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: