Rebecca Howes-Mischel

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“The Emergency Is Not Yet Here, but the Work Is”: Mobilizing Community for the Patchwork of Abortion Access after Roe

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“The Emergency Is Not Yet Here, but the Work Is”: Mobilizing Community for the Patchwork of Abortion Access after Roe

A week after the Supreme Court released the Dobbs decision, thirty-three of us packed into a small library in our rural college town’s new queer-friendly safe s... More

Teaching Cultural Anthropology as a Community-Building MOOC-Style Course

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Teaching Cultural Anthropology as a Community-Building MOOC-Style Course

This post highlights the introductory cultural anthropology syllabus prepared by Rebecca Howes-Mischel and Megan Tracy, which they organized in similar style to... More

Creating Community in an Asynchronous Online Class

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Creating Community in an Asynchronous Online Class

In the summer of 2020, we faced a challenge (one of many collectively shared): what to do with our general education Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class... More