Audrey Joachim
Major: Anthropology & Linguistics
Email: ajoachim@usc.edu
Ask Me About: Ask me about double-majoring (I’m also studying linguistics); applying to graduate school; prospective career paths and applications of anthropology outside of academia; the American Anthropological Association (volunteering, conference attendance, resources, networking, journals); presenting at conferences; conducting independent ethnographic research; designing a curriculum for ANTH 490; book recommendations; getting involved with on-campus labs; navigating classes; connecting with professors both inside and outside of the department
Advice: Anthropology is an experience of learning as much as it is one of unlearning. As a student of anthropology, you will question and deconstruct the most familiar aspects of everyday life. This requires reflexivity and introspection, which will come naturally as you take classes that address niches of humanity and culture in-depth that you may have never given a second thought to. In my first anthropology class at USC, Dr. Thomas Ward began by saying, “don’t believe anything I tell you.” This sentiment was counterintuitive at first, but now, as a senior, it is a clear guide to the discipline of anthropology: question what you think you know–and why you came to know it–about the ways of the world.