Beyond the ivory tower: Communicating Research to the ‘Real World’
PROF. Rebecca Lester (February 26, 2024)
The De Burgos Memorial Lecture is supported by the Anthropology caucus in the Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies.
Professor Rebecca Lester is the Chair and a Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis and a licensed clinical social worker. As a medical and psychological anthropologist, her work centers on the phenomena of embodied existential distress and how people navigate the world when it seems to have crumbled around them. In her talk entitled Beyond the Ivory Tower: Communicating Your Research to the “Real World” Professor Lester reflects how as “culture experts,” anthropologists should be obvious contributors to public discourses about modern phenomena. Yet we hardly ever show up in these conversations. Drawing on her experiences as a public scholar, she will offer concrete guidance for making anthropological research digestible and compelling outside the ivory tower.
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