With the growing conversations on student debt, the value of higher education, and the need for livable wages, Dr. Elizabeth K. Briody joins Un/Livable Cultures to talk about the need for Anthropology and other social sciences to train students for the world outside of academia. Anthropology needs theory, method, and practice in order to be relevant. And as a discipline, anthropology needs to think about the ethics of only priming students for an ever-shrinking job pool of academic positions.

De/Instutionalize is a series from Un/Livable Cultures focusing on the ways in which academic cultures are livable and unlivable and how these institutions can participate in regimes of oppression and subjugation.

Elizabeth K. Briody is a business anthropologist who has been involved in cultural-change efforts for over 30 years -- first first at General Motors Research and later through her own consulting practice, Cultural Keys. She currently leads Anthropology's Career Readiness Commission along with Riall W. Nolan. 

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