Volume 32, Issue #2 - May 2021

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From the SfAA

President’s Column

By Michael Paolisso - I am truly excited to begin my two-year term as President. During this past year, I served as the Incoming President and Chair of the SfAA Meeting Working Group. This experience…

From the Editors

By Orit Tamir and Jeanne Simonelli - A Year with COVID-19, and Counting - I live in beautiful Santa Fe and teach at New Mexico Highlands University, a regional comprehensive university where the…

Annual Meeting

The Revolutionary Potential of the Social Sciences

Our natural and social worlds are undergoing tectonic transformations. In confronting these challenges, the social sciences, and their revolutionary potential, must frame, interpret, and understand…

Awards & Prizes

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 Distinguished Service Committee established an award in the name of Sol Tax, the prominent anthropologist best known as the founder of action…

TIGs & Committees

Gender Based Violence TIG

Applied/Public anthropology in violent pandemic times - By April D. J. Petillo - On March 16th in Atlanta, Georgia, eight people, going about their daily routine, were killed because a white man felt…

ExtrACTION and Environment TIG

The Team - Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's online SfAA meeting! At the ExtrACTION & Environment TIG Business Meeting, we talked about ramping up our outreach and networking…

Tourism & Heritage TIG

By Lawrence J. Ramirez - 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…

Oral History

Oral History Interview with Paul A. Shackel

An Archeologist as Applied Anthropologist: An SfAA Oral History Interview with Paul A. Shackel. - Paul Shackel’s career as an applied archaeologist starting with posting with the U. S. National Park…

Commentaries

Keep Going

Keep Going: A Call to Sustained COVID Science Among SfAA Members by Richard W. Morris, MSE, PhD - SfAA 81 was a great success! Based on my informal poll, my colleagues agree. Yes, indeed, it's hard to…

Publications

Island of Hope and Solidarity in the Mediterranean

With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On…

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