EDITORIAL INTERN PROGRAM

2009 EDITORIAL INTERNS

 

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Erik Bigras
Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; bigrae@rpi.edu

• Bornstein, 2009 (Supplemental Page)

Betsey Brada
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago; bbbrada@uchicago.edu

• Livingston, 2009 (Supplemental Page)
  In the November 2009 issue of Cultural Anthropology, Julie Livingston analyzes tensions between risk and hope, investment and disappointment, self-determination and social connectedness, and how they shape understandings of a good life and a good death in contemporary southern Botswana.  Drawing on fieldwork spanning the mid 1990s and the late 2000s, Livingston moves from stories about suicide, secret debt and broken relationships to the pawn shops and loan schemes that make up the capitol’s booming credit market.  She traces the fault-lines along which sociality in Botswana cracks in moments when "social, technology and fiscal capital meet in episodes of unbearable disappointment, rage, and loneliness" (656). The link above will take you to the article's supplemental page which includes an overview of the essay, class discussion questions, links to related scholarly works, and author information.
• Experts, Expertise, and Expert Knowledge (Theme List)
  Myriad factors—including but hardly limited to Laura Nader’s landmark 1969 essay “Up the Anthropologist” and the emergence of science studies as a robust field of inquiry--contribute to contemporary anthropologists’ interest in experts, expertise and expert communities.  A growing interest in how regimes of legal, medical and other forms of professional knowledge and practice were deployed and contested in both colonial and post-colonial settings also turned anthropologists’ attention to experts and expertise.  Not only has Cultural Anthropology supported the turn to expertise and expert knowledge as objects of anthropological investigation; one can also trace a thread of criticism directed at the discipline itself.  As anthropologists have increasingly given attention to the practice of writing, a number of scholars have moved from investigations of others' expert knowledge to interrogating the conditions of possibility under which anthropological knowledge is produced or, as Allen Chun put it, how anthropology “makes its subject” (Chun 2000).

 

Vivian Choi
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis; vychoi@ucdavis.edu

• Public Advisory Board Session: Thematizing Security (AAA Meetings) [Co-organized with Michelle Stewart]

• Virtual Issue: Security [Co-created with Michelle Stewart]

• Welker, 2009 (Supplemental Page)[Co-created with Michelle Stewart]

• Starrett, 2003 (Supplemental Page)[Co-created with Michelle Stewart]

 

Rodney Collins
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University;rwc32@georgetown.edu

• Public Advisory Board Session: Thematizing Gender and Sexuality (AAA Meetings)

• Virtual Issue: Kinships
  

• "Cultural Anthropology and the City" Initiative

• Ries, 2009 (Supplemental Page)

• Mckinnon, 2000 (Supplemental Page)
  

 

Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn
Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; costeb@rpi.edu

• Virtual Issue: Media Studies

• Fisher, 2009 (Supplemental Page)

• Kaplan, 2009 (Supplemental Page)

 

Celina Kapoor
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz; ckapoor@ucsc.edu

• Campbell-Shaw, 2009 (Supplemental Page)

 

Sarah Muir

Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago; muir@uchicago.edu

• Strassler, 2009 (Supplemental Page)

 

Guillermo E. Narváez

Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine; gnarvaez@uci.edu

Alexander Orona
Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University; alexorona@gmail.com

• Legal Anthropology (Theme List)

Esra Özkan
Department of History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; esra@mit.edu

• Holmes, 2009 (Supplemental Page)

• Rudnyckyj, 2009 (Supplemental Page)

• Business Cultures (Theme List)

 

Nicole Payne
Anthropology, Rice University; ndp1@rice.edu

• Beautification and Belonging (Theme List)

 

Helena Pettersson
Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles; hpettersson@ucla.edu

• Helena focused on outreach to colleagues and institutions in Sweden in an effort to contribute to and strengthen CA's international networks.

 

Michal Ran-Rubin
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago; ran.michal@gmail.com

• Pearson, 2009 (Supplemental Page)

• Rutherford, 2009 (Supplemental Page)[Co-created with Jonah Rubin]

 

Jonah S. Rubin
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago; Jonah.S.Rubin@gmail.com

• McLean, 2009 (Supplemental Page)

• Rutherford, 2009 (Supplemental Page)[Co-created with Michal Ran-Rubin]

 

 

Susanne B. Unger
Department of Anthropology, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; sbu@umich.edu

• Visual Anthropology, Art, and Politics (Theme List)

 

Austin Zeiderman
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University; agz@stanford.edu

• "Cultural Anthropology and the City" Initiative

 

 

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