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, Cold War history, Native American cultures, gender roles and sexual identity, and the representation of culture and identity in scientific literature, museums, and the mass media. He 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 [1], selected as one of the 20 Best Science Blogs by Nature in 2006. He is also the project manager at the personal productivity site lifehack.org [2], 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 work and writing, please check out his portfolio [3] at this site.
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 four 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.
I have recently published an edited volume about anthropologists during the Cold War (available in the U.K., due out in the US in March, 2008), and am working on as a dissertation on the University of Chicago's Fox Project. I also do freelance writing for print and online publication, focusing primarily on issues in diversity and education, as well as on technology, writing, and organization skills. For further information, please review my full Curriculum Vita below, or contact me [4].
PUBLICATIONS
2008. Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War: The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA. Dustin M. Wax, ed. London: Pluto Press.
2008. “Organizing Anthropology: Sol Tax and the Professionalization of Anthropology”. In Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War: The Influence of Faoundations, McCarthyism and the CIA. Dustin M. Wax, ed. London: Pluto Press.
2007. “Book Review: Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture”. Archives of Sexual Behavior 37(3): 471 - 472.
2006. “God Gene”. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology. H. James Birx, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 1093-4.
2000. “Franz Boas and the Rise of Modern Culture”. Suite101.com. (No longer available online)
2007-Present. Contributing Editor for Lifehack.org. URL: www.lifehack.org [5].
2005-Present. Contributing writer for Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology. URL: http://www.savageminds.org [6]
PRESENTATIONS
2008 Paper: "The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age", Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency [7].
2003 Panel: “Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War”, 2003 AAA Annual Meeting (Organizer and Chair).
Paper: “Organizing Anthropology: Sol Tax and the
Professionalization of Anthropology”, 2003 AAA Annual Meeting.