“Last year, the agency ended its support for doctoral-dissertation research in archaeology, linguistics, geography, and anthropology…a lifeline in some fields. “Now it’s much less clear how independent research by early-career anthropologists can be supported.’” www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

"A new art project called Jones Falls 2076 dares to dream... picture the Jones Falls 50 years in the future. Does it have a highway on top? How about gondolas?" So grateful for this thoughtful and illuminating report on our river reimagination project in Baltimore. www.thebanner.com/culture/arts...

“AI reduces the friction of learning [but…] that friction is the point. The difficulty of synthesizing, organizing, and articulating ideas is the mechanism by which learning happens.” Such a great reflection on AI, critical thinking, and democracy by Heather Hax. www.aaup.org/issue/spring...

ICYMI: Congratulations to @anandian.bsky.social, author of "Something Between Us," and the winner of the 2026 Zócalo Book Prize! Read our interview with him and check out the full details of our upcoming Book Prize event: zps.la/bpwin26

Baltimore folks! Please join us this Friday evening for the opening of CONFLUENCE: REIMAGINING BALTIMORE'S WATERWAYS at the Area 405 gallery in Baltimore (405 E. Oliver St). The exhibition opens May 8th and runs through Jun 12th. www.area405.com/confluence-r...

So very grateful to Zócalo Public Square for this chance to think together with them and other fellow travelers, as we seek to nurture common spaces and sensibilities that nourish us all. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/anand-pandia...

Baltimore folks, make sure to visit the "Solarpunk" exhibition at the Crow's Nest environmental gallery in Baltimore, on view through mid-May. There's a lot of really inspiring work on view here, plenty of antidotes to the toxicity of these times. www.crowsnestbaltimore.com/current-prog...

Baltimore folks, please join us on Tuesday 4/28 at JHU for the public launch of four terrific short films on the history of waste and pollution in south Baltimore, a student & community collaboration. Screening, panel, refreshments—all are welcome! community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/pollut...

I'll be talking online with the Democracy Innovation Program at Bard College and two kindred networks in Aotearoa / New Zealand, the Goodlife Collective and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. Join us on Monday 4/20 at 5pm ET / Tuesday 4/21 at 9am NZDT. events.humanitix.com/something-be...

Tuesday April 28, 6-8pm Gilman 50, Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus (3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, 21218) community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/pollut...

Over the past year, @anandian.bsky.social and I have joined forces with our students and the remarkable folks at South Baltimore Community Land Trust to produce a 4-part documentary series on the history of environmental (in)justice on the city’s southern edge. It’s called “Polluted By Design.”

Friends in the Boston area, I'll be talking about my recent work at MIT on Thursday afternoon, feel free to stop by if you're around.

It was great to join Texas Public Radio to talk about our social and political predicaments in the United States. We began on the Texas border and wound up talking about Christian ethics, humanoid teachers, dystopian fiction, and much more. Listen via the link below. www.tpr.org/podcast/the-...

Catch me live on Texas Public Radio today at 12pm CT, talking about my new book and our American dilemmas. www.tpr.org/podcast/the-...

Some students at JHU invited me to help reflect on this question. Let’s just say that there’s a lot to think about!

Day 3: new thread continuing sampling Bill Connolly’s book Resounding Events — part memoir/part theory. The book gives his perspective on the rewards and trials of political theory from mid century to the coronavirus pandemic. Characteristically funny, insightful, brilliant, & politically astute /1

“I don’t exist in an after climate crisis—we know now that there is no after, only varying degrees of loss, varying degrees of change.”

"The Future of Here gathered and presented imaginary artifacts from the everyday life of a future people that might one day inhabit the landscape of this city we now call Baltimore, once our own civilization was long gone."

Last winter and spring, I took a journey deep into an imagined future with artist @auntiemojo.bsky.social and an amazing group of students at Johns Hopkins University. Here's a glimpse of the future river culture we conjured together at the Peale Museum in Baltimore. www.aam-us.org/2026/02/17/s...

Spaces held in common shape our ability to imagine and practice a collective life with others unlike ourselves. @civiccommonsus.bsky.social has been exploring this challenge, and it's been a real privilege thinking along with them. Link below and in my bio. medium.com/reimagining-...

"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from... whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Privileged people can ignore fascism for a while, telling themselves things are normal. Then all of a sudden fascism smacks them in the face and they realize their comfortable way of life is at risk.

I was on NPR Morning Edition this morning! Speaking for, well, 37 seconds, but grateful for this chance to weigh in on unacceptable ICE violence in Minneapolis and the truth that so many in this country have begun to insist on, that “normal” life cannot go on like this. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

NEW: @anandian.bsky.social wandered across America to find out why fear and division were increasing. Read our latest article to see how he found fortification of our lives — SUVs, security cameras, even clothing — reflect a deeper cultural anxiety about strangers and belonging: tinyurl.com/24zujewh

The snow (and ice, yes) a reminder: be kind to your neighbors, those of your and other kinds, those here to stay and those passing through.

'When the divide between self and other becomes as stark as it has in everyday American life, efforts to address collective predicaments or to respond to the suffering of others can meet with deep skepticism.' #isolationism #individualism #collectivity #society #justice #environment #resistance

As @anandian.bsky.social argues, rejecting global climate action reflects not only fossil fuel lobbying but habits of thought that address wellbeing in sharply individualistic terms. “To make meaningful change…we have to address these ways of living and thinking.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s no coincidence the 66 int’l orgs Trump quit cluster around climate and arts & heritage. Trump knows better than most green transformation is a social & cultural issue. It now falls to the rest of us to fill the culture gap in climate policy & action. 🧵1/ www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/08/t...

From Trump’s rejected treaties to our daily lives, we’re building walls around ourselves | Anand Pandian

MLK Jr insisted that what affects any one of us will affect all of us. His understanding of the “network of mutuality” that sustains us all is an essential lesson for this fraught moment in the US, I argue in a new op-ed for the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The ocean was forever unfolding, forever exploring, forever tinkering with form”—another engrossing tale from Richard Powers, with characters you keep wondering about, and lyrical language that takes you deep into the sea.

"These days, so much turns on our collective ability to open ourselves to new ways of being with one another. This is the first lesson from Millie's world: You don't have to be the same to be close." This extraordinary new book by Danilyn Rutherford is such a moving and compelling read.

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

Really looking forward to this conversation about Danilyn’s powerful new book. Join us!

So excited to be in conversation Anand Pandian and Ashanté Reese! We had so much fun talking about Something Between Us that we decided to do it again. Thanks to SAR for hosting us. You can register here: sarweb.org/date/beautif... @anandian.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

“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

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.