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Volume 35, Issue #1 - February 2024
From the SfAA
President’s Column
By Jennifer R. Wies - I’ve been thinking a lot about the many tomorrows before us, and how we will collectively sustain anthropology and the applied social sciences in the immediate future. As we…
Guide to setting-up new content alerts for Human Organization and Practicing Anthropology
Please find attached a short guide on how to sign-up for new content alerts to Human Organization and Practicing Anthropology. Included in the guide are both journals, however, you will need to…
2024 SfAA Election Results
President Jennifer Wies and the board of directors are pleased to announce the results of the 2024 Annual Election.
Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting 2024: We’re All About Building Skills and Career Readiness
By A.J. Faas, 2024 Program Chair - The Society for Applied Anthropology has long emphasized skills-based programming in the annual meeting and this year, I am happy to report that we placed special…
New Tools for You and Your Colleagues to Promote Your Valuable Contributions to the Annual Meeting!
Have you been following SfAA’s gorgeous new promo campaigns on LinkedIn, Instagram, X/Twitter, and Facebook? The SfAA office has been positively on fire circulating visually compelling promotions for…
Awards & Prizes
Awards Ceremony in Santa Fe
The Awards Ceremony is the high point of the annual meeting. President Wies will preside. The Program will recognize and feature the winners of the Margaret Mead Award, Sol Tax Award, and the Bronislaw Malinowski Award. A reception will follow and hors…
2024 Bronislaw Malinowski Award
Patricia M. Clay, Ph.D. - Trish Clay wrote her PhD thesis at Indiana University in 1992 on “Fishermen as Rational Peasants: A Venezuelan Case Study” and soon thereafter joined NOAA Fisheries at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) in Woods Hole,…
2024 Hackenberg Prize Winner - Juntxs: The Bilingual Homework Hotline (BHH)
Juntxs/Together began in 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. A group of faculty from the University of North Texas (UNT) and Texas Woman’s University (TWU), representatives from the Denton Independent School District’s (DISD) Bilingual/Dual…
Kearney 2024 Memorial Lecture
Each year, the Lecture Committee selects an outstanding scholar whose presentation will explore the intersection of three themes - migration, human rights, transnationalism. These three themes were central to Prof. Kearney’s scholarship.
2024 Paredes Memorial Session
Fostering Social and Environmental Justice, Parts I-II. Franz Boaz: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is a new book by Zumwalt that documents the foundation of professional anthropology in the United States. Boaz was committed to social…
2024 Pelto International Award
The Pelto International Award is pre-sented to a mid-career applied social scientist from outside the U.S.The Award allows the scholar/practitioner to attend the SfAA annual meeting and enhance his/her interaction and exchange across national boundaries.
2024 Sol Tax Award
Judith Noemí Freidenberg holds a Masters in Anthropology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, a PhD in Anthropology from the City University of New York, and a Certificate in Social Gerontology from the University of Maryland. She held a…
2024 Student Awards Recipients
Student travel awards presented at the business meeting.
Announcing the Winners of the Inaugural Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper
By Melissa Stevens - The Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Award Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural 2024 award! We received many quality submissions from students across the globe and selected the top five papers…
TIGs & Committees
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) TIG
The Gender-Based Violence Topic Interest Group is excited to start off the new year by highlighting two of our recent member publications. Both these publications aim to bring ethnographic research on…
Student Committee
Greetings from the SfAA Student Committee! - As an SfAA committee, our role is to support student members of the SfAA and to provide recommendations to the SfAA Board to make the SfAA more beneficial…
Tourism & Heritage TIG
In this edition of the Tourism and Heritage Topical Interest Group (THTIG) column, we are highlighting our activities for the 84th Annual Meeting, scheduled for March 26 to March 30, 2024, in Santa…
Risk and Disaster TIG
Bringing up the next generation - Mentoring emerged as a priority from last year’s business meeting. To make this a reality, a subgroup is meeting to flesh out a mentoring program that matches…
News from Members & Other Associations
In Honor of Dr. Kathryn A. Kozaitis’s Decades of Service
Dr. Kathryn A. Kozaitis, applied anthropologist and ethnographer of Greece and the United States, has retired as Professor of Anthropology after 28 years of service at Georgia State University. She…
Dr. Seth Collings Hawkins inducted as Fellow of The Explorers Club
The Explorers Club is headquartered in New York City where it was founded in 1904. With current Chapters across the globe, The Explorers Club has been supporting scientific expeditions and field study…
WAPA is set to go “Westward Ho!” See you in Santa Fe
By Bill Roberts, 2023 Praxis Chair - Members of the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists, known amongst ourselves as ‘WAPistAs,’ look forward eagerly to the annual meeting of the…
Anthropology Career Readiness Network (ACRN)
By Elizabeth K. Briody and Riall W. Nolan - The Anthropology Career Readiness Network (ACRN), launched in May 2021, focuses on preparing students for careers in industry, non-profits, and government.…
MethodsNET Summer School (10-28 June) is live! And much more
MethodsNET are thrilled to inform you that the 3nd edition of our flagship event, the Summer School in Social Research Methods (3SRM), held in-person in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 17 – 28 June, and…
Participate in AAA’s Anthropology Day
The American Anthropological Association is lining up a number of activities for Anthropology Day 2024 to celebrate our discipline while sharing it with the world around us. We hope you’ll consider…
Funding Opportunity: $1 Million for Research on Fishing Community Interactions with Offshore Wind Development
The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, announces a research funding opportunity to…
#1MillionMoreWomen
On International Women’s Day, March 8th, the “Taking Care of You” team is launching #1MillionMoreWomen - a grassroots effort to build a community of women who inspire & support each other to better…
Essays & Research Reports
Epigenetics of Healthy Aging: A Proposed Study
By Richard Hessler - The idea of designing a study on the epigenetics of healthy aging stemmed from work with two longitudinal studies, the Aging of Rural Elders in Missouri and the H70 Study of urban…
Solar Commons: An Arts and Engineering-Integrated Project of Applied Anthropology for a Just Energy Transition
By Kathryn Milun - In 2023, an anthropology & engineering solar project won first place in the US Department of Energy’s US Solar District Cup Collegiate Competition. The “Solar Commons Team” of…
Obituaries
In Memoriam: Valene L. Smith
By Tim Wallace - It is with great sadness that we learn that Valene L. Smith has died. This very vivacious person helped to kickstart the field of the Anthropology of Tourism with her proposal to…
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