Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
“Alternative Anthropologist”: Navigating a Path Beyond the Academy
Thursday January 23, 2020
ANSO 134
11:30-1:00 PM
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Dr. Molly Malone
Abstract:
In recent years, anthropology as a discipline has become more self-aware of the glaring contrast between aspirational norms of academic anthropology and the volatile realities of the job market (Platzer and Allison 2018), with graduate students and their mentors seeking guidance around “alternative academic” (or “alt-ac”) career preparation. This talk focuses on three themes that shaped Dr. Malone’s decision-making and strategy as she finished her PhD and contemplated her future: listening to Indigenous people on the Northwest Coast (and beyond) about their experiences with anthropologists and anthropology; the nature of academic precarity and the fight for contingent academic labour rights; and the desire to have children and balance work with family life.
About the speaker:
Dr. Molly Malone received her PhD in sociocultural anthropology from UBC in 2014 and currently works for the Firelight Group–an Indigenous-owned consulting firm that provides research, policy, planning, mapping, negotiation, and advisory services–where she focuses primarily on Indigenous rights and title in Canada and the US.
