Dustin M. Wax

Dustin M. Wax is a cultural anthropologist and writer. He currently teaches anthropology and Women’s Studies at both the community college and university levels. His research interests include the history of anthropology, Native American cultures, gender roles and sexual identity, Cold War history, and the representation of culture and identity in scientific literature, museums, and the mass media.

Dustin has also been active in attempts to use the Internet to improve and broaden research and education, and is a founding contributor to the anthropology site Savage Minds, selected as one of the 20 Best Science Blogs by Nature in 2006. Since 2007 he has been the project manager at the personal productivity site lifehack.org, a Technorati Top 100 blog, where he writes about writing, learning, studying, project management, technology, and other topics in personal development.

For more information on his teaching, research, and writing, please check out his portfolio at this site.

Personal Summary

I received my MA from the New School for Social Research and a BA from UC Santa Cruz, both in anthropology with honors in the major. I have been teaching as an adjunct for over six years,and currently teach anthropology at the College of Southern Nevada and women’s studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I have worked with non-profit organizations, museums, and dot-com startups, where I have done everything from organizing catering to putting together exhibition brochures to interviewing researchers to writing marketing and educational copy to redesigning websites.