This is such a loss for the program and the university. Durba is a generous, intellectual powerhouse. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Out now! The boasblog: "Who’s afraid of anti-racism?" A roundtable explores anthropology’s colonial legacies, resistance to anti-racist initiatives, and how to build a discipline committed to justice and inclusion. Give it a look: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...

I pledge alliance and loyalty to her forever

We're more than halfway through 2025, so we're revisiting some of the most-read AA articles so far this year! First up is Alpa Shah's "When decolonization is hijacked" #OpenAccess #Anthropology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Die ersten Schilder hängen schon….

Congratulations Zeynep! Here's an interview with the author you can listen to: newbooksnetwork.com/gendered-for...

📣 @amanthro.bsky.social invites pitches for its new Highlights section, featuring creative, experimental, and critical work from early-career anthropologists. Submit 200-word pitches to Armanc Yildiz: [email protected] 🔗 bit.ly/3QhJKoF

🎙️ Highlights | Check out our own @armanc.bsky.social l in conversation with @emmabunkley.bsky.social about her powerful article, “The Weight of Rumor,” from the June 2025 issue of American Anthropologist. Listen here: www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte... #AnthroSky #MedAnthro

#OTD 30.7.1898 starb Otto v Bismarck. Bis heute wird er als einiger Deutschlands bewundert, seine unrühmliche Rolle im Kolonialismus wird verdrängt. Nicht nur machte er das Deutsche Reich zur Kolonialmacht, er wirkte an entscheidender Stelle bei Aufteilung Afrikas mit. /2

🚨 Our June 2025 issue is out! 🚨 Includes 5 research articles + two special sections: ✨ Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin 🕯️ Ethnographies of a Dying Discipline—Anthropology in the 21st Century Read here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433... #AnthroSky #Anthropology

"...the preoccupation with Muslim women’s liberation enables feminist (and other) activists to feel a transcendent moral purity, unburdened by any sense of their own complicity in global inequalities, armed interventions, or military occupations. " www.publicbooks.org/saving-musli...

I look forward to this episode of the Bad Gays @badgayspod.bsky.social

BREAKING: M-Straße darf umbenannt werden. Jetzt wird der große Schwarze deutsche Philosoph der Frühaufklärung, Anton Wilhelm Amo, im Herzen des früheren Kolonialimperiums geehrt. Wahrlich historisches Ereignis. Dank an alle Initiativen! h/t @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

Is Germany secular? The short answer: NO. For the long answer, come tonight!

bluesky is excited for zohran mamdani, and blacksky is excited for zohran kwame mamdani

Grim news from Germany. A black family, who had previously experienced several incidents of racial harassment, was the victim of a suspected arson attack on Monday. One child is dead, the other is in critical condition. A fundraiser for them is here: www.gofundme.com/f/unterstutz...

WTF: Warum gibt es dazu keinen Brennpunkt und keine Sondersendung. Das Deutschland, dass wir kriegstüchtig verteidigen sollen, bricht uns unter unserem Hintern weg, und (fast) keinen juckts. Die offene Gesellschaft muss auch im Inneren verteidigt werden taz.de/Feuer-in-Wil...

so nice to be in conversation about my new book “Racializing Caste”. You can listen to the podcast below. We talked about the hauntings of German scientific racism in India, the shortcomings of biological anthropology, and the problems of geneticists researching on the so-called “Aryan migration”.

My conversation with dear @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social on his wonderful book, Racializing Caste (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social), is out on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Check it out 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/racializing-...

Die Petition der Studierenden, personelle Konsequenzen für sexualisierte Gewalt an der HU zu ziehen, ist online: www.change.org/p/andreas-ec...

Great chat with @armanc.bsky.social about "Sex is a Spectrum". @princetonupress.bsky.social

After a long hiatus, I recorded a new episode of Academics Write and had a wonderful conversation with @anthrofuentes.bsky.social on his new book, Sex is a Spectrum (@princetonupress.bsky.social), on writing, and on the role of science in politics. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/7KeZ...

Is Germany secular? Join our panel featuring Schirin Amir-Moazami, Elisabeth Becker-Topkara, and Torsten Meireis as we explore this intriguing question during the Long Night of Sciences! www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/en/program/d... #Anthropology #Religion #Secularity #Berlin #ScienceNight

Remember to register! Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom bit.ly/impossibleti...

Wir gedenken heute Gürsün İnce (27) Hatice Genç (18) Gülüstan Öztürk (12) Hülya Genç (9) und Saime Genç (4). Sie wurden vor 32 Jahren, in der Nacht vom 28. auf den 29. Mai 1993, bei dem rassistischen Brandanschlag von #Solingen ermordet. Gedenkveranstaltung: 14 bis 17 Uhr, Untere Wernerstraße.

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Anthropologists! 📝✨ The Highlights section of the American Anthropologist is open for pitches—especially from early-career scholars. Got a fresh take? Share your ideas with us! www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte... #Anthropology #CreativeEthnography @labspeceth.bsky.social

Happy publication day to Thiago P. Barbosa (@thiago-barbosa.bsky.social), the winner of of our 2023 Dissertation Prize! 🎉 1/8

Happy Heavenly Birthday to May Ayim! She would have turned 65 years old today. Although we are not kin, I feel kinship with her. Next August 2026 will mark 30 years since her passing. After all these years of studying her, I still do not consider myself an expert on her.

🎓 Anna Harrison shares her inspiring experience attending the 2024 #AAA2024 conference as an undergrad—from presenting multispecies ethnography to building networks for grad school & beyond. Read the full piece: 🔗 www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte... #Anthropology #UndergradAnthro

I had a great conversation with @agadarancia.bsky.social about her new book, Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (@princetonupress.bsky.social) for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Check it out! newbooksnetwork.com/living-right-2

OUT NOW – ‘Sex, care and the working body: ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as “Eastern European”’ by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & @probursula.bsky.social: A short summary 🧵 (1-11): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You want to work in academia in Germany? Read this first: www.haujournal.org/index.php/ha...

power abuse in the "prestigious" max planck instututes

You can also write to me for a pdf!

Digital subscribers to Cultural Studies can read Armanc Yildiz's article—"Fear makes the soul: constituting whiteness through moral panics in postcolonial Germany," the third article from Volume 39, Issue 1—here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was a huge pleasure to talk to Armanc Yildiz about my recent article in American Anthropologist for their "Highlights" series!

Listen to this fascinating story on the possibility of Kaolin clay being a venerated ancestor, and how it shaped politics!

We're looking for more anthropologists to highlight!

In our embodiment reading group, we’ve read and discussed @saranahmed.bsky.social’s Embodying Diversity, and it was a healing experience in itself.

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

A beautiful piece on friendship and anthropology!

Tanya Luhrmann is our discussant! Last day to submit an abstract is this Friday 👻

(1) 📢 CFP: “Real Ghosts?!” at AAA 2024 in New Orleans! I’m putting together a panel & looking for contributions. I plan to submit it as an executive session, so the deadline is soon: Feb 21. Details below—happy to chat if you have any questions! 👻✨

Check the hot new piece by @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social and Urmilla Deshpande. Such a good read on the dark history of German anthropology!

When I talk about academia

I was at an anthropology of humanitarianism conference a couple years back in Germany, where one of the participants *complained* that some refugees were not thankful. Well 🤷

15% of university workers in Germany come from abroad. In the Netherlands, Denmark, the UK and other wealthy European countries 30-50% of university workforce is international. German language could survive international scholars - Dutch % Danish are doing well. HNY! www.jmwiarda.de/2024/12/17/w...