“If there is any urgency left in international concern for Gaza, winter should make it impossible to look away. People need proper shelter now, prefabricated homes delivered immediately. Not statements, not promises, but materials, access and action. My students deserve at least that much.”

www.sup.org/books/anthro... New book by anthropologist Anand Pandian

From the archive. After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides. In the new book Something Between Us, he grapples with these rifts and how to repair them. Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/some...

Grateful to see Something Between Us make this 2025 book list from Spain’s El Diario newspaper. www.eldiario.es/132_c4276a

I’ve been talking about my book for a while, but this was a special experience: Faithful Politics, co-hosted by a liberal activist + a conservative pastor, both terrific listeners + conversationalists. We talked about fear + trust, otherness + vulnerability. www.faithfulpolitics.us/podcast-1/ep...

Here's one for all the readers! 📚🤓📚📑 Join us for our last SCA Fridays of the year as we reflect on, appreciate, and read from publications from 2025.

Our latest Teaching Tools reflects on a collaboration between an anthropologist (@anandian.bsky.social) and a community organizer (Shashawnda Campbell of the South Baltimore Community Land Trust) on teaching and activism beyond the classroom: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

So very grateful for this news, for the support from the amazing Zócalo Public Square initiative, and for the company of these other wonderful writers. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2026-zocalo-...

I'm so glad to share this conversation about how academics and activists can learn to work together in the classroom and beyond, a dialogue I had with Shashawnda Campbell of the South Baltimore Community Land Trust about our collaborations. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Nora & I swap Thanksgiving horror stories before talking with Anand Pandian about why America lives like a permanent bunker. From gated communities to monster trucks to COVID denial, it’s part political exorcism, part reality check, and a case for choosing each other over fear.

This week: The call is coming from inside the gated community! We chat with anthropologist @anandian.bsky.social about his 🔥🔥 new book, Something Between Us. Why does America live like it’s in a permanent bunker, and how could more interdependence save us all? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

This evening in Baltimore!

Congratulations to Futures After Progress by Chloe Ahmann on receiving an honorable mention for the 2025 Bateson Prize! Explore a powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore and celebrate this well-deserved recognition by securing your copy here: bit.ly/UCPEXAAA

So excited to partner with Garden District Books and many wonderful writers on this book release ritual and pop-up bookshop in New Orleans this Friday 11/21 evening. We'll walk to the Mississippi for a ritual acknowledging the spirits that have accompanied the writing of these books. Join us!

Anthropologists! If you're attending the American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans this week, please join us for an offsite reception at Merchant House on Thursday 11/20 evening, hosted by SCA (@culanth.bsky.social), SVA, and AES.

Our scholars programs were thrilled to host @anandian.bsky.social for our very first Profs & Pizza. Great conversation about his new book and what connects/divides us. Looking forward to hosting more of these events in the future.

I’m grateful to the JHU Bloomberg Center for this chance to reflect on how everyday architectures — from built environments to digital infrastructures — shape social distance, and why revitalized public institutions are essential to collective life. Full Q&A: washingtondc.jhu.edu/news/anand-p...

The Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC) will be February 27-28, 2026 at UGA in Athens, GA. The theme is 'Centering Community' and we're excited to be hosting @anandian.bsky.social as our Keynote Speaker! Abstract submissions are currently open! #conservation #interdisciplinary #conference

Honored to join political thinker, writer, and JHU colleague Hahrie Han for a "Humanities on the Hill" conversation in Washington DC on Monday 11/17 evening, reflecting on the everyday architectures that distance us and strategies to sustain community. More info: krieger.jhu.edu/humanities-i...

The role of U.S. institutions in overcoming political division https://www.newsbeep.com/us/275544/ A Q&A with Anand Pandian, author of the new book Something Between Us, on the physical barriers driving…

New online event! Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 4pm GMT / 11am ET, for a book talk on ‘Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down’ with author Prof. Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University). Moderated by Shivangi Kaushik (ODID) Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“In a time of deep divisiveness, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan offers an elegant and compelling meditation on an idea more essential than ever, the very notion of a collective we.” @anandian.bsky.social on 'What is We?' by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan - out now! www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Sign up to online book talk hosted by ODID_QEH discussing Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down by ethnographer @anandian.bsky.social on 12th November from 4pm GMT buff.ly/rliHTiR @stanfordpress.bsky.social

I'm looking forward to joining this wonderful panel of social scientists to talk about my new book, Something Between Us, at the Oxford Department of International Development. If you'd like to join us online on Wed, 11/12, register at the link below. talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/a77...

I'm grateful to Hopkins at Home and the SNF Agora Institute for hosting this virtual event on my new book, Something Between Us, on Tuesday, 11/4 at 12pm ET. I'll be talking about common spaces and the common sense we need. Open to all, join online via the link below. events.jhu.edu/form/snfagor...

Folks in New York, please join me at the New York Academy of Sciences on Monday 11/3 at 4:30pm. I'll be talking with the wonderful writer Bob Desjarlais about the challenge of opening our minds to the lives of others, drawing on my new book, Something Between Us. www.eventbrite.com/e/walls-of-t...

A 10/29 AAA panel on public engagement with anthropology, “strategies for connecting with audiences beyond academia, from museum exhibitions to national media.” I’ll be there with the terrific scholars Barbara King and Tracie Canada. Join us! americananthro.org/event/promot...

Join Profs. @traciecanada.bsky.social @anandian.bsky.social and me Wed. 10/29 at 3:30 Eastern, for a webinar on promoting our scholarship for a wider impact. Free for @americananthro.bsky.social members, small fee for non-members. Click link to register. #anthropology #publicanthropology #writing

In my new book, Something Between Us, I write about lessons from clean water advocacy in the Hudson River Valley. I'm honored to talk about the book in Newburgh, NY on Tuesday 10/28 with community leader Gabrielle Hill. Please join us if you're in the area! newburghlibrary.libcal.com/event/15282244

Grateful for this chance to talk at my alma mater Amherst College about my new book, Something Between Us, this Monday 10/27 evening. If any of you alums or others out there are in central Massachusetts, please drop in! www.amherst.edu/academiclife...

In the midst of working on his latest project, about the concept of walls, cultural anthropologist Anand Pandian found himself volunteering with a group called Tucson Samaritans — a humanitarian organization that leaves water and food for migrants in the desert.

Folks in Ohio, join me at Clintonville Books in Columbus on Tues, 10/14 4pm. I'll be talking about Something Between Us, my new book on the US, together with OSU professor Nick Kawa. A chapter is set in Columbus - I'm excited to talk here about the book. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/clintonvil...

A handmade version of the book cover from Denton, Texas! I'm really grateful for this chance to talk about my new book in one of the key places in the story, with people who taught me some essential lessons on working for justice over generations. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Friends in Philadelphia, please join me at Head House Books on Tuesday, September 30th at 6:30pm. I’ll be talking about my new book on the United States, Something Between Us, together with urban anthropologist and physician Michelle Munyikwa. Register here: www.headhousebooks.com/event/evenin...

I grew up in Los Angeles and I'm thrilled to talk there about my new book, Something Between Us. Join me at Village Well Books in Culver City on Friday 9/26 at 6pm, where I'll be talking with an amazing ethnographer of the US, Jessica Cattelino of UCLA. shop.villagewell.com/events/35712...

Friends in the Bay Area, I'll be talking about my new book, Something Between Us, at my alma mater UC Berkeley this week. Join us at 3:30pm this Wednesday, 9/24, details below. Sincere gratitude to the Department of Geography for hosting! events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/3...

Friends in the Providence area, please join me at Symposium Books this Saturday 9/20 @ 4pm. I'll be talking about my new book, Something Between Us. www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

When I lived along Jones Falls, we had osprey and water snakes, deer along the banks. Jones Falls is an urban gem.

Baltimore, we can do much better than a dump along the Jones Falls. In this new op-ed for the Baltimore Sun, we sketch a vision for the river at the heart of our city. Join us via our new Jones Falls 2076 project. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/09/15/j...

Catch me live on WGXC in the Catskills on Monday, September 15th at 11am ET. I’ll be on the radio show “Uncontaminated Sound, talking about my new book, Something Between Us. Tune in online via the link below: wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/s...

Join the EDC for our September Grounding Event We’ll gather for a guided tour of Black Earth Rising at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Curated by Ekow Eshun, it features 22 works exploring climate crisis. 📅 Sept. 11th, 5 PM - Meet at the BMA lobby Tour led by Art Curator Antoinette Roberts.

I talked with the Baltimore Sun about my new book, Something Between Us: on American landscapes of isolation, anthropology as a means of unexpected connections, and Baltimore as a space of both enduring inequality and emerging forms of environmental justice. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/09/08/d...

NJ folks, please join me at Labyrinth Books this Tuesday at 6pm. I'll be talking about my new book, Something Between Us, with Princeton anthropologist Elizabeth Davis. What can we do, as ethnographers, to meet the critical and social impasses of this moment? www.labyrinthbooks.com/events/anand...

Today! Join the EDC to kick off the 2025–26 year with a social at Union Craft Brewing 🎉 Whether you’re a longtime member or brand new, we can’t wait to welcome you into a space of collective reimagining. 📍 Union Craft Brewing 🗓️ Today, September 5 | 5:00–6:30 pm EDT

People anywhere! Please join me this Tuesday 9/10 at 12pm ET for a live online chat about my new book, Something Between Us. The latest in a great summer series hosted by SAPIENS and public anthropologist Chip Colwell. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

There's an end-of-summer sale on at Stanford University Press--all books 50% off, including my new one, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down. Now through September 8th! www.sup.org/books/anthro...

And if you like what you read...you can buy Something between Us for 50% off on our website, now through September 8! www.sup.org/books/anthro...