Graduate School Application Resources

The #HiddenCurriculum of Applying to Graduate School (for Anthropology): Tips for applying to PhD programs in Anthropology

How I Read: Practicing the art of intellectual generosity on various ways of reading

Institute for Recruitment of Teachers: Application fee waivers and individualized counseling program for graduate school applicants

Weaponized Study in a Moment of (Counter)Insurgency: The Gathering Anti-“American” of American Studies: A rumination on navigating the politics of Euro-American academic spaces when academic thirst, grift, and other coercive power dynamics marginalize BIPOC scholars

My Favorite Cool Biocultural Engagements

The Sausage of Science Podcast: The Sausage of Science is the official podcast of the Human Biology Association and the American Journal of Human Biology, offering weekly peer-to-peer conversations with scholars in human biology, anthropology, and related disciplines.

The Inking of Immunity: “Most of the research on the biology of tattooing is still sort of the old fashioned, ‘Oh my God, is it cancerous? Oh my God, are you gonna get an infection?’” said Christopher Lynn, a medical anthropologist at the University of Alabama. “The idea that tattooing is this dangerous thing is not really attested to by modern hygiene and sanitation.”

Gender/sex and Science: A cool substack on holistically interweaving gender/sex, biology, and science and technology studies.

Humans are biocultural, science should be too: A short blog on how biology and culture are dialectically and intimately entangled.

The Mermaid’s Tale: A cool blog on how biological dynamics, evolution, and societal aspects of science entangle.