Anthropology and Education

​​Open-air soccer court decorated with a wall mural completed by a local artist from the nearby Museum of Modern Art of Bahia. The mural features aspects of Afro-Brazilian culture blended with images of Afro-Bahian daily life. (A. Banks)

A variety of countries’ flags on the sidewalk in Astoria, Queens, New York. Students conducted ethnographic research on the overlapping themes of globalization, mobility, and education as they appear in the experiences of street vendors working in halal food trucks in New York City. (L. Coleman)

MA student Haley Planicka spent her summer in the Southern Arizona borderlands working with humanitarian organizations to help people seeking asylum as part of her research concerning disappearances, agency, and power along the US-Mexico border. (H. Planicka)

A volunteer from the Academic Center of the Beijing-Guangxi College Students Association teaches art to Grade 3 students at a Maonan County Primary School. This volunteer organization focuses on promoting rural-urban educational equality in China. (M. Guo)

The view from the front gate of the Instituto de Educacion Superior Pedagogico Pukllasunchis, a private school located in the San Blas district of Cusco that uses a bilingual and intercultural education model. (A. Burns)

Creations of art in the field became a form of seeing, as an anthropologist and as a person, for doctoral student Skylar Hou. Vespas have become the go-to mode of transportation for people in many cities in China. (S. Hou)

Rural people from Sumapaz (Colombian Eastern Andes) who write without the direct guidance of any instructor and for decades have used to press their case about land property and political participation. (D. Rudas-Burgos and E. Guerrero)

The anthropologist with other young adults at play on an 'ultimate frisbee' field as they make their lives in Beijing, China (M. Zhang)

Re-imagining Germany and migration: a wall in Kreuzberg, a neighborhood in Berlin known for its nightlife, activists and artists, many from Turkey and from other Muslim countries. (B. Burnside)

A circle of Iranian seminarian (howzevi) women in Qom doing Mobaheseh, a daily practice of disputing Islamic edicts or Islamic text. The women use Manteq, an approach to disputation grounded in Aristotelian logic. (A. Tawasil)