Roundtable: "What Can I Do with My Degree?” How Anthropology Shapes Our Interdisciplinary Lives
Presentation Location
VSU University Center, Magnolia Room 1
Document Type
Event
Start Date
10-3-2023 2:15 PM
End Date
10-3-2023 3:15 PM
Description
Roundtable: “What Can I Do with My Degree?” How Anthropology Shapes Our Interdisciplinary Lives
- Matthew Newsom (organizer, chair), Southern Utah University
- Melissa Coleman (participant), Advocacy Wealth Management
- Mandy Anderson, (participant), University of West Florida
- Russ Anderson (participant), 2050 Consortium
- Natasha Fast, Grassroots Coffee Roasters
Studying anthropology can open the world in unexpected ways. This roundtable provides a forum in which the participants—all former VSU anthropology majors who are now working in diverse career fields—discuss how their undergraduate studies impacted their life trajectories. In keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, our goal for this discussion is to explore how anthropology frames the ways in which we understand our interdisciplinary worlds. While reflecting on personal perspectives and histories, we hope to offer current students attending the conference a more tangible sense of how anthropology might influence their own futures. This conversation will address common concerns about what one might do after graduation, but will likely also pique the interest of other attendees, for whom anthropology has no doubt unlocked a range of human experience.
Recommended Citation
Newsom, Matthew; Coleman, Melissa; Anderson, Mandy; Anderson, Russ; and Fast, Natasha, "Roundtable: "What Can I Do with My Degree?” How Anthropology Shapes Our Interdisciplinary Lives" (2023). Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society. 15.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southernanthro_meeting/2023/schedule/15
Roundtable: "What Can I Do with My Degree?” How Anthropology Shapes Our Interdisciplinary Lives
VSU University Center, Magnolia Room 1
Roundtable: “What Can I Do with My Degree?” How Anthropology Shapes Our Interdisciplinary Lives
- Matthew Newsom (organizer, chair), Southern Utah University
- Melissa Coleman (participant), Advocacy Wealth Management
- Mandy Anderson, (participant), University of West Florida
- Russ Anderson (participant), 2050 Consortium
- Natasha Fast, Grassroots Coffee Roasters
Studying anthropology can open the world in unexpected ways. This roundtable provides a forum in which the participants—all former VSU anthropology majors who are now working in diverse career fields—discuss how their undergraduate studies impacted their life trajectories. In keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, our goal for this discussion is to explore how anthropology frames the ways in which we understand our interdisciplinary worlds. While reflecting on personal perspectives and histories, we hope to offer current students attending the conference a more tangible sense of how anthropology might influence their own futures. This conversation will address common concerns about what one might do after graduation, but will likely also pique the interest of other attendees, for whom anthropology has no doubt unlocked a range of human experience.