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…
By Jeanne Simonelli and Orit Tamir
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…
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…
By Susan Andreatta - Our Giving Spirit Aids SfAA in Developing a Digital and Increasing International Presence
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,…
By Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan - Intersectional research on campus sexual assault – the integration between theory and methods
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A short article about Teresa 'Lilly' White's work in NYC with COVID-19 deaths.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
Short Commentaries on Listening to Emic and Etic Voices By Thom Wolf, PhD
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…
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…
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…
The editors of Human Organization are pleased to announce the upcoming COVID-19 special issue, to be published on December 1, 2020.
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…
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. 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…
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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