Inside AAA – Meet Joslyn

Inside AAA is a blog series that provides readers the opportunity to get a glimpse of the people who work for you, the AAA member. In this series, staff members provide insight on their job and themselves. This week, Inside AAA features Joslyn Osten. She is AAA’s Marketing and Communications Manager. What is your favorite on-the-job task? [...]

Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) Solicitation

The National Science Foundation’s Office of International Science and Engineering has published a new Partnerships for International Research and Education solicitation.  This round will be exclusively focused on sustainability through an interdisciplinary approach. The preliminary proposals are due October 19, 2011.  For more information please click here  and tune into the Webinar on July 28, at [...]

Grant Opportunity for Cultural Anthropology

The National Science Foundation is offering a grant opportunity for cultural anthropology.  The deadline for the fall funding cycle is August 16, 2011. This grand is through the Cultural Anthropology Program at the NSF.  The research may be at any scale from local to global so long as it will contribute to theory which is [...]

Grant Opportunity for Methodological Training

The National Science Foundation is offering a grant opportunity for cultural anthropologists who are active researchers to upgrade their methodological skills.  The purpose of this grant is to help cultural anthropologists improve their research abilities through learn a specific analytical technique. The deadline is August 16, 2011. For more information please click here.

Nominations are being accepted for the American Association for the Advancement of Science Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award

According to AAAS, the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award is given to scientists or engineers or their associations whose exemplary actions have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility. Such achievements can include: acting to protect the public’s health, safety or welfare; focusing public attention on important potential impacts of science and technology on society by [...]

People, Place, Practice and Process in the AAA Photo Contest

We’re asking participants in the 2011 AAA Photo Contest to choose a category for each photo they submit. The categories are People, Place, Practice and Process. Here is a little about each: People photos feature the “who” of anthropology. They may include portraits, small groups, crowds, researchers and more. Place photos focus on the “where” of anthropology. Emphasis [...]

Inside AAA – Meet Richard

Inside AAA is a blog series that provides readers the opportunity to get a glimpse of the people who work for you, the AAA member. In this series, staff members provide insight on their job and themselves. This week, Inside AAA features Richard Thomas. He is AAA’s Manager of Membership Services. What is your favorite on-the-job task? [...]

Draft AAA Code of Ethics Compared With Existing Code

KEY: 2009 Code in Times New Roman, black (with an exception, explained below) Draft code in Calibri in red To facilitate the work of the task force, we’ve decided to produce a side by side comparison document with the new draft code of ethics provisions and the latest (2009) version of the code. The 2009 code [...]

The Root Article: 15 Facts You Ought to Know About Race

The Root is an online magazine that provides commentary on important newsworthy events from a black perspective. A recent multimedia posting highlights the traveling exhibition, Race: Are We So Different?, by the American Anthropological Association funded by the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation which is currently at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. [...]

AAA Intern – Juliana Benington

As of today, I have been in Washington DC for two weeks.  I am happy to report that I can finally navigate the Metro and feel well grounded in my internship.  My name is Juliana Bennington and I am one of the two interns at the American Anthropological Association this summer.  My off-site placement is [...]

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