and UNT Anthropology programs. Brief presentations and moderated discussion will focus on how applied anthropologists navigate their careers and unique skillsets within nonacademic and non-anthropological settings. Alumni will identify their programs’ long-term outcomes, while reflecting on how their respective programs prepared them for the application of anthropology and influenced their career growth. Furthermore, alumni will discuss the challenges and benefits of being an applied anthropologist in various career settings, including labor organizing, public health, genetic medicine, affordable housing, sustainability and conservation, and natural resource management. 

 

Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.