As we enter a new decade, I am reflecting on how SfAA can keep doing what we do well and try new things too. In our strategic planning this year, we will focus on what our current and future members…
Looking back over the last year of issues of the SfAA Newsletter, we were struck by their similarity to writing term papers. The classic instruction, passed on to high school students and undergrads,…
All tickets are on a first come first serve basis. We reserve the right to cancel in the event that there are not enough participants to hold the tour, if this happens fees will be refunded. Refund…
All tickets are on a first come first serve basis. We reserve the right to cancel in the event that there are not enough participants to hold the workshop, if this happens fees will be refunded.…
The Refugee & Immigrant Well-Being Project Lecture: A Community-University Partnership to Create Social Change
J. Anthony Paredes Memorial Plenary & Reception honors the memory and career of the prominent scholar and anthropologist.
The Lecture celebrates the life and work of the late Michael Kearney of the University of California - Riverside.
The Consortium of Practicing and Applied Anthropologists is pleased to announce the following five COPAA sponsored sessions at the upcoming SFAA meetings.
The Society for Anthropological Science (SAS) is sponsoring several papers, workshops and roundtable discussions at this year’s SfAA annual meeting in Albuquerque. The sessions include papers on a…
The Malinowski Award will be presented to Elizabeth K. Briody, Ph.D. Briody has been involved in cultural-change efforts for over 30 years – first at General Motors Research and later through her…
Margaret Mead, for years among the best known women in the world, was also the best known anthropologist, with a particular talent for bringing anthropology fully into the light of public attention.…
SfAA’s most unique award prize will arrive at the home of Susan Andreatta this month. Dr. Andreatta, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina- Greensboro, is this…
If you have foreign partners who you would like to bring to the 2020 meetings, and you need to find travel funding to bring them, the deadline for application for the Pertti J. Pelto International…
Presentations, Wine, & Cheese Social The P.K. New Competition and Award honors the memory of the late professor Peter Kong-ming New, a distinguished medical sociologist-anthropologist and former…
The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the Competition for the Student Endowed Award for 2020. The awardee is Victoria Bochniak.
The Beatrice Medicine Travel Award Scholarship celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Beatrice Medicine, an internationally prominent anthropologist. Dr. Medicine was Lakota and an enrolled member of…
The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the Competition for the Del Jones Travel Awards for 2020. The two awardees are Amanda Lee and Belinda Gonzalez. Each will…
The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the Competition for the Michael M. Cernea Involuntary Resettlement Student Travel Award for 2020. The winner is Anahid…
The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the Competition for the Edward Spicer Travel Awards for 2020. The two awardees are Molly Green and Amanda Stolz. Each will…
The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the Competition for the John Bodley Student Travel Award for 2020. The winner is Marian Thorpe. She will receive a travel…
The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the Competition for the Gil Kushner Memorial Travel Awards for 2020. The awardees are Samantha Streuli and Ipshita Ghosh.…
The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce the results of the Competition for the Human Rights Defender Travel Award for 2020. The awardee is Samanvi Kanugula. She will receive a…
St. Patrick’s Day in Albuquerque? You bet. Please join members and interested colleagues for the ExtrACTION and Environment TIG’s contribution to the meetings. SfAA has been including extraction…
In the fall of 2012, I was approached by a researcher in Pittsburgh, PA who wanted me to lead an ethnographic study of group intervention programs for men who have been convicted of an Intimate…
Judith Freidenberg worked with SfAA Executive Committee members Neil Hahn and Jennifer Weiss to develop a proposal to assess scholarship produced on the topic of migration at the SfAA meetings held in…
Family and Household, Migration, and Conflict Management in Central America, the Caribbean, and the US Southwest. Nancie Loudon Gonzalez is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of…
Researchers Reflect on the Challenges of Reaching Hidden Populations by Miriam Boeri & Rashi K. Shukla. A new book provides insights to the challenges you might have faced and questions you might have…
The dramatic increase in all things food in popular and academic fields during the last two decades has generated a diverse and dynamic set of approaches for understanding the complex relationships…
I shimmied out on a limb last semester and integrated a podcast a week into an upper-division class on environmental anthropology? I used episodes from the Cultures of Energy podcast run by Dominic…
Since 1981, the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists' (WAPA) biennial Praxis Award competition has recognized outstanding achievement in translating anthropological knowledge into…
June Nash- scholar, teacher, activist, mentor, feminist, political economist, mother, friend, wife, and extraordinary human- passed away in Massachusetts on December 9, 2019 at the age of 92. An…
Have you ever thought about where and how you’d like to live once you retire or run out of steam? Would you like to be among similar minded people, but not have to share a space? For a number of…
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