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Anand Pandian

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Ethnographer, tinkerer, earthling | Baltimore | Johns Hopkins University | Society for Cultural Anthropology | Ecological Design Collective Find me at https://anand.studio/

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · May 13

Hi everyone, my new book, SOMETHING BETWEEN US, is now available via Stanford University Press, at a 20% discount with code PANDIAN20. For the last eight years, I've been wrestling as an anthropologist with where we've landed in the United States.

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Something Between Us | Stanford University Press

An anthropologist's quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 4d

A handmade version of the book cover from Denton, Texas! I'm really grateful for this chance to talk about my new book in one of the key places in the story, with people who taught me some essential lessons on working for justice over generations.

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 12d

Friends in Philadelphia, please join me at Head House Books on Tuesday, September 30th at 6:30pm. I’ll be talking about my new book on the United States, Something Between Us, together with urban anthropologist and physician Michelle Munyikwa. Register here:

www.headhousebooks.com/event/evenin...

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 15d

I grew up in Los Angeles and I'm thrilled to talk there about my new book, Something Between Us. Join me at Village Well Books in Culver City on Friday 9/26 at 6pm, where I'll be talking with an amazing ethnographer of the US, Jessica Cattelino of UCLA.

shop.villagewell.com/events/35712...

America Beyond the Walls: In Conversation with Anand Pandian | Village Well Books & Coffee

Culver City's community-oriented bookstore cafe.

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 16d

Friends in the Bay Area, I'll be talking about my new book, Something Between Us, at my alma mater UC Berkeley this week. Join us at 3:30pm this Wednesday, 9/24, details below. Sincere gratitude to the Department of Geography for hosting!

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The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down

Anthropologist and UC Berkeley alum Anand Pandian (Sociocultural Anthropology, 2004) will speak from a new book about the United States called Some...

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 16d

working on it, thank you!

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 20d

Friends in the Providence area, please join me at Symposium Books this Saturday 9/20 @ 4pm. I'll be talking about my new book, Something Between Us.

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Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social · 21d

When I lived along Jones Falls, we had osprey and water snakes, deer along the banks. Jones Falls is an urban gem.

Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 21d

Baltimore, we can do much better than a dump along the Jones Falls. In this new op-ed for the Baltimore Sun, we sketch a vision for the river at the heart of our city. Join us via our new Jones Falls 2076 project.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/09/15/j...

Don’t trash the Jones Falls (again) | GUEST COMMENTARY

The Jones Falls valley is one of Baltimore’s greatest untapped assets, but a new city proposal puts that potential in jeopardy, local organizers write.

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 21d

Don’t trash the Jones Falls (again) | GUEST COMMENTARY

The Jones Falls valley is one of Baltimore’s greatest untapped assets, but a new city proposal puts that potential in jeopardy, local organizers write.

www.baltimoresun.com

Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 24d

Catch me live on WGXC in the Catskills on Monday, September 15th at 11am ET. I’ll be on the radio show “Uncontaminated Sound, talking about my new book, Something Between Us. Tune in online via the link below:

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Ecological Design Collective @ecodesigncollectiv.bsky.social · 29d

Join the EDC for our September Grounding Event

We’ll gather for a guided tour of Black Earth Rising at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Curated by Ekow Eshun, it features 22 works exploring climate crisis.

📅 Sept. 11th, 5 PM - Meet at the BMA lobby

Tour led by Art Curator Antoinette Roberts.

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 29d

I talked with the Baltimore Sun about my new book, Something Between Us: on American landscapes of isolation, anthropology as a means of unexpected connections, and Baltimore as a space of both enduring inequality and emerging forms of environmental justice.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/09/08/d...

Hopkins anthropologist traveled America to explore our dividedness. Here’s what he found

Pandian’s new book, “Something Between Us: The Walls of Everyday Life and How to Break Them Down,” chronicles the eight years he spent crisscrossing the United States.

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Sep 8

The man and the mushroom kayak: can a boat made from mycellim change the future/

Sam Shoemaker’s record-setting voyage shows the promise – and limits – of fungi as a plastic alternative

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Sep 7

NJ folks, please join me at Labyrinth Books this Tuesday at 6pm. I'll be talking about my new book, Something Between Us, with Princeton anthropologist Elizabeth Davis. What can we do, as ethnographers, to meet the critical and social impasses of this moment?

www.labyrinthbooks.com/events/anand...

Anand Pandian in conversation with Elizabeth Anne Davis:

Tuesday 9/9 @ 6:00 PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Anand Pandian, anthropologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his new book Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of Ame...

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Ecological Design Collective @ecodesigncollectiv.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today! Join the EDC to kick off the 2025–26 year with a social at Union Craft Brewing 🎉

Whether you’re a longtime member or brand new, we can’t wait to welcome you into a space of collective reimagining.

📍 Union Craft Brewing
🗓️ Today, September 5 | 5:00–6:30 pm EDT

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Sep 5

People anywhere! Please join me this Tuesday 9/10 at 12pm ET for a live online chat about my new book, Something Between Us. The latest in a great summer series hosted by SAPIENS and public anthropologist Chip Colwell. Register here:

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Sep 3

There's an end-of-summer sale on at Stanford University Press--all books 50% off, including my new one, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down. Now through September 8th!

www.sup.org/books/anthro...

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SUP Mktg Dir @supmktg.bsky.social · Sep 2

And if you like what you read...you can buy Something between Us for 50% off on our website, now through September 8! www.sup.org/books/anthro...

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Sep 2

Water, that vital necessity, has become a source of great anxiety in the United States. Read what I learned at a trade show for the bottled water industry, in this excerpt from my new book, Something Between Us.

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Aug 31

Beautiful and compelling read by @iamjess.bsky.social. “Hunters and vegetarians – both judged by others, both right – are more alike than either would admit. It is a complex comparison, but consider this: both think deeply about what they eat.”

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I’m a liberal who loves hunting. Allow me to change your mind

When I killed my first mule deer, I felt deep reverence for the animal. It showed me hunting can be more honest and sustainable than eating factory-farmed meat

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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · Aug 27

Read this interview with @anandian.bsky.social, Professor of Anthropology at @jhu.edu, on his new book about the U.S.—America's fortress mentality, paradoxes of defensive infrastructure, and the risks for India in following a similar path.
frontline.thehindu.com/social-issue...

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Aug 26

I joined The Politics Guys podcast to discuss how everyday patterns of isolation in the US fuel conspiracy theories, the value of storytelling in addressing social differences, and the types of relationships that can make meaningful change possible. Listen here:

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The Everyday Walls of American Life - The Politics Guys

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox | PocketCasts | Overcast Mike talks with Anand Pandian, a professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He's the author of Something Between Us: ...

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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Over the last eight years, I have crisscrossed the United States as an anthropologist, trying to make sense of why the rifts in our national culture run so deep."
@culanth.bsky.social president @anandian.bsky.social in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Will (Faithful Politics) @faithfulpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 23

Times feel tough, but the walls dividing us aren’t permanent. Anthropologist @anandian.bsky.social joins Faithful Politics to explore barriers that shape our lives and how we can rediscover empathy and belonging.
🎧 Watch: youtu.be/bFUWi9VmmMc

Walls of the Mind: Anand Pandian on Belonging and Division

YouTube video by Faithful Politics Podcast

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thank you! I really appreciated the chance to talk about these crucial questions!

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Beyond demolishing, repairing, or waiting, unbuilding is a form of purposeful world-making in which the intentionality of design is unsettled by the temporalities of unruly materials and practices as they break down, seep, or demand attention." www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Unbuilding: Introduction

Confronted with the crumbling legacy of twentieth-century infrastructures, the toxic effects of extractive and manufacturing industries, and the ...

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