The fellowship is in its 11th year. We are happy to have supported young anthropologists completing their doctoral degrees across all subfields in anthropology. “The AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship has been invaluable in allowing me to focus on completing my dissertation during this academic year. I am grateful to the AAA and the Committee on [...]
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On Tuesday, antropologi.info posted about a Dec 2009 AAA session in the innovative Pecha Kucha format, featuring interviews with organizer Marcy Hessling and Aleksandra Bartoszko. In the Pecha Kucha format, participants each present their work in 6 min and 40 seconds through 20 images displayed for 20 seconds each. Bartoszko notes that this presentation style [...]
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War and Counter-Counterinsurgency: Demilitarizing Anthropology and U.S. Society (click to listen) On December 5, 2009, the Network of Concern Anthropologists (NCA) held a session at the AAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia to discuss some of the issues they raised in their recently released Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual. The session was chaired and recorded by David Vine, assistant [...]
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NPR recently produced a story on anthropologist Paula Holmes-Eber’s work teaching operational culture at Marine Corps University in Quantico, VA. Listen to the interview or read the written summary, which also includes an active comment board. For additional coverage of this ongoing issue, see “Anthropology and US Militarization: At Odd, No End/s” and “Media Coverage [...]
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On Thursday, Jan 28, 11:00 am, Barbara J King will appear in a live interview with Diane Rehm, discussing her new book: Being with Animals: Why We Are Obsessed with the Furry, Scaly, Feathered Creatures Who Populate Our World, released today. King is Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. She [...]
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Anthropology News has extended the deadline for article proposals for the upcoming census-themed issue to Friday, 1/29. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and 50–100-word bio to AN editor Dinah Winnick at dwinnick [at] aaanet.org. Proposals may be for In Focus commentaries, Teaching Strategies, Field Notes articles, photo essays, news stories or interviews. Selected authors [...]
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Frédéric Keck has kindly provided us with a brief account of his personal exchanges with Lévi-Strauss, the legacy of his work, and how he contributed to Keck’s exploration of French anthropology. Keck is currently a researcher in social anthropology at the National Center for Scientific Research in France (CNRS): How I discovered Claude Lévi-Strauss through [...]
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(click to listen) This week Kevin Bialy discusses his career at the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where he serves as the acting international program officer for the Western Hemisphere. Bialy describes some of the opportunities available for students and more experienced researchers at the NIH, USAID, and CDC. He [...]
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Alan Goodman, former AAA President and co-director of the RACE: Are We So Different? project, appeared on NPR’s Science Friday last week to discuss shifting racial categories in the US Census. He also provided an introduction to the RACE Project and how it encourages individuals to view race from multiple perspectives. To listen to this [...]
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CEAUSSIC: Ethics Casebook
“The AAA’s Ad Hoc Commission on Anthropology’s Engagement with the Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC) continues its work. Our main activities at present include: 1. the writing of a report to the AAA on the widely and hotly debated Human Terrain System of the U.S. Army, 2. The editing of a casebook illustrating the diversity [...]
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