Happy 25th Anniversary to “The Vulnerable Observer”!

A Q&A with Ruth Behar | So much has changed in the last twenty-five years that sometimes we forget how different were the paradigms we worked with before. Anthropologists were taught that they had to

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Solar in the City: The Challenges of Bringing Clean Power to a Dorchester Neighborhood

By Philip Warburg | The Better Buildings Act, now making its way through the Massachusetts legislature, is a monumental step toward curbing fossil fuel use by larger commercial and public buildings. Y

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Civil Rights Activist Desmond Meade Named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow!

Break out the confetti and the champagne! We’re having a double celebration for civil rights activist Desmond Meade! First, he has been named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow! Secondly, it’s the first-year ann

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Through Radical Empathy, Perhaps We Can Save What’s Left of Life on Our Planet

A Q&A with W. J. Herbert | A woman meditates on her impending death and the crisis her species has created in the original version of this manuscript which contained only fossil and specimen poems. “D

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Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Travis Cohen, Production Associate

My degree is actually in film, but I realized only afterward that it wasn’t what I wanted for myself, so I did what any sensible person would do—I street performed for a little while in Baltimore, pla

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