Retrenchment and Panic in the Midwest
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One evening when leaving campus, I received an email that I’d long been dreading: the anthropology department where I worked, along with several other departments, would be retrenched in the context of the university’s budgetary crisis—a formal process, often caused by financial exigency or declining enrollment, where institutions reduce programs, services, or staff—including tenured faculty—to cut expenses. While social science disciplines are often cast as particularly “problematic,” these pol
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