Volume 32, Issue #3 - August 2021

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From the SfAA

President’s Column

By Michael Paolisso - SfAA members are a social group. We place a high value on meeting with friends, colleagues, and others who share our interest in applying the social sciences to address global…

From the Editors

By Orit Tamir and Jeanne Simonelli - Culture and Change in COVID (21) - I (Orit) am a professor at New Mexico Highlands University where the majority of students are ethnic minorities, mainly…

SfAA Global Roundtable

23 September 2021, 8:30-11am EST - Over the next three years, SfAA Global will host a series of extended roundtables Interfaces of Global Applied Anthropology, timed roughly midway between SfAA annual…

Call for Reviewers

The Human Organization editors are looking to expand our team of expert peer reviewers, and invite you to join our journal community. Manuscript reviewers are vital to the publication process.

Annual Meeting

Message from the 2022 Conference Program Chair

By Jim McDonald - Greetings SfAA members, allies, and friends! Groundwork is well underway for the upcoming 2022 conference in Salt Lake City. This year’s program committee is largely in place, and…

Call for Papers

The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (sessions, papers and posters) for the Program of the 82nd Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2022. The theme of the…

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 Salt Lake City. Please visit the links below to review the eligibility. Deadline…

Awards & Prizes

2022 Pelto International Award Announcement

As part of the SfAA’s international initiative, the Pelto International Award intends to strengthen and expand relationships between the SfAA and countries outside the United States, where the SfAA is…

Call for Malinowski Nominations

The Society for Applied Anthropology requests nominations for the Bronislaw Malinowski Award, which is presented annually to a senior social scientist in recognition of a career dedicated to…

Call for Sol Tax Award Nominations

In 1998, the Society for Applied Anthropology’s established an award in the name of Sol Tax, the prominent anthropologist best known as the founder of action anthropology. Beginning in 2002, the Sol…

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…

TIGs & Committees

ExtrACTION and Environment TIG

The Usual Suspects: Anna Willow, Elisabeth Moolinear and Jeanne Simonelli - It is never too early to start thinking about a session, paper, or poster for the next SfAA Annual Meeting, which will be…

Tourism & Heritage TIG

The Tourism and Heritage Topical Interest Group (THTIG) is a sub-group of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) that plans events at the annual SfAA Meetings, organizes student awards, and…

Gender-based Violence TIG

By Diane Gardsbane, PhD. - Anthropologists working on gender-related violence have long problematized the terminology used to describe the types of violence they are writing about. Questions probe…

Oral History

Oral History Interview with Elizabeth K. Briody

Working at General Motors, the Anthropology Careers Video, and Consulting in Organizational Culture: An SfAA Oral History Interview with Elizabeth K. Briody

Announcements

Message from NAPA

Are you a professional, practicing, and/or applied anthropologist?! If so, the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) wants to hear from you! We are trying to learn about the…

2021 Praxis Award

There’s Still Time to Apply for the 2021 Praxis Award - If you missed the pre-entry application deadline on July 1 for the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA) 2021 Praxis…

Commentaries

The importance of community in the experiences of frontline nurses in North Carolina during COVID 19

Written By James Robbins with Dr. Andrea Freidus and Lennin Caro, UNCC Department of Anthropology - In the Spring semester of 2020, I was enrolled in a Medical Anthropology Graduate Seminar (my first…

Engaging with Worker Relief Funds:

Countering Immigrant Exclusion during the Pandemic - By: Kristin Yarris, Sarah Horton, and Whitney L. Duncan - In March of 2021, undocumented workers in New York state held public hunger strikes to…

Silenced Voices:

Difficult Belgian-Congolese Heritage and the Iyonda Leprosy Settlement - By Kristina Katherine Garrity and Mick Feyaerts - Student Submission for the Journal of Applied Anthropology

Publications

New publication by Raja Swamy

Building Back Better in India: Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami - University of Alabama Press

A new book by Patricia Widener

Toxic and Intoxicating Oil: Discovery, Resistance, and Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press.

New book by Stephen O. Bender

Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment - Reviewing current policies and practices and how they evolved, the book examines the financial, economic and physical risk of…

Social Development in the World Bank:

Social Development in the World Bank: Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea - Editors: Marita Koch-Weser and Scott Guggenheim - Springer Publishers, 2021 - A long-time member of AAA, SfAA and WAPA…

Obituaries

Lucy M. Cohen (1936-2021)

Lucy M. Cohen, professor emerita of Anthropology at the Catholic University of America, passed away peacefully on July 2, 2021 near her home in McLean, VA. She was 85. Her pioneering research in the…

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