Volume 35, Issue #2 - May 2024

From the SfAA

President’s Column

By Jennifer R. Wies - The 2024 Annual Meetings in Santa Fe represented the best of the SfAA- participants created an inclusive environment for dialogue about the many ways that the SfAA community…

Annual Meeting

So Long, and Thanks for All the Vibes: Looking back at the 2024 Annual Meeting

By A.J. Faas - Attending the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology is one of the most fun things I get to do in the course of my work. And it is work. I sometimes have to remind…

Awards & Prizes

Celebrating Dr. Erve Chambers and the Inaugural Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Award Winners in Santa Fe

By Melissa Stevens - The Erve Chambers Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Award Committee organized several events in Santa Fe to celebrate Dr. Erve Chambers’ legacy of scholarship and service and to…

TIGs, Committees, & Other Organizations

Medical Anthropologists and Social Scientists in Health (MASSH) TIG

We currently have 283 members! Seventy-six (76) members responded to our MASSH Member Survey asking about their disciplines, professional affiliations, areas of expertise, training needs, and…

Migration and International Dialogue TIG

By James Phillips - The Topical Interest Group on Migration (Migration and International Dialogue) of the Society for Applied Anthropology is concerned with the politicization of migrants, immigrants,…

Risk and Disaster TIG News

We have some exciting news to report. First, welcome Dr. Irena Connon as TIG co-chair! - Our mentoring roundtable is getting off the ground! Thank you to the ELEVEN mentors who stepped up and attended…

CONAA opens SfAA 2024 with exciting Roundtable Session on Querencia

By Karen Breda - Querencia means “love of place, land, culture and people” says nurse and anthropologist Ana Malinalli X Gutierrez Sisneros. Locals in northern New Mexico use the term querencia to…

Oral History

Why Heritage Matters, A Career Path in Historic Archaeology: A SfAA Oral History Interview with Barbara J. Little

The interview deals with Barbara Little’s perspectives on heritage, feminism, and aspects of social justice in historic archaeology. Little is currently the program manager for the National Park…

Essays & Research Reports

Cultural Anomie Stress Disorder

by Sarah Anne Robinson - It is stressful when people don’t play by the rules. What rules? There may not be any. The reaction to such freedom varies with the individual and the situation, but the…

Census

by Laurie Schwede - Major changes at the federal level regarding race, ethnicity, undocumented people and noncitizens may be of particular interest to SfAA members. One set of changes concerns already…

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