In the six months since PopAnth was launched, we’ve collected an amazing group of volunteers. In the beginning, there were just Gawain Lynch, John McCreery and myself developing the website. We hoped that other people would be interested in what we’re trying to do and become involved.
We haven’t been disappointed. Today we have twenty-one volunteers helping us to run PopAnth. All of these people donate their time generously because they believe in the value of popularizing anthropology. (I suspect that they also have fun doing it.) We’d like to welcome, and thank:
Our Editors, who provide invaluable feedback on new articles submitted to the site: Jolynna Sinanan, Laura Miller, Ted Fischer, David Slattery, Elizabeth Challinor, Melanie Uy and Gillian Bowan
Our Community Advisors, many of whom participated in discussions on the topic of popularising anthropology, and who field our doubts and flashes of inspiration: Greg Downey, Daniel Lende, Keith Hart, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Steffan Igor Diaz, Jason Antrosio, Paul Mullins, Lauren Knapp and Isabelle Rivoal
Our Interns, David Thompson and Claire Cerda, who work on all aspects of the website, including writing articles and helping with our social media and marketing
Our Marketing Liaison person, Belinda Taylor, who is developing our marketing strategy, helps design promotional materials, and is generally responsible for making PopAnth go “pop”
Our Translations Coach, Larry Stout, who is on standby to help non-native English speakers edit their articles for PopAnth, but whom is immensely valuable as a discussant!
And from me, a special thanks to John for his coaching and general support, and to Gawain for inventing, designing and running the website.
Great job, everyone. Thanks for helping us to make PopAnth happen!
Author informationErin TaylorPost Doctoral Research Fellow, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon at Research Fellow, Digital Ethnography Research CentreErin originally studied fine art, but she defected to anthropology when she realised that she was far better at deploying a pen for writing than for drawing. She is a cultural anthropologist who is currently living in Lisbon, Portugal, where she has a full-time research position at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS).
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