Abstract
Abstract Always interested in liminality, identity, and transitions, I reflect on how I came to embrace these tensions in my own academic career. In this paper, I discuss my experiences as a “liminal” anthropologist and illuminate the challenges and opportunities that arise from working between and across traditional disciplinary categories. I highlight lessons learned from “studying up,” focusing on identity negotiation and transition among National Guard soldiers during my doctoral work, to integrating qualitative, holistic perspectives into clinical and translational research in a medical school setting. Finally, I discuss implications for anthropological training and practice that highlight how we might better prepare students to translate anthropology to applied settings.
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