Ah, to reconnect with former colleagues! It is straightforward for some and difficult for others. Reconnecting may offer undiscovered opportunities in one’s career, but is it possible to link up with the past in a substantive way? This blog shares our experience reconnecting: it is the story of the collaboration between two former university students who reconnected after 30 years and agreed to rebuild their relationship and share their networks with each other and their students. Reunions are memories, as Michael D. Jackson, the founder of existential anthropology (a field of anthropology that incorporates existentialism and the open-endedness of life projects), [...]

“Anthropology helps us think about the world differently; it helps us uncover social silences.” These words by anthropologist and journalist Gillian Tett resonated in my mind while attending the conference “Building Careers in Anthropology” on Friday, May 13th, 2022 held at the Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, New York. The one-day conference, which I attended with two of my undergraduate majors, was packed with valuable information, reflections, and conversations about why anthropology matters. It was one of the most exciting and well-organized conferences I have attended in quite some time. From the information provided for registration to the instructions [...]