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Volume 31, Issue #3 - August 2020
From the SfAA
President's Message
By Sherri Briller - SfAA has always been about its people; now more than ever this remains true. Together, we are working to improve the world in many ways. As applied social science is very useful…
Notes from the Editors: It’s a Strange World
By Jeanne Simonelli and Orit Tamir
Annual Meeting
Breaking News: Crafting the Annual Meeting
By Michael Paolisso - In May the SfAA board supported the creation of a working group to review the potential of multiple meeting formats for the Society. The shift to do more online is both a…
Moving Forward with the 2021 Annual Meeting
By Mark Edberg - In these uncertain times, planning anything is always difficult. But the Program Committee is moving forward and the meeting outlines are beginning to take shape. It is heartening to…
TIGs & Committees
Programming and Technology Fundraising Committee
By Susan Andreatta - Our Giving Spirit Aids SfAA in Developing a Digital and Increasing International Presence
ExtrACTION & Environment News
By Elisabeth Moolenaar - It’s been an active and complex year in the area of extraction and environment. As the economy responded to the global pandemic, environmental regulations changed. In the US,…
Gender Based Violence TIG
By Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan - Intersectional research on campus sexual assault – the integration between theory and methods
Risk & Disaster TIG Statement on Race
We are saddened by the losses of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, and so…
Awards & Prizes
Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award
Those who learn about Applied Anthropology in their classes usually her about Sol Tax. Teaching at the University of Chicago, as early as the late 50s, he taught his students to apply anthropology…
Call for Malinowski Nominations
The Society for Applied Anthropology considers each year nominations for the Malinowski Award. This Award is presented to a senior social scientist in recognition of a career dedicated to…
Call for P.K. New Papers
The Peter K. New Student Award, an annual student research competition in the applied social and behavioral sciences. Honoring the late Peter Kong-ming New, a distinguished medical…
Annual Meeting Student Travel Awards
SfAA offers several Student Travel Awards to help offset some of the expences for traveling to the Annual Meeting in Albuquerque. Please visit the links below to review the eligibility. Deadline for…
COVID-19
Work in NYC with COVID-19 deaths
A short article about Teresa 'Lilly' White's work in NYC with COVID-19 deaths.
The Public’s Role in COVID-19 Vaccination
By Monica Schoch-Spana - Drawing on concrete insights from the social, behavioral, and communication sciences, the report provides recommendations on how to advance public understanding of, access to,…
Grant to Help The Navajo Nation With COVID-19 Data
By Gil Gallegos, Orit Tamir, Tatiana Timofeeva with Svetlana Ryabova and Viktor Glebov - A substantial amount of data on COVID-19 has been collected in the US and around the world. Our…
News from Members & Other Associations
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez Receives the Franz Boas Award
Carlos Velez-Ibáñez is the recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s 2020 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology. This award is presented annually by the AAA to a member…
2020 Eric Wolf Prize Seeks Submissions
The Political Ecology Society (PESO) announces the 2020 Eric Wolf Prize for the best article-length paper. The competition offers a great opportunity as it involves a cash prize of $500 and…
Garden Activists dig in during Pandemic
Over the years many faculty, staff and students have participated in growing at UNCG Gardens, these experiences have fostered more community gardens in the area, others to garden at their homes or…
Commentaries
ExtrACTION & Environment - Statement against racism and action steps
We are deeply saddened and disturbed by the losses of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice,…
Understanding American Malaise
By Sarah (Sally) Anne Robinson - There is a debate underway in the United States whether democracy, as exemplified in the Constitution, is dead. Certainly, constitutional powers are out of balance.…
Researchers and Resources:
Short Commentaries on Listening to Emic and Etic Voices By Thom Wolf, PhD
AANIR Statement on SEVP
On July 2, 2020, the Trump Administration announced a set of rule changes that would have stripped international students of their visas if their university classes were fully online, essentially…
Teaching Applied Anthropology
Teaching Applied Anthropology: Podcast Pedagogy
By James McDonald - Recently I put together a new class on environmental anthropology. It afforded me the opportunity to try something new as an integral part of the teaching-learning process—podcast…
ES 310 / ANTH 311: Environmental Anthropology
Anthropology has long been interested in the interrelationship between human cultures and societies, the ecosystems in which they are intimately embedded in all places on the earth. It started out as…
Publications & Films
Human Organization upcoming COVID-19 special issue
The editors of Human Organization are pleased to announce the upcoming COVID-19 special issue, to be published on December 1, 2020.
The Last Bonesetter: An Encounter with Don Felipe
Review by Peter J. Guarnaccia - Framed in striking panoramas of the high Andes in Peru, The Last Bonesetter profiles Don Felipe, one of the last healers in his region of the Andes. Bonesetters…
Obituaries
Bob Laughlin, anthropologist extraordinaire, dies at 85
Robert M. Laughlin, an anthropologist and linguist whose extensive work in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico documented and helped revitalize Mayan languages and culture, died on May 28 in…
Dr. Frederick F. York (1946-2020)
Dr. Fred York, an anthropologist who helped reform federal relationships with Native American communities across the American West, passed away at his Seattle home on January 31, 2020. In a career…
Justin Murphy Nolan (1971 – 2020)
Dr. Justin Murphy Nolan, age 48, a resident of Fayetteville, Arkansas, passed from this life into the next on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, of a sudden heart attack.
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