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  • If Cultural Resource Management is booming, where are the anthropology graduatesIf Cultural Resource Management is booming, where are the anthropology graduates?

If Cultural Resource Management is booming, where are the anthropology graduates?

Recently, I networked with anthropology instructors at universities in New England. My purpose: To recruit candidates for a paid summer internship in cultural resources management (CRM). The position was open through the spring and the field season was fast approaching. Following a dozen unanswered cold emails, I connected with an academic contact at a prestigious undergraduate program. The current job market is hot for archaeologists working outside the academy. According to a 2022 study by Jeffery Altschul and Terry Klein, a shortage of qualified archaeologists working within CRM exists, now a billion-dollar industry resulting from the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act. [...]

What can applied archaeology offer anthropology?

I live in two professional worlds. Part scientist, part science communicator, I navigate a cross-disciplinary career with a saying from time in archaeology: Work from the known to the unknown. The Career Readiness Commission’s Fordham Conference cued up this phrase for me again and sparked questions. Should anthropology remain within the known training paradigms of the cultural, linguistic, biological, and archaeological subfields? Or, can it push into the unknown to support anthropologists working outside the academy? Perhaps my field of applied archaeology, specifically cultural resources management (CRM), offers a known case study with insights for anthropology. Cleaved from an academic [...]

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