The NEH summer institute “Native Cultures of Western Alaska and the Pacific Northwest Coast” will be held in Alaska and British Columbia, June 13–July 12, 2010, for 24 faculty from community and four-year colleges and universities, sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association. The program includes seminars with distinguished scholars and local Native guest speakers, [...]
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Michael Galaty is the recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America’s 2010 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Galaty is an anthropology professor at Millsaps College and AAA member. The award will be presented to him at the AIA annual meeting in January. For more on the award, read the full press release.
Congratulations!
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The US Department of Education invites applications for new awards for the 2010 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) program. This program provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies for 6-12 months.
Applications for 2010 support are due December 1, 2009.
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Have you ever wanted to get more involved in AAA leadership? Do you know a person you think would be a great member of one of the AAA committees or the Executive Board? It’s not too late; the deadline for nominations to AAA leadership positions has been extended to October 12, 2009. Selected nominees become the candidates in [...]
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Due to popular demand, the deadline for submitting photos to the 2009 AAA Photo Contest has been extended to October 15. Use the online submission form to enter today.
Winning photographs will be published in AN in 2010, placed in the AN Flickr gallery and displayed in the AAA office. To see last year’s winners, finalists [...]
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If you’d like to enter the 2009 AAA Photo Contest, here’s the third tip I’d like to share: give yourself plenty of time to ensure each caption and biographical statement is within the 700-character limit permitted on the online submission form. The form is short, but the part that could take more time than you expect [...]
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If you’re thinking about entering the 2009 AAA Photo Contest, here’s the second tip I want to share: make any technical adjustments to your photograph before you submit it. Consider details such as crop, light balance and perspective. Some factors—such as depth of field—may not be tweakable in Photoshop, but can have a strong influence on [...]
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I’m pleased to announce that September Anthropology News In Focus commentaries on codifying ethics are now available on our Current Featured News page. Full September content will be available soon through AnthroSource. We encourage readers to submit responses to the series on ethics either on this blog, or in letters to the editor (up to 400 words, [...]
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The Knowledge Exchange section of this month’s Anthropology News features the article “Ethical Considerations for Digital Fieldwork: Cyberethnography and IRBs” by Faith Warner (page 27). The author also contributed a list of online resources useful for moving digital research proposals through the IRB process. This may be of particular interest to anthropologists whose universities [...]
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If you’re considering entering the 2009 AAA Photo Contest, there are number of things to keep in mind when selecting photos. The first tip I want to share is to remember that each photo is evaluated individually.
Entrants can submit up to five photos, but if you submit a series of photos, be sure that each image [...]
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