Special Issue: Teaching and Learning Anthropology in the Time of COVID-19

Abstract

This special issue results from email conversations begun in the summer of 2020 concerning COVID-19's effects on the teaching and learning of anthropology in higher education. The Society for Applied Anthropology's Higher Education Thematic Interest Group listserv functioned as a networking tool, bringing together questions, authors, editors, and the journal. The resulting commentaries, project showcases, and research articles published here offer analyses of teaching and learning within the virtual walls of the academy during the pandemic. They reveal much about student and professor experiences with online tools and digital anthropology as well as the preexisting inequalities in higher education uncovered by the pandemic. Collectively, the essays in this issue offer insights and perspectives that can help guide anthropological teaching and learning in the future.