

AnthroPod
Society for Cultural Anthropology
AnthroPod is produced by the Society for Cultural Anthropology. In each episode, we explore what anthropology teaches us about the world and people around us.
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Sep 2, 2025 • 51min
80. A Dialogue on Love: Writing Through Migrant Belonging
This episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s social and political climate? In dialogue with Dr Omar Kasmani, whose work explores migrant loves and intimacies in Berlin, we trace the hopes, heartbreaks, and potentialities that love can hold for field research and ethnographic writing. Bridging the subjective and the objective, the personal and the shared, the inward and the outward, love remains a concept as powerful as it is perplexing. We hope this conversation encourages a more deliberate investigation of love within our discipline, and highlights its richness and complexity as an essential lens for ethnographic inquiry.

Jun 24, 2025 • 43min
79. Pushing Buttons: Gender and Sexual Diversity & Dissidence in Academia
In this episode, we dive into gender and sexual diversity, sexual dissidence, and their intersections with anthropology and education. Through a conversation with Dr. Joshua Liashenko, Director of LGBTQ+ Studies at Chapman University, we explore how queer anthropologists are engaging with these concepts in their approaches to research, training and teaching, particularly in relation to gay, lesbian, queer and trans communities in North America.
We discuss the historical development of anthropology’s engagement with sexuality and highlight the importance of bringing these conversations into the classroom, especially as anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and policies continue to rise across North America, particularly in the United States. This episode also considers how these themes are being taken up in university settings, especially within Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts and offers resources for listeners who want to dive deeper into this work.

Oct 31, 2024 • 36min
78. Eyes on Florida: Community-centered anthropology in Tampa Bay
Recently, Tampa Bay has stoked controversy among U.S. anthropologists. Facing statewide rising fascism and oppressive laws targeting historically marginalized minorities, it's also the site of the 2024 American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting. In this episode of AnthroPod, we visit three Tampa-based anthropologists doing community-centered fieldwork among marginalized local communities.

Oct 4, 2024 • 31min
77. AAA 2023 - Conversations with Harsha Walia Part Two: Anthropologists
The second episode of our two-part mini-series, showcases a roundtable discussion held at the 2023 American Anthropological Association’s Annual meeting in Toronto. In this episode, anthropology scholars gather to celebrate the work of Harsha Walia and share reflections on how her scholarship has influenced their own research, writing and activism.

Sep 27, 2024 • 29min
76. AAA 2023 - Conversations with Harsha Walia Part One: Migrant Workers
A discussion featuring Harsha Walia, alongside community organizers and migrant workers representing Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), took place at the American Anthropological Association's 2023 Annual Meeting in Toronto. This episode is the first part of a two-part mini-series highlighting the impact and contributions of Harsha Walia’s scholarship.

Aug 6, 2024 • 51min
75. Anthropology and Algorithms
In this engaging discussion, Professor Nick Seaver, an expert in anthropology and technology, joins Veronica Barassi, who delves into algorithms from an anthropological viewpoint, and Alex Moltzau, who bridges research and practical implications. They explore how anthropological insights can illuminate the complexities of algorithms, the societal impacts of datafication on family life, and the ethical challenges surrounding social justice. Together, they advocate for an integrative approach to understanding technology's influence on culture and human experience.

Jun 6, 2024 • 57min
74. Sounds of the Margins: Podcasting as Alternative Archives
In this episode, fellow podcasters, Frankie Younger and Dr. Anthony Jerry share how they combined podcasting with community engagement to create podcasts as archival spaces for the voices of historically marginalized communities.

Apr 9, 2024 • 57min
73. What New Media Does
In our latest episode in this series What Concepts Do we welcome guest producer Nazlı Özkan, who leads us through a discussion of New Media. How has newness been produced as a feature of media in different political and historical contexts, and how can anthropological approaches help us understand how technological novelty becomes a part of statecraft, activism, and everyday life?

Mar 26, 2024 • 40min
72. Astro-Colonialism: Conversation with Willi Lempert
In this episode, Dr. Willi Lempert discusses anthropology of outer space, focusing on historical and ongoing forms of colonialism on and off of Earth, as well as indigenous futurisms and alternative imaginations of outer space.
Our interview with Dr. Lempert was conducted in May 2023.
For more, visit https://culanth.org/fieldsights/astro-colonialism-conversation-with-willi-lempert

Feb 29, 2024 • 21min
71. AnthroBites: Disability
Delving into the historical, social, and cultural dimensions of disability, exploring the importance of integrating disability perspectives in ethnographic studies, reframing ethnography through disability and 'shrinkage', redefining disability activism through micro acts, and exploring the future of disability studies beyond traditional definitions.