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Item Anthropology By the Wire(2012) Durington, Matthew Slover; Collins, Samuel Gerald; Towson University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal JusticeAnthropology by the Wire is a multi-media research project on urban and visual anthropology in Baltimore that is part of a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates grant at Towson University. In this project, students will be conducting research on neighborhoods in Baltimore utilizing anthropological methods through the lens of a public anthropology with a variety of digital media. A sampling of chronological data in the form of videos, photos, audio, links and text posted to this site represent the outcome and mediation of those endeavors.Item Baltimore steel stories(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-11) Durington, Matthew Slover; Collins, Samuel Gerald; Rines, Cameron; Towson University. Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal JusticeThe article offers information on the efforts to chronicle the economic and personal changes people have endured in Baltimore, Maryland, to make sense of their lives and represent the contradictions of capitalism which resulted in the media project entitled "Anthropology by the Wire." Topics include the fallout from the closure of one of the last remaining steel plants in the U.S., the contradictions within capitalist logic, and the structural violence that emerges from neoliberal practices.Item Civic Engagement and Gentrification Issues in Metropolitan Baltimore(Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, 2009) Durington, Matthew Slover; Maddox, Camee; Ruhf, Adrienne; Gass, Shana; Schwermer, Justin; Towson University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal JusticeSince the fall of 2006 a number of Towson University students concentrating in the discipline of anthropology have been part of a civic engagement and service-learning project focusing on an historic African-American community in Baltimore. While the focus of the research project concentrates on the processes of gentrification, individual student outputs center on a variety of topics that detail the history of the community and the contemporary efforts of residents toward urban sustainability.Item Conference review: AnthropologyCon 2017(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018) Collins, Samuel Gerald; Durington, Matthew Slover; Gonzalez-Tennant, Edward; Lorenc, Marc; Mizer, Nick; Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal JusticeAnthropologyCon 2017 transpired across multiple sites at the annual American Anthropology Association meeting in Washington, DC. The first event included a workshop on “Anthropology of/through Games” on Thursday afternoon, November 30, where participants learned about, brainstormed on, designed, and prototyped table-top games under the tutelage of Dr. Anatasia Salter, a game designer and games scholar from the University of Central Florida. In the second event, workshop participants and other interested attendees played games at the “#AnthropologyCon Salon” on Saturday afternoon, December 2, including a couple of the table-top games prototyped during the first workshop. Finally, participants adjourned to the Board Room, a nearby gaming pub in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC, to play card games and role-playing games (Figure 1). In lieu of a single-authored review of AnthropologyCon, the organizers have asked themselves key questions about their goals and future plans.Item Introduction(Modern Language Association, 2007) Durington, Matthew Slover; Green, Lesley J. F.; Towson University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal JusticeThe articles collected for this issue of Critical Arts provide a number of different entrées into the practice of media anthropology while remaining true to the origins of this particular journal by providing a space where academics from a variety of backgrounds and positions may utilise an interdisciplinary approach. It is our position that through an interdisciplinary approach to media and culture some of the most novel approaches to understanding this relationship can occur. The studies collected represent journeys, experiments, and what we would like to offer as possible innovations in the study of media and culture from, or influenced by, an anthropological perspective.Item Introduction: the stakes of whiteness studies(Wiley Blackwell, 2009-04) Durington, Matthew Slover; Towson University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal JusticeAn introduction to a series of essays about racism and whiteness in the U.S. Included are information on anthropology's contribution to critical whiteness studies, the complexity by which whiteness in its various manifestations intersects with other identity formations, the continued strength of anthropological sensibilities in relation to the interrogation of interpretive repertoires of social life and their entanglement with rhetoric/realities of race, and a critique of racism in the U.S.