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Benjamin Bean

Education

  • M.A. Anthropology, UC Davis, 2019
  • M.A. Cultural Sustainability, Goucher College, 2015
  • B.A. Letters, Arts, & Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 2011

About

Research interests: Sense(s), especially sound and taste; craft beer; music; alternative economies; (de)coloniality; Puerto Rico.

 

Research Focus

Looking at how craft beer industry professionals in Puerto Rico imagine and invent beer's "local" and "independent" qualities through experimental ingredients, marketing, and collaboration within the artisanal economy.

Teaching

Previous TA experience:

ANT 002: Cultural Anthropology (Professor Alan Klima), Spring Quarter, 2019

ANT 130A: Globalization (Muneeza Rizvi, Instructor), Winter Quarter, 2019

ANT 002: Cultural Anthropology (Professor Marisol de la Cadena), Fall Quarter, 2018

ANT 002: Cultural Anthropology (Professor Alan Klima), Spring Quarter, 2018

ANT 100: Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology (Professor Donald Donham), Winter Quarter, 2018

ANT 124: Anthropology of Religion (Muneeza Rizvi, Instructor), Fall Quarter, 2017

ANT 002: Cultural Anthropology (Professor Smriti Srinivas), Spring Quarter, 2017

ANT 002: Cultural Anthropology (Professor Marisol de la Cadena), Winter Quarter, 2017

ANT 002: Cultural Anthropology (Professor Alan Klima), Fall Quarter, 2017

Previous teaching experience:

MUSIC 009: Music, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (co-taught with Professor Paul D. Greene), Spring 2016 at Penn State Brandywine

Race, Identity, and Experience, Spring 2016 at Hussian College

ANTH 045: Cultural Anthropology, Spring and Fall 2015 at Penn State Brandywine