Public Anthropology
Students work with faculty advisors to devise self-designed majors. Coursework in the major builds upon students’ experiences in the general education curriculum while providing students with pathways to deepen their knowledge or further develop their passion in a particular area of study.
Studying Public Anthropology at Antioch College
Public Anthropology, also called Applied Anthropology, is the study of human culture through engaged, intersectional methodologies that are applied to social justice projects across a range of areas. Specifically, this area of study engages with ethnography, linguistic anthropology, queer archaeology, and social movement studies.
Public anthropologists are particularly focused on the ways in which communities are formed, culture is constructed, and power is dispersed and disrupted. This area of study is politically engaged, praxis-based, and directly connected to social movements. In Public Anthropology, you can expect to learn about how systems of power are crafted, and how those ideological structures are upheld by individuals and communities. This subset of anthropology is a poignant way to apply academic study to a social justice agenda.
Students who have studied public anthropology have gone on to careers in:
| Education/Outreach Cultural Resource Management Community Development International/Public Health Environment and Natural Resources Advocacy/Political Activism Social Work |
International Affairs Mass Communication Healthcare Management Organizational Development/Training Social Impact Assessment Market Research Law/Legal Reform Policy Analysis |
Courses that support this area of interest
| Anthropology | ||
| Course No. | Title | Credits |
| ANTH 110 | Culture Conflict | 4 |
| ANTH 230 | Anthropology of Human Rights | 4 |
| ANTH 240 | Environmental Anthropology | 4 |
| ANTH 270 | Anthropology of Social Movements | 4 |
| ANTH 345 | Anthropology of Incarceration | 4 |
| ANTH 370 | Activist Ethnography | 4 |
| ANTH 380 | Inside-Out | 4 |
| For additional courses in Anthropology, please see the curriculum catalog. | ||
| Psychology | ||
| Course No. | Title | Credits |
| PSYC 110 | Social Psychology | 4 |
| PSYC 330 | Cross-Cultural Psychology | 4 |
| PSYC 395 | Special Topics in Psychology: The Psychology of Empathy | 4 |
| For additional courses in Psychology, please see the curriculum catalog. | ||
| Statistics | ||
| Course No. | Title | Credits |
| MATH 205 | Intermediate Statistics | 4 |
| Capstones and Electives | ||
| CAP 394 | CAP 394 in the Social Sciences | 4 |
| CAP 495 | CAP 495 in the Social Sciences | 4 |
| CAP 450 | CAP 450 in the Social Sciences | 4 to 8 |
Faculty
Jennifer Grubbs, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Téofilo Espada-Brignoni, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
Real-World Student Work Experiences
Students gain valuable real-world work experience through our Cooperative Education program, and document their insights on Antioch Engaged: our journal of social practice & professional engagement
- Godwin’s Law: Ian Wonn ’22 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Noah Yasgur ’19 at Community Solutions
by Noah Yasgur on June 5, 2019 at 6:18 pm
In a nutshell, and as seen on their website, the aim of Community Solutions “is to educate people about ways to make Read more
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Art, Interview, Translations: Sarah Tibble ’22 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
by Sarah Tibble on May 15, 2019 at 12:56 pm
When I first thought of working for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the idea seemed daunting. Washington Read more
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Educating for Democracy: Elijah Snow-Rackley ’20 at Critical Exploration Press
by Elijah Snow-Rackley on March 25, 2018 at 6:38 pm
What do we value most in education today? What does it mean to be smart? A lot of children might respond that what’s Read more
