All you can really do is tell the stories

Anthropologist, author, supporter of other scholars’ work. Professor turned funder. Books on nationalism, sovereignty, and colonial state building in West Papua and disability and mystery in the US. I...

Never stop finding your people

Elizabeth F. S. (Liz) Roberts is a medical anthropologist at the University of Michigan. Her research moves between Latin America and the United States, tracing the social, biological, and environmental forces that produce health and illness.

You don't get abstractions for free

You aimlessly wander around the topic, gathering bits of wool.

by Rima Praspaliauskienė On a warm afternoon in late April 2001, I walked down Gedimino, smiling at spring. I was jet-lagged from my first trip to America and still intoxicated by its nature, food,...

How cycling helped me finish graduate school

I'm going to write what I like

Author Ocean Vuong talks about his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. It centers on the unlikely friendship between a 19-year-old college dropout and an 82-year-old with dementia.

What did we know about democracy? We fought for it. When Soviet tanks roared on Vilnius streets in 1990 and 1991, we were the ones who tried to understand why our predecessors didn’t resist in 1940. W...

A newsletter for scholars who believe that academic writing can and should be otherwise. Click to read Write What You Like, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

A newsletter for scholars who believe that academic writing can and should be otherwise. Click to read Write What You Like, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

A newsletter for scholars who believe that academic writing can and should be otherwise. Click to read Write What You Like, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

Editing as a dialogic process