Professional Precarity, Ethics, and Social Justice
By Netta Avineri and Steven P. Black “As long as we participate in social systems we don’t get to choose whether to be involved in the consequences they produce. We’re involved simply through the fact...
View ArticleA Case of Collegial Bad Faith
Posted confidentially on the author’s behalf by the ethics blog editors In this post I describe a situation of collegial bad faith in which I believe four of the ethical guidelines of the AAA were...
View ArticleWhen a PI Plagiarizes
Posted confidentially on the author’s behalf by the ethics blog editors In the October 1, 2014 New York Times Magazine, celebrated author Marilynne Robinson paraphrases John Wycliffe as saying, “If you...
View ArticleProblematic Ventures in Interdisciplinary Field Projects
Joseph Brooks University of California, Santa Barbara I am a PhD student in Linguistics. Early on in my program, I volunteered to assist at a workshop held at a university in Papua New Guinea that...
View ArticleEthics, Anthropology, and Adjudication
Steven P. Black Georgia State University In my work as the chair of the Committee on Ethics (CoE) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), I’ve noticed that a number of the “ethical...
View ArticleClass Struggle is the Name of the Game at Universities. It’s the Ethical...
Brian McKenna Picture this. You have a Ph.D. in anthropology and are hired, as an adjunct, to teach an anthropology course on “colonialism, economic crisis, peasant struggles, nationalism, indigenous...
View ArticleFighting Academia’s Contingency Crisis Together
Fighting Academia’s Contingency Crisis Together Work is a virtue. It is how we contribute and give back to our society. It is a source of self-worth and pride. Justice demands that those doing the same...
View ArticleIt’s Time for a Stronger Commitment with Our International Colleagues
Leila Rodriguez Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Cincinnati The American Anthropological Association lists knowledge dissemination as one of its guiding ethical principles. In...
View ArticleMore Still To Do: Combatting Sexual Harassment in Academia
By Julie Lesnik and Aaron Sams Julie Lesnik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University. Aaron Sams is a Research Scientist at Embark Veterinary, Inc., a...
View ArticleContingency in Conversational Consent and Turbulent Collaborations
Posted confidentially on the author’s behalf by the ethics blog editors This is the story of how my collaboration with a coauthor collapsed over ethical concerns. Neither of us violated any formal...
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