Julia Sizek is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies how sacred site protection and environmental conservation reshape understandings of history, land, and property in the California desert. From 2014–2017, she served as a Contributing Editor for the SCA website. From 2017–2019, she served as student representative to the SCA Board and co-coordinator of the Contributing Editors Program.
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Methods for Many Anthropocenes with Andrew S. Mathews
This Teaching Tools post is designed as a resource for using the article to explore visual techniques for ethnographic thought and to consider the environment a... More
Bateson Book Forum: The Resonance of Unseen Things
In The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny, Susan Lepselter describes the affects and networked logics that ... More
Remembering in the Aftermath
Something was wrong. The anxiety couldn’t be placed at first, until one day everything clicked. Some found Communion, a memoir of an alien abduction, and someti... More
Pedagogical Soundings: Hunter-Gatherer Studies
This installment of Pedagogical Soundings is a collaboration between the AnthroPod and Teaching Tools sections of the Cultural Anthropology website. It suppleme... More
Ecologies and Expertise: Teaching Climate Adaptation with Sarah E. Vaughn
Sarah E. Vaughn is the James and Mary Pinchot Fellow at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (2016–2017) and Assistant Professor in the Departm... More
Film and Cosmopolitics: An Interview with Mario Blaser
Mario Blaser is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at Memorial University Newfoundland. Blaser a... More
What Are You Reading? Responses to the Election and Inauguration
Like many anthropologists, we responded to this postelection moment by turning to books. But confronted by the long lists of readings in crowdsourced syllabi, w... More
Iris Marion Young and Ernst Kantorowicz
We have arrived at a paradoxical historical moment when nearly everyone favors democracy, but apparently few believe that democratic governance can do anything.... More
Anthropologists Teach In
Academics have recently called for renewed activism in the face of anti-intellectualism, classism, racism, anti-Semitism, ableism, and misogyny of the Donald Tr... More
Biographies of Taste: Teaching Humanitarian Food Aid with Micah M. Trapp
Micah M. Trapp is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Memphis. Using Trapp’s article as a jumping-off point, this Teac... More