Whitney Russell

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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