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Volume 31, Issue #4 - November 2020
From the SfAA
President's Message - Fall, 2020
By Sherylyn Briller - I saw a rainbow recently. It was unexpected, beautiful and reminded me that this is a powerful, hopeful symbol of transition. At SfAA, we are thinking about change and our next…
From the Editors
By Jeanne Simonelli and Orit Tamir, Editors - We were really glad to see that SfAA extended its deadline to register for the 2021 Norfolk meetings to November 15. For the academics among us, getting…
Annual Meeting
DEADLINE APPROACHING – SUBMIT, SUBMIT SUBMIT!
November 15 is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts and sessions, so now is the time to ramp it up, and to encourage academics, practitioners and students in your networks to submit!
Annual Meeting Changed to Online-Only
Because of the ongoing uncertainties of the pandemic and out of concern for our members and annual meeting attendees, we have decided to eliminate the onsite portion of the 2021 SfAA Annual Meeting,…
TIGs & Committees
SfAA Global
New International Initiative at SfAA - Board members Robyn Earsole (Australia), Judith Freidenberg (US and Argentina), Lenore Manderson (South Africa and Australia) and Carlos Vélez Ibañez (US and…
Programming and Technology Fundraising Committee
You Can Still Give and Help Out SfAA’s Programming and Technology Fund to the Enhance Digital and International Presence at the Annual Meeting
Risk & Disaster TIG
By Jennifer Trivedi, Noémie Gonzalez Bautista, and Mei Johnson - The Risk and Disasters Topical Interest Group (R&D TIG) and its members are continuing efforts to increase diversity and inclusion, to…
Gender Based Violence TIG
By Proshant Chakraborty - The Covid–19 pandemic has, by all means, upended our sense of space, time and sociality. Months of lockdowns and quarantines have deferred the present moment into a future of…
Tourism and Heritage TIG
Stefan Michael Krause - The Tourism and Heritage Topical Interest Group (THTIG) is pleased to once again announce the Valene Smith Student Poster Contest for the upcoming Society for Applied…
ExtrACTION and Environment TIG
A Year to Remember - How many of you had your bags almost packed, getting ready to leave for Albuquerque, when 2020 was canceled? This continues to be a year to remember, one that will reverberate…
Awards & Prizes
P.K. New Student Award
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…
Call for Malinsowki Nominations
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…
Hackenberg Prize
The Robert A. and Beverly H. Hackenberg Prize recognizes Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) members and their community partners whose work demonstrates sustained and meaningful collaboration to…
Publications
Social Development in the World Bank
Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea - Prof. Michael Cernea, a long-time member of AAA, SfAA, WAPA, was the first social scientist hired in 1974 (as an “experiment”!) by the World Bank. By carrying…
Why The World Needs Anthropologists
This collection of essays written by prominent academic anthropologists, practicing anthropologists and applied anthropologists aims to answer this provocative question.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
I recently read Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson in my book club. My friends and I found so much in the book to talk about and after reading it felt compelled to write a…
Masculinities in Forests
New book by Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Masculinities in Forests: Representations of Diversity demonstrates the wide variability in ideas about, and practice of, masculinity in different forests, and how…
Homing In
I am suggesting my new book. My autoethnographic work has taken form this year in, Homing In: An Adopted Child’s Story Mandala of Connecting, Reunion, and Belonging. I teach in the department of…
News from Members & Other Associations
2020 Solon T. Kimball Award
Cathleen Crain and Nathaniel Tashima are the 2020-2021 recipients of the Solon T. Kimball Award. The Kimball is awarded biennially to "honor exemplary anthropologists for outstanding recent…
American University of Iraq
The Center for Gender and Development Studies at the American University of Iraq is pleased to be an institutional member of SfAA as of October 2020. One of our areas of emphasis is academic…
Making the Case for Business Anthropology
Please join the NYC Business Anthropology Meetup on Dec 17th for our first virtual roundtable: Making the Case for Business Anthropology.
Oral History Project
Video interview with Gretchen Schaaft
With the professional assistance of Judith Freidenburg, I recently completed an oral interview about my (long) life as an anthropologist. Judith did the interview from Argentina, while I sat…
Commentaries
Native Gardens and Native Heritage at Pipe Spring National Monument
By Autumn A. Gillard - My name is Autumn Gillard. I am part Southern Paiute, descending from the Cedar Band of Paiutes from the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. I currently work at Pipe Spring National…
Talk Therapy for Social Entities
By Sarah (Sally) A. Robinson, Ph.D. - I called on anthropologists to take an active role guiding American society in adapting to rapidly changing circumstances -- environmental, economic,…
Hydroxychloroquine in Brazil: A Virtual Research Adventure
By Linda Rabben - This was supposed to be a quiet summer, staying at home, washing hands, keeping a safe distance and wearing a mask outside. But instead I found myself doing virtual research about…
Obituaries
Ann Metcalf (1940-2020)
Retired Mills Professor of Anthropology Emerita Ann Metcalf has passed (1940-2020). Ann Metcalf, of Kensington, CA, died Sunday, September 13, 2020, at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland.
Bernice “Bunny” Kaplan Lasker (1923-2020)
Bernice Antoville (“Bunny”) Kaplan, professor emerita of anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, died at home on October 10, 2020, in her 98th year.
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