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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...

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A 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...

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When 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...

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Problematic 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...

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Ethics, 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...

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Class 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...

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Fighting 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...

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It’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...

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More 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...

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Contingency 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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