A UMass College of Social and Behavioral Sciences news story about my latest project, ‘Elevating Equity Values in the Transition of the Energy System (ELEVATE).” I’ll be part of a large-scale interdisciplinary team with engineers, computer scientists, economists, and environmental

  The UMass Amherst Department of Anthropology will be hosting “#AnthropologyConUMass17” on Thursday, December 14 from 6-9 pm in Machmer Hall E24. Student game design teams will pitch and playtest tabletop board, card, and digital games representing a range of

I just learned that I will be promoted to the rank of Full Professor as of September 1, 2017. This fall also marks 25 years since I started graduate school at UC Santa Cruz–hard to believe how the time has

SUMMER COURSE – URBAN AGRICULTURE AND CIVIC ECOLOGY  July 2 – 30, 2016  Lisbon, Portugal Study in Portugal Network   Application deadline: March 30, 2016.   Students should apply through their school’s study abroad office to ensure that credits will

The Graduate Association of Europeanists welcomes submissions for its upcoming conference, “Communities of Exclusion,” to be held April 29-30th, 2016 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We seek papers focused on Europe from a variety of academic perspectives and encourage

The Culture and Heritage in European Societies and Spaces (CHESS) program is pleased to host a seminar with Professor Maple Razsa of Colby College on October 16 at UMass Amherst. Prof. Razsa is an anthropologist, activist and documentary filmmaker. He is

This week’s topic on our CHESS training blog was “the sticky webs of research relationships.” (The CHESS training blog is password-protected and confidential for obvious reasons–students need a place to check in and discuss their research without exposing people in

Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action Aline Gubrium, Krista Harper, and Marty Otañez, eds. Available to preorder from Left Coast Press HERE         TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Phillip Vannini Acknowledgments Introduction, Aline Gubrium, Krista Harper, and

Cultural anthropologists have often conducted research and written solo, as “The Lone Ethnographer” (see Renato Rosaldo and also Sally Galman).  But as time goes on, I find that I enjoy working and writing with other people, and certainly the “participatory