Teaching Tools is dedicated to the intersections between pedagogy, ethnography, and anthropology. The section is a growing resource for instructors, teaching assistants, and students, with everything from discussion guides and in-class activities to critically minded reflections on the practice, politics, and poetics of teaching anthropology, whether inside the academy or in alternative settings.
Teaching Race with Lisa Anderson-Levy: Intersectionality, Paradigm Shifts, and the Ubiquity of Whiteness
The word race doesn’t even matter. What we’re talking about are the relationships of power. So if that’s what we’re talking about, okay, so use culture or use e... 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 as Activism: The Educational Intervention Project as a Tool of Transformation
“You can either talk about it as having a kind of toolbox or also talk about it as having a kind of toybox,” Fred Moten has said of the concepts in his coauthor... More
Teaching (through) Disability and Difference
I first realized that I didn’t know how to approach learning disabilities in the classroom when one of my students asked me to send her the written text of my l... More
Teaching Tools in Troubled Times
The year 2018 promises to bring turbulent times to higher education. Just over a year after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, we find ourselves reflec... More
Teaching Podcasts in the Anthropology Classroom
In a recent episode of AnthroPod, I interviewed Angela Jenks, Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of California, Irvine and former Scholar-in-Residen... More
Pedagogical Soundings: Teaching Sovereignty
This installment of Pedagogical Soundings, a collaboration between the AnthroPod and Teaching Tools sections of the Cultural Anthropology website, provides supp... More
Pedagogical Soundings: Teaching about Scientific Racism
We are excited to announce a collaboration between Contributing Editors working on the AnthroPod and Teaching Tools sections of the Cultural Anthropology websit... 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 Uncertainty: Disrupting Nativism with Anneeth Kaur Hundle
In March 2017, I interviewed Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Merced, on her two-part article entitled ... More