UC Berkeley’s Kroeber Hall is fourth building in 1 year to be stripped of its name
Alfred Louis Kroeber, the founder of the study of anthropology in the American West, is a powerful symbol that continues to evoke exclusion and erasure for Native Americans.
Native Americans on campus, in California and beyond supported the proposal to unname Kroeber Hall. Among them, from left, are Berkeley senior Cheyenne Two Feathers Tex and Ph.D. students Ataya Cesspooch and Alexii Sigona, and Berkeley staff member Phenocia Bauerle. Photo: UC Berkeley/Irene Yi
UC Berkeley’s Kroeber Hall today became the fourth building on campus to be stripped of its name in a year’s time. The decision by Berkeley officials capped a formal review process and was made, in large part, because the building’s namesake Alfred Louis Kroeber, born in 1876 and the founder of the study of anthropology in the American West is a powerful symbol that continues to evoke exclusion and erasure for Native Americans.
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President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday that, among other things, dissolves a commission created under the Trump administration to advance a “patriotic education” for American students.
“Equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy, and our diversity is one of our country’s greatest strengths. But for too many, the American Dream remains out of reach,” read the executive order, in part.
“It is therefore the policy of my Administration that the Federal Government should pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.”
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Paul Stoller has been conducting anthropological research for more than 30 years. He is a professor of anthropology at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. His early work concerned the religion of the Songhay people who live in the Republics of Niger and Mali in West Africa. Since 1992, Stoller has pursued studies of West African immigrants in New York City. Those studies have concerned such topics as spirit possession, an anthropology of the senses, and the politics of immigration. Stoller has published 15 books, including ethnographies, biographies, memoirs, and novels. He has won many awards for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), the Anders Retzius Gold Medal in Anthropology (2013), and the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology in Media Award (2015) in recognition of his blogs for
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Just after insurrectionists attempted to take over the Capitol last week, a professor of archaeology did the Nazi salute during a plenary session at the Society for Historical Archaeology’s virtual meeting.
“Sieg heil, you,” said Robert Schuyler, associate professor of archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, raising his hand in the Nazi salute, as seen in a clip of the incident circulating on social media.
Schuyler, who was in plenary’s virtual audience, targeted panelist Liz Quinlan, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of York in Britain, after she declined to entertain questions from him about society membership rates. She deemed the questions unrelated to her comments on creating accessibility documents for the conference, according to a public account of what happened from independent bioarchaeologist Kristina Killgrove. Quinlan had not finished her remarks but Schuyler continued to interrupt her.