This is a lab I use in ANT 2511 – Human Species here at UCF. Briefly, the lab centers on student groups following an arboreal quadruped around campus for one hour. As they do so, they also record it’s movements and activities in 10-minute increments. Since UCF has not been overrun by primates (other than humans, of course), we use… Read more →
Tag: pedagogy
Social Complexity: The Game!
I’m a long-time fan of games – card games, board games, and video games. I suppose this is an increasingly common thing as we live in a golden age for indie games. This is as true for board and card games as it is for video games. Recently, I began working on a game concept and design to simulate the… Read more →
Pedagogy, Engaged Anthropology, and Zombies
I love zombies! Not only are zombies popular, but in the immortal words of Levi-Strauss, zombies “are good to think with.” Zombies stand (stagger?) as powerful metaphors supporting everything from emergency preparedness to invasive species education. Scholars draw on zombies as part of an engaged pedagogy to spark student interest. This includes Drezner’s Theories of International Politics and Zombies and… Read more →
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom (AAA 2012)
My participation at this year’s annual American Anthropological Association (AAA) meetings centered on delivering on paper and serving as a discussant. The paper, which I presented as first author with UF’s Clarence Gravlee, was titled “Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Techniques for an Engaged Anthropological Pedagogy.” I also served as the discussant for a session titled “Borders and… Read more →
Anarchism, Ethics, and Pedagogy in Engaged Archaeology
I recently presented on some preliminary ideas regarding the intersection of anarchism, archaeology, and engaged anthropology. I presented this as part of the Radical Archaeological Theory Symposium (RATS) held at SUNY Binghamton on October 17, 2019. See below for the abstract and a video version of the lecture. Read more →