A Report From the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference The urgency of our mission was reflected in the list of attendees—many of whom had been laid off, mobbed, or ostracized because of their research. Elizabeth Weiss 11 Jan 2023 · 14 min read
Indigenous Activists Are Targeting My Research. My Own University Is Helping Them Academics who study ancient Paleoindian populations are increasingly being denied access to skeletons, artifacts, and even old x-rays and research reports. We need to start fighting back Elizabeth Weiss 18 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
Jennifer Raff’s ‘Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas’—A Review Jennifer Raff’s Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas was published with much fanfare in February, garnering a rave New York Times review. And as of this writing, it is listed as one of the top 10 books about genetics on Amazon. The success reflects the fact that the Elizabeth Weiss 3 Apr 2022 · 13 min read
The Problem of Sex Discrimination in Indigenous Archaeology In January, as reporters were celebrating the first woman—and also the first transgender person—to win more than a million dollars on Jeopardy!, I was reading up on the discrimination still faced by biological women who toil away in my own fields of endeavor: anthropology and archaeology. This discrimination Elizabeth Weiss 16 Feb 2022 · 8 min read
