2013 ANNUAL REPORT Future Publics, Current Engagements

Advancing Knowledge, Solving Human Problems. EXECUTIVE BOARD AND COMMITTEES

AAA 2013 Linguistic Seat Section Assembly Committee on Executive Board Niko Besnier EB #2 Gender Equity in (2011–14) Ida Susser Anthropology President (2010–13) M. Gabriela Torres Leith Mullings University of (2011–13) Amsterdam Hunter College of the City University Committee for The Graduate Center Minority Seat of New York Human Rights of the City University Ana L. Aparicio Eric Johnson of New York (2010–13) AAA Treasurer-Ex Officio Committee on President-Elect/Vice Northwestern Edmund T. Hamann Labor Relations President University (2012–15) Sharryn Kasmir Monica Heller (2011–13) Practicing/ University of Professional Seat Nebraska, Lincoln Committee on University of Toronto, Alisse Waterston Minority Issues in Ontario Institute for (2010–13) AAA Committees Anthropology Studies in Education Shalini Shankar John Jay College and Chairs of the City University Secretary Committee on of New York 2013 Annual Margaret Buckner Meeting Program Practicing, Applied (2012–15) and Public Interest Student Seat Chair Missouri State Anthropology Karen G. Williams Alaka Wali University Keri Brondo (2012–15) Dana-Ain Davis The Graduate Center Committee on Section Assembly Anthropological of the City University Public Policy Convenor Communications of New York Suzanne Heurtin- Alex W. Barker Committee (2012–14) Roberts Undesignated #1 Alisse Waterston University of Missouri Gregory Button Cheryl Mwaria (2012–15) Association Archaeology Seat Operations Committee Hofstra University Sandra Lopez Varela Committee on World (2011–14) Susan Gillespie Anthropologies Undesignated #2 Facultad de Filosofía Bela Feldman-Bianco Susan D. Gillespie y Letras, Universidad Audit Committee Carla Guerron (2010–13) Nacional Autónoma Cheryl Mwaria Montero de México University of Florida Awards Committee Finance Committee Undesignated #3 Biological Seat Frances Mascia-Lees Edmund Hamman David Himmelgreen Frances Mascia-Lees (2011–14) (2011–14) Committee on Ethics Nominations University of Rutgers University Lise Dobrin Committee South Florida Margaret Buckner Undesignated #4 Committee on the Cultural Seat Rayna Rapp Future of Print Resource A. Lynn Bolles (2012–15) and Electronic Development (2012–15) New York University Publishing Committee University of Maryland Deborah Nichols Linda Whiteford Section Assembly EB #1 Karen Nakamura (2012–15) Yale University 2013 ANNUAL REPORT Future Publics, Current Engagements

CONTENTS

Executive Board and Committees inside front cover

Statement of Purposes 2

Letter from the Association Leadership 3

Future Publics, Current Engagements 4

Member Profile: Sandra Lopez Varela 5

Association Briefs 6

A Word From the Executive Director 8

2013 AAA Photo Contest Award Winners 10

Staff Updates 12

Association Spotlight 13

2013 AAA Award Winners 14

New Anthropology in Public Policy Award 17

Statement of Financial Position 18

Statement of Activities 19

2013 AAA Section Award Winners 20

AAA Staff and Publications inside back cover

2013 Donor Recognition inside back cover Statement of Purposes of the American Anthropological Association The purposes of the Association shall be to advance

anthropology as the science that studies humankind

in all its aspects through

archaeological,

biological,

ethnological, and

linguistic research;

and to further the professional interests of

American anthropologists, including the dissemination of

anthropological knowledge and its use to solve

human problems.

Taken from the Articles of Incorporation & Bylaws, amended and restated in October 1983, of the American Anthropological Association. Letter from the Association Leadership

s the President and Executive Director, we are pleased to report that the Association undertook several major initiatives in 2013 to improve the membership experience, reach out to potential members and sister organizations, and expand the visibility of the discipline both domestically and internationally. We’ve also made significant strides in diversifying our membership and have a number of task forces, committees and subcommittees working to improve the association and gain a greater level of engagement. AOur Association continues to grow at a with the generous support of the Wenner-Gren manageable pace, especially among students Foundation and Northwestern University. We and international members. In 2013, we reached signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding a record 12,000 members. We continue to with the Smithsonian to collaborate on a related emphasize the important role that the Association initiative, “Our American Journey.” plays in professional development and career We have reached out to sister organizations, advancement. 2013 was the third year of our signing an agreement with the African Studies successful summer internship program. Thanks Leith Mullings Association to plan a collaborative meeting in President (2012–13) to member donations, this program offered three 2015, and helping organize a virtual seminar with DC-based internship opportunities this past year. In the Canadian Anthropology Society, the European addition, the Annual Meeting continues its success; Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), and meeting attendance in Chicago was the largest in the Associação Brasiliera de Antropologia (ABA). the association’s history. We have planned joint symposia with the Linguistic This past year, the Association has strengthened Society of America, and the American Association its efforts to be more proactive in disseminating for Applied Linguistics. anthropological knowledge, increasing the In 2013, we enthusiastically welcomed the Society Edward Liebow Association’s visibility in scholarly and public Executive Director for Economic Anthropology to the Association, and debates and providing members additional also completed the formation of a new section, channels through which they can communicate. the Association for the Anthropology of Policy. Led by the Executive Board and Association staff, With these two new sections, we now have 40, members had their opinion/editorial works and displaying the breadth and diversity of intellectual essays printed in a number of general outlets, interests that mark our discipline. including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and our growing social media. We released Finally, AAA the Publishing Department further statements on issues related to marriage equality, expanded its efforts to disseminate anthropological gun violence, and the Voting Rights Act. The knowledge. Open Anthropology was launched, Association was instrumental in raising awareness presenting an open access compilation of articles on Capitol Hill about the importance of continued previously published in our portfolio. Organized funding for anthropological research and around contemporary themes, 2013 issues protecting the peer review process in allocating focused on marriage and family arrangements, research support by federal agencies like the and on violence. AAA and its section, the Society National Science Foundation. To contribute to for Cultural Anthropology, decided to convert its the protection of cultural heritage sites in the highly-ranked journal, Cultural Anthropology, into United States and around the globe, a Task Force an open-access title starting in 2014. on Cultural Heritage was formed. We established This year’s Annual Report draws on the theme procedures for members to use the Association’s of the 2013 Annual Meeting, Future Publics, United Nations NGO credentials, and we were Current Engagements. As you review this invited to be a UNESCO partner. report, we ask that you consider the strides the Building on the past success of the public association has made in engaging new publics, education initiative, RACE: Are We So Different?, advancing knowledge of the human condition, and AAA made substantive progress on planning a contributing this knowledge to tackling the world’s second initiative, Migration and Displacement, most pressing problems.

Leith Mullings Edward Liebow President (2012–13) Executive Director Future Publics, Current Engagements

Protecting Cultural Heritage and Social Science Research

s one of the world’s premier funders of fundamental research and education, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is an agency of central importance to the discipline of anthropology. According to AAA research, one particular division of the agency, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) has awarded tens of millions of dollars in grants to anthropologists over the past several years. Unfortunately, last year the agency was the focus ideas for cost-cutting measures, and view videos Aof increased Congressional scrutiny, with several of selected submissions being discussed while initiatives aimed at either challenging the peer Congress is in session. Recently, the Majority review process or seeking citizen review panels to Leader launched a new initiative designed to identify grants of a “questionable nature.” identify and target cuts to the NSF. Sadly, the new website asks citizens to search the NSF grants The majority staff in the House Committee on database to highlight grants to be questioned, and Science, Space and Technology created draft suggests keywords such as “success, culture, social legislation (the so-called “High Quality Research norm, museum and stimulus” to identify them. Act”) early in 2013 that would have required the Director of the NSF to certify that prior to The AAA has been working with our partners in making any grant award the research project be the humanities and social science communities, “in the interests of the United States to advance visiting Congressional legislators and their staff, the national health, prosperity of welfare, and making the case that social science research to secure the national defense by promoting the is critical to not only American, but world progress of science.” In response, the AAA wrote a scholarship. While it is important to give the letter stating our objection to the proposal, stating American taxpayer value for their research that such requirements being placed on the NSF investment, Congress should not hamper the leadership undermine the peer-review process ability or the autonomy of federal agencies to and threaten academic freedom by removing the award grants to those researchers whose projects influence of those best positioned to examine the have been peer-reviewed and deemed worthy of scientific merit of the thousands of proposals the further study. With legislation re-authorizing the agency reviews each year. We also noted in the NSF scheduled to be considered in the upcoming letter that basic research in the social sciences year, AAA is working hard to let Capitol Hill is key to our understanding of individuals and know the value of social science, behavioral and society. Through generous funding form the NSF, economic research. anthropology has enhanced scholarly knowledge For more information about these efforts, please in the areas of cultural resource protection, visit the AAA website at www.aaanet.org. environmental sustainability, preservation of languages, child health and development and access to quality healthcare. The letter, which can AAA Creates Cultural be viewed at www.bit.ly/1oulVJ6, was ultimately Heritage Task Force part of a successful lobbying effort, and plans to In an effort to respond to threats to both tangible introduce the legislation were halted. and intangible heritage at both home and abroad As mentioned above, certain Members of (see sidebar), AAA, under the leadership of Congress have also been asking the public to President Leith Mullings, created a Task Force on present ideas and identify areas where federal Cultural Heritage (TFCH) in November of 2013. government waste and fraud are present. YouCut, The task force aims to offer critical guidelines launched by Majority Leader Cantor in May of on the many aspects of heritage management, 2010, is a website where visitors can submit their preservation, and tourism with respect to the role

4 American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report A Busy Year in Protecting Cultural Heritage Over the past year, AAA was extremely active in weighing of anthropology and other professionals in this arena, with the ultimate in on issues involving issues of cultural resource protection goal of increasing appreciation and understanding of cultural heritage and preserving items of national patrimony. Below are two in anthropological and public discourse and to assist the Executive examples of AAA’s efforts. Board in developing effective positions and practices on cultural heritage First, AAA wrote to the Director General of UNESCO, issues worldwide. President Obama and the Presidents of both Mali and As noted by TFCH co-chair Susan Gillespie (U Florida) cultural heritage France in response to concerns that some of the invaluable historical manuscripts located at the Ahmed Baba Institute issues have become an increasingly important element of the cultural for Higher Islamic Studies and Research had been damaged landscape and loom large in the intellectual and political landscape for during the conflict with terrorist insurgents at the beginning anthropology. These issues include continuing debates over preservation of 2013. In the letter, AAA called on the United States and and interpretation of historic materials, the growing heritage and tourism the Republic of Mali to reinforce the Cultural Property industries, challenges to the intangible heritage and property rights of Agreement between the two countries, which was amended living communities and the loss of indigenous languages. and extended in September of 2012. The task force is charged with the following: Next, AAA issued a letter to Gilles Nenet-Minet concerning the planned auction of Hopi sacred objects by Nenet-Minet, Examining what “cultural heritage” means to different Tessier and Sarrou in April. Several concerns were raised constituencies and how it relates to different areas of about the auction of these objects by both the Hopi Tribal anthropological inquiry in order to guide the implementation of government authorities and the US Embassy’s Cultural AAA positions and practices. Affairs Minister. AAA noted in the letter that according to the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting Investigating how other professional associations are dealing and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of with cultural heritage nationally and internationally and incorporate Ownership of Cultural Property, the Cultural Property their best practices in recommendations for new structures or Implementation Act, and the UNIDROIT Convention on formations that will allow the AAA to become and remain actively Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects, any item engaged in cultural heritage issues. illegally obtained from any nation should be returned to its place of origin. Recommending ways to increase training in cultural heritage issues in undergraduate and graduate anthropology curricula and via For more information on AAA’s policy and advocacy efforts, continuing education in other venues. please visit www.aaanet.org/issues/policy-advocacy/. Identify sustainable means for coordinated collaboration among relevant AAA committees and sections as well as with other Member Profile: professional organizations, trade associations and similar organizations Sandra Lopez Varela involved with cultural heritage. Sandra Lorena Lopez Varela, PhD (U Recommending ways for the AAA to become a leading association for national and international dialogue and change regarding London), RPA, is a Professor at the cultural heritage, identifying the special or unique contributions the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México AAA can make in this regard. A blue-ribbon panel will be organized at and Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt the 2014 AAA meeting in Washington, DC to bring together experts to Stiftung Institute. She serves in the AAA contribute recommendations. Executive Board’s Archaeology Seat and is Helping to draft or coordinate advocacy letters and statements the Executive Board Liaison to the Cultural Heritage Task Force. She until such time as more permanent entities can carry out that task, and is also a Past President for the Society for Archeological Sciences. devise guidelines and protocols for such letters and statements and Currently, she is acting President of the Humboldt-Club for Mexico, serving at various international committees to activate innovative Recommending initiatives to increase awareness of cultural pathways to the uses of sciences and technology in anthropology heritage issues and to educate the membership and the public about anthropological perspectives on cultural heritage and its around the world. Her research interests concentrate on the protection. The task force plans to have a regular column in technology of pottery making in the past and the present, analyzing www.anthropology-news.org to disseminate information on cultural the space of production with geochemical and spatial techniques, heritage concerns and analysis. and considering experimental studies such as use-wear analysis.

The task force is co-chaired by Susan Gillespie and Teresita Majewski, and other members In the field of ethnoarchaeology, López Varela is incorporating include Sarah Cowie (U Nevada–Reno), Michael Di Giovine (West Chester U Pennsylvania), social impact assessment studies to measure the effects of global T. J. Ferguson (U Arizona), Antoinette Jackson (U South Florida), Rosemary A. Joyce development policies on non-industrial technologies. After her (UC Berkeley), Morag Kersel (DePaul U), Richard Meyers (South Dakota State U), Stephen Nash (Denver Museum of Nature & Science) and Mark Turin (Yale U). working experience in CRM in the United States, she is adapting applied models to protect Mexico’s social and cultural heritage. For more information on the TFCH, visit its webpage: www.aaanet.org/ cmtes/commissions/Task-Force-on-Cultural-Heritage.cfm.

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Professional Services

he Association’s Professional Services Department has launched an ambitious outreach effort designed to reach undergraduate students through building our “Anthro Clubs” listserv and creating a bimonthly newsletter to communicate more directly with student membership via anthropology clubs at colleges and universities. To date, over 65 anthropology clubs based at colleges and universities nationwide have joined the list. Professional Services also collaborate with their academic The AAA Task Force on Tcompleted its first Comparative counterparts. In the first Education and Anthropology Data Project survey in Spring phase of this study, CoPAPIA made an important contribution 2013. The purpose of this completed interviews with to the National Council for project was to gather much- practicing and professional the Social Studies “College, needed information on anthropologists who work in Career, and Civic Life (C3) enrollments, faculty structure, some capacity both independent Framework,” which outlines core program structure, and student of and in collaboration with an anthropological concepts that accomplishments in anthropology academic organization. should be incorporated into high programs in the US. Results from school social studies curricula. the survey were printed in the November/December issue of In 2013, AAA continued to expand the dissemination Anthropology News and are of anthropological knowledge as widely as possible, available on the AAA website. while still being able to support our diverse and The Committee for Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest ambitious publishing program. Anthropology (CoPAPIA) created two resources to To commemorate the Association The AAA committee worked support the work of practicing for Feminist Anthropology’s together with counterparts anthropologists in academia—a 25th anniversary as an AAA at the American Sociological set of Guidelines for evaluating section, AAA hosted a summer Association and the American practicing, applied, and intern. Thanks to the generous Psychological Association to public interest anthropology donations from AAA members create companion documents for purposes of tenure and and from the AFA, Rachel for each of our fields. promotion, as well as a Resource Nuzman from St. Mary’s College Panel of individuals available to of California worked with AFA serve as Program Reviewers for President Jane Henrici to compile Open Dissemination applied, practicing, and publicly and report on the history of of Anthropological engaged departments. By the AFA. Rachel also worked at Knowledge end of 2013, the Resource Panel the AAA office to investigate In 2013, AAA continued to web page had received more past recipients of the Minority expand the dissemination of than 1500 views. Dissertation Fellowship and the anthropological knowledge AAA Leadership Fellows awards CoPAPIA has initiated a as widely as possible, while to find out where the awardees new study of practicing still being able to support are now, learn how their anthropologists to investigate our diverse and ambitious awards helped their professional the ways in which practicing publishing program. development, and solicit advice and professional anthropologists for anthropology students.

6 American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report With the debut compilation These innovations continue the not-guilty verdict of George parts of AN. These are published on marriage and family AAA’s efforts to live up to our Zimmerman was announced online first, and those that gain arrangements, AAA launched publishing portfolio’s core values and news outlets reported on the most traction online are Open Anthropology, of quality, breadth, accessibility, this widely. Just a few days later, selected for print by AN staff. (www.aaaopenanthro.org). and sustainability. In 2013, on July 19, AAA President Leith Coinciding with the US Supreme eighty-nine years of back issues Mullings published “Trayvon Court ruling on marriage for American Anthropologist Martin, Race and Anthropology” equality, this inaugural issue were ungated, as were the on www.anthropology-news.org. drew public attention to current two months of every She brought her compelling anthropological analyses on issue of Anthropology News. In insights to this national dialogue the family. In October, a second 2012, AAA launched an open- on race. That piece was shared compilation focused on the access gray literature portal on via Facebook over 1,000 times. causes and consequences of Social Science Research Network Similarly, members who have violence. Each issue in Open (www.ssrn.com/update/aarn. found themselves in the Anthropology is compiled from index.html). AAA’s author midst of major developments AAA’s rich publishing portfolio, agreement is rated “green” around the world—protests in In this way, readers of and its contents are freely by SHERPA/RoMEO, a project Turkey, Bulgaria—also found a www.anthropology-news.org, available online for six months. facilitating green open access. place to report their frontline both members and the public, In addition to the articles, observations in AN. have the ability to influence video interviews with selected Anthropology News Flips what gets included in the print. authors are available, along with its Publishing Schedule In addition to such one-time supplementary materials. pieces, our Opinion columnists In addition, traditional newsletter In 2013, Anthropology News and Contributing Editors from content continues to be a core In the spirit of experiment experienced a transformative Sections and Committees service of Anthropology News. and innovation, AAA and year. It had already expanded have the ability to publish more Pieces such as a summary of our section, the Society for beyond a print publication than one column a month, if the AAA Business Meeting or Cultural Anthropology, decided in 2011, with the launch of they chose. election results are important to convert its highly-ranked www.anthropology-news.org. matters of association record journal, Cultural Anthropology, In terms of the print issue, we The website gave AAA that need to be shared. Similarly, into an open-access title shifted from a monthly that members a means to read In Memoriam pieces need to be starting in 2014. Unlike published 9 times a year (with and publish AN pieces faster included as an important part of research in the natural and a publishing hiatus in June, July and continuously, as well as a our association community. With biomedical sciences, research and August), to a bimonthly way to share anthropological AAA’s many committees and in the fields of cultural analysis, product. This new bimonthly perspectives and work with a sections, we have also set aside ethnographic theory and schedule runs throughout the much wider audience. a certain amount of space for history, and social anthropology calendar year—rather than those parts of AAA to share their is generally not supported But with increased use of mirroring the academic year— news in print. by large grants that also the website and increasing and helps keep AN in front of cover publishing subventions. print distribution costs, the our members throughout the By flipping the model— As a result, the funds for need to better balance the year. The six print issues are online first, print second— supporting this interactive print and online relationship published at the beginning we can publish more rich website, www.culanth.org, became critical. of January, March, May, July, anthropological content and this prestigious journal will September and November. in a more timely way with Starting with the January 2013 come from membership dues, more voices. With AN’s two AN, we flipped the AN schedule The print editions continue to donations from anthropology arms—website and print to publish online first, and feature two kinds of content: departments, and a modest issue—we continue to provide then include the “best-of” the substantive anthropological submission fee for non-members a place for discussions of anthropological content in the content and traditional of SCA. Duke University Libraries all facets of anthropology bimonthly print issues. newsletter pieces on the is hosting the site and making with anthropologists, and try business of the Association. The archival provisions for the By publishing online first, AN to help raise the profile of anthropological pieces include content, although the journal contributors can write about anthropology among potential contributions to In Focus series, will also continue to be available breaking stories that will be anthropologists, media and the Opinion section, Knowledge on AnthroSource. published in a timely manner. general public. Exchange section, and other For example, on July 13, 2013 ASSOCIATION BRIEFS CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report 7 A Word from the Executive Director

hope you will agree as you review our 2013 highlights—so far, not bad. Thanks to the talented team that manages the Association’s business, we did not skip a beat in our transition to new management. We keep our gaze firmly fixed on advancing anthropological knowledge and applying this knowledge to tackling the world’s most pressing problems. And from a purely practical perspective, we have made sure that the Association has been highly effective at keeping AAA on a strong financial footing. Just a few of steps we have taken on the Association’s behalf include: IOffice lease: We successfully negotiated a In 2013, we strengthened our team with staff new long-term office lease, including a changes in the webmaster, publishing assistant, generous tenant improvement allowance, that meetings coordinator positions, and we retained represents a significant savings over what our a core staff of high professional caliber. We have office space costs would have been had we made several HR/administrative changes in the past remained in our previous spot. The new space year, to better align staff performance objectives is configured for the way we work now, with with the Association’s long range planning process, sophisticated technology upgrades to support and we have built resilience and cross-training videoconferencing and new webinar offerings. into staffing functions to anticipate the inevitable turnover that occurs in all non-profit organizations. RACE Exhibit: We have successfully negotiated We have prudently managed operating costs while an extension of our agreement with the Science boosting operating revenues where opportunities Museum of Minnesota, which will provide us have presented themselves. I remain energetically with continued exhibit lease revenues through and enthusiastically committed to our Association’s 2018, and a long-term home for one of the bright future, and appreciate the confidence and exhibit versions. We also completed a purchase support that I have received from the Board, staff, agreement with the San Diego Museum of Man members, and donors. for another version of the Race Exhibit, which will give the exhibit another long-term home. We have prudently managed operating costs Together, we will have two platforms on which while boosting operating revenues where to build additional public education activities along with our museum partners. opportunities have presented themselves. Modifications to the Investment Policy Statement: The Executive Board approved a In 2014, my general priorities remain fixed on modification to the Investment Policy Statement enhancing the AAA’s financial sustainability, that adjusts the overall target for return promoting global scholarly exchange through on investment, and which also adjusts the publications and meetings, growing and diversifying allocation ranges for investment sub-accounts. our membership to include under-represented These recommended adjustments are prudent categories of anthropologists, and increasing the for the Association’s long-term financial health. public visibility of the field and of our members’ contributions. More specific goals will include: Fund-Raising Capacity: We have successfully recruited a highly effective chair for the Resource Financial sustainability: Development Committee, solicited significant ŸŸDevelop and follow a balanced operations contributions from Wiley-Blackwell, Left Coast budget, reflecting the Board-approved Press, Oxford University Press, Intel, Yahoo! strategic implementation plan activities Research, and two anonymous donors. We ŸŸContinue to grow our investment portfolio have received substantial bequests for our through adherence to the Association’s endowment fund, and for funding the summer investment policy statement internship program.

8 American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report Scholarly Exchange: Increased Public visibility: ŸŸEffectively implement Board-approved Working with a Board-approved recommendations concerning the engagement strategy, we plan to: publishing program and annual ŸŸDesign and implement a significant meeting innovations. website upgrade

ŸŸEffectively implement additional meetings ŸŸGrow and increase our effectiveness in department innovations in the form the use of social media of webinars and enhanced quality of ŸŸGrow and increase our effectiveness in smaller meetings, including international the use of earned media coverage for the collaborative efforts. Association and its members Membership Growth and Diversity: ŸŸDevelop a coherent institutional ŸŸ Institute a number of membership research program department innovations designed to grow and diversify our membership ŸŸEstablish the first annual National by emphasizing the value of member Anthropology Day services through activities of our ŸŸEffectively implement other Board- Professional Services Fellow, and our approved communications/outreach/ Membership, Meetings, Publications, engagement activities and Public Affairs Departments

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Annual Meeting Sets Records, Again

In 2013, the AAA returned to and community residents about addition to these segments, Chicago, IL for its 112th Annual the field of anthropology and several interviews and Meeting, November 20–24. their own research projects. discussions with prominent Following a hugely successful Several community organizations anthropologists, volunteer 2012 Annual Meeting in San involved in the Chicago Cultural leaders, and executive staff Francisco, CA the 2013 AAA Alliance hosted these small group were featured. Anthropology meeting, themed, “Future discussions and presentations TV was broadcast in all annual Publics, Current Engagements,” on Wednesday morning, prior meeting hotels as well as included 7,043 registrants to the opening of the Annual streamed to YouTube (visible attending more than 880 Meeting. On Saturday evening at www.bit.ly/1oGvR40) during research sessions. The 2013 the Presidential Address, the event. meeting marks the largest annual “Anthropology Matters” The 2013 Annual Meeting meeting in AAA’s history. While (YouTube link can be found here: attracted 67 exhibitors breaking attendance records, www.bit.ly/1f09ssi) was delivered representing a spectrum the meeting also featured a by 2011–2013 AAA President of publishing, non-profit & reimagined program format, Leith Mullings (The Graduate government organizations, Installations (formerly Inno- Center—CUNY). foundations, film producers vents). Installations included a The debut of Anthropology and technology firms whose wide variety of programmatic TV took place at the Chicago interests or products support types including performance meeting. Thought leadership anthropologists worldwide. pieces, artistic structures and segments were featured More than 25 institutions tours both inside the confines from nine institutions; the conducted interviews with of the Chicago Hilton Hotel, University of Central Florida, potential job candidates in the the Field Museum and various the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Career Center. All of this was Chicago neighborhoods. the University of Colorado at made possible, in part, through The 2013 Annual Meeting Denver, the University of Oslo, the generous support of our featured a new community- Longwood University, Deakin Annual Meeting sponsors: based program, Anthropologists University (Australia), James Wiley-Blackwell, Intel, Left Coast Back to School. More than 50 Cook University (Australia), Press, and Yahoo! Research. anthropologists spent a day the University of Zurich, and speaking with students, teachers Michigan State University. In

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Vernon Horn joined the explored linguistic conventions in Japanese AAA staff in April 2013 as popular culture and sought to further expand the assistant manager for understanding of the Japanese language beyond web and databases. In this the traditional notion of politeness. role he hopes to enhance Though she is a recent graduate, Chelsea is and expand the AAA’s web considering doctoral programs in anthropology presence. Vernon comes to to study Southeast Asia. Her non-AAA time AAA from the American is occupied working another part-time job, Historical Association and brings 20 years of playing video games, writing short snippets of association experience in digital publications and fiction, struggling to learn how to sew, and member services. He has extensive experience reading anything she can get her hands on. developing and maintaining web applications. Vernon is responsible for Section websites, Andrew Russell joined the Anthropology News online web development AAA staff in August 2013 as and is the backup to the database and web the coordinator of meetings services manager. and conferences. Prior to joining the AAA, Andrew Vernon is a dedicated cyclist. After hours he majored in anthropology at enjoys reading, vegan cuisine, tinkering with Dickinson College, and then old computers, dogs, and volunteers with the worked as a research Homeless Animal Rescue Team. assistant the University of Pennsylvania. Chelsea Horton joined His interests lie in the intersections of applied AAA as an assistant in the anthropology and the utilization of multi- publishing department. media technology for the greater dispersal of She supports the director of information and discussion. These two interests publishing to help maintain have been incorporated into the development of the publishing webpages, the annual meeting’s mobile app, webinars and update the organizational more accessible meetings webpages. Andrew will history of the publishing also work closely with colleagues in other AAA program, and ensure the publication archives of departments to continue improving the annual the association remain current. She also provided meeting and the overall member experience. support for a September workshop as well as launch the brand new Registry of Anthropological Down the road Andrew will work towards Data Wiki. enrolling in an anthropology doctoral program, but is currently quite content applying An Orlando, FL native, Chelsea completed her anthropology to everyday life while getting undergraduate degree at the University of Central acclimated to DC culture. Florida where she majored in anthropology with a minor in history and Asian studies. During her undergraduate work, she studied in both England and Japan in addition to working as a research assistant within the university. Upon graduation, she moved to Alexandria, VA where she completed a master’s degree in cultural anthropology at George Mason University. Her graduate thesis

12 American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report Association Spotlight

AAA Summer Interns

hanks to the generous support of our members, the AAA Summer Internship Program completed its third year of providing opportunities for undergraduate students in their junior or senior year and first year graduate students to work at selected institutions in Washington, DC. This past year, Jeff Emerson, Jalene Regassa and Rachel Nuzman were named as interns after a very competitive application and selection process. T Jeff Emerson worked Rachel Nuzman was with the Underwater the 2013 Association Archaeology Branch of for Feminist the Naval History & Anthropology (AFA) Heritage Command summer intern. (NHHC), the official Nuzman was a senior history program of the at Saint Mary’s College US Department of the of California, with a Navy. A native of Iowa, Emerson was a senior double major in Anthropology and English, at Luther College, and had double majors in and a minor in Women and Gender Studies. Anthropology and Chemistry. While at the The AFA celebrated its 25th anniversary in NHHC he focused his efforts in the 2013. Nuzman completed an annotated conservation lab, conducting background history of the AFA, utilizing the AFA Archives research on the USS Huron, a post-Civil War housed at the Smithsonian’s National gunboat, and one of the last military ships to Archeological Archives to mark this navigate by both sail and steam. While important anniversary. The finished product, en-route to Havana, Cuba, for a scientific to be released this year, will be a useful expedition in November 1877, she guidebook for research and scholarship encountered a storm and ran aground off related to AFA’s mission: pedagogy and Nag’s Head, NC, where the ship later sank. scholarship in feminist anthropology. Because the costs involved in recovery, Jalene Regassa, a conservation, and display of an entire senior at Colby College shipwreck are prohibitive, the NHHC had double majors in currently encourages in situ preservation, Anthropology and except in rare cases where the site is seriously Global Studies. While threatened by natural or anthropogenic at the Smithsonian causes. The Huron, like most shallow-water National Museum for sites, is under constant threat of illegal African Art, she salvage. One treasure hunter tried to sell conducted research on the art pieces chosen several artifacts on eBay, but was caught by to be displayed from a private African NCIS, who then forwarded the acquired American Art collection and learn when, material to the Underwater Archaeology how, and why they were made. In doing so, Branch. Jeff assisted in cleaning and she played an important part in helping to stabilizing these artifacts, and in preparing select African Art pieces that are to be them for return to the Marine Corps. featured in an upcoming exhibition.

American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report 13 2013 AAA Award Winners

Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Throughout the 1980s and 90s, Lamphere Service to Anthropology continued her work exploring gender dynamics, contributing a range of books on immigration Louise Lamphere, and labor within the changing political economy distinguished professor of of the United States, publishing From Working anthropology (emerita) at Daughters to Working Mothers in 1987, the University of New Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on Mexico, was the 2013 the New Immigration in 1992, Sunbelt Working recipient of the Franz Boas Mothers in 1993 (with Patricia Zavella, Felipe Award for Exemplary Service Gonzales and Peter Evans) , and Newcomers in to Anthropology. She was the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring honored with the Boas Medallion at the AAA of the U.S. Economy in 1994 (with Guillermo Annual Meeting in Chicago. Grenier). In 2007, she shared authorship with the Throughout her over 45-year career, Lamphere has grandmother, mother and daughter of a Navajo made significant contributions to anthropological family with which she had worked since the knowledge through her studies of the Navajo, 1960s, producing Weaving Women’s Lives: Three workplace life, family and kinship, US immigration, Generations in a Navajo Family that combined her and US healthcare policy and to the American scholarly and personal history. Anthropological Association through her vision While carrying out this extensive research and leadership. She is perhaps best known as program, Lamphere also provided exemplary a founding mother of feminist anthropology, service and leadership to the AAA in her role as influencing decades of research within president of the American Ethnological Association anthropology and related disciplines on issues of (1987–89), chair of the Association for Feminist gender inequality and knowledge production. Anthropology (1995–97), AAA president elect Lamphere received her PhD in 1968 from Harvard (1997–99), and AAA president (1999–2001). As a University. She served on the faculty at Brown result of her most recent service as chair of AAA’s University and later the University of New Mexico, Resource Development Committee, the Minority from which she retired in 2008. Lamphere is Dissertation Fellowship is fully endowed, the Race co-editor, with Michelle Rosaldo, of the founding Project has received extensive support, and two feminist anthropology text, Woman, Culture annual summer internships in Washington DC for and Society. Published in 1974, this collection undergraduates have been established. In addition is now a classic. Lamphere’s deft co-editing and she has sat on numerous editorial boards and original contributions helped create a volume served as associate editor of American Ethnologist that re-read the existing anthropological literature and Journal of Anthropological Research, as editor for masculinist assumptions, reconfigured of Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, and as perspectives on women as active agents in their interim editor of American Anthropologist. societies, stretched the boundaries of existing Among her other prizes and awards, Lamphere anthropological theory, and quite literally has received the Conrad Arensberg Award for transformed the entire discipline. Her 1997 outstanding contributions to the Anthropology of volume, Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Work (1994), the SANA Prize for the Critical Study Everyday Life, coedited with Helena Ragoné of North America (1995), and the Squeaky Wheel and Patricia Zavella, extended her feminist Award from the AAA’s Committee on the Status of commitment, focusing on the impact of the Women (1998). intersection of gender with race, class and sexual difference in women’s daily lives.

14 American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report Anthropology in the Media Award AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate For her stellar contributions Teaching in Anthropology as a scholar, teacher and writer extending In recognition of a lifetime anthropological knowledge of exemplary teaching globally, the 2013 and deep dedication to Anthropology in the Media undergraduate students, Award (AIME) was presented the AAA presented to Kathy Reichs at the Triloki Pandey with the 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Over the last 15 2013 AAA/Oxford University years, Reichs has made significant contributions to Press Award for Excellence in raising public awareness of anthropology through Undergraduate Teaching in Anthropology. In his 40 her fiction writing, television production and years at the University of California–Santa Cruz, he public service. has taught nearly 5,000 undergraduates, many of whom have gone on to successful careers in Reichs earned her doctoral degree from anthropology. He has given his students Northwestern University and is professor emeritus experiences that have prepared them to engage at the University of North Carolina—Charlotte. with a changing world in profound and From 1978–99, Reichs pursued a successful meaningful ways. academic career, teaching physical and forensic anthropology at UNC Charlotte and widely Pandey received his PhD in anthropology in 1967 publishing her scholarly work in such journals as from the University of Chicago and began his American Journal of Physical Anthropology. She academic career in the anthropology department served as a forensic anthropologist for the Office of at UC Santa Cruz in 1973. He has taught a wide the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and variety of courses at all levels and in diverse continues her work as a practicing anthropologist formats, including cultural anthropology, cultures at the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaries et de of India, peoples and cultures of North America, Medicine Legale in Quebec. In 1997, Scribner political anthropology, and comparison of cultures. published her first novel, Deja Dead, which For 40 years, he has sustained a stellar performance won the Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Writing, as one of the most popular and inspiring teachers and introduced a wide readership to forensic not only in the UC Santa Cruz anthropology anthropologist, Temperance Brennan. Known for department but also across the campus. their suspense, deeply felt characters, and clever Pandey is a charismatic and talented teacher, a plots, each of her subsequent novels was a NY “mesmerizing lecturer and captivating storyteller.” Times best-seller, selling nearly eight million copies Students describe him as the “best professor” at in the United States and Canada alone. Translated Santa Cruz, “an absolutely brilliant mind with a into 32 languages, Reichs has drawn on her own wonderful heart”, “a treasure”, and a “jewel of personal experiences as an anthropologist to reach the discipline”. In one of his courses, TAs reported millions of readers, educating them about the that students applauded after every lecture. His scientific method and the anthropological study of lectures are not only entertaining, but are also human remains. Her novels are the inspiration for thought-provoking, informative, and deeply the successful television series, Bones, currently in relevant to his students’ lives. As his colleagues its ninth season, for which she has served as writer, note, Pandey’s engaged teaching transforms actor and producer. both young people’s thinking and their outlook Reichs has testified at the UN Tribunal on on life. One student reflected, “Learning about Genocide, exhumed a mass grave in Guatemala; the assimilation process that Native American aided in the identification of war dead from World people underwent caused me to re-examine my War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia; and identified own assimilation process, which is something I remains at Ground Zero. had not really done before,” continuing, “Thank

American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report 15 you, Professor Pandey, for giving my life a new His tireless efforts on behalf of the Association meaning.” Another commented, “I was greatly of Anthropology and Gerontology can be seen inspired by your grace and humility. Your class put in his many contributions to the Journal of Cross a lot into perspective for me. I will never forget Cultural Gerontology and his efforts to recruit what you mentioned about how there nothing new people and ideas to the field and offering more is fulfilling than exercising one’s own guidance to many scholars instrumental to personal agency. I just wanted to personally thank the development of their careers. In addition, you for that.” Sokolovsky’s edited text The Cultural Context of Aging (now in its third edition) is a classic in Pandey is widely known for his service to the the field and often the first book those outside department, campus and community at large. anthropology turn to for a sense of what culture He is regularly invited to give presentations has to do with the experience of aging. about his work on the American Southwest, India’s indigenous communities, Ghandi, and the Sokolovsky has been and continues to be a role intellectual history of Indian anthropology. He model for anthropologists in his efforts to foster has provided invaluable service to students in the dialogue between those interested in life course undergraduate Anthropology Society at UCSC and ethnography and aging in the social sciences and has shared his insights with students in the local health professions. community from under-represented groups who are aspiring to pursue college degrees. AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship

Robert B. Textor and Family The AAA’s Committee on Prize for Excellence in Minority Affairs in Anticipatory Anthropology Anthropology (CMIA) selected Karen G. Williams Jay Sokolovsky is the (CUNY Graduate Center) to winner of the 2013 Textor receive the 2013–14 AAA Prize. Sokolovsky is a scholar Minority Dissertation whose career exemplifies an Fellowship. This $10,000 anticipatory mode of fellowship award is intended to encourage anthropological research in members of ethnic minorities to complete doctoral its broad contributions to degrees in anthropology, thereby increasing the anthropology of aging, diversity in the discipline and promoting research a nascent field Sokolovsky helped develop and on issues of concern among minority populations. grow over the years. Williams’ dissertation, titled From Coercion to He has been instrumental in organizing the field Consent? Governing the Formerly Incarcerated of the anthropology of aging in the United States in the 21st Century United States will trace and globally. In addition to making important the day-to-day practices and strategies used to intellectual contributions of his own based on prepare people incarcerated coming home from field work in multiple sites in the US, Mexico, correctional institutions. Williams received her BFA Croatia and England, Sokolovsky has spent over at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in three decades establishing an aging research anthropology and an MA in performance studies network and multidisciplinary community of at New York University. practice. Jay Sokolovsky was the founding chair of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Commission on Aging and the Aged and was instrumental in bringing into being the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology which holds sessions at both the AAA and Gerontology of America meetings.

16 American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report Margaret Mead Award New Anthropology in AAA announced that Sera L. Young is recognized Public Policy Award with the 2013 Margaret First Winner of Anthropology Mead Award for her book in Public Policy Award Craving Earth: Understanding Winner Announced Pica, the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice and Chalk In September 2013, the AAA’s (Columbia University Press). Committee on Public Policy The Margaret Mead Award is offered jointly by selected medical anthropologist AAA and the Society for Applied Anthropology Nancy Scheper-Hughes as the first (SfAA). It is presented to a younger scholar for a recipient of the new Anthropology particular accomplishment, such as a book, film, in Public Policy Award (AiPP). Dr. Scheper-Hughes is a monograph or service that interprets professor of anthropology and Director of the Medical anthropological data and principles in ways that Anthropology Program at the University of California make them meaningful to a broadly concerned at Berkeley. She is a nationally-recognized expert public. The award is designed to recognize a on important health issues, including hunger, illness person clearly and integrally associated with broadening the impact of anthropology, for which and organ trafficking. She was selected based on her Margaret Mead was admired widely. body of work and research, especially in the area of organ trafficking. Much of her work has shaped how Craving Earth has the intellectual quality, clarity, governments and international bodies address the issues understandability and breadth of impact sought of illegal transplantation. after for Mead Award winners. Young skillfully transformed her research findings into a book In 1999, Scheper-Hughes helped found the Berkeley that both maintained the academic rigor of her research and made it accessible to readers with Organs Watch Project, an organization dedicated to little or no anthropological training. The award research on human organ traffic worldwide, including committee noted that, “Craving Earth is an examining the transnational networks that connect extremely engaging, well-written book, witty patients, transplant surgeons, brokers, medical facilities and poignant at turns, and always consistently and so-called “live donors.” Almost ten years later, in scientifically rigorous…With such a book, Young 2008, her investigation of an international group of has demonstrated the utility of the holistic organ sellers based in the East Coast of the United approach of medical anthropology to a very broad States and Israel led to multiple arrests by the Federal and diverse audience.” Bureau of Investigation. In recent years, she has served Craving Earth has also been covered and discussed as an advisor or consultant to the European Union; the in a variety of media outlets, including National United Nations, Division of Law Enforcement, Organized Geographic News, Scientific American and various Crime and Anti-Laundering Office on Drugs and Crime, television and radio venues. This exposure of and the Human Trafficking Office of the World Health the utility of the holistic approach of medical Organization in Vienna. She has also testified as an anthropology that has spanned several countries expert before the US Congress, the Council of Europe and multiple continents demonstrates that Young and the British House of Lords. has truly fulfilled the criteria of the Mead Award by interpreting “anthropological data and principles The Anthropology in Public Policy Award (AiPP) was in ways that make them meaningful and accessible established in 2012 by the Committee on Public Policy to a broadly concerned public.” (COPP) to honor anthropologists whose work has Young earned her PhD in international nutrition had a significant, positive influence on the course of and nutritional anthropology at Cornell University government decision-making and action. in 2008, after completing her MA in medical anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 2002. She is currently a research scientist in Cornell University’s Division of Nutritional Sciences. She will be presented with the award at the March 2014 SfAA meeting.

American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report 17 Statement of Financial Position

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION December 31, 2013 (With Summarized Financial Information as of December 31, 2012) 2013 Sources of AAA Revenue Membership Dues 2013 2012 2013 Sources of AAA Revenue ■ Membership Dues 27.1% Membership dues - 27.1% 27.1% 1,961,806 ■ Sections ASSETS Investment Income 25.4% Annual meeting - 19.7% 19.7% 1,425,297 ■ Annual Meeting 19.7% Publications - 13.8% 13.8% 1,002,462 ■ Cash and Cash Equivalents $205,207 $104,646 Publications 13.8% Academic Services Grants and contributions - 7.1% 7.1% 517,341 ■ Grants and Academic Services - 4.9% 4.9% 353,955 Contributions 7.1% SectionsAccounts - 2.0% Receivable 2.0% 145,924 247,343 178,051 ■ Academic Services 4.9% Grants and Contributions Investment Income - 25.4% 25.4% 1,842,778 ■ Sections 2.0% 7,249,563 Prepaid Expenses and Other Assets 173,431 84,211 Publications

Investments 13,795,129 11,616,629 Annual Meeting Deferred Compensation Plan 95,149 121,564 Investment Income Property and Equipment, Net 903,680 412,662 Membership Dues Total Assets $15,419,939 $12,517,763

Sections LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Accounts Payable and AccruedAcademic Expenses Services $662,165 $398,211 Deferred Membership and 914,980 955,247 Subscription Revenue Grants and Contributions

Deferred Compensation Liability 95,149 121,564 2013 Uses of AAA Revenue Publications

Deferred Life Member Revenue 178,071 180,230 ■ Annual Meeting G&A and Development 38.5% ■ Publications 18.0% Deferred Lease Benefit 172,294 19,680 ■ Annual Meeting 14.5% Investment Income ■ Sections 13.8% Deferred Tenant Allowance 492,307 — ■ Membership 6.1% ■ Government Affairs 5.5% Deposits — 1,482 ■ Academic Services 2.8% ■ Public Education 0.8% G&A and Development 2013 UsesTotal of AAALiabilities Revenue $2,514,966 $1,676,414 Publications - 18% 18.0% 933,059 AnnualNET ASSETSmeeting - 14.5% 14.5% 750,937 Public Education Sections - 13.8% 13.8% 715,462 Membership - 6.1% 6.1% 316,470 Unrestricted Academic Services Government A airs - 5.5% 5.5% 285,702 AcademicOperating Services - 2.8% 2.8% 146,463 $8,972,823 $7,089,811 Public education - 0.8% 0.8% 42,905 Government A airs G&A andSections Development - 38.5% 38.5% 1,994,941 2,861,104 2,802,551 100.0% 5,185,939 Total Unrestricted 11,833,927 9,892,362 Membership

Temporarily Restricted 484,284 429,344 Sections

Permanently Restricted 586,762 519,643 Annual Meeting

Total Net Assets 12,904,973 10,841,349 Information has been excerpted from our audited financial report for 2013. Any updates to this statement Publications Total Liabilities and G&A and Development can be found on the AAA website at www.aaanet.org. $15,419,939 $12,517,763 For a complete copy of audited financial statements, Net Assets please contact the AAA offices at +703.528.1902 Public Education

Academic Services 18 American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report

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STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES December 31, 2013 (With Summarized Financial Information for the Year Ended December 31, 2012)

Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted 2013 Total 2012 Total REVENUE AND SUPPORT Membership Dues $1,961,806 $— $— $1,961,806 $1,926,439 Annual Meeting 1,425,297 — — 1,425,297 1,387,389 Publications 1,002,462 — — 1,002,462 980,190 Grants and Contributions 397,989 52,233 67,119 517,341 479,978 Other Income 353,955 — — 353,955 302,589 Section Meetings 145,924 — — 145,924 103,342 Net Assets Released from Restrictions: Satisfaction of Program Restrictions 38,233 (38,233) — — — Total Revenue and Support 5,325,666 14,000 67,119 5,406,785 5,179,927 EXPENSES Program Services: Publications $933,059 — — $933,059 $1,061,504 Annual meeting 750,937 — — 750,937 614,641 Sections 715,462 — — 715,462 558,641 Membership 316,470 — — 316,470 342,256 Government Affairs, Marketing/ 285,702 — — 285,702 253,870 Communications and Media Relations Academic, Practicing and Career 146,463 — — 146,463 239,559 Center Public Education 42,905 — — 42,905 48,327 Total Program Services 3,190,998 — — 3,190,998 3,118,798 Supporting Services: Management and governance 1,939,959 — — 1,939,959 2,050,133 Development 54,982 — — 54,982 50,360 Total Supporting Services 1,994,941 — — 1,994,941 2,100,493 Total Expenses 5,185,939 — — 5,185,939 5,219,291 Change in Net Assets before 139,727 14,000 67,119 220,846 (39,364) Investment Income Investment Income (Losses/Fees): Interest and Dividends 226,842 40,940 — 267,782 284,865 Investment Fees (109,467) — — (109,467) (99,106) Realized Gains on Investments 496,595 — — 496,595 125,133 Unrealized Gains on Investments 1,187,868 — — 1,187,868 487,300 Total Investment Income, Net 1,801,838 40,940 — 1,842,778 798,192 Change in Net Assets 1,941,565 54,940 67,119 2,063,624 758,828 Net Assets, Beginning of Year 9,892,362 429,344 519,643 10,841,349 10,082,521 Net Assets, End of Year $11,833,927 $484,284 $586,762 $12,904,973 $10,841,349

American Anthropological Association • 2013 Annual Report 19 2013 AAA Section Award Winners American Ethnological Association for Middle East Section Poetry MASA Graduate Student Society for the Society Queer Anthropology Student Paper Prize (Second Prize) Mentor Award Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Sharon Stevens Ruth Benedict Book Prize— Jess Bier Ather Zia Marcia Inhorn Book Award Monograph Thomas Marchione Distinguished Scholar Award Poetry STM Graduate Student Paper Food-as-a-Human Right Natascha Shull Naisargi Dave (Third Prize) Prize Marcia Inhorn Student Award Elsie Clews Parsons Ruth Benedict Book Prize— Terese V. Gagnon Emily Wanderer Matthew Canfield Student Paper Prize Anthology National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Poetry CAR Graduate Student Paper Christine Wilson Award Ellen Sharp Susan Styker, (Honorable Mention) Prize Aren Aizura Student Paper Award, Undergraduate Paper Anthropology and (First Place) Steven Alvarez Nayantara Sheoran Susie DiMauro Environment Section Ruth Benedict Book Prize— Celia White Poetry CAR Graduate Student Paper Julian Steward Award Honorable Mention Christine Wilson Award (Honorable Mention) Prize Graduate Paper Erik Mueggler Amanda Lock Swarr Student Paper Award, (First Runner-Up) Heidi Kelley Sebastian Mohr Maggie Dickenson Payne Student Prize Junior Scholar Prize V. Rachel Wayne Poetry AARG Clark Taylor Brandon Davis (Honorable Mention) Professional Paper Prize Society for the Drew Gerkey, Anthropology of Jessica Barnes Student Paper Award, Association of Black (Second Runner-Up) Xueting Liu Betsey Brada North America Anthropologists Rappaport Student Prize Katharine Khanna Society for Latin AARG Graduate Student SANA Prize for Distinguished Heather Swanson Johnnetta B. Cole American and Caribbean Paper Prize Achievement in the Critical Student Travel Award National Association of Anthropology Molly McGown Study of North America Archaeology Division Orisanmi Burton Student Anthropologists Lee Baker Roseberry-Nash ADTSG Annual Graduate Gordon R. Willey Prize ABA-NASA Emerging Leader Student Prize Legacy Scholar in Anthropology Student Paper Prize Delmos Jones and Jagna Charles R. Cobb, Yana Stainova Sharff Memorial Prize for Chester B. DePratter A. Lynn Bolles, Orisanmi Burton Nayantara Sheoran Arthur K. Spears the Critical Study of North Whiteford P. for Applied and CAGH Virchow Award America Student Diversity AES-NASA Emerging Leader Engaged Anthropology Travel Grant Biological in Anthropology Professional Category Peter Benson Anthropology Section Jordan Levy Tiffany Cain, Lynn Kim, Caroline McKusick Susan L. Erikson Howells Book Award Society for the David McCormick, Society for Linguistic CAGH Virchow Award Anthropology of Religion Davina Two Bears Alan G. Morris NASA Emerging Leader Anthropology in Anthropology Graduate Student Category Geertz Prize in the Sapir Book Prize Student Membership Award BAS Students award Meagan Dennison Rachel Irwin Anthropology of Religion Paul Manning Rebecca Friedel, Marc Kissel CAGH Virchow Award Michael Lempert Lynn Kim, Katy Meyers, AFA-NASA Emerging Leader BAS Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology Undergraduate Student Essay Graduate Student Category Geertz Prize Emily Shepard, Competition Winner Christopher Shephard Margaret Schoeninger Natalie Fowler Bo Kyeong Seo Honorable Mention Sarah Carson Shirin Hamby Patty Jo Watson Central States Carrie-Hunter Tate CAGH Virchow Award Distinguished Lecture Anthropological Society Undergraduate Student Essay Undergraduate Student Student Paper Prize in Matthew Hale Competition Winner Category Robert L. Kelly Leslie A. White Award Anthropology of Religion Society for Cultural Alice Yeh Thea Lange Guy Shalev RPA Field School Award Britteny M. Howell Anthropology Undergraduate Student Graduate Student Paper Prize Wendy Teeter CSAS Graduate Student Cultural Horizons Prize Competition Honorable in CAM/IM Society for the Paper Competition Anthropology of Work Association for Catherine Fennell Mention Nicholas Barlett Oguz Alyanak SAW Book Prize Africanist Anthropology Bateson Prize Joshua Babcock Society for Psychological Seth Holmes, Elliott Skinner Book Award CSAS Undergraduate Elizabeth Anne Davis Undergraduate Student Anthropology Student Paper Competition Noelle Mole Jennie Burnet, Steven Feld Competition Honorable Lifetime Achievement Award Mary Schletzbaum Society for East Asian Mention Diana Forsythe Prize Nancy Schwartz Anthony Wallace, Anthropology Shifra Sered Heather Paxson Undergraduate Council for Museum Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize Jean Lave Paper Award Anthropology Eric R. Wolf Prize Graduate Student Essay Stirling Prize, Judith Farquhar, Qicheng Competition Winner Rachel Mueller Lifetime Achievement/ Zhang, Junko Kitanaka Best Published Article, Samuel Weeks Distinguished Service Award Katherine Geenberg Psychological Anthropology Bennetta-Jules Rosette Society for Urban, National, Nancy Parezo Theodore C. Bestor Graduate Paper Award Essay Prize Graduate Student Essay Talia Weiner and Transnational/ Competition Winner Metasebia Yoseph Student Travel Award Lesley R. Turnbull Condon Prize, Global Anthropology Emma-Louise Knight, Elise Kramer Best Student Essay, Graduate Student Paper Prize Distinguished Lecturer and David Plath Media Award Scholarship Award Catherine Nichols Graduate Student Essay Psychological Anthropology Tahereh Aghdasifar, Jenny Chio Jing Xu Julie Kleinman Mwenda Ntarangwi Council on Anthropology Competition Runner-up and Education Society for Economic Jenanne Ferguson Boyer Prize for Contributions Best Graduate Student Panel Association for Anthropology Feminist Anthropology George and Louise Graduate Student Essay to Psychoanalytic Adonia Lugo Spindler Award Halperin Award Anthropology AFA Dissertation Award Competition Runner-up John Borneman Undergraduate Student Elsie Rockwell, Tristan Jones, Nicole Katin, Sabrina Gavigan Paper Prize Devorah Shubowitz Herve Varenne Caroline McKusick Society for the Elizabeth Doi, AFA Sylvia Forman Graduate Graduate Student Essay Outstanding Dissertation Harold K. Schneider Award, Competition Runner-up Anthropological Sciences Colin Calvert Paper Award 2013 Graduate Paper JongHyun Park SAS Best Student Paper Prize Kia Hall Mengqi Wang Society for Visual Juliette de Wolfe Izabel Duarte Olson Anthropology AFA Sylvia Forman Society for Medical Culture and Agriculture Harold K. Schneider Award, Anthropology SAS Best Student Presentation Collier Award Undergraduate Paper Undergraduate Paper Hoyoung Moon Robert M. Netting Grad The Basker Memorial Prize Bethany Ojalehto Karen Strassler Student Best Paper Award Susan DiMauro Alex Edmonds Best Student Paper in Jean Rouch Award for AFA Zora Neale Hurston Shaila Seshia Galvin Graduate Travel Award Society for Humanistic Cognitive Science Collaborative Filmmaking Anthropology Polgar Prize Nellie Chu, Hannah Garth, Netting Student Best Michael H. Thomas Joana Roque de Pinho Undergraduate Paper Award Victor Turner Prize Elizabeth Krause Christine Pinnock SAS Travel Award Best Student Film Award Susan DiMauro (First place) George Foster AFA-NASA Co-Sponsored Julie Livingston Practicing Medical Caitlyn D. Placek, Josefine Borrmann Emerging Leader Max J. Stein, Brian P. Tyler Evolutionary Anthropology Award Best Undergraduate Natalie Nesvaderani Anthropology Society Victor Turner Prize (Second Place) Mimi Nichter Society for the Student Film Award New Investigator AFA-AAA Co-Sponsored Christine Walley George Foster Anthropology of Europe Elliot Balsley, Summer Intern Brian Wood, Practicing Medical William A. Douglass SAE Haley Quartarone, Drew Gerkey Rachel Nuzman Victor Turner Prize Anthropology Award Distinguished Lecture Ravi Lloyd, Rub (Third Place) Best Student Paper Mark Nichter Deborah Cameron Best Short Film Association for Political Kenneth T. Macleish and Legal Anthropology Luke Glowacki New Millennium William A. Douglass Ilja Kok, Fiction Book Award Book Prize in Europeanist APLA Student Paper Prize General Anthropology (First Prize) Willem Timmers Division Seth Holmes, Anthropology Stacey Vanderhurst Kim Huynh Best Ultra Short Film Award Diana Forsythe Prize Matthew Wolf-Meyer Yael Navaro-Yashin APLA Student Paper Fiction Heather Freeman (Honorable Mention) Heather Paxon The Rivers Undergraduate SAE/CES Pre-dissertation (Honorable Mention) Student Paper Prize Fellowship Best Feature Film Award Alyse Bertenthal GAD Prize for Exemplary Glenn Harvey Shepard Cross-field Scholarship Anna Wates Senem Kaptan Egle Vertelyte Rheana “Juno” Poetry SMA Dissertation Award SAE Graduate Student Paper Special Recognition for (First Prize) Salazar Parenas Lauren Carruth Prize a Significant Contribution Janis Rodgers Elana F. Resnick John Bishop AAA STAFF AND PUBLICATIONS 2013 Donor Recognition

AAA STAFF AND AAA PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS EDITORS AAA HONOR ROLL OF DONORS Executive Office American Journal of Linguistic Anthropologist Anthropology Specials thanks to the following donors for their Edward Liebow Executive Director Michael Chibnik Paul Garrett generous support over the years: University of Iowa Temple University Kimberley Baker Manager, Organizational American Ethnologist Alexandra Jaffe William Douglass Janna Marchione Governance Angelique Haugerud California State University, Long Beach Robert Lemelson Foundation Philip Singer Dexter K. Allen, CAP Rutgers University Executive Administrative Anthropology & Medical Anthropology Assistant Education Quarterly Quarterly Sally Campbell Galman Clarence C. Gravlee Finance and University of Florida Operations University of Pennsylvania The American Anthropological Association would like to thank the Museum Anthropology Elaine Lynch Laura A. Valdiviezo following individuals and institutions for their support in 2013. 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