I’m back! Well, I never really left…
Posted by Jen Cardew Kersey on September 6, 2009
I graduated last month from the University of North Texas online masters program in applied anthropology. Finally. My practicum consumed most of my life for the last year as I was also working full-time in a market research agency. No excuse really, but I’m back now and that’s what counts.
Since May 15, 2008 (the last year post) sort of in this order:
- Changed my blog name from Synthesis of Thought (but I’m not sure what I’ve changed it to yet)
- Got an internship at Intrepid Consultants, Inc – a Seattle based market research firm specializing in technology
- Moved to Seattle and started my internship/practicum in “Translating Virtual Ethnography from Academia into Practice”
- Got married – eloped in San Francisco on the second day of the AAA last November
- Gone back-and-forth on if I want to go by “Jen Kersey” or “Jen Cardew Kersey” or “Jen Cardew” professionally, but Kersey legally… it’s tough
- Continued to work on the SfAA Podcasts (the quality is SO much better this year, check them out www.sfaapodcasts.net)
- Wrote a 99 page write-up about my practicum
- Went to Hawaii
- Graduated!
- Went to EPIC2009 in Chicago
I’m still working on fixing links on this site and getting it organized. Once that’s set, I’m going to start a series about my practicum. The work itself is confidential but the issues I encountered in translating an academic methodology into practice are ones that I can talk about.
More soon.
