Raising Up African Paleoanthropologists
Generations of scholars from around the world have converged to study human evolution in East Africa. Now a new training program seeks to bring more African students into the field.
Linda Nordling
Linda Nordling is a science journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She writes about science, education, medicine, and development—and the politics and intersections between all four—for magazines, including Science and Nature. She has a special interest in chronicling the lived experience of scholars who identify as being from underrepresented groups.
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As over 50 countries sign on to the “Thirty by Thirty” plan that would set land aside from human use, some scholars worry about its effects on marginalized communities.
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Who Gets to Study Whom?
As the field of anthropology struggles to shed its colonial past, the discipline has inadvertently put constraints on anthropologists of color who already face racism, bias, and discrimination.