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  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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 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.
  • A series of interviews with anthropologists, starting with Diane Russell. Gain insights from their knowledge and expertise.
  • Are you or someone you know considering a career in anthropology? We hope this information helps answer your questions about becoming an anthropologist.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Tips and tricks from anthropologists on how to advance your career in the private and academic sectors.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • This five-part interview series was produced in collaboration with The Dirt Podcast.
  • In response to a survey by the AAA's Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology, respondents provided the a wide array of responses to describe where they work.
  • Anthropology graduates tend to find professional employment as educators, managers, doctors, and lawyers, similar to other liberal arts graduates...
  • In 2017, the unemployment rate of anthropology PhD graduates was only 2.5%...
  • To collect data on the job market for anthropologists, we turned to our online career portal...