Selected Publications
Posecznick, A. (2018). Engineering success: Embodying and performing neoliberal achievement through pouring a bottle of water. In B. Urcioli (Ed.), The experience of neoliberal education. New York: Berghahn Books.
Posecznick, A. (2017). Selling hope and college: Ethnographic encounters with admissions in the era of college-for-all. New York, NY: American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting.
Posecznick, A. (2017). Selling hope and college: Merit, markets and recruitment in an unranked school. New York: Cornell University Press.
Posecznick, A. (2016). The promise of hope and happiness through education. Research paper at Minneapolis, MN: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting.
Posecznick, A. (2015). Provoking aspiration: Risk management through the cultivation of future selves in college recruitment. Policy Futures in Education, 13(5), 639–661. (Including corrigendum; a revised version of this article is available from the author.)
Posecznick, A., & Shumar, W. (Eds.). (2014). Collusion, complicity & resistance: Theorizing academics, the university and the neoliberal marketplace [Special issue]. Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 7(1).
Posecznick, A. (2014). Introduction: On theorizing and humanizing the politics of complicity in higher education. Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 7(1), 1–11.
Posecznick, A. (2014). Beaten down, measuring up: Intimate brands, educational infrastructure, & future fantasies. Research paper presented at Washington D.C.: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting.
Posecznick, A. (2013). Constructing legitimacy in a non-selective, American college: Unpacking symbolic capital through ethnographic moments. Ethnography and Education, 8(1).
Posecznick, A. (2013). Anthropologist as scholarly hipster. Research paper presented at Chicago, IL: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting.
Posecznick, A. (2012). Provoking aspiration: Negotiating the potentiality of identity in college recruitment. Research paper presented at San Francisco, CA: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting.
Posecznick, A. (2010). [Review of the book Service-learning and social justice: Engaging students in social change, by S.B. Cipolle.] Education Review, 13.
Posecznick, A. (2010). How to sell mobility: Marketing the non-selective college. Research paper presented at New Orleans: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting.
Posecznick, A. (2010). “Real” colleges don’t “do” business: Merit from carpeting to classrooms. Research paper presented at Oxford, UK: The Oxford Ethnography Conference.
Posecznick, A. (2009). [Review of the book Fertilizers, pills, and magnetic strips: The fate of public education in America, by G. Glass.] Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 40(2).
Posecznick, A. (2009). “It's all about the numbers:” Imagining students in a neoliberal college bureaucracy. Research paper presented at Philadelphia, PA: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting.
Posecznick, A. (2008). How to pour a bottle of water: Performance and achievement at a college engineering competition. Research paper presented at Philadelphia, PA: Ethnography in Education Research Forum at the University of Pennsylvania.
Posecznick, A. (2006). Engineering success: Movement and continuity within communities of practice. Research paper presented at San Jose, CA: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting.
