In a LinkedIn post on March 16, Wheaton anthropology professor and department chair Brian Howell announced that he had accepted a position as the dean of parents with 2 Hour Learning’s Alpha Schools. Howell served at Wheaton for 25 years, beginning in 2001 while finishing his doctorate in sociocultural anthropology.
Howell’s new role will include community-building efforts that he said his anthropology training is well suited for. While still within the realm of education, however, he wrote in the LinkedIn announcement that it would be “a very different role from my current life in academia.”
“I have long told my students that they can do anything with anthropology, so I am walking the talk!” he wrote in the post…