Career Arcs: Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship)

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This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

In Career Arcs: Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology, I present an intersectional, qualitative study of how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism shape the demographics of archaeology, and the knowledge that archaeologists produce. I examine the personal narratives of over seventy diverse archaeologists, with whom I conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews. I demonstrate that intersecting systemic oppressions deeply shape who enters archaeological careers, the conditions of those careers, and the research archaeologists pursue. On the disciplinary level, our homogenous demographics limit the knowledge of past human societies that archaeologists produce. I offer strategies for marginalized archaeologists to build successful careers and for established scholars to support the creation of a discipline as diverse as the past peoples we study.

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• WGF - Support for Writing Projects   •
• Wenner-Gren Foundation

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Rights & Attribution: This resource is an application from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and has been approved by the grantee solely for pedagogical purposes. Please do not cite, circulate, or duplicate any part of these documents without the express written consent of the author.

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