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Fellowship Opportunity – VPP

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Joslyn O.

AEF logoThe Advertising Educational Foundation invites you to apply to the Visiting Professor Program (VPP)

The VPP is a two-week fellowship for professors of advertising, marketing, communications and the liberal arts. In 2012, 18 professors were hosted by advertising agencies in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and Seattle. Whether a professor is placed with an agency, a marketing or media company depends upon his/her area of expertise. The number of placements in the VPP is contingent upon the number of companies willing to host a professor. Preference is given to professors with little or no industry experience and to those who have not already participated in the program. Note: Program is only offered to professors teaching in the United States.

Click here for complete details and to apply. The application deadline is January 31, 2013. Letter of recommendation (on school letterhead) must be mailed and postmarked by January 31, 2013. Letter of recommendation is not accepted via fax or email.

 Please contact  Sharon Hudson, Vice President, Program Manager, at sh@aef.com or (212) 986-8060 x15 with your questions.

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AAA Names New Executive Director

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Joslyn O.

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is pleased to announce that its Executive Board has selected a new Executive Director, Dr. Edward Liebow. Dr. Liebow was selected after a search process that included broad outreach to national and international contacts and organizations.

 Dr. Liebow is an accomplished administrator and researcher. In addition, he has been very active in AAA, serving as AAA Treasurer, as well as an Executive Board member. He comes to the Executive Director’s position after a long career with the Battelle Memorial Institute, the world’s largest not-for-profit research and development organization. He joined Battelle in 1986, the year he received his PhD in cultural anthropology from Arizona State University. Dr. Liebow also has a BA in sociology/anthropology from Carleton College. He has conducted research and public policy analysis on a variety of energy, public health, and social policy issues concerning disadvantaged communities. While at Battelle, he rose from the rank of research scientist to project leader to director of research operations in the Seattle office. Dr. Liebow maintains a position as affiliate associate professor of anthropology and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Washington. He has also been a visiting professor of Applied Anthropology and Comparative Economics at Università Carlo Cattaneo (Castellanza, VA, Italy), a Senior Fellow of the Fulbright Commission, and has served on the faculty of the CDC-sponsored Summer Evaluation Institute.

“Dr. Liebow’s administrative ability, knowledge of the challenges as well as opportunities facing scholarly associations and his vision for anthropology and the robust future of the Association made him the best choice,” according to AAA President, Leith Mullings. “I am confident that Dr. Liebow will be a great asset to the Association as we seek to strengthen our relationships with national and international organizations, expand our engagement with the public and increase the visibility of anthropologists and anthropological knowledge”

“I am very excited about this new position,” Liebow said in a recent interview. “It is my aim to make the Association a welcoming home for folks from a variety of backgrounds and organizational affiliations.”

Dr. Liebow will join the AAA in January, 2013.

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From Anthropology Student to Career in Anthropology

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Students, get your hands on this new product AAA Career Toolkit with book The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide: From Student to a Career

Applied anthropologists Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins, authors of The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide From Student to a Career (Left Coast Press), will present a set of practical steps to assist you through the transition from your career as a student into a career in a wide range of professions that an anthropology degree can be used. The stories, scenarios, and activities presented in this book are intended to inform you how to plan for the transition from student into a career, write your letter of introduction, construct your resume, and learn how to best present your knowledge, skills, and abilities to prospective employers. Ellick and Watkins’ approach helps you create a portfolio that you will use time and time again as you build your career.

The AAA Career Toolkit includes:
Professional Portfolio File Folder
The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide: From Student to a Career by Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins (Left Coast Press)
Career Journal
Pen
This toolkit is available for purchase at the Membership Booth near Registration at a discounted member price of $25.00. Get yours today!

Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins will be hosting a career workshop at the AAA Annual Meeting to discuss their book and the toolkit. The workshop, Anthropology Graduates: From Student to Career, will be held today from 10am – 12pm in room Continental 1. Registration is required. The workshop is free of charge.

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Thinking of a Career in Anthropology? Attend the NAPA/AAA Careers Expo

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Meet professional anthropologists and explore career options at the NAPA/AAA Careers Expo at the AAA Annual Meeting. The Careers Expo will be held on Friday, November 16 in the main exhibit hall, 11 am-4 pm.  Talk with professional anthropologists working in government, for-profit and non-profit organizations.   Archaeologists, medical anthropologists, cultural anthropologists.  Careers in cultural resources, health and human services, design and promotion, policymaking, and more!

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AAA Anthropology in Public Policy Award

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Joslyn O.

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) Committee on Public Policy (CoPP) has established the AAA Anthropology in Public Policy Award, to honor anthropologists whose work has had a significant, positive influence on the course of government decision-making and action. Public policy is broadly defined to include measures created by any level of government and addressing the full range of contemporary human problems.

You are cordially invited to participate in an information session that will take place at the AAA 2012 Annual Meeting in San Francisco . The meeting will take place Thursday, November 15, from 12:15 – 1:30 pm in Room Continental 2 in the Hilton.

For details about the award, please click here.

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Two New Grant Opportunities for Research in the Humanities and Health

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Joslyn O.

This is a repost of Grant News by NEH:

NEH and AHRC Announce Collaborative Grant Opportunity to Use Humanities Scholarship to Study Health and Wellbeing in the UK and US

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom (AHRC) are cooperating to advance research in the humanities that focuses on the humanities and health and well-being. Applications are invited for support of collaborative research projects that use humanities disciplines to better understand health, well-being, disability, medical science and technology, or other aspects of the health sciences. Projects might investigate, for example, literary narratives of healing, the role of culture or cultural difference in health and medicine, or comparative cultural perspectives on disability. Projects must involve scholars from both the United States and the United Kingdom.

Applications are to be submitted to the NEH’s Collaborative Research program, with funding to be provided by NEH in the United States and the AHRC in the United Kingdom.

Application Deadline: December 6, 2012

Awards will be made for a minimum of one year and up to a maximum of three years with funding of between $25,000 (£15,000) and $100,000 (£62,000) available per project per year.

More details about this grant:


http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/ahrc_additional_document_language.pdf

Information on how to apply for this grant:


http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/collaborative-research-dec-6-2012.pdf

NIH Invites Humanities Researchers to Contribute to the Study of Culture and Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its Opportunity Network for Basic Behavioral and Social Science Research (OppNet), has announced a special funding opportunity for basic social and behavioral research on culture, health and wellbeing. Researchers in humanities disciplines are encouraged to apply as part of projects that maintain a required majority emphasis in basic behavioral and social sciences.

A Focus on Understanding Culture

According to the NIH announcement, “Culture usually is defined in terms of beliefs and practices that are shared within a population, which itself may share attributes such as ethnicity, race, language, gender, sexuality, specific physical impairments or geographic space. These beliefs and practices reflect common values, socialization processes that are intrinsic to the population of interest, and their other shared attributes. In practice, investigators may use gross distinctions such as demographic categories or political boundaries as proxies for culture, with little attention to how well these categories capture actual shared culture. The specific processes by which culture encompasses beliefs and practices related to health may be obscured by surrogate variables to designate culture (e.g., language, national origin, race/ethnicity). There is a need for research that improves the conceptualization and measurement of culture and does this in the context of health and social and behavioral processes that influence health.”

Under this program, OppNet expects to provide grants for infrastructure support to develop, strengthen, and evaluate transdisciplinary approaches and methods for basic behavioral and/or social research on the relationships among cultural practices/beliefs, health, and wellbeing. This includes an appreciation for more comprehensive understandings of the relationships regarding cultural attitudes, beliefs, practices, and processes, on outcomes relevant to human health and wellbeing.  OppNet specifically welcomes research teams that include expertise complementary to basic social and behavioral sciences, e.g., arts, ethics, humanities, law.

Application Deadline: December 17, 2012

NIH intends to commit $1,425,000 in FY2013 for approximately 5-7 awards. Future year amounts will depend on annual appropriations. Applications must have a majority emphasis in basic behavioral and social sciences.

Information on how to apply for this grant:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-LM-12-002.html

In addition, a webinar hosted by the Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development explains this grant in greater detail:
http://www.nea.gov/research/TaskForce/Oct4-2012.html

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Thinking of a Career in Anthropology? Attend the NAPA/AAA Careers Expo

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Meet professional anthropologists and explore career options at the NAPA/AAA Careers Expo at the AAA Annual Meeting. The Careers Expo will be held on Friday, November 16 in the main exhibit hall, 11 am-4 pm.  Talk with professional anthropologists working in government, for-profit and non-profit organizations.   Archaeologists, medical anthropologists, cultural anthropologists.  Careers in cultural resources, health and human services, design and promotion, policymaking, and more!

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From Anthropology Student to Career in Anthropology

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Students, get your hands on this new product AAA Career Toolkit with book The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide: From Student to a Career

Applied anthropologists Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins, authors of The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide From Student to a Career (Left Coast Press), will present a set of practical steps to assist you through the transition from your career as a student into a career in a wide range of professions that an anthropology degree can be used. The stories, scenarios, and activities presented in this book are intended to inform you how to plan for the transition from student into a career, write your letter of introduction, construct your resume, and learn how to best present your knowledge, skills, and abilities to prospective employers. Ellick and Watkins’ approach helps you create a portfolio that you will use time and time again as you build your career.

The AAA Career Toolkit includes:
Professional Portfolio File Folder
The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide: From Student to a Career by Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins (Left Coast Press)
Career Journal
Pen
This toolkit is available for purchase via the AAA online store at a discounted member price of $25.00. Get yours today!

Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins will be hosting a career workshop at the AAA Annual Meeting to discuss their book and the toolkit. The workshop, Anthropology Graduates: From Student to Career, will be held on Saturday, November 17 from 10am – 12pm. Registration is required. The workshop is free of charge.

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Unique Postdoc Opportunity In Global Health for Humanists/Social Scientists

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Joslyn O.

The WHIL Innovations Fellowship in Global Health is a joint collaboration between the University of Virginia Center for Global Health and the University of Venda (South Africa) and aims to equip the next generation of scholars to conduct cross-disciplinary research and international collaboration in global health.  They are particularly interested in attracting promising researchers from the humanities and social sciences to contribute their unique perspectives to the mission of the CGH and its collaborative programs in global health.

The U.Va. Center for Global Health invites applications for two 1-year WHIL Innovations Postdoctoral Fellowships, the first beginning January 2013 and the second June 2013.

The Water and Health in Limpopo (WHIL) Innovations Postdoctoral Fellowship is designed to advance cross-disciplinary research innovation and international collaboration in global health.  The program builds on a decade-old collaboration between faculty and students at the University of Virginia and the University of Venda in Limpopo, South Africa focusing on the closely-related issues of poor access to water and sanitation in rural Southern Africa and unacceptably high rates of morbidity and mortality associated with early childhood diarrhea.  These issues and their intersections are complex, cutting across traditional fields of medicine, natural, applied, and social sciences, and humanities.  Our goal is to attract scholars from diverse disciplines and train them for academic and applied research careers that will lead the next generation to a better understanding of and ultimately a reduction in global disparities of health and wellbeing.

The program is funded by the NIH Fogarty International Center and will support two (2) one-year Fellowships at U.Va. in 2013.  Untenured researchers of any nationality and from any discipline who received or will receive their PhD between December 2007 and December 2012 are invited to apply.  It is not necessary that applicants have a ready project but that they be able to demonstrate serious interest in engaging issues of water and health in South Africa and commitment to a cross-disciplinary and international approach to innovation in global health broadly conceived.  For 2013, we would particularly welcome applications from researchers in the fields of African studies or history, anthropology, demography, economics, nutrition science, psychology, and sociology.

Please visit their fellowship webpage and direct inquiries and applications to WHIL@virginia.edu. Deadline is October 31, 2012.

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Request for Proposals – Ethics Small Grant Program

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Small Grants For Developing Ethics Curricular Materials

Goals of the Program
The AAA Small Grants Program seeks to foster the development and use of curricular materials for the teaching and communication of ethics and ethical practice across the discipline of anthropology. Administered by the AAA Committee on Ethics, this small grant program encourages the awareness of and innovation in ethics curricular materials used in introductory, undergraduate, and graduate classes. Proposals for the development of curricular materials in a variety of forms are welcome, including texts, films, blogs, websites, exhibits, and other innovative media forms.  The grant recipient(s) will have ten months to complete these new curricular materials, the results of which will be featured in the “Ethical Currents” column of the December issue of AN as well as on the AAA ethics blog, and highlighted at the Annual Meeting.

Eligibility
All members of the American Anthropological Association are eligible to apply. Please visit www.aaanet.org for details on joining the Association, dues and benefits of membership.

Proposals may request from $200 to $1,000 and must address a clearly-defined curricular material development project.  Note, the total budget allocation for this grant program for is $1000, thus proposals that include matching funds are encouraged. The Committee On Ethics reserves the right to subdivide funds between worthy applications; your proposal, therefore, may be funded in part or in whole. Please provide budget justification with this in mind. (more…)

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