Anthropologist | Assistant Professor @PurdueANTH | Postdoc @YaleCSEAS & Program in Agrarian Studies | အရေးတော်ပုံအောင်ရမည်။
New Haven, CT
Joined March 2015
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My new article, appearing in the February issue of @culanth, begins with a puzzle. Why would farmers support a controversial new city project so fervently as to hold a mass demonstration, demanding it be built “as fast as possible?” 1/3
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New pubs 27-1-25 features @ctwittekind on speculation as subsistence in peri-urban Myanmar; Selth on Myanmar’s authoritarian intelligence apparatus; and Wu on Burmese exiles on the Thai border during this revolutionary era. burmastudiesgroup.com/recent…
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Postdoc (feminist intersectional STS) opportunity in one of following areas: critical data studies, artificial intelligence and/or automation technologies; or social science of medicine and medical technologies. Closes 7/10/24
postdocs.yale.edu/postdoctor…
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1/5 - Grim data in latest IDP update from CIDKP, a local Karen CBO delivering humanitarian aid in SE Myanmar. 1 million+ IDPs across the 7 Karen districts, with recent increases in Brigades 3 & 6; small reduction in B5, as SAC forces pushed out. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
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We must never forget that these initiatives are possible because of the people who are determined to not be left behind. Education is a powerful pathway forward in ensuring the success of the People's Revolution 💪
Phansaw, the first autonomous university, commenced operations in March at a certain location within Karenni State.
Read More - ktnews.org/first-autonomous-…
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BREAKING: In solidarity with Columbia, hundreds of Yale students have just constructed an encampment of tents outside a Board of Trustees meeting.
Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing.
FREE PALESTINE!
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The great anthropologist Susan Slyomovics—known for her study of the Palestinian village of Ein Houd—on being arrested as a seventeen-year-old Barnard student in 1968.
Honored to be a part of this @NEHgov cohort and the @NEH_ODH initiative on the dangers and opportunities of new technologies. Grateful to my @LifeAtPurdue and @YaleMacMillan colleagues for their enthusiastic support of my proposal.
#Congratulations to @ctwittekind, assistant professor of @PurdueANTH, on winning a $74K @NEHgov grant for her project "Influencing the Revolution: Social Media and Digital Fundraising in the United States and Myanmar!" Excellent work, Professor Wittekind!
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Congrats to @TCMIndy, @HanoverCollege, @NotreDame, @LifeAtPurdue, @saintmarys, @uindy and @DePauwU for being on this list!
Learn more: neh.gov/news/neh-announces-2…
NEH announces $26.2 million for 238 humanities projects across the U.S.
Grants will support exhibitions, films, digitization of historic collections, sustainability projects at museums & archives, advanced research, & programs in higher ed. tinyurl.com/5fpch689
#NEHgrant
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A good opportunity for those interested in writing topics related to Burma: burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/0… – at New Haven, CT
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#TheMapInTheMachine is real and it’s here* thanks to the good people at @ucpress. Pre-order it, and you too can be a happy customer, like the author!
ucpress.edu/book/97805203893…
* See Fig. 1 for successful unboxing results.
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Military media’s warning that young people risk being ‘shot in the head and back’ is a tacit admission of what protesters already know: they are being targeted for death.
Read more: bit.ly/3w1w2zT
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Help The Irrawaddy Report the Truth from Myanmar
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App forms were distributed in some townships in Yangon in order to carry on with the conscription law. Kids, if you can't afford to bribe your way out, leave the town before it's too late, when you are the only one in front line walking under constant fire in the mine field.
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In this article, @ctwittekind traces demonstrations-turned-spectacles organized in Yangon’s outskirts & asks how spectacle functions when it is devised by those living at the center of a speculative urban plan.
journal.culanth.org/index.ph…
ALT First page of the article.
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Just happened after the elections: My piece on pig‐feast and elections in West Papua is out from @AmEthno. It is open access. Wiley Online Library anthrosource.onlinelibrary.w…
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Proud to work at @thenation on a day we can publish an absolutely essential and heartfelt essay on Aaron Bushnell by @rubin_lyle
thenation.com/article/societ…
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Myanmar's draconian conscription order is not just youth: targets professionals UP TO 45 years old. Get ready, Thailand...
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/My…
Long queues at the Thai embassy in Yangon today as people rush to leave the country following the Myanmar's junta announces enforcement of military service laws for the youth. Video via Khing Maung Htwe Facebook #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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I should have known better: I have pulled out of my planned talk on climate change, agrarian change and armed conflict in Myanmar, sponsored by the UN’s new climate change network
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Scores of young people have been arrested in Mandalay since the junta activated the conscription law early this month, residents of the country’s second-largest city say.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
bit.ly/49ujLHH
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Our new issue features six new articles from Brazil, Peru, and Trinidad to Myanmar, Zambia, and Egypt - as well as an inaugural guest commentary on NAGPRA by members of the Choctaw Nation. Check them all out here! journal.culanth.org/index.ph…
ALT Journal issue cover for Cultural Anthropology featuring a photo of a logging camp with piles of timber.