Anand Pandian
Ethnographer, tinkerer, earthling | Baltimore | Johns Hopkins University | Ecological Design Collective
Find me at anand.studio
- "If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from... whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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- I was on NPR Morning Edition this morning! Speaking for, well, 37 seconds, but grateful for this chance to weigh in on unacceptable ICE violence in Minneapolis and the truth that so many in this country have begun to insist on, that “normal” life cannot go on like this. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
- Reposted by Anand PandianNEW: @anandian.bsky.social wandered across America to find out why fear and division were increasing. Read our latest article to see how he found fortification of our lives — SUVs, security cameras, even clothing — reflect a deeper cultural anxiety about strangers and belonging: tinyurl.com/24zujewh
- The snow (and ice, yes) a reminder: be kind to your neighbors, those of your and other kinds, those here to stay and those passing through.
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- MLK Jr insisted that what affects any one of us will affect all of us. His understanding of the “network of mutuality” that sustains us all is an essential lesson for this fraught moment in the US, I argue in a new op-ed for the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- “The ocean was forever unfolding, forever exploring, forever tinkering with form”—another engrossing tale from Richard Powers, with characters you keep wondering about, and lyrical language that takes you deep into the sea.
- "These days, so much turns on our collective ability to open ourselves to new ways of being with one another. This is the first lesson from Millie's world: You don't have to be the same to be close." This extraordinary new book by Danilyn Rutherford is such a moving and compelling read.
- Reposted by Anand PandianOn Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
- Really looking forward to this conversation about Danilyn’s powerful new book. Join us!
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- “If there is any urgency left in international concern for Gaza, winter should make it impossible to look away. People need proper shelter now, prefabricated homes delivered immediately. Not statements, not promises, but materials, access and action. My students deserve at least that much.”
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- Grateful to see Something Between Us make this 2025 book list from Spain’s El Diario newspaper. www.eldiario.es/132_c4276a
- I’ve been talking about my book for a while, but this was a special experience: Faithful Politics, co-hosted by a liberal activist + a conservative pastor, both terrific listeners + conversationalists. We talked about fear + trust, otherness + vulnerability. www.faithfulpolitics.us/podcast-1/ep...
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- So very grateful for this news, for the support from the amazing Zócalo Public Square initiative, and for the company of these other wonderful writers. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2026-zocalo-...
- I'm so glad to share this conversation about how academics and activists can learn to work together in the classroom and beyond, a dialogue I had with Shashawnda Campbell of the South Baltimore Community Land Trust about our collaborations. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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- This evening in Baltimore!
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- So excited to partner with Garden District Books and many wonderful writers on this book release ritual and pop-up bookshop in New Orleans this Friday 11/21 evening. We'll walk to the Mississippi for a ritual acknowledging the spirits that have accompanied the writing of these books. Join us!
- Anthropologists! If you're attending the American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans this week, please join us for an offsite reception at Merchant House on Thursday 11/20 evening, hosted by SCA (@culanth.bsky.social), SVA, and AES.
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- I’m grateful to the JHU Bloomberg Center for this chance to reflect on how everyday architectures — from built environments to digital infrastructures — shape social distance, and why revitalized public institutions are essential to collective life. Full Q&A: washingtondc.jhu.edu/news/anand-p...
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- Honored to join political thinker, writer, and JHU colleague Hahrie Han for a "Humanities on the Hill" conversation in Washington DC on Monday 11/17 evening, reflecting on the everyday architectures that distance us and strategies to sustain community. More info: krieger.jhu.edu/humanities-i...
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- I'm looking forward to joining this wonderful panel of social scientists to talk about my new book, Something Between Us, at the Oxford Department of International Development. If you'd like to join us online on Wed, 11/12, register at the link below. talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/a77...
- I'm grateful to Hopkins at Home and the SNF Agora Institute for hosting this virtual event on my new book, Something Between Us, on Tuesday, 11/4 at 12pm ET. I'll be talking about common spaces and the common sense we need. Open to all, join online via the link below. events.jhu.edu/form/snfagor...
- Folks in New York, please join me at the New York Academy of Sciences on Monday 11/3 at 4:30pm. I'll be talking with the wonderful writer Bob Desjarlais about the challenge of opening our minds to the lives of others, drawing on my new book, Something Between Us. www.eventbrite.com/e/walls-of-t...
- A 10/29 AAA panel on public engagement with anthropology, “strategies for connecting with audiences beyond academia, from museum exhibitions to national media.” I’ll be there with the terrific scholars Barbara King and Tracie Canada. Join us! americananthro.org/event/promot...
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- In my new book, Something Between Us, I write about lessons from clean water advocacy in the Hudson River Valley. I'm honored to talk about the book in Newburgh, NY on Tuesday 10/28 with community leader Gabrielle Hill. Please join us if you're in the area! newburghlibrary.libcal.com/event/15282244
- Grateful for this chance to talk at my alma mater Amherst College about my new book, Something Between Us, this Monday 10/27 evening. If any of you alums or others out there are in central Massachusetts, please drop in! www.amherst.edu/academiclife...
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- Folks in Ohio, join me at Clintonville Books in Columbus on Tues, 10/14 4pm. I'll be talking about Something Between Us, my new book on the US, together with OSU professor Nick Kawa. A chapter is set in Columbus - I'm excited to talk here about the book. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/clintonvil...
- 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. @stanfordpress.bsky.social
- 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...
- 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...
- 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! events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/3...
- 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. www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...
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- 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...
- 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: wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/s...
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- 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...
- 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...
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- 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...
- 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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- 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. sarweb.org/blog-each-a-...
- 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.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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- 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: politicsguys.com/the-everyday...
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- In a new interview, I talk with Frontline, one of India's leading news magazines, about my new book on the United States: on America's fortress mentality, the paradoxes of defensive infrastructure, and the risks that India faces in following a similar path. frontline.thehindu.com/social-issue...
- Baltimore folks, I’m really looking forward to talking this week at the Ivy Bookshop about my new book, Something Between Us. How can we rebuild a collective life beyond forces of division and suspicion? Please join us this Thursday, August 21st at 6pm. www.theivybookshop.com/event/anand-...
- Friends in Chennai, I’ll be talking this week from my new book, Something Between Us, about social and political impasses in the contemporary United States: Thursday, 14 August, 3:30 PM, at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. A public event, all are welcome.
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- Reposted by Anand PandianJHU anthropologist @anandian.bsky.social’s latest op-ed in the @baltimoresun.bsky.social explores the decline of neighborliness in America. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/08/06/t...
- An op-ed I wrote for the Baltimore Sun, drawing on my new book, Something Between Us, and everyday encounters with our many wonderful neighbors in Baltimore. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/08/06/t...
- So good to talk with @liliancbarger.bsky.social about my new book, Something Between Us: about our immigrant American families, about isolating home designs and property fences, and the value of more porous relationships with the world beyond. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/something-be...
