Sharon Jacobs

Contributing Editor

Sharon Jacobs is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work is concerned with social movements and postcolonial geographies, with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean. Her dissertation explores the question: What does it mean to produce new social and political collectivities in the world made in the wake of the 2015 “summer of migration”?

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Eyes on Florida: Community-centered Anthropology in Tampa Bay

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Eyes on Florida: Community-centered Anthropology in Tampa Bay

Recently, Tampa Bay has stoked controversy among U.S. anthropologists. Facing statewide rising fascism and oppressive laws targeting historically marginalized m... More

AAA  2023—Conversations with Harsha Walia, Part Two: Anthropologists

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AAA 2023—Conversations with Harsha Walia, Part Two: Anthropologists

The second episode of our two-part mini-series, showcases a roundtable discussion held at the 2023 American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) Annual meeting i... More

AAA 2023—Conversations with Harsha Walia, Part One: Migrant Workers

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AAA 2023—Conversations with Harsha Walia, Part One: Migrant Workers

A discussion featuring Harsha Walia, alongside community organizers and migrant workers representing Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), took place at t... More

AnthroBites: Disability

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AnthroBites: Disability

AnthroBites is a series from the AnthroPod team, designed to make anthropology more digestible. Each episode tackles a key concept, text, or theme, and breaks i... More

Anthropology Conferencing in Hybrid Space

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Anthropology Conferencing in Hybrid Space

In early June 2022, the Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Visual Anthropology held their biennial conference. Called the “Virtual Otherwise,... More

AnthroPod Talks Abortion

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AnthroPod Talks Abortion

Abortion is a topic that tends to engender passionate reactions. What’s behind our abortion anxieties? What are we really talking about when we talk about abort... More

What Solidarity Does

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What Solidarity Does

This is the second episode in AnthroPod’s newest series, What Concepts Do. The aim of the series is to examine, from an anthropological perspective, how differe... More