{"id":124,"date":"2012-03-27T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/?page_id=124"},"modified":"2012-05-11T01:51:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T05:51:04","slug":"occupy-wall-street-career-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/occupy-wall-street-career-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>David Graeber<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">David Graeber is a widely regarded anthropologist, currently working at Goldsmith&#8217;s University in London.\u00a0 Graeber has been described as an &#8216;anti-leader&#8217; of Occupy Wall Street (Businessweek) due to his anarchist politics.\u00a0 Graeber sees the Occupy movement as an anarchist political project that is attempting to change the social, economic, and political structures of the United States.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/books\/debt\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-875 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/files\/2012\/04\/Graeber-David-\u00a9-Melville-House-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"David Graeber\" width=\"329\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl>\n<dd>\u00a9 Melville House<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Born: February 12, 1961<br \/>\n<strong>Birthplace<\/strong>: Chelsea, Manhattan, NYC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Education:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago\n<ul>\n<li>Recipient of Fulbright to study magic, slavery, and politics in Madagascar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Masters in Anthropology, University of Chicago<\/li>\n<li>B.A., State University of New York at Purchase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Work:<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent Position: Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmith&#8217;s University in London<br \/>\n1998-2005: Professor of Anthropology at Yale University (Temporary 1 year term from 2005-2006)<br \/>\nHad a contract for 10 years with Yale with the possibility of being put up for tenure at the end of the term. \u00a0Yale released him after 7 years, annulling the possibility of tenure. \u00a0School officials refused to relsease their reasonings (they cited tardiness by Graeber to his classes, which none of his students had complained about) so supporters of Graeber theorize it is because of his anarchist politics. \u00a0Graeber also says that his support of a student who was in the ill-regarded Graduate Student union was another reason for his dismissal.<br \/>\nTaught \u201cDirect Action and Radical Social Theory\u201d during last semester at Yale<\/p>\n<p>Honors and Awards:<br \/>\nOne of the most widely recognized anthropological value theorists, gave the Malinowski Lecture at the London School of Economics, a prestigious lecture recognizing anthropologists early in their career who have made a significant impact on anthropological theory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video Interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Conversation With Anarchist David Graeber\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PVDkkOAOtV0\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PVDkkOAOtV0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Graeber on Debts, Money, Markets, and Occupy Wall Street (1\/2)\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FpxhtRASHHg\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FpxhtRASHHg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Graeber on the Occupy Wall Street Protest &amp; Forgiving Debt of the American Poor\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CPeaFKvszKI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CPeaFKvszKI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Internet Interviews:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhitereview.org\/interviews\/interview-with-david-graeber\/\">http:\/\/www.thewhitereview.org\/interviews\/interview-with-david-graeber\/<\/a><br \/>\nAn interview with the White Review that goes in-depth on Graeber\u2019s personal life and politics.\u00a0 Offers an in-depth look at Graeber\u2019s personal motivation for what he studies and how he views anarchy, anthropology, and politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.muohio.edu\/oxmag\/node\/89\">http:\/\/community.muohio.edu\/oxmag\/node\/89<\/a><br \/>\nAn interview with Graeber on his views around anarchy, organization, and social change. \u00a0It also offers a look into his career as a professor and his anthropological and ethnographic work.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Graeber Published Works\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/occupy-wall-street-career-biography\/david-graeber-published-works\/\"><strong>Published Works<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Graeber David Graeber is a widely regarded anthropologist, currently working at Goldsmith&#8217;s University in London.\u00a0 Graeber has been described as an &#8216;anti-leader&#8217; of Occupy Wall Street (Businessweek) due to his anarchist politics.\u00a0 Graeber sees the Occupy movement as an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/occupy-wall-street-career-biography\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3398,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}