While not formally reviewed, posts in these Fieldsights sections reflect the breadth and pace of anthropological conversations today. Many of them are written by early-career scholars in the SCA's Contributing Editors Program.
A Better World Somewhere: Thinking with and about Keith Hart
Few anthropological concepts have traveled as far as Keith Hart’s “informal economy,” which altered the course of development economics in the 1970s. He once re... More
Comfort and Community in Teaching Anthropology Online
Like many educators, the first experience of online teaching came several days after a nationwide COVID lockdown was announced in early 2020. I was teaching hig... More
A Dialogue on Love 2: How to Live with Violent Love?
Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual violence, sexual assault, imprisonment, and intimate partner violence.... More
Staying in the Scene: Situated Assessment and the Labor of Learning to See
In Spring 2026, I designed and taught Migration and Social Justice, a 200-level undergraduate course at Middlebury College, moving from transnational migration ... More
Teaching Sociology to Future Engineers
I used to teach sociology at an Indian engineering university. For my students—specializing in computer science, design, and electrical and communication—sociol... More
Iranian Diaspora Perspectives
Iran has dominated the U.S. news cycle throughout 2026 so far. The U.S. and Israeli war of aggression in Iran just passed its 100th day, having come on the heel... More
AAA 2025 Part 1: Storytelling, Performance, History
This is the first of a three-part miniseries covering the 2025 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. Throughout this minise... More
In Praise of the Oral Exam: Returning to Face-to-Face Conversation in the Age of AI
One of my favorite courses to teach is an upper-level anthropology seminar called “Animality and the Human Question.” Part multi-species ethnography, part criti... More
Linguistic Anthropology and Anthropologists in Mexico: Part 2
This is the second episode of the two-part miniseries on linguistic anthropologists working with indigenous communities in Mexico. In this episode, Emiliana Cru... More
Linguistic Anthropology and Anthropologists in Mexico: Part 1
This episode is the first part of a two-part miniseries on linguistic anthropologists working with Indigenous communities in Mexico. In conversation with Mario ... More