UC Berkeley has announced that AAA member Mari Lyn Salvador, a scholar of Panama’s Kuna people and their textiles, has been named director of the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Salvador was CEO of the San Diego Museum of Man from 2004 until 2009. She is a member of the board of directors of [...]
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Those with any lingering hope that Harvard medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer would be appointed as the new head of USAID will be disappointed to learn that Rajiv Shah–Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics and Chief Scientist at the US Department of Agriculture–will lead the agency. Shah, only 36, previously served as the [...]
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Many anthropologists will be excited to hear that NOVA’s three-part special, Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, will premiere tonight at 8pm ET/PT on your local PBS station (please check your local listings). The special explores the significance of many recent archaeological discoveries and what the most current scientific research reveals about earliest ancestors.
According to the [...]
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Dr. William Beeman’s recent address to the World Affairs Council of Alaska about “U.S. – Iranian Relations in the Obama Era” will be broadcast by Alaska public radio on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 6:00pm Eastern. Beeman is President of the Middle East Section of the AAA and Professor & Chair of the Department of Anthropology [...]
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CounterPunch’s “Pulse of the Planet” series continues with Barbara Rose Johnston’s “War, Peace and the Obamajority.” The series, which draws attention to critical issues in human rights and environmental policy, was initially derived from conference papers delivered at the “Pulse of the Planet” panel during AAA’s 2008 annual meeting in San Francisco.
An expert on [...]
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Anthropologist Susan C. Scrimshaw, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and former President of the Society for Medical Anthropology, will be formally inducted into office as ninth president of The Sage Colleges on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. Congratulations, Dr. Scrimshaw!
The inauguration ceremony culminates a week of community-focused events highlighting Sage’s excellence in academics, arts, [...]
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From the National Humanities Alliance:
National Humanities Alliance Action Alert
Help Save Political Science Research Funding within NSF
On October 7, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) proposed Amendment 2631 to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 (HR 2847). The amendment seeks to eliminate research funding for political science programs within the [...]
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AAA and Wiley-Blackwell are pleased to announce that we will be offering two months of FREE ACCESS to 10+ years of Anthrosource content, during November and December 2009.
As a preview to this exciting offer we invite you to view the Top 25 Anthrosource Articles of 2009.
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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’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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