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Career Spotlight: Erica Walters
3/16/2023
Meet Erica Walters - an ethnographer working to make tangible improvements to the rights Indigenous peoples have to lands, food, worldview, and objects. -
Get out there and explore some exciting creative career options on our ACE Job Board!
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Career Spotlight: Chelsey R. Carter
2/21/2023
Meet Dr. Chelsey R. Carter - anthropologist, educator, and writer. Dr. Carter discusses inspirations from Zora Neale Hurston, data collection for the Black Genome Project, and her research in Black health and health care access in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. -
Secondary level teacher, Dr. Meghan Chidsey, discusses the need for anthropology to be taught earlier in students' education.
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At the 2022 meeting in Seattle, we asked two graduate students, Anneliese Long of the University of North Carolina and Rosalie Gunawan of the University of British Columbia, to attend the Expo and share their experiences as they navigated the event for themselves.
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Career Spotlight: Jill Kushner Bishop
11/30/2022
Meet Jill Kushner Bishop - Founder & CEO of Multilingual Connections. -
Each summer, the American Anthropological Association offers two internship opportunities for talented anthropology students as they pursue their professional goals and aspirations.
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Career Spotlight: Melissa Cefkin
9/28/2022
Meet Melissa Cefkin - a practicing anthropologist working at the crossroads of technology, business and mobility. -
Are you considering a career in Health Services Research? Megan McCullough, Ph.D., Research Health Scientist and Investigator at Center for Healthcare Organization, recently spoke with AAA about how she came to Health Services Research and how anthropology can be inserted and incorporated into im...
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Positions in the VA for Anthropologists
9/13/2022
Interested in working for the Department of Veterans Affairs? Megan McCullough, Ph.D., Research Health Scientist and Investigator at Center for Healthcare Organization, looks at the different positions in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that anthropologists work in, how they are funded, a... -
Career Spotlight: Katharine Pope
7/26/2022
Career Spotlight is a series of interviews with anthropologists connected to the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to share insights, knowledge and expertise about career opportunities, growth and development. -
Get help landing an academic position with a tip worksheet created by medical anthropologist and Postdoctoral Fellow, Dick Powis, from our April 2022 webinar, The Guerilla Job Market.
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Career Spotlight: Diane Russell
4/7/2022
A series of interviews with anthropologists, starting with Diane Russell. Gain insights from their knowledge and expertise. -
Becoming an Anthropologist
1/22/2021
Are you or someone you know considering a career in anthropology? We hope this information helps answer your questions about becoming an anthropologist. -
Career Q&A: What jobs are easy to find?
8/10/2021
We answer the question, "What are full-time jobs that any anthropologist should be able to easily find and be hired for?" Spoiler alert: It's complicated. -
Learning about Career Possibilities
1/25/2021
Many of the AAA’s resources for learning about career possibilities come to us courtesy of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA), the AAA section dedicated to practicing and applied anthropology. -
Career Development Webinars
1/22/2021
Tips and tricks from anthropologists on how to advance your career in the private and academic sectors. -
Where Anthropologists Work
1/22/2021
Today's anthropologists do not just work in exotic locations. Anthropologists can be found in a surprising array of fields and careers, not least of which being the mother of President Obama -
I am AAA
1/22/2021
Celebrating our diverse community of anthropologists who represent 40 specialized sections that work as one to advance knowledge and solve human problems. -
Discovering the bow of a ship underneath the World Trade Center, helping corporations understand how people's identities show up in technology or working in a think tank looking at social relationships in the workplace... it seems anthropology is everywhere these days.