{"id":24059,"date":"2016-11-05T11:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T15:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/?p=24059"},"modified":"2019-11-15T15:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:05:44","slug":"scholars-sweet-spot-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/scholars-sweet-spot-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholar\u2019s Sweet Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applied anthropologist (and Professor of Anthropology) Kiran Cunningham &#8217;83 designs and implements research that yields an immediately tangible result: people gain more control of the trajectories of their lives. Such work works best when it involves students at K and abroad. Welcome to the \u201cscholar\u2019s sweet spot,\u201d those projects that lead to meaningful social change, integrate multiple strands of the scholarly self, connect to classroom teaching, allow for student involvement, and require collaboration with a diverse group of incredible colleagues. Cunningham\u2019s work with Uganda\u2019s Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment and with the city government of Kalamazoo has led to a collaboration of communities\u2014as well as students\u2014to help ensure that public policy works for people on two continents.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25688\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/06\/OAE.-HOME-BUTTON-AUDIO-BLK-19.png\" alt=\"Audio Button\" width=\"41\" height=\"57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/06\/OAE.-HOME-BUTTON-AUDIO-BLK-19.png 1259w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/06\/OAE.-HOME-BUTTON-AUDIO-BLK-19-108x150.png 108w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/06\/OAE.-HOME-BUTTON-AUDIO-BLK-19-300x416.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/06\/OAE.-HOME-BUTTON-AUDIO-BLK-19-577x800.png 577w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/06\/OAE.-HOME-BUTTON-AUDIO-BLK-19-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 41px) 100vw, 41px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title='video' class='embed-responsive-item' title=\"Kiran\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/316186911?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" \"640\" \"360\" \"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applied anthropologist (and Professor of Anthropology) Kiran Cunningham &#8217;83 designs and implements research that yields an immediately tangible result: people gain more control of the trajectories of their lives. Such work works best when it involves students at K and abroad. Welcome to the \u201cscholar\u2019s sweet spot,\u201d those projects that lead to meaningful social change, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":24063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[50,21,44,16,40,18],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-24059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-lectures-and-k-talks","category-faculty-lectures-and-k-talks","tag-50","tag-alumni","tag-anthropology","tag-faculty","tag-inauguration","tag-lecture"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Christy Honsberger","author_link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/author\/chonsber\/"},"guten_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2-140x150.jpg",140,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2-300x321.jpg",300,321,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"ab-block-post-grid-landscape":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"ab-block-post-grid-square":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"guten_post_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"guten_post_layout_portrait_large":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"guten_post_layout_square_large":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"guten_post_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"guten_post_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"guten_post_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"campus-posts-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",281,300,false],"gform-image-choice-sm":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",281,300,false],"gform-image-choice-md":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false],"gform-image-choice-lg":["https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/11\/Kiran-Cunningham-2.jpg",333,356,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26569,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions\/26569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24059"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=24059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}