The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is accepting applications for Kluge Fellowships that offer post-doctoral scholars an opportunity to conduct humanistic and social science research in the Library’s collections. The fellowships (up to $4,200/mo.) are awarded for periods of up to 12 months and are open to scholars worldwide with a PhD [...]
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The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education, has released The Condition of Education 2010. The report presents 49 indicators on the status of education in the US (supplemented by online resources). This year it includes a special section on high-poverty schools. See the [...]
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On May 27, AAA President Virginia Dominguez sent a letter to the Census Bureau suggesting alternatives to the label “linguistically isolated’ which it uses to classify people who live in households where no one over the age of 14 speaks English “very well.” See http://blog.aaanet.org/2010/05/27/aaa-challenges-questions-on-us-census/ Or AAA homepage link : http://www.aaanet.org/. The letter was written [...]
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The June American Anthropologist features 2009 annual reviews for archaeology, biological, linguistic, practicing and sociocultural anthropology. (All members of AAA can access the articles by logging in at AnthroSource.) Julienne Rutherford blogged about her recap, “Descent with Modification: Bioanthropological Identities in 2009,” and the article is accessable from her blog. She mentions she used a Facebook group to identify thoughts about the biggest stories [...]
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A Michigan Discussions in Anthropology volume (#18) on anthropology graduate student socialization is now available free for download through the University of Michigan Library. Eli Thorkelson’s chapter “Experience, Reflexive Socialization and Disciplinary Order in Anthropology” introduces the volume. He notes of contributors, We take up a wide range of topics, ranging from anti-racist departmental activism [...]
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On May 22, the New York Times featured “Families’ Every Fuss, Archived and Analyzed,” highlighting the research of UCLA linguistic anthropologist and AAA member Elinor Ochs. Ochs directs the UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families, a Sloan Center on Working Families that examines “how members of middle class working families create a home life [...]
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The deadline to submit an article proposal to Anthropology News for our December issue on music and sound has been extended to next Tuesday, June 1. For the full call for proposals, including theme description and submission instructions, see our website or click the “read more” link below. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and [...]
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AAA Members: This is your last opportunity to vote in the 2010 AAA election! Please take a moment now to log on and make your voice heard. Simply go to http://eballot3.votenet.com/aaa/login.cfm and submit the username and password emailed to you by AAA. Feel free to vote only for the slates that you want to. Want [...]
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In a strongly-worded resolution passed by its Executive Board on May 22, 2010, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) condemned the enactment of a new law in Arizona that directs law enforcement officers to detain individuals and investigate their immigration status if they think they might be in the country without documentation. Arizona Senate Bill (SB) [...]
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The News-Times (based in Danbury, CT) has featured the work of Scott Lacy, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Fairfield University and executive director of African Sky, a non-profit that plans to build ten rural schools in the African country of Mali in 2010.
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