Designing an Anthropology Career: Professional Development Exercises - Hardcover

Briller, Sherylyn H.; Goldmacher, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0759109427 ISBN 13: 9780759109421

Verlag: Altamira Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Launching a career is challenging and, at times, intimidating. Designing an Anthropology Career provides undergraduate and graduate students with the tools they need to identify their career goals and follow through on them. Part I establishes a framework on how to begin designing a career in anthropology or other related fields. Part II contains a series of professional development exercises to help readers articulate their personal and professional histories, special abilities, and career goals. Each exercise is followed by a sample completed by an anthropology student or anthropologist to provide models for readers to complete their own exercises, which will be invaluable tools for choosing the right career. Throughout the text, the authors take a broad perspective to encourage readers to imagine an evolving anthropology career as a lifetime endeavor.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dr. Sherylyn Briller (PhD, 2000, Case Western Reserve University) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University and a Faculty Associate in the Center on Aging and the Life Course. She is an applied cultural/medical anthropologist specializing in aging and life course issues. Briller has a long-standing interest in anthropologists' education and career development; she co-authored a well-known textbook Designing an Anthropology Career: Professional Development Exercises. After working as a practitioner, Briller became an applied researcher working on old age support in the United States and Mongolia. Briller's individual and collaborative scholarship resulted in a four volume book series on dementia care settings, an interdisciplinary book about end-of-life issues, one design monograph, two guest-edited special issues, 10 book chapters, 21 peer-reviewed articles, and a community-engaged medical anthropology museum exhibit. Her work is used by policymakers, academics, healthcare professionals, patients, families and others. At the broadest level, her anthropological scholarship and practice aim to create a better, more inclusive world that supports people in achieving and maintaining social personhood across the life course and a range of disability and illness experiences. Briller is an accomplished teacher and mentor. She won a Presidential Award for Teaching, the university's highest teaching honor. Briller is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Co-Chair of the Consortium of Applied and Practicing Anthropology Programs (COPAA). She is a former President of the Association for Anthropology & Gerontology Education (AAGE) and served on the SfAA's Nominations and Elections Committee. Briller is President-Elect of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Amy Goldmacher is a research professional who finds opportunities for innovation through ethnographic and qualitative methods. By carefully observing and questioning how people engage with the world, she creates ideas that connect customers to products. With over 15 years of applied research experience, Amy has provided research for new product and service design across industries, including automotive, consumer products, consumer websites, healthcare, industrial products and residential and nonresidential construction. Amy uses well-established ethnographic techniques as well as creative approaches to get the rich and detailed information about peoples' motivations, needs and challenges, around which new products, services and experiences can be designed. She has worked with Fortune 500 to 1000 companies, recently completing ethnographic luxury design research for an automotive manufacturer, focus groups and ethnographic research in China for a global consumer healthcare company, user research for the website of a baseball academy and contextual observational interviews to support product innovation for a global industrial manufacturing company. Amy has authored and co-authored articles in Anthropology journals, a chapter in an organizational business text and a career workbook, among other publications. Amy holds a B.A. in Anthropology with Honors from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0759109427
• ISBN 13: 9780759109421
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168
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