Proceedings of the 88Th Business Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Received: 22 October 2019 Accepted: 23 October 2019 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23964

PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings of the 88th Business Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Graciela S. Cabana

Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee

Correspondence Graciela S. Cabana, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 1621 Cumberland Avenue, Strong Hall 502A, Knoxville, TN 37996. Email: [email protected]

President Leslie Aiello called the meeting to order at 6:35 p.m. on the previous year—well done Peter! Trudy also will be introducing March 29, 2019. The Secretary determined that a quorum, as defined some exciting new changes into the administration of the Journal, in Chapter III of the AAPA Bylaws, was in attendance. Leslie Aiello which we expect will significantly increase both the diversity of the introduced Jim Williams, Parliamentarian, to help with voting proce- journal and its impact on the field. dures. The minutes of the 2018 annual meeting in Austin, Texas, were We have continued to develop our workshop program at the approved as published in the February 2019 issue of the American annual meetings, which is proving successful in offering our members Journal of Physical Anthropology 168(2), 388–416 (DOI: https://doi. a variety of services and opportunities unavailable in prior years. We org/10.1002/ajpa.23765). are also continuing with free childcare and were commended in Sci- ence magazine in December 2018 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/ 1 | REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT science.aaw3731) for being only one of two scientific associations to offer free childcare at their meetings—the other one is the much larger

Leslie Aiello presented comments and provided the following written American Chemical Society. While these initiatives have occupied the Executive Committee report subsequent to the meeting. Welcome everyone to the 88th annual business meeting of the much more has been going on in the committees. The Committee on American Association of Physical Anthropologists. We have a full Diversity (COD) continues to be very active. One of its star achieve- meeting agenda including further action on one of the most important ments is the successful NSF-funded IDEAS program (Increasing Diver- issues facing the association in its 88-year history—a potential Associ- sity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences) that provides ation name change. In the nonbinding survey of all members carried mentoring and training for under-represented students. COD has also out in the fall of 2018, over 82% of the members who voted been actively trying to gather information on the composition of our expressed the desire to change the Association's name. In the most association and of the field. Their results to date have been published recent nonbinding survey of the voting members carried out in March in the 2018 Yearbook of Physical Anthropology (Antón et al. [2018]. 2019, 85% of the 518 members who voted elected to change the Am J Phys Anthropol 165 (S65): 158–180; https://doi.org/10.1002/ name of the Association to the American Association of Biological ajpa.23382). Anonymous demographic surveys will be held annually Anthropologists. Later in this business meeting and in accordance with to provide an ongoing comparative framework. our bylaws, we will formally vote on a resolution to move forward COD has also developed a new AAPA statement on race, which with this name change. The final vote will be held at the 2020 annual updates our current statement dating from 1996. The new statement business meeting in Los Angeles, California (April 17, 2020). was unanimously accepted by the AAPA Executive Committee at this Quite a bit has been going on in the association in addition to the meeting on March 27, 2019 and is available on the AAPA website name change initiative. Top among the activities has been the (http://physanth.org/about/position-statements/aapa-statement- appointment of the new AJPA Editor-in-Chief, Trudy Turner, who will race-and-racism-2019/). COD has also developed guidelines for best be taking over from Peter Ellison on July 1, 2019. Congratulations practice in student evaluations of teaching (SET). The rationale behind Trudy! I would also like to thank Peter for a stellar job over the past this initiative and the guidelines can be accessed on the AAPA website 6 years—one of his goals was to raise AJPA's impact factor to 3.0—and at: http://www.physanth.org/documents/201/AAPA_SET_Report_ we are almost there with a current impact factor of 2.9, a 13.6% over 2019.pdf.

A new subcommittee, Transforming Anthropological and Scientific workshops or symposia, or volunteering to help make our meetings a Knowledge (TASK) was also introduced by COD. This grew out of the success. Currently over 300 members help to support the association 2017 AAPA annual meeting symposium on The Future Directions for in one way or another, but we always welcome more help and involve- Biological Anthropology. One of the central areas of concern among ment. I would like to thank everyone who has been active this year and both the panelists and attendees at this symposium was the role of particularly our hard-working committee chairs. I would also like to citational practices in our discipline, and the importance of amplifying thank our outgoing Executive Committee members; Lisa Sattenspiel the work of historically marginalized scholars in our pedagogical, men- who has served as Membership and Credentials Chair, Kim Congdon as toring, and publication practices. To begin to address these issues, the Early Career Liaison and Natalie Laudicina as the Student Liaison. I TASK has organized a workshop at this meeting and will move for- would also like to welcome to the Executive Committee Kristi Lewton ward with future initiatives in this area. who takes over as Membership and Credentials Chair, Kevin Hatala as COD is not the only active AAPA committee. The Ethics Committee Early Career Liaison and Donavan Adams as Student Liaison. continues its very successful Ethics Fellow Program and I would like to I would also like to extend sincere thanks to Lori Strong, our meet- welcome the two new ethics fellows, Alyson Caine, UC Merced, and ing manager, and her team from Burk and Associates, our management Nicole Burt, Cleveland Museum of Natural History. I would also like to company, who do much of the heavy lifting to make our meetings suc- thank returning Ethics Fellow Tisa Loewen for her work on the survey/ cessful and our association run smoothly. This includes meeting organi- questionnaire intended to gauge the current state of ethical concerns zation, membership, and finances. This is not a trivial task. within the biological anthropology community. The committee rec- And lastly, I rotate off as President at the end of this business meet- ommended AAPA endorsement of the ASHG (American Society of ing and would like to take this opportunity to thank the Executive Com- Human Genetics) published report entitled The Responsibility to Recontact mittee again for all their work, help, and support over the past 2 years. Research Participants After Reinterpretation of Genetic and Genomic Thank you! There are a number of challenges that continue to face the – Research Results (ASHG 2019 104(4), 578 595. DOI: https://doi.org/10. association, as well as opportunities for further growth and development. 1016/j.ajhg.2019.02.025). Furthermore, it also recommends that the The association will be in the strong and capable hands of Anne Grauer, AAPA acknowledge at its professional conferences the issue of indigenous who is one of the most experienced people to have taken over the lead- territory. This suggestion will be taken up by the Executive Committee. ership of the AAPA. I will also not be going away entirely and will con- In addition, I would like to acknowledge the important work being done tinue to serve as Past President for the coming year and help wherever I by the AAPA ad hoc Committee on Data Access. This committee was can. We are in a strong position to move forward, and I would like to established in 2016 in response to changing standards of scientific practice thank everyone again for their involvement in our vibrant association. that mandate sharing and archiving original research data. An NSF-funded workshop was held on Data Access in Biological Anthropology on February 8–9, 2019 in Milwaukee, WI, with the purpose of reaching consensus 2 | REPORT OF THE VICE PRESIDENT within the field on a set of guiding principles and best practices to increase and normalize data sharing within biological anthropology. The overall con- The following report was submitted by Steven Leigh. clusion was that open and public access of data is the ultimate goal, but lim- The Vice President, in conjunction with both President Leslie itations exist with respect to specific datasets, institutional policies, cultural Aiello and President-elect Anne Grauer undertook regular duties this heritage considerations, and international conventions. Thus, data access year centered on organization of the 88th Annual Meeting in 2019 in should be ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary (Horizon 2020 Work Cleveland, Ohio. Our meetings last took place in Cleveland in 1946. Programme, 2016). Further information can be found on the AAPA website Standard tasks related to organizing the meetings included composing at http://physanth.org/about/committees/data-access/. I would like to and charging committees, receipt and review of symposium proposals, thank the co-chairs of this committee, Connie Mulligan and Trudy Turner, receipt and review of abstracts, notification of abstract review out- for taking this important initiative forward. come, scheduling the meetings, publication of the abstract issue and There have been many other AAPA initiatives in the past year, the meetings program. Table 1 contains meeting metrics from 2014 to including changes in the Education Committee's outreach activities, in 2019. In addition, we undertook an initiative to revise keywords new mentoring initiatives, and in science policy initiatives. These as (or session preferences) that help organize our meetings. well as other initiatives are reported in both the remainder of these It is important to recognize the many contributions of our Program proceedings of the 88th business meeting and the committee reports Committee, who worked efficiently and expeditiously to review sym- that are available on the AAPA website at: http://physanth.org/ posium proposals and abstracts. Their efforts were remarkable, and annual-meetings/past-meetings/88th-annual-meeting-2019/2019- key to maintaining and enhancing our professional standards. business-meeting-agenda/. The AAPA is a volunteer organization and we could not achieve 2.1 | Keyword review process what we do without the active support of our members. If you are not already involved, please consider becoming active in any one of our This year's first initiative was to revise keywords (session preferences) various committees or in other ways such as reviewing, serving on the used during abstract submission, with the goal of carefully considering, editorial boards of AJPA and YPA, helping with social media, proposing and if necessary, replacing the system used through the 2018 meetings. CABANA 363

TABLE 1 Meeting metrics, 2014–2019

2014 2015 2016 2017 208 2019 Meeting Calgary St. Louis Atlanta New Orleans Austin Cleveland Registrations 1,416 1,552b 1,536b 1,895c 1,711b 1,147c Abstracts submitted 1,019 1,080 1,110 1,346 1,229 1,121 Accepted 955 1,065 1,100 1,311 1,214 1,090 Symposium (submitted/accepted/presented) 22/20 22/22/21 25/25/23 29/29/28 26/26/24 23/22/21 Podium symposium sessions 7 6 7 7 8 7 Poster symposium sessions 13 15 16 21 16 14 Contributed sessions 36 39 35 43 51 41 Podium 19a 21a 18 17 22 18 Poster 16 18 16 26 29 23 Evening poster 1 0 0 3 2 1 Withdrawals (as of March 25, 19) 30 37 9 16 15 16 aIncludes half-sessions. bPre-registrations only. cAs of February 11, 2019.

Keywords are used to classify abstracts and this system plays an impor- for applicants. The final Program Committee includes 50 members. The tant role in arranging our annual meetings. Specifically, keywords are committee is diverse. It also includes international representation, indi- used to group abstracts prior to sending to reviewers. In addition, the viduals from a range of institutions, and members from a broad spectrum annual meetings advance team uses keywords to help compose sessions. of career stages. It should be noted that the committee requires that In collaboration with President Aiello, we formed a committee in June members be regular members of the AAPA. of 2018 to review keywords, with a July 15 deadline. Committee members included Leslie Aiello (AAPA), Brenda Baker (ASU), George Perry 2.3 | Invited Symposia (Penn State), Liza Shapiro (U Texas), Andrea Taylor (Touro U), and Erin Vogel (Rutgers U). The committee ultimately recommended substantial 2.3.1 | Submission process revision of the keyword system. Specifically, we designed a four-level sys- The invited symposium submission process was revised this year in tem that was implemented in this year's abstract submission process. The response to a recommendation from our Committee on Diversity. Spe- first level included broad categories (e.g., Primatology, Human Biology). cifically, the committee suggested that we include a brief statement The second level differentiated between research on humans (hominins) (300 words) on how factors related to diversity were involved in com- and nonhuman systems. The third and fourth levels filtered abstracts by posing the symposium. A wide range of factors could be considered, primary and secondary specialties (e.g., ecology, cognition and communication, etc.) (see Table 2, 2019 keyword system, and Table 3, timelines). including race or ethnicity of presenters, gender, career stage, colleagues We are still evaluating the consequences of the new system, and will from abroad and those representing a range of institutions. Symposium determine whether or not it assisted in streamlining the meeting organiza- submission guidelines specified the process and criteria, and the sympo- tion process. Our initial impression is that it increased the efficiency of sium submission system was modified to account for the new guidelines. session composition and scheduling. We will also determine whether or We are continuing to evaluate the results from this initiative. Our not the new system enhanced the overall quality of our annual meetings. initial findings are that most symposium organizers attended carefully to this. However, we had variation in adoption of the new criteria. Nonetheless, the new guidelines resulted in closer attention to broad- 2.2 | Program Committee ening participation in our field. We expect that, as with any change in The Program Committee for the 2019 meetings was formed anew, with routine procedures, we will see greater clarity and attention to this in limited carryover from 2017. This committee is responsible for reviewing the next submission cycle. invited symposium proposals and abstracts, playing a critical role in maintaining the high scientific quality of our annual meetings. We used a 2.3.2 | Proposal review process new system this year designed to broaden participation in the committee. Specifically, President Aiello issued a call for applicants in a July Our opening date for submissions for invited symposium proposals was Newsletter from the association. Applications were submitted to the July 15. We received a total of 23 proposals by the August 15 deadline, Vice President via web survey form. These applications were then used including 10 podium proposals and 13 poster proposals. It should be to compose the committee. We had an outstanding response to our call noted that we had 5 submissions of abstracts, and one submission of a 364 CABANA

TABLE 2 2019 abstract keyword system

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Bioarcheology Human (contemporary, past, or fossil Adaptation hominins) Education in biological anthropology Non-human primates Ancient DNA Forensic anthropology Other animals Behavior Functional anatomy/tissue biology Biogeochemistry/biomolecular studies Genetics and genomics Brain and neurobiology Human biology Cognition and communication Paleoanthropology Community outreach Primatology Conservation Demography/paleodemography Dental anthropology Diet Early Homo Ecology Energetics Environment Epidemiology Epigenetics and epigenomics Evolutionary anatomy Genetics and genomics: Evolutionary Genetics and genomics: Population Health and disease Hormones Late Homo Life history and reproduction Methods Migration/mobility Musculoskeletal functional morphology and biomechanics: Craniodental Musculoskeletal functional morphology and biomechanics: Postcranial Non-human primate evolution Nutrition Ontogeny, growth, and development Pedagogy Phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics Pre-Homo hominins Sexual selection Skeletal biology Taphonomy Variation and variability workshop proposal. These were deleted from the system, and those who 2.3.3 | Review outcomes submitted were notified, and encouraged to attend to the proper sub- Review of the proposals was complete by September 10. The review mission processes. Symposium proposals were distributed to the full process recommended rejecting only one proposal: 22 proposals were Program Committee for review. In addition, the AAPA Executive Com- accepted. Of the 10 proposals for podium presentations, 7 were mittee participated in proposal review. accepted as podium sessions (in line with previous years), meaning CABANA 365

TABLE 3 Timelines

Event/process Open date Close date Reviews complete Notification date Keyword revision March 2018 July 15, 2018 N/A N/A Symposium proposals July 15, 2018 August 15, 2018 September 10, 2018 September 17, 2018 Abstract submission September 17, 2018 October 16, 18 deadline November 25, 2018 December 3, 2018 (reject) October 23, 19 assigned December 7, 2018 (accept) to reviewers Workshop proposals October 15, 2018 November 15, 2018 January 2, 2019 January 2, 2019 Presentation schedule announced February 4, 2019

that 3 podium proposals were accepted as posters. A single invited rejections. Authors were notified of the decision to reject abstracts on session ultimately failed to receive a sufficient number of submissions. December 3. Posters that were received for this last session were grouped together Notifications to authors of accepted abstracts were sent on in a contributed poster session. A total of 21 invited symposia were December 7, 2018. Unfortunately, we encountered several problems scheduled for the meetings. with e-mail systems rejecting messages from [email protected]. This occasionally affected all authors from some institutions. In these 2.4 | Abstract submission and review cases, we worked to notify authors individually that abstracts had been accepted. We recommend that authors work with their home 2.4.1 | Abstract submission institutions to minimize this problem in the future. Following the meeting of the Advance Team in Cleveland, authors were notified The abstract submission system was opened on September regarding scheduling for their presentations. Specifically, schedule 17 (Monday), providing nearly a month for submissions. Approximately information was distributed to authors on February 4, 2019. As noted, 10 days later, we discovered problems with the abstract submission system in that authors were having difficulty selecting invited sympo- we received notification of presentations that had not been properly sia. In addition, the system seemed to be assigning abstracts to invited assigned to invited sessions. We re-scheduled several presentations symposia, including abstracts that were not in symposia. This may have to the proper sessions. resulted in an unusually large number of abstracts that were not properly scheduled for invited sessions. We have addressed this on an indi- 2.5 | Workshop proposals vidual basis, responding to authors once they received scheduling information on February 4, 2019. The deadline for workshop proposals was November 15, 2018. We By the abstract submission deadline (October 15), we had received received a total of 15 workshop proposals, all of which were accepted. a total of 1,121 submissions, consistent with the average number of President Aiello handled the review and decision process, notifying submissions over the last 6 years (averaging 1,137). Only meetings in authors of acceptance on January 2, 2019. New Orleans and Austin received more submitted abstracts. Several requests for late submissions were received and were declined. 2.6 | Abstract issue

Following completion of the abstract review process, we initiated 2.4.2 | Abstract review preparation of the annual abstract issue. This involved some effort Pairs of reviewers were assigned to each abstract and reviewers were because we encountered problems downloading abstracts into a CSV given access to abstracts on 23 October, with a deadline for review of format. Specifically, the system, which outputs author names, titles, 19 November. Almost all Program Committee members submitted affiliations, abstract text, and funding statements into CSV format reviews by the deadline. Subsequent to receipt of all reviews, abstracts had problems with certain special characters (e.g., superscripts and with one or more rejection recommendation were submitted to a sec- subscripts). This necessitated significant efforts to copy edit ond round of reviews. A total of 65 abstracts (5.7%) received at least abstracts. Burk and Associates assisted with formatting and copy one recommendation for rejection. These abstracts were distributed to editing of the abstract issue. Proofs were submitted to Wiley on 15 program committee members for further evaluation. Following this February 1, 2019. second round of review, a total of 31 abstracts had received at least two recommendations for rejection. I evaluated each one of these 2.7 | Advance team and meetings schedule abstracts, and determined that rejection recommendations were warranted. Ten abstracts received three reject recommendations, while The AAPA advance team met in Cleveland from 24 to 26 January 15 had a single low priority accept recommendation. The remaining six 2019. The team included Lori Strong and Hiede Rohland (Burk and abstracts had one acceptable high priority rating along with two Associates), Leslie Aiello, Anne Grauer, Steve Leigh, Denise Su, Chris 366 CABANA

Kuzawa, Geoff Hayes, and Scott McGraw. The team composed a total Special thanks go to our gracious hosts in Cleveland, the Local of 41 sessions, complementing the 21 invited symposia accepted Arrangements Committee, Denise Su and Yohannes Haile-Selassie. through our review process for a total of 62 sessions. We assigned We appreciate their time and energy, and the opportunity to engage days, times, room locations, and session chairs to contributed poster with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. and podium sessions. Information on this year's meeting is presented in Table 1. 3 | REPORT OF THE SECRETARY

2.8 | Meetings program The following report was submitted by Graciela Cabana. The combined office of the Secretary-Treasurer had been in place The first version of the program was developed during the Advance since the first meeting of the American Association of Physical Team meeting. Subsequent to the meeting, we made editorial changes Anthropologists in 1930, at which time E.A. Hooton took up the posi- to the program (resolving conflicts, copy editing, etc.). We notified tion. Given the increasing burden of the dual tasks of Secretary and authors of schedules on February 4, 2019. Following notification, we Treasurer, the office was split into two via a Bylaws change in 2018. needed to resolve the problems mentioned previously with the At the 87th Annual Meeting, Graciela Cabana was elected Secretary abstract submission process and invited symposium assignments. Pre- of the Association, while Rachel Caspari continued on as Treasurer. liminary versions of the were initially published on February 8, 2019, The tasks assigned to the Secretary at this point have been to with updated programs published occasionally thereafter. The print (a) maintain all digital records of the Association and provide for their version of the program was sent to the printer on March 14, 2019. long-term archiving, (b) take and distribute notes of all Executive Committee and Officer meetings, and (c) assemble and format all 2.9 | Acknowledgements and thanks Annual Meeting Business Reports for ultimate publication in the pages of the AJPA. The Secretary also has administrative access to the Asso- Our Program Committee did an outstanding job this year, reviewing ciation's website (www.physanth.org) and is on hand to add or edit symposium proposals and abstracts thoughtfully, thoroughly, and content. These tasks have all been completed or are ongoing, as expeditiously. I offer my sincerest thanks to the committee members needed. for their efforts. The committee includes: Amanda Agnew, Kari Allen, Ben Auerbach, Jonathan Bethard, Nicole Burt, James Calcagno, 4 | REPORT OF THE TREASURER Zachary Cofran, Paul Constantino, Lynn Copes, Jennifer Cramer, Andrew Deane, Maureen Devlin, Christina Fojas, Rebecca Gilmour, The following written report was submitted by Rachel Caspari. C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim, Lauren Halenar-Price, Ashley Hammond, This report from the Treasurer represents a preliminary account Donna Harrison, Geoff Hayes, Amber Heard-Booth, Brian Hemphill, and assessment of the AAPA finances between January 1, 2018 and Nathan Holton, Rob Hoppa, Jennifer Hotzman, Rebecca Jabbour, December 31, 2018 based on an accrual accounting system. As of Jessica Joganic, Kent Johnson, Erin Kane, Claire Kirchhoff, Myra Laird, July, 2017, Burk and Associates have been providing accounting ser- Kristi Lewton, Christina Nicholas, Heather Norton, Robert O'Malley, vices to the association. With the shift to professional accountants, Alejandra Ortiz, Nicholas Passalacqua, Christine Pink, Stephanie we transitioned from a cash-based to an accrual-based accounting Poindexter, Emma Pomeroy, Sean Prall, Melissa Schaefer Elizabeth St system, where income and expenditures are recorded when incurred. Clair, Claire Terhune, Sam Urlacher, Qian Wang, Timothy Webster, (Under this system, for example, income generated in the fall of 2018 Katherine Weisensee, Julie Wieczkowski, Frank Williams, John for 2019 membership and meeting registration is deferred until 2019, Willman. The AAPA Executive Committee provided valuable feedback and would not be considered 2018 income.) The books are not yet and reviews on symposium proposals. The Cleveland Advance Team closed on the 2018 fiscal year and therefore, the figures in this report also provided valuable service to the association through their efforts will still be adjusted. What follows, therefore, is a preliminary financial in composing the meetings (Leslie Aiello, Anne Grauer, M. Geoffrey report. Hayes, Edward Hagen, Christopher Kuzawa, W. Scott McGraw, and The AAPA's 2018 total income is $275,588, down $27,659.60 Denise Su). Ed Hagen has been immensely helpful as our talented from 2017. The 2018 total income derives from four main sources: webmaster. Graduate assistant Kathleen McGuire aided greatly in membership dues ($183,813, likely to be adjusted upward), annual meetings planning and execution. meeting registration ($264,880), royalties ($139,514), and external We thank our partners from Burk and Associates, especially Lori grants from NSF, Elsevier, and Wiley ($33,081). Other income Strong, for her efforts in working throughout the year on meetings includes auction proceeds, donations and advertising revenue. Royal- planning. Also from Burk, Heide Rohland, Brett Burk, Cooky Basura, ties from our journal, the AJPA, while fluctuating over the past 5 years, Jill Drupa, Tammy Liberati, Raelene Sok, and Mary Lou Scarbrough, remain a substantial source of revenue (Table 4). assisted in numerous ways, including handling registration problems, The AAPA incurred larger expenses this year than previous years. organizing volunteers, arranging invitation letters and certificates of Major expenses include fees associated with coordinating and running participation, and sending out meeting-related e-mail announcements. the annual meeting ($405,225), fees paid to Wiley-Blackwell for the CABANA 367 publication of the AJPA ($133,662), and fees for membership, meet- 5 | REPORT OF THE EDITOR: AMERICAN ing, and accounting services provided by Burk and Associates (and JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Rob Clayton) ($151,274). Accountant services include our annual review and tax filing (available to any member by written request to The following report was submitted by Peter Ellison. the Treasurer) and bookkeeping. Other expenses include bank and credit card fees, Executive Committee expenses (including support, 5.1 | General remarks travel, and supplies), and legal fees. In calendar year 2018, the AAPA spent $64,061 on external grant programming and disbursed $82,840 The past year we celebrated the 100th in the journal's history with to members and participants for travel assistance to our annual meet- the release of a special Centennial Issue comprised of 22 essays from ing, research stipends, and student/recognition awards (see Table 5 a diverse range of scholars reflecting on the development of numer- for income and expenses). ous subfields in our discipline over the past century. This issue stands At the close of December 31, 2018, the AAPA showed a net loss of an important exercise in self-assessment joining the legacy of the past $250,000. This is due to several major factors, primarily larger than usual to the trajectory of the future. I thank my co-editors of that issue, deficits accrued at the annual meeting (Table 6), but also increased Matt Cartmill, Clark Larsen, Chris Ruff, and Emöké Szathmáry, as well awards and prizes and our obligations to BAI who provide valuable ser- as all the contributors for making it such a stunning success. vices. Major contributors to the increased meetings expenses included The journal also saw its impact factor rise by a notable 13.6% over the Austin coffee costs ($40,000 more than the previous year), sympo- the previous year to 2.901, approaching the goal of 3.0 that I set for sium support, program committee costs and childcare. It is clear that in myself when becoming Editor-in-Chief. order to sustain the opportunities we offer our members, we need to Last spring the production company that Wiley had used to pub- raise our operating revenue. This can be accomplished in three ways: lish many of its journals including the AJPA abruptly declared bank- increased annual meeting registration fees, increased membership dues ruptcy. The transition to a new production company has now been and use of investment income to support our programs. In response to completed successfully and our new production editor, Donna Tar- this, we increased our registration fees for the 2019 annual meeting, man, and her staff are wonderfully diligent and responsive. which at 2018 registration levels (and 2018 figures for sponsorships, A new Editor-in-Chief is to be appointed this year to carry forward exhibitors and room credits) would generate $313,354, an increase of the stewardship of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, $48,475 (and an average revenue of $162/person). though at the time of this writing the announcement of this appoint- Despite the 2018 deficit, the AAPA is a financially healthy and ment has not yet been made. I look forward to working with the new vital association. In 2018, the AAPA recorded 2,254 members, a slight Editor-in-Chief on a smooth transition. decrease from 2,271 members in 2016. This represents a substantial increase from the 1,950 members just 3 years ago, in 2015, and over 5.2 | Metrics the last 6 years, AAPA membership has grown by 55%. Numbers of meeting registrants continue to remain strong. The AAPA recorded During 2017 the American Journal of Physical Anthropology published 1,936 registrants attending the 2018 annual meeting in Austin, a three volumes (165–167) of four numbers each, totaling 2,897 pages, strong indicator that our annual meeting continues to serve the scien- not including the Annual Meeting supplement or the Yearbook of Phys- tific community well. ical Anthropology, a 13.5% increase in total content over 2018. The The AAPA's long term investments, managed by Merrill Lynch, published content included 140 Research Articles, 25 Brief Communi- have fared very well over the last 5 years, with an average of 10.25% cations, 22 Centennial Perspectives, 2 Centennial Commentaries, annual growth. This year, however, we sustained losses: the beginning 8 Technical Notes, 1 Theory and Synthesis, 2 Perspective, 3 News net portfolio value at year-end 2017 was $3,412,000 and at year-end and Views, 3 Book Reviews, 2 Obituaries, 1 Editorial, 4 Letters to the 2018, $3,291,000 representing a 3.5% decrease. Investment funds Editor, 3 Errata and Corrigenda, and the Proceedings of the 2016 are allocated between equities (currently comprising 71% of our Annual Meeting of the AAPA. assets) and fixed income (comprising 29% of our assets). As always, The flow of manuscripts in 2017 ebbed somewhat with a total of the AAPA will be evaluating the allocation of funds to ensure that the 407 manuscripts received (not including book reviews), a reduction of proportion of funds in equity, fixed income accounts and cash reflect 12.3% from the previous year (464). Manuscripts originated from the needs and goals of the AAPA. 50 different countries, with the major sources, after the United States I wish to thank the current and outgoing members of the Execu- (33.4%), being the UK (8.3%), France (5.1%), Canada (4.4%), Italy tive Committee of the AAPA and the accounting staff of BAI whose (4.1%), Spain (3.9%), Germany (3.2%), Japan (3.2%), Poland (2.9%), assistance and support throughout this year has been invaluable. Brazil (2.9%), India (2.7%), China (2.4%), and Australia (2.0%).

TABLE 4 Royalties, 2014–2018 Royalties 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 $159,060 $139,195 $137,648 $135,577 $139,514 368 CABANA

TABLE 5 Income and expenses, 2014–2018

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017a 2018a Income $501,221.10 $615,161.43 $924,319.59 $676,995.62 $678,258.40 $648,313.02 Expenditures $522,576.56 $546,640.04 $591,571.08 $666,578.29 $710,948.30 $899,049.55 Total ($21,355.46) $68,521.39 $332,748.51 $10,417.33 ($32,689.90) ($250,736.53) aaccrual-based.

TABLE 6 Annual meeting expenses, 2016–2018 5.3 | Acknowledgements

Atlanta New Austin I am very grateful to the Associate Editors of the journal for their diligent 2016 Orleans 2017 2018 efforts in shepherding the review process for so many submissions and Income $228,240 $259,693 $264,880 for helping to significantly reduce the time manuscripts spend in review. Expenses $272,900 $315,808 $405,225 Changes in the editorial board for the next year have not yet been Total ($44,660) ($56,210) ($140,345) decided pending the appointment of the new Editor-in-Chief. I would Attendance 1,750 2,112 1,936 like to extend special thanks to Assistant Editor Pippi Ellison, our journal Average cost/person $156 $150 $209 manager at Wiley, Paul-André Genest, and our new production editor, Average revenue/ $130 $123 $136 Donna Tarman. I would like to thank the membership of the AAPA for person their participation in the process of peer review. For all its faults, peer review remains the foundation of integrity in scientific publishing. I hope everyone takes seriously their responsibility to participate. And finally, I The acceptance rate for manuscripts is currently 48% compared to thank the AAPA for the opportunity to serve as Editor-in-Chief of such a 49% at this time last year. The average time from submission to first distinguished journal. decision is currently 38.2 days (down from 40.2 days last year), and the average time from submission to final decision is 56.2 days (down from YEARBOOK OF 65.4 days last year). Appearance of accepted articles on line in Early 6 | REPORT OF THE EDITOR: PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY View (at which point the publication in official, searchable, and citable) is slightly over 2 weeks after acceptance on average, the major variable The following report was submitted by Lyle Konigsberg. being the speed with which proofs are returned by authors. The 2019 edition of the Yearbook is my first as Editor. I would first The breakdown of substantive publications in AJPA by major subject like to offer my sincere thanks to Jane Buikstra, Darryl De Ruiter, in 2018 area continued to be distributed across six broad areas: primate physiology/ecology/behavior (22.5%), osteology/dental anthropology/ Agustín Fuentes, Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, Laura MacLatchy, Connie biomechanics (22%), bioarcheology/paleopathology (20%), human physi- Mulligan, John Relethford, and Trudy Turner who have served as the ology/ecology/behavior (14%), primate/human paleontology (17%), editorial board. Trudy deserves special thanks for agreeing to remain genetics/genomics/phylogenetics (12%) and human and primate paleon- on the editorial board after serving so ably as the editor of the Year- tology (6.5%). book. Sadly, the Yearbook will be losing Trudy to other projects in the As noted in General Remarks, the impact factor for AJPA calculated coming year. Eduardo Fernández-Duque will be assuming Trudy's by ISI/Web of Science for 2017 (the index is always lagged 2 years) position on the board. I welcome him and look forward to working was 2.901, a 13.6% increase over 2016 (2.552), which itself was a with him and the rest of the board as we put together the 2020 6.2% increase over 2015 (2.402). Over the past 2 years the increase edition. has been 20.8%, or approximately 10% per year. This 2-year period In my preface to the 2019 Yearbook I wrote that “after just one includes citations to material published since the beginning of my edi- year of serving as Editor-in-Chief for the Yearbook, I have come to the torship. In comparison, this year JHE's impact factor only increased conclusion that there is little utility in trying to classify articles that are 1.5%, from 3.932 to 3.992. When I assumed the position of Editor-in- published here.” I went on to write: “Traditionally, the Editor's report Chief of the AJPA I declared my wish to see its impact factor rise at the annual AAPA Business Meeting has classified articles into the above 3.0. We have not quite reached that benchmark, but the impact categories of paleoanthropology, human biological variation, skeletal factors for the next two years will continue to reflect the period I have biology/bioarcheology, genetics, Primates, and the ill-defined ‘other.’ been Editor-in-Chief. We might still make it. If not, I bequeath the goal My report at the annual Business Meeting will be shorter in this and to my successor. following years, as I will not undertake this difficult taxonomic assign- Currently AJPA ranks eighth out of 85 anthropology journals and ment for articles published in the Yearbook.” I doubt that there will be 22nd out of 49 evolutionary biology journals in impact factor. We objections from the floor to my providing a shorter report. continue to far outdistance our peer journals, however, in the total While the 2019 Yearbook only included six articles, these covered number of articles published and citations received. much theoretical ground. I will not attempt to summarize here, and CABANA 369 will instead refer you to my preface and, more importantly, to the distinguished the two classes of articles by using a green Yearbook 2019 Yearbook itself. The contents of this year's Yearbook are: logo for Yearbook articles and a red AJPA logo for AJPA articles. Simi- larly, the covers for the Yearbook and the AJPA are also distinguished •“Shades of complexity: New perspectives on the evolution and by the different colored logos and titles. genetic architecture of human skin” (Quillen, E., Norton, H. L., I began by thanking the editorial board and would like to close by Parra, E. J., Lona-Durazo, F., et al.) thanking Paul-André Genest and Donna Tarman from Wiley for their •“Craniofacial skeletal response to encephalization: How do we instruction on basic editorial issues and the use of “Scholar One.” ” know what we think we know? (Lesciotto, K. M., & They, together with the editorial board, have made the job of editor Richtsmeier, J. T.) that much easier as well as enjoyable. •“BDNF, endurance activity, and mechanisms underlying the evolution of hominin brains” (Hill, T., & Polk, J. D.) •“One small step: A review of Plio-Pleistocene hominin foot evolu- 7 | COMMITTEE REPORTS tion“ (DeSilva, J., McNutt, E., Benoit, J., & Zipfel, B.) •“The emergence of human warfare: Current perspectives” (Kissel, AAPA committee chairs provided written reports in electronic form in M., & Kim, N. C.) advance of the meeting (reports appear below), and the floor was •“ Geophagy among nonhuman primates: A systematic review of opened for questions. ” current knowledge and suggestions for future directions The Membership Committee report was presented to attendees in (Pebsworth, P. A., Huffman, M., Lambert, J. E., & Young, S. L.). hardcopy and orally. Attending voting members of the AAPA were asked if there were comments or objections to the proposed list of I am particularly pleased to see that one of the authors on the Hill new and transitioning voting members. In the absence of objections and Polk paper is an undergraduate student. Although authors of by voting members in attendance, the Secretary cast a unanimous bal- Yearbook articles are typically far along in their academic careers, this lot for the amended list submitted. does not preclude the inclusion of co-authors who are less established. Such an inclusion can be an important step in mentoring our junior colleagues. 7.1 | Membership committee Plans are already well afoot for the 2020 edition, which should include about double the number of articles as the 2019 edition. Lisa Sattenspiel submitted the following written report. Starting with the 2019 Yearbook we have been using the “Scholar One” system that Wiley uses for the AJPA. The website for this is https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ajpayearbook. As publications in 7.1.1 | Membership numbers/trends the Yearbook are by invitation, you should either receive an invitation Membership over the last several years is as follows can be found in from the Editor or volunteer a submission. If you wish to volunteer a Table 7. Last year at the time of our annual meeting we had 1,680 submission, you should contact either the Editor or an editorial board members. The total membership number at the present time (i.e., for member. Given the desirability for a variety of articles in each edition the 2019 calendar year) is 1,936, substantially above last year, espe- of the Yearbook, we may not be able to accommodate volunteered cially since the meeting is several weeks earlier than last year. These manuscripts in a given year if they overlap with already planned sub- members include 201 males, 612 females, 13 who designated other missions or if a volunteered submission does not add to the diversity categories (some also indicated male or female), and 1,115 who did of topics covered in an issue. The Yearbook publication date is in not report their gender. The breakdown by category of membership January of a given year, so first drafts should be submitted by June for those reporting can be found in Table 8. 30 of the preceding year. The format for submissions is the same as In the last year, a total of 455 new members have joined the asso- for the AJPA (retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/ ciation, although some of these members were previous members 10.1002/(ISSN)1096-8644/homepage/ForAuthors.html), save that who let their membership lapse. These new members include the abstract should not be subdivided into sections. The fact that we are now using “Scholar One” for the Yearbook 300 females, 79 males, and 76 who did not report their gender. Stu- provides the additional benefit that articles appear in Early View once dents were by far the most common category of new members they have been typeset and the authors have proofed the copy. This (n = 332), and 37% of them were undergraduates, 57% were graduate means that you will not have to wait until January 2020 to start read- students, and 6% were post-undergraduate or BA/MA students. ing articles from the next Yearbook. Given that articles for both the Our dealings with the management company (BAI) continue to run AJPA and the Yearbook can appear in searches that “divorce” them smoothly and are responsible in part for the recent increase in our from their individual issues, it was sometimes difficult in the past to membership. With their help we are better able to ensure that mem- distinguish AJPA from Yearbook articles. Wiley has now rectified this bers renew each year and we are also able to get regular updates and by including a document header that clearly states “Yearbook of Phys- Newsletters out to the membership to let them know about important ical Anthropology Article” for all Yearbook articles. Wiley has also issues associated with their memberships. 370 CABANA

TABLE 7 AAPA membership 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 (as of March 18, 2019) numbers and trends 1,457 1,563 1,950 2,271 2,263 2,254 1,936

TABLE 8 Membership types

Male Female Transgender Other Life 18 29 0 0 Regular 74 145 1 0 Special 2 11 0 0 Student 71 361 5 7 Student-developing 2 6 0 0 Regular-contingent/postdoc 15 36 0 0 Special-contingent/postdoc 4 8 0 0 Special-qualifying 1 0 0 0 Regular-qualifying 8 7 0 0 Regular-spouse 1 2 0 0 Retired 5 7 0 0 Total 201 612 6 7

7.1.2 | Membership category changes 7.1.4 | Membership applicants

One change was made to the membership category structure: a new Between March 19, 2018 and March 18, 2019, a total of 455 people Special Member Contingent category was designated for members applied and were provisionally approved as new members, and an addi- who do not qualify for regular membership and also have financial tional 125 applied and were provisionally approved to transition to new constraints. This change allows the same small reduction in fees for membership categories (Table 9). The new member applicants include this category as was implemented for Regular members, a decision 71 regular members (including 10 members from qualifying countries), deemed reasonable since a significant proportion of the special mem- 23 regular-contingent members, 20 special members (including 2 qualifying bers are individuals with Master's degrees who are working in the country special members), 10 special-contingent members, and 332 student field of anthropology but do not yet qualify for regular membership. members (including 13 qualifying country student members). The transi- The wording related to the different membership categories was tions include Regular to Student (3), Special to Regular-Contingent (1), Spe- also clarified and updated on the Association's web site and member- cial to Student (4), Special-Qualifying to Regular-Developing (1), Student to ship forms to better reflect recent changes in membership categories Regular (32), Student to Regular-Contingent (40), Student to Special (3), and fees. Student to Special-Contingent (3), and Student-Qualifying to Regular- Qualifying (2). An additional 36 members requested transitions that do not need to be voted on (e.g., Regular-Contingent to Regular or Regular to 7.1.3 | Qualifying country rate for special members Retired) and have not been included in Table 9. As we observed last year, some new applicants had been An issue came up with an applicant from a qualifying country who approved previously for membership but had let their membership applied for regular membership but was not qualified for such (the lapse for multiple years. The number of such applicants is relatively applicant had no advanced degrees and insufficient professional expe- small, but if nonpayment extended more than 5 years, these individ- rience). Prior to the Executive Committee meeting, the membership uals were treated as new member applicants and appear on our chair and the president-elect were under the impression that we were approval lists below. not offering a qualifying country discount for special members. This Credentials for membership of new applicants for Regular and question had been discussed in the past, but given our recent changes Special member categories were verified by researching the applicants in the rate structure, it was felt that it was time to revisit the issue. online, reviewing CVs/qualifications, and/or soliciting reference let- The Executive Committee approved adding this discount, which ters. The approval process for new applicants for Student membership ended up being a reaffirmation of a previous decision, as the member- involved the additional step of confirming student status with an advi- ship chair discovered after the meeting that the discount was just sor or faculty member in their department. omitted from the membership category descriptions but was already The names of the new and transitioning applicants who applied being provided. and were provisionally approved between March 19, 2018 and March CABANA 371

TABLE 9 New and transitioning member applications TABLE 9 (Continued)

New Applicants (455) Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan Regular Member (61) Sayers, Ken Alberts, Susan Claire Scelza, Brooke Anderson, Cheryl Simmons, Melanie Banton, Meghan E Simpson, Scott W Bello, Silvia Sobolewski, Marissa Borgerson, Cortni Steffens, Travis Brown, Boyd P Stoinski, Tara Campbell, Benjamin Sulzmann, Catherine Caple, Jodi Taylor, Rebecca Joyce Carter, Melinda L Watkins, Rachel Casson, Aksel Winchester, Julie MacKay Chapman, Erin Workman, Cassandra L Clayton, Sarah C Zborover, Danny Czerwinski, Stefan A Zichello, Julia Marie Delgado, Roberto Zollikofer, Christoph P E DeSantis, Larisa R G Regular Member-Contingent/Postdoc (23) Dolins, Francine L Baniel, Alice Douka, Katerina Beggrow, Elizabeth Eick, Geeta Brummer, Alex Fernández-Duque, Eduardo Buck, Laura Fish, Jennifer L Bulut, Ozgur Forrest, Frances Lynn Cox, Samantha L Gold, Claire L Danish, Lisa Michelle Goldberg, Tony Edler, Melissa K Hall, Alexander S Fellmann, Connie Higham, Tom Kalbitzer, Urs Hruby, Julie Ledogar, Sarah Hu, Bin Longman, Daniel Jackson, Fatimah Linda Collier McCarthy, Maureen Sophia Jumonville, Beki McKenney, Erin Koster, Jeremy McKerracher, Luseadra Kovarovic, Kris Menéndez, Lumila Paula Landecker, Hannah Robinson, Joshua Robert Leeper, Bobbie Scaffidi, Cassandra K Lovejoy, Owen Simmerman, James Marchetto, Maria Carolina Smith, Amanda L Marquez, Samuel Stephens, Nicholas Bradley McCollum, Melanie Welker, Frido McFarland, Robin Zhang, Xinjun Meadows Jantz, Lee Regular Member-Qualifying (10) Ponce de León, Marcia Silvia Danborno, Barnabas Rendu, William Falótico, Tiago Rich, Elizabeth Abrams Filgueiras, Ligia Amaral Rubin, Shirley Gibbon, Victoria E Ruhl, Stefan Hünemeier, Tábita Sanabria, Waleska Li, Jiawei (Continues) (Continues) 372 CABANA

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Naseri, Reza Bagwell, Kelsey Silva, Ariana Kelly Baker, Stephanie Silva, Hilton Pereira da Beer, Annelise Marie Zhang, Quanchao Beier, Judith Special Member (18) Bennett, Krista Davis, Mary Charlesie Bergner, Yvon Downey, Nathan Biernaski, Adam Everson, Phillip Mark Bird, Emma Elizabeth Gerhold, Chad Blair, Raymond Holland, Emory Blizzard, Lydia Johnson, Arielle Blystone, Emma Katherine Johnson, Meredith Bouderdaben, Fatimah Loch, Carolina Bowland, Grace B Lycett, Mark Brady, Amanda Jordan Nadeau, Amelie Briggs, Emily Anne Parrick, Julie Brookshier, Heather Michele Pinkston, Erin Faye Elizabeth Brown, Dontevion Marquell Simpson, Mayling E Brown, Gena Sylwester, Story Brown, Tishaura Vitali, Michelle Brubaker-Wittman, Laura A Watamaniuk, Lelia Bryson, Emily Rose Weldon, Ariana Victoria Camp, Madeline R Wendorf, Michael A Campeau, Kathryn Special Member-Contingent/Postdoc (10) Carter, Antonia Cox, Ruthelen Casagrande, Katlyn Cummings, Daniel Kruse Caster, Alexa Ray Dunn, Rhian Cenni, Camilla Faulkner, Brittany Chadaideh, Katia Hopko, Rosalie Diamando Chamoun, Tony La Valley, Anna Sophia Chan, Amy Marie Moncrief, Peyton David Chaney, Rachel E Tagaya, Akira Chavez, Alma Sarahi Volkers, Lauren Cheever, Sylvia Anne Walsh, Mary Chen-Kraus, Chloe Special Member-Qualifying (2) Chertoff, Sydney Choudhary, Vijeta Choi, Audrey Mi-Young Datta Banik, Sudip Chowdhury, Ishrat Student Member (319) Clark, Logan M Adams, Alisha Clark, Sonia Alysse Aguado, William Clinton, Carter Aletta, Sofia Francesca Coggeshall, Elizabeth Allen, Diandra Cole, Megan Anderson, Tanner Jacob Collore, Taylor Scott Ardary, Tara Nicole Cooper, Marianne Jane Maureen Arner, Audrey Margaret Cooper, Tennyson Arroyo, Juan Pablo Corbett, Philip Blair Austin, Lauren Nicole Cotrona, Sierra Sky (Continues) (Continues) CABANA 373

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Cox, Maria Garza, Shelby Crawford, Sarah Hillary Geherty, Joseph Cronin, Jessica Marie Ghannam, Sarah Cunningham, Tyler Glasser, Darcey Blake Daiy, Katherine Elaine Gomez, Daniela Davidson, Marion Elizabeth Gomez, Melissa M Davis, Reed Austin Gomez Isaac, Monica Day, Lisa M Goodwyn, Codi Nichole de Flamingh, Alida Gowen, Kyle DeCamp, Rebecca Malik Grady, Jackson Hart DeLacey, Patricia McCoy Grimm, Nicolas Dervarics, Audrey Lillian Guerrero, Jasleen Di Como, Kara Lynn Gurian, Kaita Dolding-Smith, Jessica Anne Moya Gustafson, Ellie Dooley, Ellen Haffner, Jacob Dorshorst, Tabitha Hale, Abbie Jean Dunham, ChristiAna N Hardie, Megan Dwyer, Isis Harries, Victoria Eagle, Taylor Harrington, Katherine Eckel, Hannah Harwell, Faye Edwards, Deja Leigh Hay, Savannah Effingham, Joseph Heisler, Bri Elser, Mariah Elizabeth Hernandez, Jasmine Ruby Engel, Savanna (Vivienne) Hernando, Raquel Espinoza, Ashley Hicks, Heather Estes, Lauren A Hook, Emma Sarah Louise Estrada, Gene Hudock, Autumn S Evo, Julie Elizabeth Hurt, Cassidy Falk-Smith, Nicole Loraine Ide, Lauren Feiler, Maria Jasiak, Caroline Ferrell, Morgan Jonna Johnson, Ashley Flanery, Aileen Johnson, Elizabeth Dawn Flores, Ana Johnson, Miranda Renee Foecke, Kimberly Johnson, Taryn Foligno, Angela Jones, Kellie Fonzo, Mattia Jones, Lauren Fournier Korchia, Charlene S Kamanzi Shimwa, Axelle Frauenhofer, Eric Kaplan, Molly Frazier, James Kaye, Madison Rhodes Friend, Sadie Keech, Kendal Robert Fulp, Kaitlyn Keeton, T Joshua Furtner, Margaret Kelly, Christa Dale Gabanini, Gaia Kim, Alexander Gabbard, Aubree Kim, Andrew Wooyoung Galdamez, Gladys Kim, Hyein Galvin, Kelly Simonne Kindler, Abigail Gancz, Abigail Shahar King, Allyson (Continues) (Continues) 374 CABANA

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Kinkopf, Katherine M Mills, Savannah Klimas, Nathan Milosavljevic, Tania Lee Kotis, India Mitchell, Allison Jeanette Kovalaskas, Sarah A Miyan, Penpichaya Kruse, Hannah Mogilewsky, Monica Krystek, Courtney Moore, Briana Lam, Celeste Moore, David Michael Lamer, Madeleine Moore, Joseph Lawrence Laposki, Corrin Kristine Moore, Logan Larson, Kara Morgan, Brianne Leach, Rose Morse, Kristen Lefebvre, Lindsey D Morzaniga, Mathilde Lenover, Makenna B Moser, Cody Lewman, Jordan Rhett Munger, Emily LoPresto, Samuel Munir, Gina Lutker, Alyssa Hope Murphy, Samantha Lynch, Jeffrey James Myers, Breeanna Maaranen, Nina Nation, Niki Macleod, Ruairidh Nguyen, Jack Magee, Sara Marie Oettel, Bailey Mari, Katey Orrand, Macie Logan Maro, Aleksey Pallas, Laurent Marshall, Aubree Storm Parke, Stacy-Anne Marshall, Jenail Parker, Sarah Mata, Daniel Perez, Kristen Marie McAfee, Ian Peters, Kara D McCarthy, Megan Philben, Samantha M McCrane, Samantha Michelle Pinkowski, Danielle McDaniel, Alexandria Poniros, Sarah Anne McElvaney, Katherine Porter, Joshua John McGee, Marshal Price, Megan Lynn McGuire, Elizabeth Ptacek, Alexandra McKee, Hayden Quadir, Mustafa McKelvey, Megan Quinn, Edward McKinney, Joshua Rabinowitz, Andrea McKinnon, Leela Ramirez, Natalie McMullin, Erika Reich, Isabelle McWhirter, Zoe Danielle Reyes, Lucio Mendenhall, Phillip Allan Ritchie-Ewing, Genevieve Menicanin, Jelena Rodan, Rebecca Lynn Menschel, Melissa Rodriguez, Monica Meyers, Julia Rogers, Jacklyn Midyette, Madeline Sage Rogers, Zachary Mihal, Cearra Rooney, Maxwell Miller, Elaine Nicole Rossillo, Amanda Noelle Miller, Tyler D Rutterbush, Cheyanne Kathleen Miller-Figueroa, Raphael Jose Ryan, Hayley (Continues) (Continues) CABANA 375

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Ryan, Katharine Grace Josephine Vlemincq-Mendieta, Tatiana Ryan, Mikenzie Voss, Alena Saiyed, Sana Tajoddin Warren, Amber Santillan Goode, Julianna Webb, Jennifer Lee Sare, Jennifer Weerasinghe, Panchala Sargent, Katherine Wharton, Leighann Sarkisian, Mia White, Thomasina Satish, Reshma Wiener, Jamie Alyse Savidge, Ivy Williams, Alexis Shaye Sawyer, Nora Wilson, Michaela Sawyer, Rachel Wilson, Thomas Schiery, Benjamin J Winful, Olawunmi Schmitz, Autumn Winterstein, Katherine Shaner, Elizabeth Noel Wisinski, Basia Shaughnessy, Ana Witham, Samuel Shults, Ashley J Wold, Arthur Sierra, Elena Wollmann, Jessica Sims, Zana Ruth Wong, Mary Singletary, Britt Woodyard, Lynsey Smith, Elizabeth Woollen, Katharine C Smith, Natalie Yezzi-Woodley, Katrina the Snyder, Caroline Yoakam, Stacia Michelle Soltani, Sara Khalifeh Yohler, Ryan Michael Spencer, Taylor Zabnicka, Dorota Spiros, Micayla Zaehringer, Hannah Steinberg, Danielle Leigh Zipple, Matthew Steinmuller, Roxanne Znidarsic, Katherine Streczywilk, Elizabeth Student Member-1st year-Qualifying (13) Stuhltraeger, Julia Bravo, Miriam Sullivan, Rhianna Michaela Campelo dos Santos, Andre Luiz Szafraniec, Maya Couto da Silva, Caina~ Max Thomas, Ariane Elizabeth Guo, Yaqi Timmons, Maura A Hunter, K Lindsay Tomita, Hirotaka Olowo, Abiodun Yusuff Tomlinson, Cassidy Jordan Penna, Anna Tomlinson, Juliana Ramirez Amaya, Sebastian Toth, Brandon Shao, Xinyue Toth, Sharon Anne Wang, Yongdi Tratch, Maiah Yang, Shiyu Treadway, Amber Zeng, Yan Trede, Isabel Leslie Zhang, Naifan Tuchscherer, Nyakeh K Member Transitions requiring a vote (89) Vakiener, Meagan Regular Member to Student Member (3) Valleroy, Tessa Rose Anzellini, Armando Vannaheuang, Jane Compton-Gore, Kate Venable, Emily Marie Suckling, Joanna K Vermillion, Mackenzie Special Member to Regular Member-Contingent/Postdoc (1) (Continues) (Continues) 376 CABANA

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Grant, William E Dumouchel, Laurence M Special Member to Student Member (4) Dunham, Noah T Cook, Rebecca W Edes, Ashley Goldstein, Justin Ehrlich, Daniel Pinkston, Erin Faye Elizabeth Feldblum, Joseph T Turner-Byfield, Evonne Franks, Erin Special Member-Qualifying to Regular Member-Qualifying (1) Garcia, Angela Steyn, Maryna Gildner, Theresa E Student Member to Regular Member (32) Gilmour, Rebecca J Badescu, Iulia Hardin, Anna M Beary, Mark Heim, Kelly Beresheim, Amy C Hurst, Shawn Bible, Rachael C Janiak, Mareike Cora Bolhofner, Katelyn Kaiser, Jessica Carlson, Joshua Knigge, Ryan P Chilcote, Celise Kraft, Thomas S Chiou, Kenneth L Ledogar, Justin A Chowdhury, Shahrina Lyke, Martha M Ellicott, Maegan Machnicki, Allison L Geske, Nicole Massey, Jason S Glowacka, Halszka McFarlane, Gina Patricia Gooding, Alice Fazlollah McGrath, Kate Gruber, Janna Leigh Miller, Melanie J Hamilton, Marian Morse, Paul Eugene Ioannou, Stella O''Connell, Caitlin A Justus, Hedy Rich, Alicia M Liebert, Melissa A Rogers, Mary P Marklein, Kathryn E Sefczek, Timothy Mikhail Morimoto, Naoki Shattuck, Eric C Noldner, Lara Smith, Rick W A Sandel, Aaron A Stantis, Christina Savell, Kristen R R Thompson, Nicole A Scott, Amy B Traynor, Sarah Stock, Michala K Witt, Kelsey E Streetman, Emily R Zelazny, Kaya G Thompson, Andrew Student Member to Special Member (3) Tremblay Critcher, Lori A Gaddis, Katherine Elizabeth Villanea, Fernando A Hicks, Heather Wikberg, Eva C Lorenz, Samantha Wood, Brian M Student Member to Special Member—Contingent (3) Young, Sharon M Ost, Andrea Student Member to Regular Member - Contingent/Postdoc (40) Patino, May Alavi, Shauhin Edward Sherwood, Kate D Beaty, Kristine G Student Member-Developing to Regular Member-Qualifying (2) Cheverko, Colleen Mjungu, Deus C Claxton, Alexander Zhang, Qun Cloutier, Christina (Continues) CABANA 377

18, 2019 and for whom a vote of the membership is required are appointment as the AAPA Early Career Liaison, and we thank Kim Con- listed in Table 9 by membership category. A few additional people gdon for her service as outgoing Early Career Liaison. who applied prior to March 19, 2018 may not have appeared on last year's list and have been included here. The first section represents 7.3.2 | Cobb Professional Development Grants new members and the second section has the names of members transitioning between categories. The AAPA Cobb Professional Development Grants (CPDG) committee reviewed 25 eligible applications in 2018–2019. As in the past, we received several applications from outside of the United States and 7.2 | Nominations committee many projects involved international work and collaborations. Overall, The following written report was submitted by Anne L. Grauer. the pool of applications was strong, representing the breadth of AAPA One Executive Committee member position was open for election membership. Each application was reviewed by three committee this year: Member at Large, Chair of the Membership Committee. The members and the Committee Chair. In reviewing proposals, the com- term will begin Friday March 29, 2019 following the business meeting mittee considered the significance of the work, the quality of the pro- and extend for 2 years. posal, the potential impact of the award on the applicant's career, and Nominations (including self-nominations) were solicited from the AAPA the strength of the recommendation letter and CV. The committee membership through a number of avenues, including in the call for papers, endeavored to fund broadly across the discipline and career stages. the AAPA Newsletter and email blasts, and on the registration online sys- The committee recommended funding five proposals, each in the tem. Nominations were sent to Anne Grauerviaemailorviatheregistration amount of $7,500. Award and declination letters were emailed to online system. The deadline for nominations was October 15, 2019. applicants on March 7, 2019. The award recipients are as follows: Following the nominations deadline, all nominees were vetted to ensure that they were AAPA members in good standing and that Pro- Elizabeth Berger, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Michigan fessional Conduct Disclosure Form was completed and submitted. A “Death and disease in a time of climate change: Paleodemography of total of 20 eligible nominations were received. Nine eligible voting Bronze Age Northwest China.” members of the Executive Committee were asked to vote for four Mareike Janiak, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Calgary candidates. The two candidates receiving the greatest number of “Age-related changes in the Digestome of rhesus macaques.” votes were placed on the ballot for vote by the AAPA membership. Stefano Kaburu, Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton The poll opened via email to all Regular Members on February “Mother-infant face-to-face communication in Barbary and long-tailed 1, 2019 and closed on February 28, 2019 at 11:59 PST. The results macaques.” were certified by BAI and reported to the President and President- Elizabeth Mallott, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Northwestern Elect on March 5, 2019. University The AAPA welcomes its new Executive Board Member: Dr. Kristi “Contributions of the gut microbiome to reproductive health in female Lewton. primates.” I wish to extend my sincere thanks to all the candidates who gen- Alejandra Ortiz, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Arizona State University erously agreed to run for election and to Heide Rohland and Ruedi “An ontogenetic study of the internal paranasal anatomy of hominoids.” Birenhide of BAI for their logistical help with the voting process. A committee of 15 reviewed of the pool of eligible proposals. Each reviewer brought insights to the projects and the qualifications of the 7.3 | Career Development committee applicants. The committee included: The following written report was submitted by Nathaniel J. Dominy. Bob Anemone Karen Baab 7.3.1 | Early career mentoring award Aaron Blackwell We received eight applications for the Early Career Liaison program. Jerry DeSilva Kevin Hatala (Assistant Professor, Chatham University) was chosen as Sharon DeWitte our new Early Career Liaison. In his application, Professor Hatala Kara Hoover described a critical gap in the professional development of PhD students Chris Kirk and postdoctoral scholars—formal mentorship training. He described Rich Lawler how the prevailing model of mentorship is built on the personal experi- Patrick Mahoney ences of the mentor, and how this model can fail when the personal Connie Mulligan experiences of mentors and mentees differ. He expressed a commitment Herman Pontzer to the development of formal mentor training opportunities for early EA Quinn career scholars. He will shadow the President and work closely with the Campbell Rolian Career Development committee. We wish him the best during his Gary Schwartz 378 CABANA

Qian Wang year (through your membership number, see physanth.org membership page). Unfortunately, a very small percentage of members participate in the member profile. For this reason, in order to ensure a 7.3.3 | Career Development Panel comparative framework for AAPA programs, AAPA will conduct anon- The Career Development Panel for the 2019 AAPA occurred on Friday, ymous demographic surveys annually. The first will be administered in March 29 from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m. The Executive Committee acknowl- 2019. Review of previous surveys can be found in Antón A, Malhi RS, – edges that career challenges facing PhDs have evolved significantly over and Fuentes A (2018) Am J Phys Anthropol 165 (S65): 158 180 (DOI: the past 10–15 years and that many of our members are increasingly https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23382). dependent upon funding from granting agencies to accomplish the goals of their research. This year, the Executive Committee invited leaders 7.4.2 | Student evaluations of teaching from four agencies that provide financial support to pre-professionals Primary research has established that instructor identity strongly and established investigators in Anthropology. Panelists included influences SET results, producing lower scores for women and minor- Rebecca Ferrell (Program Director, Biological Anthropology, National ity scholars. Given this and the broad use of SETs in contexts Science Foundation), Paddy Moore (Grant and Program Officer, Leakey unrelated to teaching, such as annual review and promotion, at the Foundation), Danilyn Rutherford (President, Wenner-Gren Foundation), request of AAPA President Aiello, COD members from across the sub- and Miguel Vilar (Senior Program Officer, National Geographic Society). groups along with other AAPA constituencies formed the majority of Panelists described their respective grant programs, shared summary sta- members of an ad hoc committee to advise on an AAPA statement on tistics, and addressed frequent questions from prior iterations, such as best practices for use of Student Evaluations of Teaching. how to look for suitable funding opportunities, how to approach funding agencies to get important questions answered, and how to develop targeted research questions that can turn into funded projects. 7.4.3 | Recommendations for updating the AAPA Attendees were free to ask questions pertaining to specific programs or statement on race funding in general, as well as their specific research endeavors. A cross-committee subgroup of COD members has undertaken a review of the current AAPA statement on race with an eye to making 7.4 | Committee on Diversity recommendations to the executive committee. The proposal will be brought to the COD at the 2019 meeting and then forwarded to the The following report of 2018–2019 activities was submitted by Susan executive committee for their consideration. Antón. The AAPA Committee on Diversity (COD) is an umbrella organization seeking to develop programs that increase the recruitment, par- 7.4.4 | COD events at the 2019 AAPA Conference ticipation and retention of diverse scholars within the field of COD will host several meetings of the subcommittees, a combined physical/biological anthropology. We have seven current interest meeting for representatives of all the subcommittees, and a number 1 groups and a steering committee comprised of the co-chairs and liai- of activities. Meetings are open to all AAPA members. sons of these. This year the committee has run national and international work- Wednesday: shops, published demographic data and histories, developed meeting COD-IDEAS Workshop; 8–5 p.m. programming and supported the inclusion of diverse criteria into COD-WIN Workshop; 8 a.m.–12 p.m. AAPA programming. COD-Undergraduate Research Symposium; 6–8 p.m. The COD has worked across subcommittees as well as with the Thursday: officers and executive committee of AAPA this year in several COD-LGBTQQIAA Committee meeting; 12–2 p.m. capacities. COD-AACT Committee meeting; 12:15–2:15 p.m. COD-AACT 2:30–6 p.m.: Poster Session—Teaching Biological 7.4.1 | Demographic surveys Anthropology Within and Without a Classroom COD-international Mixer 5–7 p.m. In 2014, the AAPA COD and the AAPA Executive Committee devel- Friday: oped a demographic survey that is now part of the AAPA membership COD-WIN committee meeting. 7:30–9 a.m. profile and can be filled or updated by each member throughout the COD-AACT Teaching Anthropology in the 21st Century;8–10 a.m. COD-IDEAS Alumni meeting. 12:00 p.m.–1 p.m. 1 Committee on Diversity Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences – “ ” (COD-IDEAS); COD Women's Initiative (COD-WIN); COD Undergraduate Research COD TASK Workshop: 10 a.m. 12 p.m. Citing marginalized scholars Symposium (COD-URS); COD LGBTQQIAA interest group; COD Anthropologists Outside of Saturday: Anthropology Departments, Contingent, and Teaching Focused Faculty (COD-AACT) Task COD-MAIN Steering Committee Meeting; 7:30–9 a.m Force; COD International (COD-I); COD Transforming Anthropological and Scientific Knowledge (COD-TASK). 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COD-AACT 2:30–4:30: Workshop—Mentoring for Teaching- Publications and resources Focused Careers American Anthropologist, vital topics: Malhi RS, Antón SC, and Fuentes A, contributed Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropolog- Below are highlights from the 2018 to 2019 activities of each ical Sciences—The IDEAS Program to the upcoming American Anthropol- COD group (full reports follow): ogist Vital Topics Forum issue edited by Bolnick, Smith, and Fuentes. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology article: Race and diversity in • COD-IDEAS: An NSF grant to AAPA COD- IDEAS funded a project U.S. Physical Anthropology—A Decade of Initiatives by the AAPA, to increase ethnic diversity of scholars in the field of biological anthro- Am J Phys Antropol 165:158–180 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa. pology by building infrastructure to train and retain minority students 23382 was contributed by Antón SC, Malhi RS and Fuentes A. The currently in biological anthropology and create outreach programs. paper aggregates and compares AAPA member survey data with The fourth IDEAS workshop was held in Cleveland in 2019. national statistics on representation in Anthropology and related sci- COD-IDEAS sponsored a scientific symposium at SACNAS (the ences, and reviews the past decade of work by the AAPA Committee STEM diversity conference) and staffed a booth to promote biological on Diversity, with a focus on the COD-IDEAS projects. anthropology to STEM students Web resources: The above publication, white papers on previous • COD-WIN: An Elsevier foundation grant to the AAPA COD- survey results, and links to comparative data and programs are pro- Women's Initiative supported an international workshop delivered vided on the COD-IDEAS page of physanth.org. We continue to main- by COD-WIN in South Africa in 2018. In Cleveland in 2019, the tain a COD-IDEAS Facebook page, and the COD-Main listserv. Visit group sponsored a Wednesday workshop on Mentoring the our webpage on physanth.org for instructions on how to join these. Mentor. • COD-URS: The 2018 COD-Undergraduate Research Symposium held its eighth annual symposium and awarded undergraduate COD-IDEAS sponsored several events at the 2019 Annual Meeting travel supplements. A new mentoring session preceded the 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio COD-URS in Cleveland. Boys and Girls Club: IDEAS Faculty offered afternoon workshops at • COD-LGBTQQIAA: In 2018 COD-LGBTQQIAA held a social and the Cleveland Boys and Girls Club. Thanks to Denise Su for arranging fundraising event and donated to a local LGBT youth group in Austin. the opportunity. In 2019 the group organized several subcommittees, including a field IDEAS Alumni Event: The COD hosted an IDEAS Alumni luncheon safety committee. The group held its annual committee meeting dur- meeting to encourage networking across IDEAS cohorts and vertical ing the lunch hour on Friday and evening social event on Friday. mentoring among IDEAS undergraduates, graduates, and faculty. • COD-AACT: COD-AACT sponsored a workshop and a poster ses- IDEAS NSF Workshop: In 2015 the AAPA was awarded 3 years of sion at the 2019 AAPA meeting. Teaching Anthropology in the 21st NSF funding for the Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropolog- Century workshop, focused this year on web resources, was ical Sciences (IDEAS) project. The COD has managed and delivered offered again in 2019. this program since 2016 with additional support from the AAPA. Via a • COD-I: The International Scholars group changed its acronym in no-cost extension, we deliver the fourth IDEAS workshop in Cleve- 2018 to COD International (COD-I). COD-I held an inaugural mixer land in 2019. in Cleveland in 2019. The IDEAS program includes mentoring and outreach activities at • COD-TASK: A new group, Transforming Anthropological and Scien- annual AAPA meetings, social media (via You Tube posted videos of tific Knowledge, co-chaired by Deborah Bolnick and Rick Smith, IDEAS scholars and faculty) and community outreach to foster inter- self-organized in 2018. The group presented a workshop on Citing est in human and primate biology and evolution, and building infra- Marginalized Scholars at the Cleveland meetings. structure to support the development of and synergies between Broader Impacts programs across physical anthropology. The IDEAS Those interested in starting another subgroup should contact Workshops bring underrepresented students to the AAPA meeting Susan Antón, COD Chair. for a pre-meeting, science and mentoring workshop and networking activities throughout the meeting. 7.5 | Reports of the COD Interest Groups 2019 IDEAS Workshop: In Fall 2018 the COD put out the call for applications for the IDEAS workshop to undergraduate and graduate 7.5.1 | AAPA COD-IDEAS students. There were 60 applicants for 16 slots. A panel of IDEAS fac- AAPA-COD IDEAS (Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropologi- ulty reviewed the applicants and selected the finalists and alternates cal Sciences) aims to increase ethnic diversity of scholars in the field in early 2019. The AAPA COD will provide funding support for IDEAS of physical anthropology by building infrastructure to train and retain scholars to attend the 2019 meeting in Cleveland. Several previous minority students currently in physical anthropology and creating out- Faculty who have rotated off now serve in elected positions on the reach programs to raise the visibility of biological anthropology in AAPA executive board (Graciela Cabana, Robin Nelson, and Christina minority communities. Torres-Rouff). 380 CABANA

The 2019 AAPA IDEAS faculty are: Susan Antón, Ripan Malhi, minorities. SACNAS brings minority undergraduate and graduate stu- Agustín Fuentes, Jada Benn-Torres, Rick Bribiescas, Chrisandra dents together for mentoring, science, and graduate programming. Kufeldt, Amy Lu, Arion Mayes, Luseadra McKerracher, Milena The booth was staffed by IDEAS faculty Zaneta Thayer and NYU stu- Shattuck, Phoebe Stubblefield, Zaneta Thayer, Teresa Wilson. dents Amber Trujillo and Eva Mann. The 2019 AAPA Student Scholars are: Olumayowa Adegboyega, IDEAS also sponsored a scientific symposium at SACNAS Ideas in Ebony Creswell, Missy Gandarilla, Sydney Garcia, Enrique Gomez, Action: Pamela Gonzalez, Diego Hernandez, Amanda Lee, Stacey-Anne Park, Improving the Science of Human Evolution Via Inclusion and Innova- Sana Saiyed, Safaa Siddiqui, Xaulanda Thorpe, Sahara Vilchis, Thomas tion with scientific presentations by Agustín Fuentes, Susan Antón, Wilson, Taiye Winful, Eric Zamora. Amber Trujillo, and Zaneta Thayer. Next year's meeting is in Hawaii— 2018 IDEAS Workshop Assessment: Each year COD-IDEAS members who are interested in helping out please contact Susan undertakes a program assessment and evaluation. Antón. To summarize the evaluation of the IDEAS workshop and program Respectfully submitted by Drs. Agustín Fuentes, Ripan Malhi, and to date: Susan Antón, co-chairs

• A total of 47 IDEAS scholars (3 cohorts) have passed through the program (self-identified as 34 female, 10 male, and 3 nonbinary, 7.7 | AAPA COD-Women's Initiative 2018–2019 many who are first generation in their family to attend college and This annual report summarizes the activities of the AAPA Committee who are from U.S. Census category underrepresented groups). on Diversity's Women's Initiative (COD-WIN) for 2018–2019. • 100% of respondents of the post-workshop questionnaires in 2016, 2017, and 2018, as well as in the follow-up surveys, indicated that they would recommend IDEAS workshop to other stu- 7.7.1 | Steering Committee Meetings dents. Also, there was a strong “promoter score” of 100 in the follow-up survey in 2017. This year COD-WIN held several virtual meetings throughout the • 96% of the participants strongly agreed or agreed that the work- year. During these meetings the Committee discussed plans for AAPA shop activities will help to achieve their career goals. 2019 and future initiatives. • 100% of the participants (post-questionnaire) plan to remain in contact with the IDEAS and AAPA community with 100% of the participants planning to continue doing research in Biological 7.7.2 | New initiatives at the AAPA Annual Meetings Anthropology or a closely related field. Professional mentoring for mentors is one of the top priorities that emerged from last year's “Open Forum: Developing an Association- 7.6 | Other outreach by COD-IDEAS in 2018–2019 Wide Mentoring Program” held in Austin, Texas. We offered a Men- 7.6.1 | IDEAS NSF videos toring the Mentor Workshop in partnership with the Career Develop- ment Committee. The workshop was open to any AAPA member in Videos from the Atlanta, New Orleans, and Austin COD-IDEAS collabo- good standing at the rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor ration with the Boas Network funded by NSF are publicly available at (or equivalent) and was facilitated by Dr. Kelly Diggs-Andrews, a pro- the American Association of Physical Anthropologists YouTube channel fessional consultant from CIMER (Center for the Improvement of (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNJwd-YXBLwgz9K3zx__Bxw). Mentored Experiences in Research).

7.6.2 | Diversity and AAFS 7.7.3 | Continuing initiatives online In February 2019, IDEAS faculty Stubblefield and Antón presented in an invited session on Diversity and Forensic Science at the American The COD-WIN continues to maintain a listserv (https://mailman- Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) in Baltimore. Antón moderated mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/aapa_cod_win) and webpage (http:// the panel sponsored by the AAFS Anthropology Section's Diversity physanth.org/about/committees/diversity/cod-wins-womens- Committee (which patterns itself loosely off the AAPA COD). initiative/). The webpage was substantially updated this year to include sections on Who We Are and our mission, history, events (with a link to 7.6.3 | Broader recruitment and SACNAS upcoming events), a link to join the COD-WIN Initiative, and a list of Since 2016 IDEAS has sponsored a booth at the Society for Advance- our Committee members with active links to photos and information ment of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science about each member. (SACNAS), to raise the profile of biological anthropology as a graduate Submitted by Robin Bernstein and Andrea Taylor, co-Chairs, career direction for STEM oriented students from racialized AAPA COD-Women's Initiative CABANA 381

7.8 | AAPA COD-Undergraduate Research 7.9.3 | Field safety Symposium (URS) 2018–2019 Amy Lu, Stephanie Meredith, Ellis Locke, Chris Schmitt, Laura In 2018, we held our eighth Annual Committee on Diversity Under- Abondano, Jonathan Bethard, Loca Pozzi, Siobhan Cooke. graduate Research Symposium (COD-URS). We had 59 posters from This subcommittee is working to put together recommendations 36 universities and colleges. At least 17 of the students presenting for field sites interested in considering queer field safety. Most of us were first generation college students. Fourteen of these programs have found that our straight colleagues have not considered issues of did not have graduate options in anthropology (one does not have a queer safety at their field sites, and several of us have had experi- BA or BS either!) so this symposium offered a crucial opportunity for ences in which straight colleagues have given us advice about queer these students to meet and talk with graduate students and potential safety that seems incautious and not data-based. We will be working graduate advisors. We had 39 graduate mentors this year, 10 of on generating recommendations/best practices for queer allies to con- whom were past participants. The abstracts from last year are found sider regarding queer safety. on the website under Meeting Archives: http://physanth.org/annual- Respectfully submitted by Dr. Stephanie Meredith. meetings/meeting-supplement-archive/ In 2019 we held our ninth Annual COD-URS on Wednesday, 7.10 | AAPA COD-AACT Task Force 2018–2019 March 27th. This year we are trying a new mentoring program that Since its inception in 2014, The Anthropologists Outside of Anthro- involves mentors meeting in small groups with the undergraduates pology Departments, Contingent, and Teaching Focused Faculty just prior to the Symposium and working with them on their presenta- (AACT) Task Force has aimed to provide a venue for AAPA members tion verbiage and style. Additionally, students are encouraged to ask outside of traditional research positions, and students aspiring to non- any questions they might have about graduate school and other traditional (i.e., nonresearch or nonacademic) careers. We have pres- opportunities; for many of these students, this continues to be their ented our work through poster sessions on education-related topics, first experience meeting with both graduate students and potential and have hosted panels covering nontraditional career pathways. graduate mentors. At the time of this writing, the applications had These events have generated great interest. The following events only just arrived, but we had 65 applications from 44 different institu- were planned for the 2019 AAPA meetings in Cleveland: tions. Thirteen (20%) were first generation college students. Respectfully submitted by Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler, Symposium Chair 7.10.1 | Thursday poster session

Teaching Biological Anthropology Within and Without a Classroom, co- sponsored with the Education Committee. 7.9 | AAPA COD-LGBTQQIAA 2018–2019 This year, AACT teamed up with the AAPA Education Committee to host a poster session to share strategies for promoting education Chair: Stephanie Meredith and outreach to the local community, K-12 education, and higher edu- Treasurer: Stephanie Meredith cation. The poster session highlighted novel lesson plans, activities, Secretary: Kristi Lewton and mentoring strategies created by anthropologists working in a vari- In 2018–2019 we assigned subcommittees in an attempt to get ety of formal and informal education settings. We included submis- more work done. sions from research and teaching faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, museum professionals, and nontraditional educators. Sym- posium topics included units or lesson plans created for public out- 7.9.1 | Social media subcommittee reach and education, efforts to mentor and train the next generation Caroline Znachko, chair of teachers, how to present research to the public, museum educa- Marcela Benitez, Kristi Carnahan, Melissa Torquato, Sarah Phillips- tion, and managing student projects. Garcia, Michael B.C. Rivera, Amanda Rae Carter, Danamarie Donatelli, Organizers: Margarita Hernandez, Pennsylvania State University; Stacy Hackner, Christopher Schmitt. Jessica Westin, Kirkwood Community College; Becca Peixotto, Perot Museum of Nature and Science; Molly Selba, University of Florida.

7.9.2 | Team merch 7.10.2 | Thursday planning meeting

Evan Garofalo, chair COD AACT Steering Committee Meeting Claudia Astorino, Ellis Locke, Joel Bray, Sam Patterson, Amanda Jean Hardie. 7.10.3 | Friday workshop The subcommittee oversees design and distribution of the fundraising swag. Teaching Biological Anthropology in the 21st Century 382 CABANA

Online resources for teaching anthropology are accessible, helpful, Cocktail reception/mixer at AAPAs: Rather than our usual commit- and mostly free. But these resources also vary in value, and it can be a tee meeting, we use our AAPA time slot as an opportunity to interact challenge to incorporate them into curriculum. Participants were and grow our community. asked to bring their laptops and information about sources that have Statement to AAPA on name change, November 2018: The commit- worked (or not) in their classrooms. We discussed teaching students tee submitted a position statement on the question of the AAPA how to evaluate online resources. Participants discussed mining the name change to the AAPA Executive Committee via President Leslie Internet for valid and useful classroom resources. Aiello. Full text of that letter follows this report. Organizers: Marilyn London, University of Maryland; Susan Improving committee communication: COD-I is developing means Kirkpatrick Smith, Kennesaw State University; Gwyn Madden, Grand for better communication among committee members, through the use of, for example, Google Drive and Slack. Valley State University. Respectfully submitted by Dr. Rebecca Ackermann (COD-I Co- Chair). 7.10.4 | Saturday workshop COD-I Position Statement to AAPA Executive Committee Mentoring for Teaching-Focused Careers Dear AAPA Executive Committee: Increasing numbers of anthropologists are embracing jobs at We are writing as the Committee on Diversity Interna- teaching-focused colleges and universities both inside and outside of tional to provide our opinion on the issue of the name anthropology departments. As, by definition, Ph.D. programs exist at change for the AAPA, which we (COD-I) have dis- research-focused universities, graduate students may have a difficult cussed at length. time finding mentors to help them prepare application materials As a committee, we approve of the change from “phys- geared towards teaching-focused institutions. In this workshop, regis- ical” to “biological.” trants were paired with AAPA members currently employed at com- We also believe the use of the adjective ‘American’ munity colleges, liberal arts colleges, and teaching focused obscures the international nature of biological anthro- universities. Before the meeting, registrants supplied drafts of their pology as a discipline and the AAPA Annual Meeting as cover letter and teaching philosophy to their mentor. During this the biggest meeting within this discipline with the larg- workshop, mentors and mentees met in person to review these appli- est international draw. Therefore, we would recom- cation materials and discuss the teaching focused job market. The goal mend that the AAPA consider dropping the term of this workshop was to assist job-seeking AAPA members in ‘American’ and consider the name “Association of Bio- strengthening their applications for teaching-focused jobs, and to pro- logical Anthropologists.” vide support and networking opportunities for members interested in However, we also feel that simply dropping the term is pursuing teaching-focused careers. meaningless unless it goes hand-in-hand with a more Organizers: Laurie Kauffman, Oklahoma City University; Miranda thoughtful reconsideration of the position of the asso- Karban, Illinois College ciation in a global context, and especially its role in Respectfully submitted by Dr. Jessica L. Westin. propping up structural, systemic inequalities. A name change will not necessarily result in greater inclusive- ness, or move the discipline forward on issues of 7.11 | AAPA COD-International (COD-I) 2018–2019 decoloniality, though it could be a catalyst for both. Moreover, we have identified a number of issues that COD-International represents the interests and concerns surrounding serve as a barrier to participation for researchers from international scholars. non-US institutions. Regardless of whether or not a The committee has been considering the following: name change includes dropping “American,” we pro- Broadening our membership to bring in people at international insti- pose a few first steps that we could undertake as the tutions who regularly attend the AAPAs. We are especially interested major association for our discipline to facilitate the par- in growing representation from the Global South and institutions in ticipation and representation of students and scholars non-Western countries. from diverse locations from around the globe, many of Content development for the website: This could include (but is not which are primary sites for data collection for the limited to) things like connecting international and American majority of bioanthropological research across subdis- researchers, relevant funding and research opportunities both in the ciplines (paleoanthropology, human biology, primatol- United States and in other countries, events in other countries where ogy, genetics/genomics, etc.): AAPA members can meet, and so on. We are especially interested in breaking down the colonial approach and current power dynamics of 1. Occasionally convene the conference in international locations the field to put international and domestic AAPA members on more (perhaps every 4 or 5 years?). This would provide opportunities equal footing. for people who would like to be part of this giant and academically CABANA 383

important association, but cannot afford the cost of travel, to bioarcheology, and human variation/genetics. Presenters shared their attend. It would rapidly have the effect of shifting the demo- strategies for shifting the standard canon in biological anthropology graphics and power imbalances of the meetings/association/disci- by highlighting the work of historically-marginalized scholars. Follow- pline. Alternatives could include partnering with other regional ing these presentations, participants took part in a one-hour breakout meetings held internationally, or having explicitly International discussion, where they considered how to improve citational practices meetings that take place at a different time of the year at an inter- in syllabus preparation/teaching, publication, and mentoring/advising. national location, like the PPA does (https://paleopathology- In addition to the training participants receive, another outcome of association.wildapricot.org/page-18191). this workshop will be the development of inclusive syllabi across a 2. Create designated international travel awards, prioritizing students range of topics in biological anthropology, to be disseminated to and researchers from developing countries as recipients, which AAPA membership via the COD webpage. also provide support for international attendees for their visa Respectfully submitted by Drs. Rick Smith and Deborah Bolnick. applications. 3. Collect and regularly update statistics on the “international-ness” 7.13 | History and Honors committee and size of the Annual Meeting, and consider approaches for increasing attendance from this community. The following report was submitted by Robin G. Nelson. 4. Finally, the COD-I would like to propose leading a workshop on the issue of decolonization of the discipline at one of the upcom- 7.13.1 | Darwin and Lasker Awards ing meetings, possibly paired with a deliberately international symposium session. Using social media, the AAPA conference portal, and the AAPA website, we solicited nominations for the Darwin and Lasker awards. All nominations were due on October 15th 2018. As in years past, We hope these suggestions will be of value to the nominations from 2017 were held over and considered in this year's Executive Committee in making their decision. Warm regards, competition. Nominations are only held over for one calendar year. All nominations were submitted electronically. This year we required that everyone submitting a nomination also submit a “Nominator's Disclo- sure Form” asserting that they can attest to the ethical behavior of Becky Ackermann (U. Cape Tina Lasisi (Penn State U.) Town) their nominee. This will remain a requirement moving forward. Jessica Brinkworth (U. Illinois, U- Christine Lee (Cal State LA) This year we had 10 nominations for the Darwin Lifetime C) Achievement Award. Four of the nominations were holdovers from Graciela Cabana (U. Tennessee, Lauren Schroeder (U. Toronto, 2017. We also had 4 nominations for the Lasker Award for Outstand- Knoxville) Mississauga) ing Service. Two of these nominations were holdovers from 2017. Habiba Chirchir (Marshall U.) Maja Šešelj (Bryn Mawr College) These nominations were distributed to members of the Executive Fabian Crespo (U. Louisville) Chalachew Seyoum (Arizona Committee via Google Drive on December 13, 2018. Voting con- State U.) cluded on December 25th. Members of the Executive Committee Chrisandra Kufeldt (George Claudia Valeggia (Yale U.) who submitted nominations on behalf of their colleagues recused Washington U.) themselves from voting for that specific award. Our 2018 winners are: Dr. Matt Cartmill (Boston University)—Darwin Lifetime Achieve- 7.12 | AAPA COD-Transforming Anthropological and ment Award — Scientific Knowledge 2018–2019 Dr. Susan Antón (New York University) Lasker Service Award Members are encouraged to submit new nominations to me, At the 2018 AAPAs in Austin, COD-TASK hosted a well-attended Robin Nelson, by October 15th, 2019 roundtable discussion entitled AAPA Diversity: Reflections on the 2017 Symposium and Future Directions for Biological Anthropology. One of 7.13.2 | History the central areas of concern among both the panelists and attendees was the role of citational practices in our discipline, and the impor- Coinciding with our interest in producing an expanded and accurate tance of amplifying the work of historically-marginalized scholars in history of the AAPA on Wikipedia, there has been a groundswell of our pedagogical, mentoring, and publication practices. interest from professional biological anthropologists and graduate stu- To begin to address these issues, COD-TASK organized a work- dents in producing Wikipedia pages explaining basic concepts in bio- shop on citational practices for the upcoming 2019 AAPAs in Cleve- logical anthropology, ranging from genetics to human morphological land. In this workshop, participants heard presentations from four variability. I have convened a sub-group of these scholars to help with scholars working across the areas of paleoanthropology, primatology, the Wikipedia AAPA page. At the AAPA meeting in Cleveland, we met 384 CABANA as a group to draft a timeline to complete the expanded AAPA Libby Cowgill Wikipedia page. Lucas Delezene Maja Šešelj Mark Grabowski 7.14 | Student Programs Committee Mark Hubbe The following report was submitted by Christina Torres-Rouff. Maureen Devlin The Student Programs Committee primarily implements two stu- Michelle Bezanson dent competitions. The first occurs at the annual meeting, when stu- Michelle Singleton dents who are presenting research in either a poster or podium Mike Wassermann format compete for seven named prizes. The second competition is Noreen Von Cramon-Taubadel for travel funds to attend the annual meeting, for which they write an Rachel Menegaz essay on a topic chosen by the Executive Committee. Both competi- Rebecca Gowland tions rely on a committee of judges that varies slightly in composition Robert Anemone based on the judges’ availability. In this report, I summarize the 2018 Scott Maddox Student Presentation Prize competition that occurred during the Sharon DeWitte AAPA Austin meeting and then report on the 2019 Pollitzer Essay Susan Ford competition that was run in anticipation of the AAPA Cleveland meet- Terry Ritzman Thierra Nalley ing. Finally, I present preliminary information on the 2019 Student Tim Weaver Presentation Prize Competition. Each of the 63 entries was evaluated by three judges. As was the case in 2017, an online judging form was used with a simple scoring 7.14.1 | 2018 Student Presentation Prizes system between 1 and 5. This greatly facilitated the compilation of The deadline for entry to the 2018 AAPA Student Presentation Prize scores during the judges meeting when winners were determined. was on March 1, 2018, following the protocol used in 2017. This was There are eight named prizes awarded in 2018, with five honor- the second year that we relied on an online submission form, with able mentions. Six of the prizes came with a $500 monetary award some minor adjustments that improved the process. We received that was dispersed after the meeting. The two joint American Associa- 69 entries (which included a 1,000-word essay) to be judged for pre- tion of Anatomists/American Association of Physical Anthropologists sentations at the 2018 annual AAPA meeting in New Orleans. See prizes are awarded $250 each. Table 10 for a history of the number of entries and judges starting In addition to the monetary award, recipients were given books that, in 2014. in 2018, were generously donated by Springer (graciously facilitated by Thirty-nine judges were convened to evaluate these Eric Delson, as in years past) as well as one by Cambridge University Press. presentations: Members of the judging committee helped to fill out the award certificates

Adam Kolatorowicz and decide which winner would receive which donated book(s). Andrea Baden This was the first year that the Patricia Whitten Prize was Anna Watermann implemented to recognize an excellent podium or poster presentation Becky Ackermann on research in primatology, an award generously created by the estate Ben Trumble of Patricia Whitten. Professor Whitten was a long-serving faculty mem- Bridget Algee-Hewitt ber at Emory University renowned for her research exploring the rela- Chrisandra Kufeldt tionships between behavior, biology, and reproduction in wild primates. Christina Torres-Rouff The winners were as follows: Daniel Temple Daniel Wescott 7.14.2 | Juan Comas Prize David Green Erin Riley Tina Lasisi, Penn State University Halszka Glowacka Jeremy DeSilva “More than meets the eye: what chemical analyses can Jessica Joganic reveal about hair color” Julie Lesnik Book Received: Lynnette Leidy Sievert & Daniel Katharine (Kathy) Jack E. Brown (Eds.) 2016. Biological Measures of Human Larissa Swedell Experience across the Lifespan. Springer. Lee Gettler (https://www.springer.com/us/book/ Leslea Hlusko 9783319441016) CABANA 385

7.14.3 | Earnest Hooton Prize for best poster 7.14.7 | Patricia Whitten Prize

Mareike Janiak, Rutgers University Dominique Bertrand, SUNY University at Buffalo

“Duplication and convergent evolution of the pancre- “Effects of tourism on the behavior of wild, habituated atic ribonuclease gene (RNASE1) in a non-colobine pri- groups of Macaca nigra” mate, the mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata)” Book Received: Michel T. Waller, Ed. 2016. Ethnoprima- Book Received: Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray tology: Primate Conservation in the 21st Century Morrison. 2017. Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-Existence (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/ in the Anthropocene 9783319304670) (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319459639)

7.14.8 | AAA (American Association of Anatomists)— 7.14.4 | Aleš Hrdlicˇka Prize AAPA in Anthropology Prize

Ashley Edes, The Ohio State University Devin Ward, Rutgers University

“Examining stress in western lowland gorillas: A multi- “Using Unintentional Vault Modification to Evaluate zoo application of the first allostatic load index in zoo- Integration of the Bony Labyrinth and Cranium” housed great apes” Book Received: Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Denise F. Su Book Received: Ulrich H. Reichard, Hirohisa Hirai & (Eds). 2016, The Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus Claudia Barelli (Eds.). 2016. Evolution of Gibbons and afarensis: New Insights from KSD-VP-1/1. Siamang: Phylogeny, Morphology, and Cognition (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789401774277) (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781493956128) Brian Shearer, City University of New York and the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP)

7.14.5 | Mildred Trotter Prize “Unique features of pelvic brim morphology and asso- Madison Bradley, University of Calgary ciated musculature in Pongo” Book Received: Kenneth C. Nystrom, Ed. 2017. The “Assessing biomechanical hypotheses about hind-limb Bioarchaeology of Dissection and Autopsy in the United elongation in jumping Primates using Longshanks mice” States. Book Received: G. Richard Scott, Christy G. Turner II, (https://www.springer.com/br/book/9783319268347) Grant C. Townsend and María Martinón-Torres. 2018. The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth: Dental Mor- phology and Its Variation in Recent and Fossil Homo 7.14.9 | Honorable Mentions: sapiens (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/anthropology- Kelly Ostrofsky, The George Washington University of-modern-human-teeth/ CF071500E0DEF2D29E1ED9E9500F67E2) “Capturing 3-D locomotor kinematics in wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)” Books Received: Katerina Harvati and Mirjana Roksandic (Eds.) 2016. Paleoanthropology of the Balkans 7.14.6 | Sherwood Washburn Prize and Anatolia: Human Evolution and its Context (https:// Jeffrey Spear, New York University www.springer.com/us/book/9789402408737); Assaf Marom and Erella Hovers (Eds.) 2017. Human Paleon- “Parallel evolution of suspensory locomotion in tree tology and Prehistory: Contributions in Honor of Yoel Rak sloths and implications for understanding homoplasy in (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/ hominoids” 9783319466446); Michelle C. Langley (Ed.) 2016. Book Received: John H. Langdon. 2016. The Science of Osseous Projectile Weaponry: Towards and Understand- Human Evolution: Getting it Right ing of Pleistocene Cultural Variability (https://www. (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319415840) springer.com/gp/book/9789402408973); Memlaos 386 CABANA

Apostolou. 2017. Sexual Selection in Homo sapiens: book/9783319412696); Miriam N. Haidle, Nicholas Parental Control over Mating and the Opportunity Cost J. Conard, Michael Bolus (Eds.) 2016. TheNatureof of Free Mate Choice (https://www.springer.com/us/ Culture: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium “The book/9783319589985) Nature of Culture,” Tübingen, Germany (https://www. springer.com/cn/book/9789401774246); Radu Iovita Zane Swanson, CUNY Graduate Center and the New York Con- and Katsuhiro Sano (Eds.) 2016. Multidisciplinary sortium of Evolutionary Primatology, NYCEP Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry (https:// www.springer.com/gp/book/9789401776011); Sacha “The effect of the angiotensin-converting enzyme C. Jones and Brian A. Stewart (Eds.) 2016. Africa from MIS (ACE) I/D polymorphism on energy expenditure in 6–2: Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments (https:// modern humans” www.springer.com/gp/book/9789401775199) Books Received: Michael Alley. 2013. The Craft of Sci- entific Writing (https://www.springer.com/us/book/ Natalie O'Shea, CUNY Graduate Center and the New York Con- 9781441982780); Sacha C. Jones and Brian A. Stewart sortium of Evolutionary Primatology, NYCEP (Eds.) 2016. Africa from MIS 6–2: Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments (https://www.springer.com/gp/ “Differential preservation of population history in ver- book/9789401775199); Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo, vet skull anatomy” Tania King, Levon Yepiskoposyan, and Peter Andrews Books Received: Andreas Maler. 2015. The Central European (Eds.) 2016. Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor Magdalenian: Regional Diversity and Internal Variability (https://www.springer.com/br/book/ (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789401772051); 9783319797007#otherversion=9783319249223); Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo and Peter Andrews. 2016. Atlas of Lawrence J. Flynn and Wen-Yu Wu. 2017. The Late Taphonomic Identifications: 1001+ Images of Fossil and Recent Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology Mammal Bone Modification (https://www.springer.com/br/ and Fossil Mammals: Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of book/9789401774307); Krista E. Latham and Alyson Yushe Basin (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/978 J. O'Daniel (Eds.) 2018. Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and 9402410495) Repatriation: Perspectives from Forensic Science (https:// www.springer.com/us/book/9783319618654) Natalie Laudicina, Boston University

“Re-examining birth constraints in nonhuman primates” Books Received: Corey J. A. Bradshaw. 2018. The Effec- 7.14.10 | Journal of Human Evolution Prize tive Scientist. (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ Emma Finestone, CUNY Graduate Center effective-scientist/ EC65B924792BB2C4DAAADAF21FF0AC0F); Donald “ED-XRF study of Oldowan artifacts documents raw B. Brinkman, Patricia A. Holroyd, and James D. Gardner material selection and transport through time on the (Eds.) 2013. Morphology and Evolution of Turtles (https:// Homa Peninsula, Kenya” www.springer.com/us/book/9789400743083); Greg- ory G. Monks (Ed). 2017. Climate Change and Human Responses: A Zooarchaeological Perspective (https:// www.springer.com/us/book/9789402411058); 7.14.11 | 2019 Pollitzer Travel Awards Grazyna Jasienska Diana S. Sherry and Donna The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students J. Holmes, (Eds). 2017. The Arc of Life: Evolution and defray the costs of attending the AAPA meetings. They are named in Health Across the Life Course (https://www.springer. com/us/book/9781493940363) honor of William S. Pollitzer, a Human Biologist who taught at Univer- sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a Darwin Lifetime Achievement

Addison Kemp, University of Texas, Austin Awardee, and past president of the AAPA. The number of awards is also tied to proceeds from the auction that is held at the annual meet- “Effects of reduced binocular visual field on leaping ing of the AAPA in the year prior. The award provides $500 to each performance in a small-bodied strepsirrhine recipient. (Cheirogaleus medius)” This award is open to all AAPA student members (undergraduate Books Received: Julian Cribb. 2017. Surviving the 21st and graduate) who are attending the annual meeting. Students do not Century: Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We need to be giving a presentation at the meeting to qualify but they do Can Overcome Them (https://www.springer.com/gp/ need to be a member of the AAPA at the time of the meeting and CABANA 387 should not have been granted their PhD prior to the submission dead- Libby Cowgill line (Jan 1, 2018). Luke Delezene Following a discussion with the outgoing Student Programs Chair Mark Grabowski (Dr. Leslea Hlusko) and Early Career Liaison (Dr. Felicia Gómez) in 2018, Maureen Devlin the decision was made to have the Pollitzer competition fall under the Michelle Bezanson purview of the Early Career Liaison, currently Dr. Kimberly Congdon. Moses Schanfield The essay question changes each year. Awards are made on the Rachel Menegaz basis of an essay of no more than 750 words (excluding references). Sarah Hlubik The specific prompt for this year was: Scott Maddux Terry Ritzman

Recently, a growing number of universities (and Thierra Nalley funding organizations, particularly in the EU) have Todd Yokley begun to mandate open access publication, especially Zach Throckmorton as the costs associated with maintaining access to Zachary Cofran scholarly journals skyrocket and journals specialize and Zaneta Thayer diversify. As a consequence, scientists working in Evaluation was done on a 100-point scale based on three criteria diverse disciplines must navigate an increasingly com- (30 points for originality and creativity of the position; 50 points for plicated landscape of open access publishing. Authors the soundness of the scenario and logical reasoning based on evolu- can purchase a creative commons license within a tra- tionary biology and theory, including references as needed; and ditional subscription journal or publish in an open 20 points for grammar and spelling). In an effort to standardize the access journal, among other possibilities. scoring system, a rubric was utilized. The rise of discipline-specific open access journals Each entry was given a number, and essays were identified only by motivates this prompt: In an essay of 700-750 words number during the evaluation process. Each essay was scored by three make a case for or against an open access journal for judges. Each judge was asked to score ~12 essays and one back up judge biological anthropology, and specifically address wasusedforconflictsofinterest.Thefinalscoreforeachessaywasdeter- whether AJPA should go open access. Consider both mined as the average of the three independent scores. The judges were sent the value and utility of open access publishing as well the rubric, scoring sheet, and assigned essays by Kim Congdon. Neither the as the associated costs and logistics. Use references as named essays nor the number/name key was accessible at any time to the needed for your answer. judges. No judge evaluated a proposal from a student at their same institu- tion and the chair was not notified of any other conflicts of interest. The deadline for entry was January first, midnight UTC -11 hours. In order to implement the policy that priority would be given to novel The submission website went live in mid-November and we received entrants, students who had received a Pollitzer award previously had entries starting on the 13th of November through to the last few 7 points deducted from their final score. There were 12 entries from previ- minutes before the deadline. We received 104 original essays. A com- ous winners. Eight of these ranked high enough to win a Pollitzer award mittee of 28 judges was convened. again this year even with the 7-point penalty. We followed the protocol implemented last year for increasing the number of Pollitzer prizes awarded and for ranking essays in order to 7.14.12 | Committee of judges for the 2019 Pollitzer increase representation at the AAPA meeting by traditionally underrepre- Travel Awards sented groups. Information to this effect was provided by Heide Rohland Anna Waterman and only accessed by Kim Congdon in determining rank. Biren Patel AAPA had funds to award 47 recipients. A listing of the number of Robert Anemone entries and winners can be found in Table 11, and the names of the 2019 Chris Walker winners are listed in Table 12. One recipient has declined the award Dan Temple (Winful) as she was also the recipient of an IDEAS program fellowship and Darcy Shapiro all of the costs associated with attending the meeting are covered through Erin Franks those funds. She will be considered a first-time entrant in next year's com- Jackson Njau petition, should she choose to participate again. Jeremiah Scott Jessica Dimka 7.14.13 | 2019 Student Presentation Prizes John Lindo Lauren Butaric The deadline for entry to the 2019 AAPA Student Presentation was Lee Gettler February 22, 2019, proceeded following the protocol used in 2018 388 CABANA with minor modifications to streamline judging. This will be the fourth Committee for possible endorsement by the AAPA of a position year that we rely on an online submission form. document developed by the American Society of Human Genetics In light of the number of entries received last year, 42 judges were (ASHG) entitled The Responsibility to Recontact Research Partici- organized to evaluate these presentations. We used an online judging pants after Reinterpretation of Genetic and Genomic Research system following on the protocol first developed in 2017. Results (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.02.025). We are pleased to note the addition of a new prize this year. The 6. We discussed the issue of territory acknowledgement at professional Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) Prize was created by Elsevier Pub- conferences (https://native-land.ca/territory-acknowledgement/) and lishers and the JHE editors in 2019. The purpose for the prize is to the Committee was unanimously in favor of requesting that the support and encourage research excellence in human or primate evo- Executive Committee consider creating a policy in which territorial lution. The JHE Prize is awarded once a year to the most outstanding acknowledgement of indigenous lands becomes part of our annual poster or podium presentation by a student at the AAPA annual meet- meetings. ing in any area of human or primate evolution supported by the journal. The prize is $500 plus an annual digital subscription to the Journal The Ethics Committee will continue its successful Ethics Fellow of Human Evolution. Program. The purposes of the program are (a) to provide interested members—particularly those early in their careers—an opportunity to engage actively with the Ethics Committee and gain experience with 7.15 | Ethics Committee ethics educational and research projects and (b) to help raise ethics lit- The following report was submitted by Robert Anemone. eracy across the association. For 2019–2020, we solicited applica- The 2018–2019 Ethics Committee was chaired by Robert tions and selected two Fellows: Alyson Caine, graduate student at the L. Anemone and consisted of the following members (in alphabetical University of California at Merced, and Nicole Burt, Curator of Human order): Michele Goldsmith, Nina Jablonski, Heather Norton, Julienne Health and Evolutionary Medicine at the Cleveland Museum of Natu- Rutherford, David Strait, Christina Torres-Rouff, Trudy Turner, and ral History. The two newly-appointed Fellows will be working closely Jennifer Wagner. Two Ethics Fellows joined our committee for with mentors within the Ethics Committee on the development of 2018–2019: Alyssa Bader (University of Illinois) and Cara Hirst projects of interest to themselves and the Committee. Returning Fel- (University College London), and we also welcomed back one low Tisa Loewen has completed her survey and report on ethical con- returning Fellow: Tisa Loewen (Arizona State University). cerns among the membership and will be ending her fellowship term Over the course of the 2018–19 year, the Ethics Committee this year. Current Fellow Alyssa Bader ill also complete her term after worked on various items, including: the completion of the planned AAPA meeting workshop, while current Fellow Cara Hirst will be continuing for a second fellowship year. 1. We began to collect information, reading lists, topics of concern, For 2019–2020, Robert Anemone will chair the committee for the and pre-existing syllabi for courses on Ethics in Biological Anthro- second of a 3-year term. Returning members and their remaining term pology. We hope to be able to provide resources and guidance for years are as follows: Michele Goldsmith (1 year), Nina Jablonski those seeking to include modules or entire courses on ethical (1 year), Heather Norton (2 years), Julienne Rutherford (2 years), issues in our field. David Strait (2 years), and Jen Wagner (2 years). Christina Torres- 2. Completion of the returning Ethics Fellow Tisa Loewen's survey/ Rouff and Trudy Turner will be replaced by two new members for questionnaire intended to gauge the current state of ethical con- 3-year terms: Elizabeth DiGangi (SUNY Binghamton) and Rachel Wat- cerns within the biological anthropology community. A final report kins (American University). on the results of this survey instrument was prepared by Tisa with As part of its usual duties, the Committee will be available as a the help of committee member and mentor Jennifer Wagner and nonadjudicative body to promote ethics literacy among AAPA mem- presented to the committee in January 2019 and is included as an bers and to serve as a resource for AAPA members to discuss ethical attachment to this report. challenges. Information about ethics consultations for AAPA members 3. Organization of a professional ethics workshop (Repatriation in the is available on the AAPA website. Digital Age: What can we learn about the ethics of collecting, curat- ing, and using digital representations of the human body?) for the 7.16 | Education committee 2019 AAPAs. The workshop was designed by two of our Ethics Fellows (Bader and Hirst) with help from their mentors (Norton, The following written report was provided by Briana Pobinar. Anemone, and Torres-Rouff). 4. Discussion of an ancient DNA ethics checklist developed by our 7.16.1 | Educator Workshop colleague Varsha Pilbrow (University of Melbourne) and consideration of the desirability of creating similar ethical checklists for Despite having three teachers pre-registered, no teachers actually other issues/areas within our discipline. came to the annual workshop for K-12 educators. Despite this, the 5. Upon the suggestion of Committee Member Jennifer Wagner, the group that was there to facilitate/observe and present classroom- Committee discussed and agreed to move to the Executive ready activities (Briana Pobiner, John Mead, Connie Bertka, Caitlin CABANA 389

Schrein, Kate McGrath, Amy Peterson, K. Lindsay Hunter, Ben Freed) reviewed the 2018 conference events (the discussion in lieu of the had a great meeting and discussion. educator workshop and the school outreach). Given that we will not Briana was already strongly considering a change from doing an be interfacing directly with K-12 teachers in the future during a work- educator workshop on Saturday morning to doing some kind of family shop, we discussed asking the AAPA to post already-made lessons on program in collaboration with a local informal learning venue, and the the website (with contact information to their creators), as well as lack of teachers at the 2018 workshop supported this decision. Briana links to other resources/websites. Other possible items to include on spoke to Denise Su, one of the two local hosts for next year in Cleve- an Education page on the AAPA website included a list of members land about holding some kind of event there on Saturday, likely a fam- who are willing to Skype into classrooms and short, classroom-friendly ily program. Denise is a biological anthropologist who recently interviews of AAPA members. became head of Director of Partnerships & Programs in addition to Curator and Head of Paleobotany & Paleoecology at the Cleveland 7.17 | Auction Ad Hoc Committee Museum of Natural History. Amy Peterson volunteered to help with coordinating this. There was a suggestion to provide some kind of 1. Committee take-home for families, like a scavenger hunt of local biological AUSTIN: 6-member steering committee: Jon Bethard (Co-Chair), anthropology-related things or places to visit (like the zoo). Valerie DeLeon (Co-Chair), Myra Laird (Co-Chair), Susan Antón, Josh Snodgrass; approximately 25 student volunteers. CLEVELAND: Shara Bailey (Co-Chair), Madelynne Dudas (Co- 7.16.2 | School Outreach Chair), Jon Bethard, Melanie Beasley, Myra Laird; approximately Education Committee members participated in outreach in five local 25 student volunteers. Austin, TX classrooms in two schools on the Thursday (April 12) and 2. Emcees Friday (April 13) of the 2018 AAPA conference. On Thursday, three AUSTIN: Jon Bethard and Shara Bailey; 50/50 Melanie Beasley. teams went to visit Anderson High School (a public school) for three CLEVELAND: Jon Bethard and Shara Bailey; 50/50 Melanie pre-AP biology high school classes with ~30 students in each class. Beasley. Participants included Caitlin Schrein, Kate McGrath, Jerry DeSilva, 3. Breakfasts with Bigwigs (formerly Lunches with Luminaries) Lindsay Hunter, John Mitani, Alex Norwood, Amy Peterson, Diana AUSTIN: Anne Grauer and Ken Weiss, Lyle Konigsberg and Sue Sherry, and John Mead. On Friday, one team went to visit St. Gabriel's Frankenberg, Marilyn Norconk, and Laura MacLatchy. Catholic school for group visits for 3–5 grade and 6–8 grade, for >100 CLEVELAND: Peter Ellison and Trudy Turner, Susan Antón and students in each of the two visits. Participants included Caitlin Matt Cartmill (the Darwin and Lasker awardees), Denise Su & Schrein, David Strait, John Mead, Becca Pexiotto, and Mpume Yohannes Haile-Selassie as the Local Arrangements team. Hlophe. The outreach participants talked about their actual research 4. Amazing Advisors and told personal stories. There were smaller breakout groups in the We expanded the opportunities and time period for students to high school that worked with skull or postcranial casts (thanks to John nominate their advisors. Incoming Student Liaison Donovan Mead), but also some more talking “at” the students who had less Adams handled the Amazing Advisors awards. strong backgrounds. Participants notes that there was more time for 5. Costs (Total including breakfasts, shipping, printing) Q&A in the Friday sessions.In the future, the Committee plans to AUSTIN: In 2018, we set up a book booth in the exhibitor's hall to include Wednesday along with Thursday and Friday for school out- reduce stockpiled inventory. Reducing the number of books need- reach. We plan to request photo releases for the students again as ing to be shipped to Cleveland decreased shipping costs and was done in 2018, and we could ask about students that need special increase earnings. accommodations, which we did not do this year. We also decided to CLEVELAND: $300 try to target underserved schools in 2019, and include more biological 6. Items anthropologists of color if we are able to do this. Briana will be work- AUSTIN: 293 book booth, 158 silent, 16 live. ing with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History school programs CLEVELAND: 215 silent, 31 live. coordinator to identify schools for school visits. There was an unre- 7. Earnings (Silent + Live +book booth [just 2018] + 50/50) solved discussion about whether we want to formalize learning out- Austin: $7,567 comes for the school outreach in the future, possibly developing a Cleveland: $9,763 survey to measure this. 8. Additional Student Travel Awards supported Cleveland: $9,463 Education Committee Annual Meeting The Education Committee's annual in-person meeting took place from 7.18 | Data Access Ad Hoc Committee 5-6 p.m. on April 13, 2018. In attendance were Briana Pobiner (Committee Chair), Kate McGrath, Caitlin Schrein, Anna Ragni, Dawn The following written report was submitted by Connie Mulligan. Mulhern, Margarita Hernandez, Amy Peterson, Ben Freed, John Mead, In 2016, AAPA President Susan Antón convened the Ad Hoc Molly Selba, Diana Sherry, Connie Bertka, and K. Lindsay Hunter. We Committee on Data Access. The aim and scope of the committee was 390 CABANA as follows: The sharing and archiving of original data is being increas- Jennifer Wagner, Member (2018–2020) ingly mandated both by funding agencies and by changing standards Darna Dufour, Member, HBA rep (2018–2020) of practice in our discipline. Some subareas of biological anthropology 3. Developed a survey, which was sent to AAPA members over the have requirements for depositing data related to published work summer of 2018, along with the AAPA Ethics Committee survey. (e.g., molecular anthropology and GenBank), and a number of inde- Jennifer Wagner, who serves on both committees, tallied the pendent archiving systems of individual datasets have been responses (to be discussed at our 2019 committee meeting). established by various research groups. A variety of new technologies Briefly, there were only 53 responses (77% of 52 respondents have expanded the technical capabilities to archive large digital data- identified themselves as women). bases, including 3D digital databases. Technological advances not- withstanding, a number of nontrivial issues surround how and whether to have standardized data depositories, what constitutes 7.20 | Student Ad Hoc Committee “ ” raw data, and what the role of the AAPA and its journals should be The following written report was submitted by Natalie Laudicina. in those requirements. This committee's charge is to consider these questions and to report to the AAPA executive committee on current conditions, considerations to be viewed, and next steps to be taken. 7.20.1 | Committee structure

The Committee is chaired by Trudy Turner and Connie Mulligan. As per the structure created by the Executive Committee of the Other committee members include Doug Boyer, Eric Delson and Wil- AAPA, the Ad Hoc Student Committee co-chairs are the current and liam Leonard. The committee met via Skype in 2017. The committee incoming Student Liaisons for the AAPA Executive Committee. The agreed that a workshop on data sharing and archiving would be use- current (and outgoing) liaison is Natalie Laudicina and the incoming ful. Turner and Mulligan prepared an NSF proposal for a workshop liaison is Donovan Adams. which was funded. The committee met at the 2018 meetings to prepare for the workshop. The workshop was held in Milwaukee, WI February 8–9, 2019. 7.20.2 | 2018–2019 Student Liaison Activities There were 41 participants representing all subfields of biological • The third annual Student and Early Career Mixer was held on anthropology. In addition, a representative of the AJPA publisher, Wednesday, April 11, 2018. Wiley, was present as was the Program Director for biological anthro- The meet-and-greet attracted ~85 student attendees. pology at NSF. Other workshop participants included representative The fourth annual Mixer took place on Wednesday, March of major data sharing and data archiving websites including Dryad and 27, 2019. IDigBio. Workshop participants drafted guiding principles for data • The student bulletin was drafted by the Student Liaison and the sharing in biological anthropology and discussed ways in which the current and incoming AAPA Presidents. The last email bulletin was AAPA and the AJPA can facilitate data sharing. These will be published sent to all registered student members of the AAPA on October in the journal and will be available on the website. 12, 2018. An additional one will be sent in February 2019. The bulletin highlighted student-relevant opportunities and deadlines 7.19 | Science Policy Ad Hoc Committee (abstract submission, funding opportunities, student presentation awards, etc.), with links to the Association's website for more The following written report was submitted by Karen Strier. detailed information. Additionally, the bulletin highlighted ways for The Science Policy committee has accomplished three aims since students to become more involved in the AAPA. These events and it was established in 2017: deadlines were also advertised via social media. • The Ad Hoc Student Committee met at the 2018 AAPA meeting. 1. Developed a Mission statement, retrieved from http://www. Approximately 25 people attended. Those present agreed that the physanth.org/about/committees/science-policy/aapa-science- student bulletin implemented last year was very helpful and would policy-committee-broader-impacts-statement/ like to see it continue. We focus on five key areas of interest: Human story; Global Health; Ethics; Environment and Conservation; Education. We encourage AAPA members to send us feedback. TABLE 10 History of the number of entries and judges for the 2. Expanded the committee membership and established terms for Student Presentation Prizes, 2014–2018 committee members. Current members and terms are as follows: Year Number of entries Number of judges – Karen Strier, Co-chair (2017 2021) 2014 39 — Dennis O'Rourke, Co-chair (2017–2021) 2015 31 — Robin Nelson, Liaison to the EC (2018–2021) 2016 45 21 Ömer Gökçümen, Member (2017–2020) 2017 69 34 Amy Rector-Verrelli, Member (2017–2020) 2018 63 39 Anne Stone, Member (2017–2019) CABANA 391

Approximately 80% of those present were aware of the student Sciences (IDEAS) can be found in Table 13, and of the Undergraduate Facebook group. Research Symposium Travel Award, in Table 14. A survey after the Austin meeting showed that the majority of students were unaware that the student committee meeting 9 | GABRIEL W. LASKER SERVICE AWARD was an open event. A Facebook event was created to explain that any student member was welcome to attend for the Cleve- The AAPA Gabriel W. Lasker Award for Outstanding Service was land meeting. presented to Susan Antón by Graciela Cabana and Agustín Fuentes, The main request from students was for increased networking who jointly nominated her for the award. events. The following remarks were offered by Graciela Cabana and • The Student Liaison worked with the Student Programs committee Agustín Fuentes: member to highlight the over 13 current networking events at the We are honored to introduce to you Susan Antón as the Gabriel meeting. This included working with the App developers to make W. Lasker Awardee (Figure 1). the term “student” searchable in the meeting program as well as an Susan has been serving our discipline in myriad ways for a very, increased social media presence advertising meeting events of very long time: interest to the student members. Looking back at our collective times at UC Berkeley, I [Graciela] • The AAPA Student Members Facebook group continues to be an was essentially Susan's undergraduate mentee during her time as a active place for student interactions and advertising for student- graduate student at Cal. Having experienced the consistency of relevant news and events. The group currently has over 2,900 Susan's character over these 20+ years, I have no doubt that even members, an increase of 700 people since April. The members back then, I was not the only one who was gently supported by her in include both students and senior AAPA members who frequently the course of my career. post opportunities and information for students. And Susan and I [Agustín] were more or less in the same graduate • The AAPA Room Sharing page, an initiative started last year has cohort at UC Berkeley, but we did not move in the same circles and been going strong. Many students have reported using this mostly just occasionally greeted one another in the hall. And yet, we Facebook page to find and share lodging at the annual meetings both were deeply impacted (for better and for worse) by our time and during data collection. There are currently over 100 student there in ways that we later realized created a shared need to change members in this closed Facebook group. our discipline. And change the discipline is exactly what Susan • Many students reported wanting increased networking events with has done. other student members. Therefore, a pilot “buddy” program was Over the years, she has not limited her support efforts to individ- planned for the Cleveland meeting. Any students wanting to meet uals, but also to organizations. Susan has been active in her academic other students and plan dinners, social events, etc. met in the hotel departments, journal editorial boards, the AAAS, and the Ford Foun- lobby the mornings of the meeting. Attendance was not required dation (to name a few), but we argue that it is our organization that and a Facebook event was advertised via social media to let stu- has perhaps benefitted the most from her leadership. dents know of this opportunity. This is also a good way for stu- Due to Susan's steady efforts, the AAPA has transitioned from an dents who do not have other members from their Departments organization with a narrow mandate to the AABA, an organization have a good experience at the meeting. that is richly responsive to its members while encouraging a better science. Susan has worked tirelessly to champion, engage, and support a 7.20.3 | Planned 2019 AAPA Meeting (Cleveland) diverse range of voices in bioanthropology, as well as the rights and Student Committee Events value of those voices that have historically been excluded, silenced, and abused by the AAPA. • AAPA Student Committee Meeting Susan served on the AAPA Executive Committee as Vice-Presi- • AAPA Student & Early Career Meet-and-Greet dent, President-Elect, and President. In that time, she developed and • Student Social Mixer initiated substantive changes to AAPA's governance structure to • Buddy Program inform and re-envision the Association's stance on harassment, structural aspects of the annual meeting organization, and energized the 8 | AWARD PRESENTATIONS association to engage directly and forcefully with contemporary issues at the juncture of scholarship and ethics. This included charging the The AAPA confers a substantial number of meeting travel awards, as Ethics Committee to develop a Statement on Harassment on behalf of well as professional development grants and workshop awards, the Association and taking steps to change conference culture by ask- throughout the year. Recipients of these awards were recognized during conference registrants to electronically acknowledge a statement ing the business meeting. The awardees of the AAPA Committee on on conduct—a radical, and necessary move, that enables the AAPA to Diversity's Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological be a leader in this arena. 392 CABANA

As co-originator and director of the Committee on Diversity Susan stuff I wanted to do—I hope you know who you are and that I have helped usher in a new phase, and a new sense of inclusion, in biologi- thanked you. To those who have entrusted me with moving your own cal anthropology. Susan inaugurated a new landscape for Presidential suggestions and concerns forward– Thank you. To those of you who Panels by making them interactive discourses on the state of the disci- have constructively challenged the work—thank you for making it bet- pline, the association, and the ways in which we seek to develop the ter and moving it forward. best possible community of biological anthropologists. The Panels Graciela and Agustín—it is especially meaningful to know this have produced spin-off workshops on mental health and diversity, as nomination came from you—because you both have worked tremen- well as game-changing symposia on diversity, pedagogy, ethics, and dously hard for the discipline, have been and continue to be inspira- inclusion. tions to me, and have always had my back. THANK YOU. And Go Much of this work Susan has accomplished through quiet nudges, Bears! but punctuated with bouts of visible activism. For example, Susan led To my original dream-team of officers—Annie Katzenberg, Karen the AAPA membership in one of many nation-wide Marches for Sci- Rosenberg, and Anne Grauer—with the newer additions of Josh ence taking place in 2017, culminating in a charged speech in front of Snodgrass and Leslie Aiello. Thank you for helping me achieve the New Orleans’ City Hall (Figure 2). right balance of caution and courage. And most especially for affir- Through her steady, supportive leadership and strong work ethic, ming that I am not bossy, I simply have leadership skills! Susan has inspired a culture of support and care within the AAPA To every other officer and ancestor, hidden laborer and unsung which actively enriches our intellectual work and makes us all better hero from whom I have learned—who kept us solvent, was open to scholars… But always with humility and healthy dose of introversion. new voices and mostly civil. THANK YOU. Susan's colleague of 20 years, Josh Snodgrass, writes, “for some- To the students, the IDEAS scholars, all our student members but one who claims to hate people (favorite Susan quote: I always wanted especially my students—you have no idea how much I learn from you to be a veterinarian until it dawned on me that at the other end of every day. I can't wait to see where you take us. And it will be YOU every leash was a…person), her work with AAPA was the ultimate who take us – even if you don't yet realize that. Let me tell you how labor of love for people—in which she created a rich scientific meeting I know… but one that welcomed, respected, and empowered all people. She is As a first-year graduate student, on my way to my very first pro- who we should thank for our meetings being what they are today.” — — Ripan Malhi adds that Susan is “an academic who has made important fessional meeting the AAPA in 1988 to which none of my graduate — contributions to her field and has also dedicated her time to making cohort or advisors were going my dad, who normally was a man of biological anthropology a more inclusive discipline. She is a role model few, mainly stern words about working hard – said to me: “Mija, for all of us with similar goals.” remember, the most important things that happen at that meeting will She is eminently deserving of the Lasker Service Award. Thank not be in the session rooms. They will be in the hallways and the bar.” you, Susan, for all you do. We present to you, Dr. Susan Antón, the And because he knew me well, he reminded me, “don't forget to talk 2019 Lasker Service Awardee. to people.” Susan Antón offered the following remarks upon receiving the Knowing no one, I screwed up my courage, and talked. And I award: learned then something that I still believe to be true—that the people It would seem that I have one last service to perform for the of the AAPA are (mostly) welcoming and kind. Except for when they AAPA—and that is to be brief – we have important stuff to do! But are not. please do not misinterpret the brevity (or not) of my remarks as a lack Civil dialogue and progress are predicated on TRUST. Today we of appreciation. need that trust more than ever. I am incredibly grateful to AAPA and Like many of you here tonight, I study the evolution of humans our members for exhibiting that trust more often than many other primarily using skeletal evidence. And because of this, my first instinct organizations. I am grateful for the difficult dialogues we have been is to try to understand the underlying structure of a thing, whether it willing to have and to have civilly. We are not perfect—but we have — be an organism or an organization where that structure facilitates shown great capacity to “Be the Change” we can imagine, to fight for — movement and where it impedes it to think about how the inputs to the things we believe, to grow our discipline, our science and the system shape and direct it. To think about how we could make it ourselves. better by imagining the outcomes we might want, and changing inputs I am profoundly moved by this award—but even more so by the to select for those results. I often walk into a room and think—does possibility of things to come. that wall need to be there. Sometimes it does and without it the whole enterprise would collapse—more often it does not. It is an occupational hazard and a lens I inevitably have brought to 10 | CHARLES R. DARWIN LIFETIME this work—but it is not work that I have done alone. An award like this ACHIEVEMENT AWARD is never really about the person holding the crystal cube – service to a greater whole is allowed and facilitated by the work of many hands The Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to and the ideas of many people. So for all of you who have supported Matt Cartmill by Natalie Laudicina, who nominated him for the award. CABANA 393

The following introduction was presented to the AAPA by Natalie role in securing private funding helped to keep the Center running Laudicina. until a new Director was appointed. It is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Matt Cartmill as the Charles Cartmill has written extensively on the philosophy of science and R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award recipient (Figure 3). Matt is a the intellectual history of our discipline. His cutting critiques of social renaissance scholar of anthropology where throughout his academic constructionism and human exceptionalism in anthropological thought career, he has been recognized as a dedicated teacher, a brilliant are well known and widely cited. His 2018 review of systematic the- scholar, and an asset to the community and Association through his ory and its impact on the past century of scientific thinking about service. Born in Los Angeles, he attended Pomona College and gradu- human evolution was one of the highlights of last year's centennial ated summa cum laude. Matt went to the University of Chicago, where issue of the AJPA. I would also like to point out that the cover was his growing interests in primate anatomy and evolution, drew him to drawn by Matt. Russ Tuttle as a thesis advisor. At the University of Chicago, Cartmill's service to our profession and our association is excep- Dr. Cartmill had a sort of epiphany, which he described 35 years later tional and longstanding. He co-founded the International Journal of Pri- in these words: matology. With his wife, collaborator, and partner Kaye Brown, he served as the editor of the IJP, the AJPA, and two book series, and One day as I was walking across campus, I startled a directed the 1994 meetings of the AAPA. He has also served as the gray squirrel that was ratting around beside a trashcan AAPA's President, and as the Chair of my department at Boston looking for leftovers. It darted for the nearest tree, University. galloped up the far side of the trunk, jumped onto the Over the past 3 years, he has worked as an Associate Editor of adjoining building—and then ran three stories straight the Centennial AJPA and as the Senior Associate Editor of the Interna- up a featureless vertical stone wall and disappeared tional Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. Few people with his onto the roof. The more I thought about that squirrel, level of distinction as a thinker, scholar, and researcher have done as the more I was convinced that there was something wrong with the textbooks. much in the course of their careers to advance the careers of others, help improve their work, and advance the interests of our profession.

That conviction culminated in a 1970 thesis on “The Orbits of Arbo- I am sure quite a few of you in this room have experienced Matt's real Mammals,” which was deeply destructive to the story found in all thoughtful critiques and challenging edits. My dissertation has seen “ ” the textbooks of the time. Cartmill undertook extensive comparisons their fair share of edits, including his favorite comment: not parallel ! with nonprimates to show that living in trees was by itself no explana- Now that I think about it, I'm sure Matt is mentally critiquing this tion of primate anatomy, and argued that loris-like visual predation on speech in red pen. insects was the way of life that had selected for the distinctive pecu- Which brings me to perhaps an even more lasting legacy of liarities of primates. Cartmill's lifetime of achievement—the influence that he has had on In his writings of the 1970s, Cartmill (along with others) trans- generations of students at Duke and BU. The “Dialogues in Biological formed the foundations of the human evolutionary narrative. His Anthropology” that he and Kaye staged at BU, and the classic text- ideas of the 1970s have become fixtures of our textbooks, and con- books that emerged from his teaching experience have inspired, chal- tinue to provoke debate and research 50 years after their inception. lenged, and channeled the thinking of students at all levels, from His wide-ranging investigations of the anatomy, biomechanics, and undergraduates to M.D. and Ph.D. students, for over 40 years. ecology of arboreal mammals resulted in new analyses and under- Matt's dedication to teaching has led to him receiving multiple standing of the comparative and functional anatomy of the hands, teaching awards, as well as a being the subject of a student Facebook feet, orbit, and ear region in primates and other mammals. group titled “I Love Matt Cartmill.” I personally was introduced to bio- In later research, he brought his signature comparative method to logical anthropology through Dr. Cartmill's book, The Human Lineage bear on other aspects of human evolution. His insistence on seeking with Fred Smith. The combination of detailed drawings and the analogies for our origins in the adaptations of nonhominoids and non- description of human evolution starting with Paleozoic fishes produce primates is something he has tirelessly drilled into generations of a volume that is as useful to students new to anthropology as to graduate students at Duke and BU, few of whom have escaped one advanced scholars. of his private exhortations to learn about rodents. I know that I As Dr. Cartmill approaches retirement, the Darwin Award is an haven't! appropriate recognition of his accomplishments. This award is a fitting This insistence is also reflected in his generous and inclusive atti- capstone to a life characterized by thoughtful insights, innovative tude towards the lives and capacities of other animals, expressed in scholarship and research, devotion to teaching, and dedicated, selfless his writings on animal rights and animal consciousness, and above all service to the AAPA and to the world of biological anthropology. in his award-winning 1993 intellectual history of hunting and nature I am thrilled and honored to present the AAPA Charles Darwin in Western thought, A View to a Death in the Morning. Lifetime Achievement Award to Matt Cartmill! Also of note was Dr. Cartmill's role in keeping the Duke Lemur Matt Cartmill offered the following remarks upon receiving the Center operating in 1977 after Duke ordered its closure. Dr. Cartmill's award: 394 CABANA

Thank you, Natalie, for saying those kind and generous things. I TABLE 11 History of the number of entries and winners for the can't begin to say how much this award means to me—especially to Pollitzer Travel Essay Competition, 2012–2019 have it handed to me by someone who is not only bright and talented Pollitzer Travel Essay Competition and going places, but is also almost certainly my very last graduate Year Number of entries Number of winners student. And that's fitting, because—as you may have heard—this is — the very last Darwin Award that is going to be given by the AAPA. 2012 43 (The next one will be given by the AABA.) 2013 — 43 I would like to thank Jon Marks, who deserves to be credited on 2014 — 50 the record with inventing this award. In 1989, just after I had joined 2015 40 24 the Executive Committee by becoming the AJPA Editor, Jon suggested 2016 68 42 to me that the AAPA needed to start a Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 118 50 to replace the discontinued Viking Fund Medals. Jon wanted to call it 2018 75 57 the Harry Shapiro Award and give it to Ashley Montagu. I proposed 2019 104 46 this to the Executive Committee, and they thought that was a won- derful idea, so they made it the Charles Darwin Award and gave it to Sherwood Washburn. I kept pushing for Montagu, who did get the Chris Kirk—the list goes on and on. How could any fish swim in that award about 3 years later; but Shapiro didn't make it. Looking back, I sea without glittering? guess Darwin probably makes a more striking statue. It is the dramatic Out of all these names, two deserve special notice. One is Russ Tuttle, cloak. mythesisadvisoratChicago.Russell mentored me, taught me anatomy, I have many, many people to thank—for everything. You know, we took me to Africa and Europe on his grants, and promoted my work and biologists say that the properties of an organism are due to a combi- my interests with unfailing altruism and generosity. I would not be stand- nation of its heredity, its environment, and the interaction between ing here tonight without his help and encouragement. them. It follows logically that none of us deserve any credit for And finally, the most important person I have to thank for what- anything. ever my lifetime achievement amounts to: my life's partner, my col- With that in mind, I would like to give credit where credit is due. league, my co-editor, co-author, co-parent of our brilliant daughter Let me start with the heredity. I am deeply indebted to my ancestors. Erica, collaborator, critic, fountainhead of ideas, and all-around wise Without them, I would not be here today. Most of them were fish, woman—Kaye. Without Kaye, I would never have accomplished half but I know that you will not hold that against me. They gave me every of what I've managed to do. Kaye, I want you to stand—I know you do gene I have, except for the mutations, which are original. I have not want to, but I want you to stand and share this with me, so that copyrighted those. If I had been consulted, I might have suggested everyone here understands how impossible it would have been for some different alleles at certain loci. But I was not asked. That is the me to have gotten here tonight without you. Thank you. point. And thanks to you all for making it possible for us to have been None of my ancestors could be here this evening, so I want to part of the currents of our history. We are all waves on the surface of thank instead the people who gave me my environment. And that those currents: little waves on the great ocean of human understand- includes everyone in this room. You have been my teachers, my stu- ing. Some of our waves cancel each other out and disappear; some- dents, my colleagues, my collaborators, and my critics. You are my times they coincide and reinforce each other—but they are all moving environment. You've taught me almost everything I know. You've in the same direction. And sometimes a wave here and there will applauded my good questions and right answers, and you've kicked catch the light, and sparkle. I'm very lucky to have been a part of those my bad questions and my wrong answers to the curb. Thank you! You currents and that direction; and I'm very grateful to all of you for hav- have made me better than I would have been. We have all made each ing given me a chance to catch the light for a moment on the surface other better than we would be without each other. of that sea. Thanks! Thank you all. I started this trajectory when I entered graduate school back in 1964—55 years ago!—at the University of Chicago. My teachers there 11 | REPORTS BY AFFILIATED included Len Radinsky, Leigh Van Valen, Everett Olson, Jim Hopson, ORGANIZATIONS Richard Lewontin, Robert Braidwood, Clark Howell, Lew Binford, Charles Oxnard, and Russ Tuttle. What a galaxy! How could I help 11.1 | National Science Foundation (NSF), presented shining when I was reflecting the light of those stars? by Rebecca Ferrell, Program Director for Biological I went from Chicago to Duke, where I helped John Buettner- Anthropology, Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Janusch and David Robertson build another amazing program. The list Sciences, Directorate of Social, Behavioral, & of teachers and students at Duke during my years there included Rich Economic Sciences (SBE) Kay, Bill Hylander, Elwyn Simons, Steve Churchill, Dan Schmitt, Pierre Lemelin, Chris Vinyard, Hans Thewissen, Peter Ungar, Susan Strait, Rebecca Ferrell makes three points: First, she adds her thanks to the Mike Plavcan, Bob Sussman, Anne Yoder, Dan Gebo, Callum Ross, organizers and participants of the NSF-funded Data Sharing CABANA 395

TABLE 12 2019 Pollitzer Travel Award Recipients TABLE 12 (Continued)

Malorie Albee (The Ohio State University) Devin Ward (University of Toronto) Rachel Bell (UMass Amherst) Kendra Weinrich (The Ohio State University) Steph Berger (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Olawunmi Winful (Vanderbilt University)a

Katherine Bishop (University of Alberta) aDeclined the award as she is a recipient of an IDEAS program participant Kelly Blevins (Arizona State University) and all of the costs associated with attending the meeting are covered Emily Brennan (University of South Carolina) through those funds. Laura Brubaker-Wittman (Boston University) Andre Luiz (Campelo dos Santos Federal Workshop. Second, NSF released a “Dear Colleague” letter on the day University of Pernambuco) of this meeting regarding research on sexual and other forms of Carlye Chaney (Yale University) harassment in STEM contexts. Third, NSF received a 7.8 billion budget Katherine Daiy (Yale University) for FY2018, representing an increase of $295.14 million from Andrea DiGiorgio (Boston University) FY2017. Publicly available data show that the actual FY2018 research Jessica Dolding-Smith (University of Kent) budget was 15% higher than the President's proposed FY2018 budget Katie Faillace (Cardiff University) across NSF as a whole, but only 2% higher for SBE, the Directorate representing Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Archeol- Jacqueline Galimany Skupham (California State University, Chico) ogy, and Linguistics. Sara Gardner (Georgia State University) Rebecca George (University of Nevada, Reno) 11.2 | Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Matthew Go (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Research, presented by Danilyn Rutherford, President Katherine Harrington (University of Hawaii at Manoa) The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research is a key Alexa Kelly (University of North Texas Health Science Center) private funder of anthropological research. We support all subfields of Andrew Kim (Northwestern University) the discipline world-wide in the wide variety of forms it takes. We Allyson King (University of Calgary) fund people how study bones, primates, pot shards, microsediments, Ludmila Kumpan (University of Toronto) wedding ceremonies, political movements, and random conversations. Ruairidh Macleod (Cambridge University) We fund scholars trained in cultural anthropology, linguistic anthro- Aleksey Maro (University of California, Berkeley) pology, archeology, and biological anthropology, along with a growing Sara McGuire (The Ohio State University) number who blur these boundaries. Allison McNamara (University of Texas at Austin) Wenner-Gren was founded in 1941 by two men who somehow Brianne Morgan (McMaster University) hit upon the discipline as a beneficiary without really knowing what it Kristen Morrow (University of Georgia) was. Our origin story involves vacuum cleaners, plunger yachts the Bram Mulder (University of Cambridge) size of ocean liners, a story about a big game hunt that probably is not Taylor Paskoff (University of Missouri) true, and an amateur archeology expedition to Peru. Basically, it is a stroke of amazing good luck that Anthropology Sam Patterson (Arizona State University) has its own endowment, and we try to use that endowment well to Taylor Peacock (McMaster University) support our discipline. We have an endowment of around $165 mil- Emily Peschel (University of Calgary) lion dollars a year. We give away roughly $5.5 million dollars a year, Megan Petersdorf (New York University) we receive 1,500 proposals a year, and we try to spend this money to Kristen Prufrock (Johns Hopkins support our mission, which is to advance anthropological knowledge, University School of Medicine) increase the impact of anthropology in the wider world, address the Alexandra Ptacek (Arizona State University) precarity of anthropology and anthropologists, and promote a truly Mustafa Quadir (Beloit College) inclusive vision of the field. Amanda Rossillo (Duke University) We have many different programs: small grants, conferences, sym- Katharine Ryan (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) posia, and a magazine for nonanthropologists called Sapiens that has Kristin Sabbi (University of New Mexico) been accessed 5 million times in its first 3 years. We have one new Elena A Sierra (Uppsala University) program that I would like to highlight: Sapiens Postdoctoral Public Fel- Julia Stuhlträger (Max Planck Institute lowship Program. This is for individuals who are receiving PhDs who for Evolutionary Anthropology) would like to develop skills in writing and editing for popular audi- Ariane Thomas (University of Iowa) ences. That deadline is May 31st. If you are interested, please get in Rachel Voyt (University of Texas at Austin) touch with me. Thank you for this opportunity and yes, we do want to (Continues) fund you! 396 CABANA

11.3 | The Leakey Foundation, presented by Paddy 5. Campaign for Science (Ken Koizumi, Senior Advisor, AAAS) is an Moore, Program Officer outreach and advocacy program aimed bringing science into public discussions but without explicit program announcement. Private We have many programs, but I would like to tell you about our main funds have been committed to have similar science-related mes- program, our research grants. We fund about $1 million per year. We saging coming out in various venues. fund equally in most years PhD candidates and postdocs. We fund 6. Societies Consortium on Sexual Harassment in Science, Technol- almost equally research into behavioral studies and paleoanthropology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (Andrew Black, ogy. You are welcome to visit our website and stop by our table to Chief of Staff, Chief External Affairs Officer, AAAS). This is a big hear more about our programs. new program that is newly launched; AAPA is an inaugural member. The Consortium will be producing materials to help eliminate 11.4 | National Geographic, presented by Miguel sexual harassment from STEMM; it was stimulated by NAS report. Vilar, Senior Program Officer Learn more at the website.

We have funded anthropology writ large for a long time. Archeology has been our mainstay, but we also fund biological anthropology 11.6 | AAAS Section H Secretary Report (e.g., paleoanthropology, primatology, human biology, and molecular anthropology). 1. The second Robert W. Sussman Award for Scientific Contributions We have an Early Career Grant for individuals pursuing their doc- to Anthropology, 2018 was awarded to Dr. Erin Vogel, Professor toral degree or no further than 5 years past their PhD, Exploration of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Grants that cover all aspects anthropology, and we have Requests for 2. Please consider nominating top people for the 2020 Sussman Proposals (RFPs). Right now, we have two: one to fund ancient DNA, Award (deadline: April 30). Consult the Section H Facebook page: and another in paleoanthropology, especially in Central and South https://www.facebook.com/Section-H-AAAS-Anthropology- East Asia. 644296642377229/ and at the AAPA website. 3. The next AAAS meeting will be held in Seattle, on April 13–16, 11.5 | American Association for the Advancement of 2020 with the theme Envisioning Tomorrow's Earth. Deadline for Science (AAAS) symposia submissions is April 18th. See the AAAS website for information. Karen Strier prepared the following written report: 4. Student memberships in AAAS are only $25.

1. The AAAS Meeting of Affiliates was held on Friday, February 15, 2019 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. during the 2019 annual AAAS 11.7 | Biological Anthropology Section of the meeting in Washington, DC. American Anthropological Association (BAS-AAA), 2. Rush Holt, CEO (outgoing) gave opening remarks. presented by Adam Van Arsdale, BAS Chair 3. Dan Barry, Director of Local and State Advocacy, AAAS spoke This year the AAAs will be November 20–24 in Vancouver, Canada. about a new outreach program to help promote scientific advo- The deadline for starting your submission is April 5, and you have until cacy by providing scientists with help (training) in how to inform April 10 to finish it. If you have never been to the AAA, it is a great local and state policy makers about issues such as climate change, place to put together an intimate conversation within the context of a water safety, energy, and so on. Goal is to help establish scientists larger anthropological meeting. If you have any questions, please seek as local community leaders on policy. Pilot program is being launched in a select set of states, with the goal of network build- out me, or Christopher Dana Lynn, our Program Chair, or Julie Lesnik, ing. Which states can be found at AAAS website. our Program Chair Designate, or Holly Dunsworth, our Chair-Elect. 4. Update on Federal R&D Budget, from Joanne Carney, Director, I would like to briefly plug American Anthropologist (AA). Along Government Relations, AAAS: Big change in U.S. Congress; >100 with Mary Shenk, we are the new members of the AA Editorial Board new members, about 10% of freshman class have STEM back- representing Biological Anthropology. If you were inspired by the Vital ground (vs. ~5% of congress); democrats chair science-related Topics Forum essays that just came out, I encourage you to reach out committees including New Climate Crisis committee. Main science to me about submitting to American Anthropologist. Thank you policy issues of new Congress: climate change, voting technology, very much. artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific advice. (White house issues include latter two plus export controls and immigration/visa 11.8 | Local Arrangements Committee 2018–2019 issues). Can expect changes in student visa issues coming forward. Shut down affected government budget but as of this date, Con- Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs Stephanie Meredith and gress had recommended an increase in science funding in 2019 Kristi Lewton provide encouraging remarks for your attendance at the and 2020 but always a moving target. Details available at website. 2019 Annual Meetings in Los Angeles, California. CABANA 397

12 | OLD BUSINESS The motion was approved by a show of ballot cards by a majority of the regular voting members in attendance. The motion will be 12.1 | Association name change moved for action at the next annual business meeting in Los Angeles. Anne Grauer made the following motion: to amend the Constitu- Leslie Aiello reported the results of a nonbinding survey of the entire tion and Bylaws of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists membership that took place in Fall 2018. Just under 82% of those by striking out the word “Physical” and inserting the word “Biological” in members who participated in the survey voted to change the name of all instances where the title of the Association appears, pending approval “ the Association. Of those who voted, 66.9% preferred to keep Amer- of this change by the State of Kansas. The motion was seconded by ” ican in the name while 24.4% preferred no geographic term in the Lyle Konigsberg. name. Fifty-nine percent of respondents voted in favor of the name Parliamentarian Williams calls for discussion; no discussion American Association of Biological Anthropologists. followed. The motion was approved by a show of ballot cards by a The Executive Committee took this as an indication to move for- majority of the regular voting members in attendance. The motion will ward to see how many of the voting members were in favor of chang- be moved for action at the next annual business meeting in Los ing the Association name to the American Association of Biological Angeles. Anthropologists. We conducted a second nonbinding survey of Regular (voting) members only in March 2019. Eighty-five percent of voting 13 | NEW BUSINESS member respondents voted in favor, and 15% against. Parliamentarian Jim Williams outlined the four procedural steps to 13.1 | Membership dues ultimately changing the Association's name in the Constitution and Bylaws. The first step is that a proposal for a name change must be Rachel Caspari led the discussion of a change in membership fee rates submitted in writing by at least five regular members. Step 2, that pro- to avoid future financial losses for the Association. As she reported posal is sent to the Executive Committee, and the Executive Commit- earlier, the AAPA runs meetings at a loss, while at the same time pro- tee thoroughly discusses, reviews, and researches the proposed viding valuable services for our members, especially our student and amendment. If the Executive Committee feels that it is appropriate, it contingent members. Losses are fine as long as we keep our eyes on sends the proposal to the next annual meeting—that is, this meeting. the financial long-term. Also, our rates are far lower than virtually any Step 3, the voting members votes to send the proposal for final con- other professional organization. We have not raised our rates since sideration at next year's annual business meeting, taking place in 2020 2004, and would need to raise our rates by about 25% to keep up in Los Angeles. Steps 2 (Executive Committee discussion) and 3 (this with inflation since 2004. Rachel Caspari made the following motion, that the AAPA raise annual business meeting vote), as Ordinary Business, are considered membership dues 23% for all membership categories, excluding members to be procedural votes. As Robert's Rules of Order (11th edition) residing in qualifying countries. Susan Antón seconded the motion. clearly states, ordinary business is conducted by majority vote. The Parliamentarian Jim Williams calls for a discussion of the motion. votes taken today to change the name of the Association in its Arti- A question from the floor is raised about perhaps keeping student cles of Incorporation, and in the Constitution and Bylaws, and to rates unchanged. Rachel Caspari answers that this option was dis- charge next year's assembly to conduct a final vote, requires only a cussed by the Executive Committee, which felt that an effective stu- majority vote. Parliamentarian Williams proposes to conduct voting dent membership rate increase of $15 per year would be not overly efficiently and with great accountability via a rise of the voting cards onerous. A second question was asked about the per member cost of already provided to regular members with their badges upon registra- the Association's journals in order to contextualize a membership rate tion check-in. Voting members had also been asked to sit closer to the change. Leslie Aiello answers that the Association pays Wiley $99 per front of the assembly hall. regular member and approximately $45 per student member. After Anne Grauer made the following motion: amend the Articles of subtracting the cost of the journals from the membership dues, very Incorporation of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists by little is left to cover operational costs. “ ” “ ” striking out the word Physical and inserting the word Biological in all Lisa Danish motioned to amend the current motion by adding the instances where the title of the Association appears, pending approval of following to the motion's end: “and for contingent faculty.” Stephanie this change by the State of Kansas. The motion was seconded by Ben- Meredith seconded the motion. jamin Auerbach. Parliamentarian Williams calls for discussion on the amendment. Parliamentarian Williams calls for discussion. Fred Smith, regular Rachel Caspari argues that we should consider the fact that contin- member, states that it is clear that there are no legal impediments to gent faculty can make a wide range of salaries. “Lady in Black” pro- this change. He asks the AAPA Officers for an estimate of any cost to poses that in the future perhaps a maximum salary for contingent the Association in carrying out the process of an Association name faculty be set. Leslie Aiello points out that last year the Association change. Anne Grauer responds that the Executive Committee has recently created the Contingent faculty rate, so that the proposed considered the cost, and that the only cost is human hours of 23% rate increase is already being distributed proportionally. We also aggravation. need to think about the operational costs of the Association, and 398 CABANA reiterates that $15 - $20 raise should not be onerous. Stephanie Mer- and contingent faculty, and second, might price raises affect atten- edith asks whether contingent faculty (or anybody else) can approach dance as we are considering that we want attendance be inclusive. the Executive Committee to ask for special dispensation, in lieu of an We do not want to raise prices in such a way that they affect peoples’ across-the-board amendment? Leslie Aiello responds that this is a decisions to be members and come back year after year. What are the possible idea but we have no established guidelines or procedure for other ways that we can cut costs and continue to provide services? that. A regular member then states that a $20 increase can be oner- Parliamentarian Williams responds that the Executive Committee will ous, and that perhaps we should shift the burden entirely onto regu- take this into consideration. Another member states that dues seem lar, instead of contingent and student, members. Perhaps the to already have been charged at a higher rate. Leslie Aiello says the Executive Committee can consider this option for next year. An audi- dues have not been raised, but the registration fees have. ence member asks for clarification on the procedure to enact a sliding Parliamentarian Williams calls for a vote on the amendment to the scale or a cut off for hardship? Leslie Aiello restates that we have no main motion. The amendment passes by majority vote. procedures in place right now. It is not a trivial thing to think through The main motion now reads: The AAPA raise membership dues by and would take considerable discussion. Laurie Godfrey, Regular 30% for Regular Members. An audience member asks that we remind Member (at Retired Rate), states that most retired members are finan- the audience that only Regular Members should be voting by raising cially fine and could be asked to pay more to compensate. the printed ballot card provided with your badge. The motion passes At this point Parliamentarian Williams, Leslie Aiello, and Rachel with a majority vote (three opposed). Caspari hold a brief conference, after which the Parliamentarian pro- John Hawks proposes a round of applause for our Parliamentarian; poses a withdrawal of the amendment on the floor, and amend the a hearty round of applause ensues. original to raise rates only for the Regular Members. Lisa Danish withdraws the amendment. 14 | OTHER NEW BUSINESS Leslie Aiello proposed a new amendment that proposes to increase the fee for only the Regular Members by 23%. The proposed Leslie Aiello calls for any other new business from the floor. None amendment would go forward with the understanding that the Execu- was proposed. tive Committee would come back to the Annual Meeting next year with a revised fee schedule. Mart Cartmill proposes that the regular motion be amended as fol- 15 | REMEMBERANCES AND RESOLUTIONS lows: The AAPA raise membership dues by 23% for Regular Members. Seconded by Susan Antón. Submitted by President Elect, Anne Grauer. Parliamentarian Williams opens the amendment for discussion. Leslie Aiello asks whether we should stick to 23% increase, or do we 15.1 | In memoriam want to raise it? A member of the audience asks whether we could raise the amount (like 3–4%) so that the issue does not need to come The AAPA honors the memories of individuals whose lives and work up again. Leslie Aiello responds that the Executive Committee owes impacted us deeply. the Membership a full consideration of the issue. Rachel Caspari clar- ifies that if we were to raise dues by 30%, that would come out to TABLE 13 2019 AAPA Committee on Diversity's Increasing $170 for Regular Members, by 40% would be $180, and 46% would Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences (IDEAS) scholars be $190. I would think that $170–180 would be something that Regu- Mayowa Adegboyega lar Members could afford to pay. Parliamentarian Williams cautions Ebony Creswell that once you raise the dues, it is very difficult to take it back. Missy Gandarilla Agustín Fuentes moves to amend the amendment to strike 23% and inserting with 30%. Nate Dominy seconds the amendment to the Enrique Gomez amendment. The motion passes via a majority vote of the Regular Pamela Gonzalez Membership. Diego Hernandez The amendment to the main motion now reads: The AAPA raise Amanda Lee membership dues by 30% for Regular Members. Parliamentarian Wil- Stacey-Anne Park liams calls for discussion. An audience member raises an issue relevant Sana Saiyed to any future discussions: AAPA dues may have not been raised for Safaa Siddiqui 20 years, but that it is not the same experience for individuals who Xaulanda Thorpe are looking at the cost of membership from year to year and decides Sahara Vilchis they cannot afford it. As someone who wears the AAA [American Thomas Wilson Anthropological Association] hat, they know that people think the Taiye Winful AAAs are too expensive, to the point that the AAA dropped its mem- Eric Zamora berships. First, can we phase these increases, particularly for students CABANA 399

TABLE 14 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium Travel Awardees

Azariea Bonner-Harris Fatimah Bouderdaben Antonia Carter Richard Cheyney Hayley Cheyney Kane Ishrat Chowdhury Kandra Cruz Audrey Dervarics Kayla Dominguez Deja L. Edwards Jonathan Fallas Ernesto Gagarin Cristina Gildee Celeste Lam Alexis D. Martinez Nicole Martini Sabreen Megherhi Quexteen Saeteurn Mia Sarkisian Neha Shaikh Anastassia Shifchik Natalie Smith FIGURE 1 Susan Antón, 2019 Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award Kayce Sorbello recipient Collena Wright Jean Pierre Bocquet-Appel was a paleodemographer. He earned his Doctored of Science in 1984 from the University of Paris in Biol- Wendy Ashmore was a Mayanist whose work focused on archi- ogy and Genetics, and went on to become a research director at the tecture, settlement patterns and social-symbolic aspects of spatial National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Although his interests organization. She received her PhD from University of Pennsylvania spanned millennia of human existence, he is particularly known for his and went on to become Professor Emeritus at the University of Cali- work in modeling human demographic transitions. His work was fornia Riverside. Her many publications emphasized Mayan social meticulous and unequivocally disputatious, as he sought to remind us complexity and advocated for interdisciplinary work. Her co-edited of the promise and the pitfalls of demographic analyses. volume Voices in American Archeology importantly, and perhaps sur- He passed away on August 13, 2018. prisingly to some, welcomed the perspectives of bioarchaeologists. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was a population geneticist. He was for- Lauded for her superb scholarship, teaching, and mentoring, she was mally trained in medicine at the University of Pavia, earning his degree awarded the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence in American in 1944, and then moving to the University of Cambridge shortly Archeology in 2012. afterwards to focus on genetic research. For 19 years he taught at the She passed away on January 7, 2019. University of Parma and University of Pavia, finally landing at Stanford Jose Delfin Villalaín Blanco was formally trained in medicine but in 1970. Unlike many around him, he was unwavering in his convic- focused much of his attention on medico-legal issues, forensic anthro- tion that human races could not be defined genetically, and that pology, and paleopathology. He served as Chair of the Legal and understanding human evolution required a distinctly anthropological Forensic Medicine unit at the University of Valencia in Spain and was approach; one where human culture, language, migration, and envi- a co-founder, and for many years the president, of the Spanish Associ- ronment were essential components in human genetic diversity. He ation of Paleopathologists. His work emphasized bioethical concerns served as one of our greatest opponents against the growing and in forensic medicine. His careful analysis of skeletal, remains in many unacceptable swell of genetically-based scientific racism. contexts, led to his exploration of early evidence of TB on the Iberian He passed away on August 31, 2018. Peninsula, indicators of paleonutrition, and publications evaluating the Ralph E. Chapman was trained as a paleontologist and paleobiolo- future of paleopathological research. gist, earning a Master's degree from the University of Rochester, and He passed away on February 12, 2019. then continuing on to post-graduate work at Stony Brook. For 400 CABANA

FIGURE 2 Susan Antón speaks at the 2017 March for Science in New Orleans, LA

15 years he served as a Research Fellow in the Department of Paleo- determination of species differentiation. These interests, along with biology at the Smithsonian, running the Applied Morphometrics Labo- his love of challenging field work, led him to the “dark side”—dino- ratory. He moved on to co-create two companies dedicated to the saurs—where he excavated and published on his paleontological finds. virtual analysis of fossilized remains and artifacts. His interests were His commitment to hands-on teaching influenced many students who vast and his willingness to explore new anthropological applications came to learn that careful excavation was as essential in science as for numerical and analytical techniques led him to assist researchers laboratory analysis. at the Smithsonian to forensically identify the serial killer, Jeffrey He passed away on May 14, 2018. Dahmer's first victim. Michael Day began his professional career in medicine, earning a He passed away on October 31, 2018. degree from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in 1954. He Dorothy Cheney was a primatologist and ethologist. She earned found his true calling, however, in anatomy and human evolution, her PhD in zoology from Cambridge University in 1977, and spent the earning a PhD from the University of London in 1962. His meticulous bulk of her professional career first in the Department of Anthropol- anatomical descriptions, alongside careful assessments of early hom- ogy and later in the Department of Biology at the University of Penn- inin postcranial remains from Olduvai Gorge and Swatkrans, and from sylvania. Her work with gorillas, vervet monkeys, and baboons, in Homo erectus specimens from China and Java, were instrumental in particular, took a decidedly evolutionary approach, as she, along with elucidating links between otherwise seemingly disparate finds. His her co-worker and husband, Robert Seyfarth, designed elegant experi- well-known book, Guide to Fossil Man, offered students and profes- ments to test the complex interplay between primate vocalization and sionals alike, an extraordinary compendium of hominin sites and fos- social behavior. Her work shed light on the evolutionary significance sils. He served at the President of the Primate Society of Great Britain of vocalization and its impact on labile social interactions. In 2013, she and the Royal Anthropological Institute, and was instrumental in the was conferred an honorary doctorate from the University of Neu- creation of the World Archeological Congress. chatel in Switzerland and received the American Society of He passed away on June 1, 2018. Primatology's Distinguished Primatologist Award in 2016. Harrold Dibble was considered by many to be an archeologist She passed away on November 9, 2018. with a keen interest in Paleolithic tool production, but his interests in Dana Cope was a paleoanthropologist. He earned his PhD from Neanderthal behavior truly made him one of us strange lot. Receiving the University of Texas, Austin and spent most of his professional his PhD from the University of Arizona, he went on to become the career at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where he Francis E. Johnston Term Professor of Anthropology at the University became a full professor. While his early work centered on systematic of Pennsylvania and the Curator-in-Charge of the European Archeol- variation in Cercopithecus dentition, his unwavering efforts to quan- ogy Section at the Penn Museum. In 2014, he received the SAA's tify species-level variation in primates and early hominins significantly Award for Excellence in Archeological Analysis. His computer and impacted our understanding of statistical and sample biases in the coding skills impacted our field directly, as he helped develop software CABANA 401 for an early version of GIS, carefully integrated 3D mapping with arti- attempting to change them” (Bond and Gilliam 1994:2, Introduction, fact analysis, and developed concrete experiments to test hypotheses. in Bond and Gilliam, Social Construction of the Past: representation as He also exercised an unabashed sense of humor. power. Routledge Press, NY.). Her commitment to decolonizing all sub- He passed away on June 10, 2018. fields of anthropology has contributed to our personal introspection Nicolaas Fourie was born in a rural area near Cape Town, and to the AAPA's determination to diversify our science. South Africa. After receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees at She passed away on September 20, 2018. the University of Cape Town, he moved to Washington D.C. in 2006 Lynn Kilgore was a skeletal biologist and paleopathologist. She to pursue his doctorate in hominid paleobiology at George earned her PhD from the University of Colorado in 1984, focusing on Washington University. Most recently, he held a position as an assis- the presence of osteoarthritis in a Sudanese Nubian population. Her tant research professor at George Washington. Nicolaas’ broad skills interests in human and nonhuman gross anatomy led her to further led to numerous publications, the most recent of which explored cau- explore the presence of rheumatoid arthritis and scoliosis in the same ses of varying cortisol production in vervet monkeys and evaluated population, and to expand paleopathological analyses into nonhuman the human gut and oral microbiome as a means to pinpoint triggers of primates. With her husband, Robert Jurmain, and other researchers, gastrointestinal diseases and to assist in their detection. she contributed greatly to our understanding of pathological condi- He passed away on February 23, 2019. tions in the past and co-authored some of our field's most influential Angela Gilliam was a social anthropologist and a scholar of Black textbooks, which now appear in their ninth, 10th, and 13th editions. Feminist Anthropology. She earned her PhD from the Union Graduate As a staunch supporter of and contributor to the Paleopathology School, focusing on ethnology and anthropology, and went on to Association, she helped nurture the growth of the field and its integra- become a Fulbright Scholar and professor emerita at Evergreen State tion with primatology, skeletal biology, and medicine. College. Her work in Latin and South America, Portugal, and Papua She passed away on July 31, 2018. New Guinea held a unifying theme: empowerment. Her exacting voice Ralph Solecki was an archeologist by training but whose work, exposed uncomfortable truths. In 1994, with co-author George Bond, particularly at Neanderthal sites, brought extraordinary insight into she wrote, “Scholars are neither above nor outside societies but inte- the lives of our ancestors. He received his PhD in anthropology from gral agents within them, ensuring their perpetuity and at times, Columbia in 1958, where he continued as a faculty member until 1988. His discovery of Neanderthal remains at Shanidar Cave were subsequently accompanied by careful analysis of the skeletal contexts, including recognition of multiple burials and the presence of associated pollen. This led him to argue for the presence of human care and deliberate support of the sick and injured; all which stood in stark con- trast to the pervading Neandertal characterizations as brutish beasts. His work captured the imagination of the public and helped bridge the rather large gap between archeology and biological anthropology. He died on March 20, 2019. Frank Saul was a bioarchaeologist and forensic anthropologist. He earned his PhD in physical anthropology from Harvard and taught at the University of Toledo Medical Center for 21 years, later becoming the Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education. He was Diplo- mate and President of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and worked tirelessly alongside his professional partner and wife, Julie Mather Saul, on Central American pre-Classic Mayan sites and on almost a thousand modern forensic cases. He held true to his tenant that careful analyses of human remains brought respect for the deceased and a deep appreciation of their complex social lives. In 2017, he and Julie were awarded the T. Dale Stewart Award for lifetime achievement from the Anthropology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He passed away on June 16, 2018.

15.2 | Resolutions

FIGURE 3 Matthew Cartmill, 2019 Charles R. Darwin Lifetime My final role as President-elect is to offer resolutions. Achievement Award recipient So, be it resolved that AAPA offers deep thanks to: 402 CABANA

—our outgoing president, Leslie Aiello, for her leadership, vision, 16 | PASSING OF THE PRESIDENT'S GAVEL and willingness to dedicate thousands of hours to make our Associa- tion shine. Leslie Aiello symbolically passes the President's gavel to Anne Grauer. —this year's Program Committee, session chairs, symposium organizers, and especially the AAPA VP, Steve Leigh, for his masterful job at coordinating us all. 17 | ADJOURNMENT —the Local Arrangements co-chairs, Denise Su and Johannes Heile Salasse, for warmly welcoming us to Cleveland. The meeting was moved to adjournment by Leslie Aiello at 9:00 p.m. —the participants in our 88th annual meeting for making this gath- Respectfully submitted, ering vibrant and impactful. Graciela S. Cabana, Secretary —and the amazing team at Burk and Associates, who 3 years ago assured us that, “Of course, we can do it all for you.” Indeed, they have! To briefly channel our departed colleague, Bill Pollitzer, who truly brought joy to our business meetings, I offer the following: ORCID

Graciela S. Cabana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5399-1173 May your science be strong, your conclusions be sound, may your colleagues support you, and resources abound. How to cite this article: Cabana GS. Proceedings of the 88th To draw close to this meeting, Business Meeting of the American Association of Physical let me just say, Anthropologists. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2020;171:361–402. the next time we meet https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23964 we'll be the AABA!