This post is republished from Canonball, a feminist blog I contributed to a few years ago. It is reproduced here for some background about my theoretical framework for this research, particularly why I see gender issues as so central to my project. Anthropologists and others have long been under the impression that we can better […]

If you’re applying to graduate school, especially in anthropology, you have probably heard one — if not all — of your professors tell you that, no matter how much you love the project you’re proposing to do, you won’t do this project as your dissertation. When I was applying to the CUNY Graduate Center in […]