anthropology Archives

The Plight of the Adjunct

By The Journal | 04/08/2015

A letter to the editor from Rachel Craft, adjunct instructor in Webster’s Anthropology & Sociology Department “Why no phd adjunct,” I needlessly Googled following my advisor’s warning that I risk foregoing my Ph.D. if I instruct as an adjunct full-time. The plight of the adjunct is admitted in academia as a rite of passage. According to the American…

Anthropologists need not apply

By The Journal | 12/07/2011

To save money, states are slashing funding for education programs that don’t produce traditional jobs.