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Putting Anthropological Critiques Into Practice, Amanda J. Reinke

Southern Anthropologist

How do we use anthropological critiques of institutions, practices, and processes to improve practices that address the needs of the public?Drawing on applied anthropological literature and from the author’s experience as a conflict management practitioner and academic, this essay discusses the relationship between critiques of practice and practicing anthropology. Rather than a diametrically opposed relationship (academic vs. practitioner or Ivory Tower vs. applied), I use my positionality as a researcher, academic, entrepreneur, and practitioner in conflict management to argue that engaging with theoretically informed critiques is necessary for practice improvements, and that practitioners are central to improving theory.

Doing Oral History As Public Anthropology, Helen A. Regis

Southern Anthropologist

Doing Oral History engages students as co-researchers in a community-engaged oral history project begun in 2011. Supported by a research partnership between a faculty member, a university oral history center, and a non-profit archive, the course engages learners in the exploration of a festival and its communities. Through oral histories with long-time festival workers, artists, staff, volunteers, and neighbors, we contribute to expanding the history of a festival and the social movements that have shaped it. We also consider the ways in which diverse festival workers come to feel a part of a community centering African American working-class folk, cultures, …

Standing Together Against Silencing: Anthropology As Inclusive Public History In The Anti-Crt Legislative Era, Ann E. Kingsolver, Elena Sesma

Southern Anthropologist

The authors – a high school student, undergraduate and graduate students, and Anthropology Department faculty members at the University of Kentucky – discuss ways that existing ethnographic, archival, and archaeological data can be explored with new analytical lenses to contribute to public history centering voices and perspectives that have been silenced and marginalized in dominant historical narratives. This is argued to be a vital pedagogical project in secondary and postsecondary educational as well as inclusive community discussions, given the current legislative environment across a number of states in the southeastern US that discourages the teaching and even availability of texts …

Abolition 101: Anthropological Praxis And Education For Liberation, Daniel A. Pizarro

Southern Anthropologist

Anthropological praxis has the potential to help build and sustain social justice movements by speaking truth to power, exposing structural violence, and questioning communities’ safety and well-being. Anthropologists who engage in praxis interrogate the root causes of oppression by critiquing the discipline’s pedagogies. The current structure of academic institutions encourages scholars to overlook the popular and political education necessary to ameliorate social suffering and advance human rights. This paper explores prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition, a liberatory praxis framework that socio-cultural anthropologists may adopt as active participants in the abolitionist struggle. This case study draws on community-based participatory action research …

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

November Southtalks Start This Week, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

The SouthTalks fall season is winding down, but here are all the SouthTalks for the remainder of the semester: At noon Nov. 1, William Dunlap and W. Ralph Eubanks present Southern Light, Southern Landscapein the Speaker's Gallery of the University Museum. They plan to discuss the connection between the landscape of the American South and the ways light and landscape connect with art and literature. This talk is co-sponsored by the University Museum.

October 26, 2023, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Issue 429: October 19-November 2, 2023, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

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News You Can Use: Both Nutritious And Delicious, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Parents have all the power when it comes to making sure children have well-balanced nutrition, said Shannon FitzGerald, a registered dietitian nutritionist at the Institute of Child Nutrition.

Newsletter, October 2023, Cedar Oaks Guild

Cedar Oaks Guild Newsletter

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Ghosting From The Workplace: The Impact Of Feedback (Or Lack Thereof) On Applicants’ Psychological Needs Satisfaction, Natasha R. Wood, Christina Leckfor, Sydney Wicks, Andrew Hales

Faculty and Student Publications

Background: Applying for a job can be a stressful experience. When a potential employer chooses to not move forward with a candidate, they can either directly tell them or cease communication altogether—known as ghosting. Ghosting has harmful consequences, such as lower basic psychological needs satisfaction than direct rejection, and there has been an apparent increase in this phenomenon by potential employers. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of being ghosted after submitting a hypothetical job application.
Methods: An international sample of unemployed people (N = 554) completed an online job application task and were randomly assigned …

Issue 428: October 5-19, 2023, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

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October 5, 2023, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Southern Register. 2023.3 (Fall 2023), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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Pharmacy Matters - October 2023, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Matters Newsletters

Featured stories: "Ashpole Wins University-wide Faculty Achievement Award," "Former UM Pharmacy Researcher Speaks at Inaugural Borne Lecture," "Rural Pharmacy Students Benefit from Polk Scholarship," "UM Develops 3D-Printed Film That Supports Cervical Cancer Research," "Groundbreaking Neuro-HIV Treatment in Development," "Pharmacy Students Benefit from Mayo Internship"

Phad 780: General Linear Models, John P. Bentley

GMAS Course Syllabi

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September 28, 2023, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Issue 427: September 21-October 5, 2023, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

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Teaching In The Age Of Ai: What’S Working, What’S Not, Derek Bruff, Robert Cummings

Events

Date: Monday, September 18 Time: 2:00-3:00 pm Location: Zoom Facilitators: Derek Bruff, visiting associate director, CETL, and Robert Cummings, executive director, Academic Innovations Group There are now many generative AI tools available to both students and instructors: ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Google Bard, Claude, Midjourney, DALL-E, and more. What is it like teaching and learning in this new age of AI? In this session, sponsored by CETL and the Academic Innovations Group, we invite the University of Mississippi teaching community to compare notes on what’s working and what’s not when it comes to incorporating or inhibiting AI tools in our fall …

Bolivar Medical Center Foundation Research Report, Macey Hays, Kami Tran, Natalie Minton

Health and Wellness

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Build The Life You Want: The Art And Science Of Getting Happier, Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey

Common Reading Experience

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier is an examination of philosophical advice and research-based strategies for navigating life’s challenges. Situated within the field of happiness studies, the book considers such areas as happiness, well-being, purpose, faith, and relationships. Authors Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey include examples from individuals’ lives and careers, including their own, to demonstrate how philosophy and the findings from happiness research can be applied to readers’ lives. For students, the book provides the chance to reflect on their own goals and happiness as well as the chance to examine the …

Issue 426: September 7-21, 2023, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

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Pharmacy Matters - September 2023, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Matters Newsletters

Featured stories: "Pharmacy School Welcomes New Oxford, Jackson Leaders," "Student Earns National Scholarship," "Alumnus Establishes Lectureship as Tribute to Beloved Professor," "Donors Help Outfit Incoming Professional Students," "Researchers Find Most Sports Supplements Inaccurately Labeled," "Pharmacy researchers conduct first study to assess naloxone availability in state"

Experimented With Watercolor Painting (Summer 2023), Erin Cromeans

Staff Residencies

Erin Cromeans is the Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives and Outreach at the Institute of Child Nutrition.

Southtalks Focus On Creativity In The South, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Lectures begin Sept. 6 with discussion of changing minds Creativity in the South is the programming theme for the 2023-24 academic year at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The fall SouthTalks series begins by recognizing that the U.S. South is a region of profound contrast.

New Faculty Guide, 2023-2024, University Of Mississippi. Provost

New Faculty

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Issue 425: August 24-September 7, 2023, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

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2023 Rebel Football Guide, Ole Miss Athletics. Men's Football

Media Guides and Fact Books

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Callings: The Purpose And Passion Of Work, Dave Isay, Maya Millet

Common Reading Experience

The University of Mississippi‘s 2023 Common Reading Experience selection -- Callings by Dave Isay with Maya Millett -- was chosen as the communal text for 2023, and will be the focus of university-wide discussions and programming throughout 2023.

"Stories of passion, courage, and commitment, following individuals as they pursue the work they were born to do, from StoryCorps founder Dave Isay. In Callings, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love.Some found their paths at a very young age, others later in life; some overcame great odds or upturned their lives in order to …

Um Launching Nation’S First Center For Narrative Intelligence, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning has approved the creation of a new National Center for Narrative Intelligence at the University of Mississippi, the first of its kind in the country.