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Dana McLachlin is a PhD student in anthropology at Duke University, with research interests in digital labor platforms, gender, and the gig economy in urban Bangladesh.
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Syllabus Archive: Black Anthropology
This syllabus archive brings together a range of syllabi concerned with race and anthropology, with a particular focus on Blackness. Blackness is fundamental to... More
Writing and Teaching Life and Death: A Conversation with Anne Allison
In this conversation, Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and Society for Cultural Anthropology past president, reflects on the ... More
The Text as Teacher: Against Reading as a Resource Relation
What can a text about anti-colonial science teach us about teaching anthropology? We started thinking together in early 2022 about how Max Liboiron’s book Poll... More
Knots of Connection
Donna Haraway (2016, 1) argues that in times of devastating inequality, violence, and climate change our “task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection a... More
Teaching Tools: Swim Lesson
I nearly failed my first assignment in a pedagogy course. We were asked to provide written comments on a student’s first-year essay. I extensively marked up the... More
Teaching Ethnography through Theater
Anthropologists often distinguish ethnography from other methods through the role of the researcher. In ethnography, the researcher’s social position, embodied ... More