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Whitney Russell is a feminist political anthropologist with research interests in gender and development in North India. She is finishing her dissertation at University of California San Diego, and is affiliated with the Five College Women's Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke College. https://hcommons.org/members/whitneyr/
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Annotation Tools for Online Teaching
The aim of this post is to explore different tools that can be used to allow students to have interactive and collaborative reading experiences with texts assig... More
The Work of Pahari Femininity
It’s exciting to make one’s first joke in a new language. My first Hindi joke happened at a tea stall in the Garhwal Himalayas. I was sitting with other Hindi l... More
Thinking through Medical Aid-in-Dying with Anita Hannig
This post is meant to be read alongside Anita Hannig’s article Author(iz)ing Death: Medical Aid-in-Dying and the Morality of Suicide published in the February 2... More
Pedagogical Soundings: Feminist Anthropology
This installment of Pedagogical Soundings is a collaboration between the AnthroPod and Teaching Tools sections of the Cultural Anthropology website. It suppleme... More
Teaching With Digital Technology: Online Classes
In our most recent post in the “Teaching with Digital Technology” series, Venera Khalikova outlined options for enhancing our teaching in face-to-face classroom... More
Teaching with Digital Technology: An Introduction
As an instructor, you may have a strict policy on the use of laptops, tablets, and mobile phones in class. Perhaps you ask students to keep their digital device... 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