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Volume 32, Issue #1 - February 2021
From the SfAA
President’s Column
By Sherylyn Hope Briller - Greetings on a snowy day here. Hope that 2021 is moving in a better direction, wherever you are. Getting through 2020 involved multiple challenges and all of us likely…
From the Editors
Fixing the Crisis; Melting the Snow - By Jeanne Simonelli - President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were successfully installed in office on January 20th. I breathed a sigh of relief…
Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting 2021 Update
By Michael Paolisso - Our 2021 Norfolk annual meeting is fast approaching. We are excited about the program and hosting an all-online meeting. This is an exciting experiment for all of us, and we have…
Virtual Meeting Training and Support for Presenters and Attendees
"As we approach the SfAA's 2021 virtual meeting, we are committed to providing training and support for presenters and members. On February 1st and 4th we held instructional webinars for creating and…
2021 Hackenberg Prize - Deal Island Peninsula Partnership
The Chesapeake Bay rests on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States and is very vulnerable to sea-level rise. Located on the lower eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, Deal Island Peninsula is 26…
Kearney Memorial Lecture
Wednesday, March 24, 4:00-5:45 - Keynote Speaker: Federico Besserer (U Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City) Commentators: Sarah Horton (UC-Denver) and Susan Bibler Coutin (UC-Irvine)
Pelto International Travel Award
Wednesday, March 24, 10:00-11:45 - The Pelto International Travel Award is presented to a mid-career applied social scientist from outside the U.S. The Award allows the scholar/practitioner to attend…
WAPA Praxis Award
Tuesday, March 23, 12:00-1:45 - Since 1981, the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists has presented the Praxis Award to recognize outstanding achievement in translating…
COPAA Sessions
The Consortium of Practicing and Applied Anthropologists is pleased to announce the following COPAA sponsored sessions at the upcoming SFAA meetings.
ExtrACTION and Environment TIG
One of the hardest decisions made by the SfAA Executive Board is what to do about already scheduled annual meetings. Last year, our bags were packed, bound for Albuquerque, when the meeting was…
iEMBER Workshop
iEMBER is hosting a workshop at the upcoming SFAA meeting on April 19, 2021 titled “Collaboration Workshop: Interdisciplinary Networking for Research in Undergraduate Biology/STEM Educational Equity.”…
Risk & Disaster TIG
By Jennifer Trivedi, Mei Johnson, and Noémie Gonzalez Bautista
Connecting Anthropology through Practice
SfAA Panel Sessions Parts 1 & 2 - Call for Contributions - Share your #anthropology! Using image, text, audio &/or video, respond to the prompt “connecting to practice” to tell us how the pandemic has…
Awards & Prizes
Leo R. Chavez, Ph.D. 2021 Malinowslki Recipient
Dr. Chavez has examined issues related to migration for over 30 years. He has been working on transnational migration since the early 1980s. He is the author of Shadowed Lives: Undocumented…
Riall W. Nolan, Ph.D. 2021 Sol Tax Recipient
The Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Dr. Nolan, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Purdue University, on Wednesday, March 24.
Society Announces 2020 Margaret Mead Awards
The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the that the Boards of Directors of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) and the American Anthropology Association (AAA) have…
Peter Kong-ming New Award Winners
The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the Competition for the 2021 Peter K. New Student Research Competition.
TIGs, Committees, & Other Organizations
Publication Committee Report
By Chad Morris, Committee Chair - From time to time we like to remind SfAA members about the importance of “clicks” – direct access to Human Organization and Practicing Anthropology articles via Allen…
Tourism & Heritage Topical Interest Group (THTIG)
The Tourism and Heritage Topical Interest Group (THTIG) is a sub-group of the SfAA that plans events at the annual SfAA Meetings, organizes student awards, and shares tourism and heritage related…
COPAA Announcements
The Consortium of Practicing and Applied Anthropologists (COPAA) Visiting Fellows Program is a short-term partnership opportunity involving a professional, practicing, or applied anthropologist and a…
The High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology Journal
I’m writing to share the latest issue of The Applied Anthropologist, the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology’s peer-reviewed journal. Our latest issue focuses on the theme of “Resistance and…
Road to 100: SfAA Strategic Planning
By Heather Schacht Reisinger, Co-Chair - In college, I had an experience that continues to shape the way I see committee membership. I was taking an ethnography class and decided to conduct my…
Gender Based Violence TIG
By Anna Dowrick - The United Kingdom does not feel safe during this global pandemic. We have witnessed devastating consequences of COVID-19 as the first country in Europe to reach over 80,000 deaths.…
Commentaries
Gender Based Violence TIG
By Anna Dowrick - The United Kingdom does not feel safe during this global pandemic. We have witnessed devastating consequences of COVID-19 as the first country in Europe to reach over 80,000 deaths.…
On Implosion
By Lenore Manderson - I was too young to register the McCarthy trials, held to expose alleged communist infiltration of the US government in the early years of the Cold War . And so I was a…
Teaching Community in Pandemic Times
By Kellen Gilbert - The news is full of accounts of community responses to the pandemic. I have been following the story of a northern New Mexico neighborhood’s support of the Navajo Nation. (The…
Diagnosis Culture: Learning Through Application
By Cecelia Ottenweller - My capstone project, Diagnosis Culture: Culture and African American Maternal Health in Houston, uses a cultural lens to recognize how maternal health disparities in Harris…
Announcements
The Praxis Award Competition At Forty Years:
Anthropologists Making a Difference - The Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists announces the opening of the 2021 Praxis competition. The first Praxis award was given in 1981, and…
AAA Solon T. Kimball Award
Cathleen Crain and Niel Tashima, Managing Partners of LTG Associates, Inc. have been named as the 2020-2021 recipients of the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology for outstanding…
Interview data available: U.S. Marine Corps
Transcripts from interviews and focus groups, along with related materials are available in the Qualitative Data Repository for the following projects. No paid or institutional repository membership…
New Podcast - Anthro to UX
The title is Anthro to UX. I just launched the introductory episode. The first guest episode also just aired. There will be a transcript included with all episodes after the introductory episode. I…
Connecting Anthropology through Practice
SfAA Panel Sessions Parts 1 & 2 - Call for Contributions - Share your #anthropology! Using image, text, audio &/or video, respond to the prompt “connecting to practice” to tell us how the pandemic has…
Publications
Chicano High Schoolers in a Changing Los Angeles
By James Diego Vigil - Professor Vigil’s ethnographic approach in unwrapping Mexican American high school students’ academic achievement is broad and detailed. He provides us a broad canvas within…
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