In keeping with our commitment to helping you make the most of your job search, AAA is pleased to inform you of the exciting new changes to its Career Center.
Our May 29th release consists of a more optimal mobile viewing experience, newly formatted job seeker pages, simplified navigation, and prominent placement of valuable content. Here is a brief overview of the enhancements we have implemented to offer a more cohesive look and improve the job seeker experience:
- UPGRADED JOB SEEKER DETAIL PAGES A contemporary layout and better organized content gives candidates an immediate snapshot of AAA’s entire suite of career services. Career resources, association news and fresh content are embedded within every job seeker page to make it easier to find the information you need.
- NEW CAREER CENTER LANDING PAGE
In keeping with industry standards, the main job seeker page will function as the initial starting point of the AAA Career Center. All job seeker components will now have better placement within the new landing page and eliminate the number of clicks that you need to take in order to access important information. - RESPONSIVE DESIGN ELEMENTS
By incorporating Responsive Design elements into the newly upgraded job seeker pages, the AAA Career Center enhances your viewing experience by automatically shifting and resizing the career center pages based on the type and orientation of the mobile device that you are using.
The new AAA Career Center enhancements are designed to make your experience better than ever! We will continue to work hard to bring you the most comprehensive employment resource for professionals in Anthropology. Check out the latest enhancements by visiting the AAA Career Center today!
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Zoe Crossland
Ritu Khanduri
Florence Babb
Monica Smith
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Tim Wallace
I believe my background and interests are a good fit for the position of member of the CMIA. In my departmental service, I am helping to initiate curricular changes intended to attract minority students to anthropology through, for example, my development of a “Sports and Society” course that focuses substantively on issues of race and gender and will draw students from across the campus as part of the university’s general education program. At the graduate level, my interest in minority recruitment led me to co-convene an ad hoc Diversity Committee and to develop ties with the graduate admissions office that have involved participation in diversity recruitment and retention workshops. From my experience as a ‘minority within a minority’, as one of the very few non-heritage anthropologists of color working in Middle Eastern studies, I have developed a commitment to expanding the range of academic, career, and public engagement possibilities for minority anthropologists. Finally, I would bring a broad vision of diversity to my role with the CMIA, a vision that includes the experiences of non-traditional and first-generation students. I am excited about the opportunity to contribute to the objectives of the CMIA as a fully engaged and participatory board member.
As a female, black-identified anthropologist who is a close ally of the LGBTQ community, it is extremely important to me that the professional and personal experiences of other minoritized anthropologists become a central concern of AAA. Having personally experienced the isolation many minoritized anthropologists endure in the discipline, I am committed to furthering conversations about, and practical efforts towards, clearing out spaces for these scholars so that their talents and theoretical contributions can be fully realized and ultimately utilized by the discipline. I see addressing the particular concerns and experiences of minoritized anthropologists as integral in our collective dedication to interrogating our discipline and the knowledge industry as a whole.
Head-In-The-Sand Approach to Climate Policy Doesn’t Work, Either
Today’s guest blog post is by the Chair of the AAA Task Force on Global Climate Change, Shirley Fiske. Dr. Fiske is also a Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology argued last week in the Washington Post that we should not undertake climate policy because of “uncertainty,” while also claiming that cutting carbon dioxide doesn’t make any difference. Hmmmm…..Who in this country lives a life free of “uncertainty”? And what part of the country isn’t feeling effects of increased carbon dioxide? Farmers and ranchers in West Texas, New Mexico, and the Midwest face a great deal of uncertainty about the future, due to drought , excessive rains, and extreme storms – or is it climate change?
And despite the Chairman’s claims to the contrary, we do know how the climate has changed with increases in carbon dioxide – over long history. Scientists have shown that increases in carbon dioxide are strikingly correlated with increases in temperature, through swings of geological epochs, not just the last 15 years of “steady” temperatures as heard in the hearing. We also know that, at Mauna Loa at least, carbon dioxide has reached the highest point (400ppm) in human existence.
Because there’s no federal policy on climate change, states, counties, and people across the US are left on their own, trying to figure out how to adjust to and pay for increasingly disastrous coastal storms and flooding, more frequent severe tornadoes, and fires in the “urban-wildlands interface.” Some will be forced to relocate, others will be driving or walking on flooded roads because they cannot use flooded subway systems. Others will have to move entire towns just to keep their livelihoods and lives together. Climate change is linked to economic disasters in linear and non-linear ways.
Although the idea of restricting carbon emissions at the federal level has been conflated with increased energy taxes in the minds of some partisans, it makes no sense to ignore the obvious warning signs and impacts across the country. By failing to take a leadership role with climate effects, we are we leaving state and local people out to dry, as communities in forested areas are smoked out, aquifers are depleted, and winter storms destroy communities in Alaska and the mid-Atlantic region. Congress needs to re-energize climate policy by thinking about how it is going to assist those localities and people and area most vulnerable to long term changes in the weather. It’s in Congress’ best economic interest to manage one of the country’s largest vulnerabilities – climate change.
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