At the 2026 annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Caprice Corona, Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Anthropology, co-moderated an Invited Presidential Session titled “Recombinant Student Futures: From Everyday Crisis to Everyday Camaraderie Among Anthropologists-in-Training.” Her goal, alongside collaborator James River Robbins, was to facilitate a supportive space for student-driven conversations with respect to the present crisis and to brainstorm actionable strategies alongside peers. 

During the session, Caprice and James asked attendees to reflect on what it felt like to be an anthropologist-in-training and then to role-play how to navigate decreased funding for research and travel, departmental reductions, political pressure to limit the teaching of certain topics, and the threat of the discipline’s erasure. They encouraged participants to share their thoughts in visual form using markers and art paper.

Read Caprice and James' full article "Cultivating Camaraderie during Crisis: Anthropology Students Respond to a Hostile Climate" about their experience and findings from the session at this link.

Image of the collaborative paper from the SfAA session