2011 ANNUAL REPORT

Traces,Evoking the Shifting Tidemarks & Changeable Character & Legacies of Differences executive board and committees

2011 AAA Minority Seat Section Assembly Committee for Executive Board Ana L Aparicio EB Seat #2 Human Rights (2010–13) Ida Susser (2010–13) Ilana Feldman President Virginia R Dominguez Northwestern Hunter College, Jessica Winegar (2009–11) University City University of New York Committee on Labor University of Illinois, Practicing/ Relations Urbana, Champaign Professional Seat Treasurer-Ex Officio Michael Chibnik Alisse Waterston Edward Liebow President-Elect (2010–13) (2008–11) Committee on Leith Mullings Minority Issues in (2009–11) John Jay College of Battelle Criminal Justice, Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of Simon Craddock Lee of the City University New York AAA Committees of New York and Chairs Committee on Student Seat Practicing, Applied Secretary Annual Meeting Jason E Miller and Public Interest Debra L Martin Program Chair (2009–12) Anthropology (2009–12) Sarah Green University of Florida T J Ferguson University of Nevada, Las Vegas Anthropological Committee on Undesignated #1 Communications Hugh Gusterson Public Policy Section Assembly Committee Elisa J Sobo (2009–12) Alisse Waterston Convenor Susan Greenhalgh Vilma Santiago-Irizarry George Mason University Association (2010–12) Committee Operations Cornell University on World Undesignated #2 Committee Susan D Gillespie Anthropologies Archaeology Seat Katherine Spielmann (2010–13) Setha Low Nan A Rothschild Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (2008–11) University of Florida Audit Committee Edmund T Hamann Columbia University Undesignated #3 Finance Committee Lee D Baker (2008–11) Awards Committee Edward Liebow Biological Seat Duke University George Armelagos George J Armelagos Nominations (2008–11) Committee Undesignated #4 Committee on Ethics Emory University Debra L Martin Jean J Schensul Barbara Rose Johnston (2009–12) Lara Deeb Cultural Seat Resource Florence E Babb Institute for Development Committee on the (2009–12) Community Research Committee Future of Print University of Florida Louise Lamphere Section Assembly and Electronic EB Seat #1 Publishing Linguistic Seat Gabriela Vargas- Deborah Nichols Laura R Graham Cetina (2010–12) (2008–11) Universidad Committee on University of Iowa Autonoma de Yucatan Gender Equity in Anthropology Jennifer R Weis 2011 ANNUAL REPORT

Traces,Evoking the Shifting Tidemarks & Changeable Character & Legacies of Differences

TAbLE OF cONTENTs

Executive Board and Committees inside front cover

Statement of Purposes 2

Letter from the President and Executive Director 3

Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies: Policy Impacts 4

Meet the Executive Director 5

Association Briefs 6

Member Profi le—Alec Barker 8

Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies: President’s Page 9

RACE: Are We So Different? Exhibition Featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History 10

AAA Weighs In On Human Subjects Research 11

Member Profi le—Lise Dobrin 11

Member Profi le—Rena Lederman 11

2011 AAA Award Winners 12

Statement of Financial Position 14

Statement of Activities 15

2011 AAA Section Award Winners 16

AAA Staff and Publications inside back cover

2011 Donor Recognition inside back cover

2011 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 1 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 President and Executive Director

s President and Executive Director of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) we are pleased to provide this report on the signature activities, programs and accomplishments of your association over the past year. Over this period of time, we have made great strides in expanding our membership through the success of several programs for undergraduates and reaching out to our colleagues based overseas, and in our continued eff orts to increase our profi le in the advocacy arena through submitting comments on a number of Federal Aregulatory and legislative initiatives. We took advantage of the resources made available that sought input from the public on human subject through several of our internal committees to continue research protections, a rule that could affect the reviewing and updating our Code of Ethics, weigh activities of many institutional review boards (IRBs). in on issues of international concern, and strengthen Through the continuing work of the Committee various group abilities to serve the association. We for Human Rights, the association also weighed in renewed partnerships with our publishing partners, language classifi cation standards for US households. created new online newsletters, and carried forward Our internal capacities were strengthened this year in efforts to spotlight the RACE: Are We So Different? several ways, including the decision to add two new public education program, which was hosted by the Virginia R Dominguez appointed seats to the Committee on Ethics, four President (2009–11) Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. appointed seats to the Committee on Minority Issues First and foremost, the membership of our association in Anthropology, and appointed members to the continues to expand in exciting ways, thanks to Global Climate Change Task Force. the addition two years ago of the Undergraduate In 2011, we extended our publishing partnership with Membership Category and the establishment of the Wiley-Blackwell through 2017. This step will allow us Presidential Incentive Program for Undergraduates. to maintain a diversity of voices that contribute to the Through these programs, more undergraduates have dissemination of anthropological knowledge, as the joined the ranks of the AAA and have become active agreement allows us to continue to print all of our William E Davis participants in the activities of the association, including Executive Director journals, which present over 600 articles and 475 book participation in our annual meeting. Undergraduates and multi-media reviews to anthropologists, students have also taken advantage of the new Summer of anthropology, and interested others. We also Internship Program, which provides opportunities for introduced the Anthropology News website, giving them to work as professionals in the DC metropolitan members increased opportunity to present their work area. Opportunities such as these have shown students and see it published in a timelier fashion. nationwide that the discipline of anthropology is indeed rich and diverse, with many options to work as First and foremost, the membership of our academics, professionals or researchers. association continues to increase… Next, our association made sure that the voice Finally, the summer of 2011 saw the opening of the of the discipline was heard on Capitol Hill and in RACE: Are We So Different? public education project Federal agency offi ces. A highlight of the activity open at the Smithsonian to wide fanfare. Not only was was the submission of Congressional testimony by the exhibition a success at the National Museum of Executive Director Bill Davis to protect funding for the National History, several other Smithsonian museums National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, (including the National Museum of American History Behavioral and Economic Sciences (a major funder and the Anacostia Community Museum) held RACE- of anthropological research), after proposals were themed activities and events. put forward to drastically cut its budget. AAA staff continued to both monitor and encourage members to The theme of this years’ AAA report is Traces, weigh in on appropriate funding levels for the National Tidemarks and Legacies, drawing on the theme of the Endowment for the Humanities. 2011 AAA Annual Meeting in Montréal. We are both pleased to submit this report for your review and ask On the regulatory front, the Committee of Ethics, you, as you examine its pages, to consider how we under the direction of President Dominguez, submitted have examined traces of those things left from the comments for the record in response to an Announced past, as well as tidemarks of possibilities to develop Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) issued by further and legacies on which to draw for the present the US Department of Health and Human Services and the future of anthropology and our association. Virginia R Dominguez William E Davis President Executive Director

2011 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 3 Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies: Policy Impacts

nthropology is truly a rich and diverse fi eld of social science. Not only does it represent experts in the four main subfi elds of the discipline— archaeological, biological/physical, cultural/social and linguistic—it also represents applied anthropology—the so-called “practical application” of any of these studies outside of academic research. With this wide scope of expertise in the discipline, to the agency’s budget would have a deleterious it comes as no surprise that last year saw a effect on the discipline. tremendous amount of advocacy-related activities In efforts to preserve funding for the NSF, AAA Aacross a number of fronts. Members, association Executive Director Bill Davis sent testimony to leadership and staff made sure that policy-makers the House Committee on Science, Space and in the administration, legislators in the halls of Technology, Subcommittee on Science Research Congress, state governments, and leaders overseas and Education, stating the importance of research heard the unique perspective of anthropology monies for the discipline. AAA staff also sent on issues as diverse as federal funding levels for action alert notices to the membership at large, asking them to contact their Congressional It comes as no surprise that last year saw representatives. In sum, the efforts were a tremendous amount of advocacy-related successful—the NSF’s funding was restored, and the agency even received a modest increase. activities across a number of fronts. As far as the NEH is concerned, AAA continued government agencies, controversial efforts to its support for the National Humanities Alliance curb the civil rights of immigrants living in the (NHA) Humanities Advocacy Day activities held United States, protecting the rights of indigenous on March 8 at Capitol Hill. This lobbying day is populations in Brazil, and designed to advocate for increased funding for the the protection of historical humanities—particularly the NEH. Bill Davis joined sites worldwide. Last year NHA’s meetings with members of the respective also saw the establishment appropriations committees, while Director of of the Anthropology in Public Affairs Damon Dozier and Joslyn Osten, Public Policy Award, to be Marketing & Communications Manager, met with awarded by the Committee the representatives of the Illinois delegation. on Public Policy. In response to legislation targeted at restricting There was a fl urry of activity the civil liberties of undocumented immigrants, on Capitol Hill in 2011, as the Executive Board (EB) passed a resolution in there were a number of May 2011 condemning Georgia’s House Bill 87 efforts to limit the amount for unfairly “targeting undocumented immigrants of funding appropriated to with discriminatory legislation that weakens customary legal prohibitions of police investigations both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and on immigrant status.” In its resolution, the EB the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). also noted that “AAA, its Sections, Commissions As far as NSF is concerned, there were attempts and Committees will not hold any conferences in by several actors to severely cut funding for the Georgia until HB 87 is either repealed or struck entire agency—but especially the Directorate for down as constitutionally invalid.” In previous years, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, a major the AAA declared that it would not hold events in funder of anthropological research. Past research the state of Arizona for similar reasons. by AAA staff fi nds that the agency has awarded tens of millions of grants in recent years to In later months, the EB decided to respond to anthropological research, so any cut or elimination number of anti-immigration laws passed by at

4 American Anthropological Association • 2011 Annual Report least four other states (Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, and Utah) and make a cOLLAbORATivE AdvOcAcY general statement on immigration, noting that the laws passed in these ANd sERvicE TO THE scHOLARLY cOmmUNiTY states are discriminatory, divisive, degrading, and costly. One of the roles of the While not necessarily a legislative proposal in nature, headlines were made Executive Director of last year when Governor Rick Scott of Florida last year declared that the American Anthropological state “does not need any anthropology majors” and state-funded colleges Association is to represent and universities should instead focus on graduating students that major the membership of AAA and in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In a sharply- the discipline of anthropology worded letter to the governor, both President Dominguez and Executive in collaborative activities Director Bill Davis wrote that anthropology is a discipline with a rich and involving other scholarly societies and robust history, having made numerous contributions to the study of professional associations with shared interests cultures, both foreign and domestic, helping all to understand humankind and concerns. in multiple ways. Many AAA members also signed a petition, asking the governor to retract his statements. This year, Executive Director Bill Davis served as Immediate Past President, Executive The Archeology Division of the AAA also had a very busy year, serving as Committee and Board Member of the an instrumental force in helping to protect several cultural heritage sites, Council of Engineering and Scientifi c Society including those at Mount Taylor (New Mexico), Chimney Rock (Colorado) Executives (CESSE), an organization of the and even serving as an instrumental force in securing AAA’s commitment to Chief Executive Offi cers of 175 scientifi c, an international appeal to save archeological sites placed in danger during technical, and social scientifi c societies. He the so-called “Egyptian Spring” revolution. also served this year as a member of the Board In the international arena, the Committee for Human Rights (CfHR) wrote of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA), an to Brazilian tribunal leaders to express its concern for the safety, well-being, organization of humanities and social science and fair treatment of Chief Marcos Xukuru, tribal leader of the Xukuru associations. In both capacities he helped develop collaborative information collecting The Anthropology in Public Policy Award will honor and dissemination efforts and Congressional anthropologists whose work has had a signifi cant, positive advocacy initiatives focused on making the case for increased federal government infl uence on the course of government decision-making support for scholarly research, fellowships and and action. archiving of scholarly materials. In 2011, Davis also served as a member of the Nation in Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil. For more than two decades, the Board of Directors of the American Council Xukuru had been undergoing a process of demarcation of their ancestral of Learned Societies (ACLS), and organization lands through FUNAI—the National Indian Foundation of Brazil. Due to of 71 scholarly societies in the humanities the continuing presence of ranchers on Xukuru land, this process has led and related social sciences. In 2011. ACLS was to ongoing and continual threats and intimidation against human rights responsible for awarding nearly $15 million defenders and escalated in an assignation attempt on Xukuru. to 350 fellows and grantees worldwide during Citing a broad context of violations of international norms, including 2011. In addition to serving on the ACLS the provisions of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as Board he served as Chair of its Conference of well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Administrative Offi cers, which developed a Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the CfHR asked for the fair series of joint activities designed to provide procedural treatment of indigenous people, based on respect for due increased administrative, management and process impartiality, and sensitivity to the specifi c cultural and political leadership support for its individual member context of indigenous communities, an end to the criminalization of human societies and their elected leaders. Among rights defenders, and an impartial, timely, and proper legal and judicial those joint activities were securing legal investigation which considers all evidence related to the murders and the counsel for ACLS member societies, joint attempted assassination of Chief Marcos Xukuru. annual meeting site selection and annual meeting planning support, and assistance Finally, in recognition of these and other efforts, the EB voted to establish in the acquisition of new and improved the Anthropology in Public Policy Award. To be awarded biennially information technologies. beginning in 2013, the award will honor anthropologists whose work has had a signifi cant, positive infl uence on the course of government decision- making and action.

2011 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 5 Association Briefs

nthropology News launched www.anthropology-news.org on September 1, 2011, and off ers a place for AAA members to share timely news, analysis, commentaries and reports with peers, colleagues and the public. In addition to being able to share more thematic content and regular columns on the website, AN recruited a new group of columnists and contributing editors to provide regular columns exclusively online in the new Opinion section. These contributors have helped expand anthropology’s contributions to the study of conversations in AN to cover more topics, more climate change into the spotlight and increase its regularly. The fi rst group of Opinion columns engagement with research, policy discourse, and included: the communities with which anthropologists work. n Multimedia Matters by Nathalie Boucher and In 2011, AAA President Virginia R Dominguez Martin Lamotte appointed Shirley J Fiske as chair of the GCCTF. She also appointed: Susan A Crate, Heather n Critical Consumerism by Kelly Ernst Friedman Lazrus, George Luber, Lisa Lucero, Anthony Oliver- n Immigration Matters by Fethi Keles Smith, Ben Orlove, Sarah Strauss and Richard Wilk. n J Drive by Ritu G Khanduri The GCCTF had its fi rst face-to-face meeting at the 2011 AAA meeting in Montréal. They also n Language and Culture by Leila Monaghan, Jacqueline Messing, and Richard Senghas AAA’s international participation rate was n Archeology in North America by Robert (Bob) Muckle its highest ever with 14.6% of registrants n Anthropology in the Public Sector by Sarah traveling to Montréal from 76 nations not Ono, Heather Schacht Reisinger, and Samantha including the United States and Canada. Solimeo n Notes from the Field by Douglas Reeser The last time the Association met in n Media Notes by Kenneth Routon Canada was in 1972 in Toronto, Ontario. n International Activism by Robert R Sauders had an open meeting in Montréal to meet others n Pedagogical Approaches in Bioanthropology by interested in anthropology and climate change. In Misty Weitzel addition to engaging anthropologists, the GCCTF To help show the public what anthropology is set plans to increase interdisciplinary interactions about, AN content is openly available for the as well as engagement with the public, policy publication month and one month after, when it is makers, and the media. then archived on AnthroSource for AAA members.

AN continues to publish regularly in print, but it is no several changes made to bylaws longer bound by defi nition as a print publication. It is AAA underwent a signifi cant change in its bylaws a news source for and by anthropologists. to add the role of “Vice President” to that of the existing role of AAA President-elect. Appointments made to New Global climate change Task Force In addition to this change, several AAA sections made changes to their bylaws. The Association of The AAA Global Climate Change Task Force Latina and Latino Anthropologists made changes (GCCTF) was created in November 2010 to bring to encourage participation of both Latinas and

6 American Anthropological Association • 2011 Annual Report Latinos in AAA governance and to change their The 2011 Annual Meeting attracted 58 exhibitors representing offi cer structure, election process, quorum count and to publications. They also passed a resolution a spectrum of publishing & government organizations, on Migration Policy Issues in the US. In addition, foundations, fi lm producers and technology fi rms whose Culture and Agriculture changed their bylaws in order to change the name of their journal to interests or products support anthropologists worldwide. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, and the National Association of Student Anthropologists changed their bylaws to change duties of their Executive Committee in the election process.

Annual meeting continues to set Records

November 16–20, the AAA hosted its 110th Annual Meeting in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Following a hugely successful 2010 Annual Meeting in New Orleans; the 2011 AAA meeting, themed “Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies,” included 6,558 AAA staff member Emilia Guevara presents a copy of American Anthropologist at the 2011 Annual Meeting. registrants attending more than 820 scholarly sessions. The 2011 meeting marks the fi rst time AAA Renews Partnership in the Association’s history that attendance has With Wiley-blackwell broken 6,000. Additionally, AAA’s international participation rate was its highest ever with Last year, the AAA extended its publishing 14.6% of registrants traveling to Montréal from partnership with Wiley-Blackwell through 76 nations not including the United States and 2017. Members and AnthroSource patrons Canada. The last time the Association met in will continue to enjoy uninterrupted access to Canada was in 1972 in Toronto, Ontario. over a century of anthropological literature. AAA and Wiley-Blackwell have continued and The 2011 Annual Meeting attracted 58 exhibitors extended philanthropic commitments, including representing a spectrum of publishing & participation in four programs that distribute government organizations, foundations, fi lm content to under-resourced countries and free producers and technology fi rms whose interests access to Tribal and First Nation Colleges and or products support anthropologists worldwide. Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In th The 110 Annual Meeting was also supported by 2010, support of these philanthropic programs a new group of volunteers known as the Montreal meant that a typical AAA journal was enjoyed Student Ambassadors. The anthropological by more than 7,000 institutions who might not work of these students was on viewing display otherwise afford our journals. for attendees and the students remained posted throughout the meeting to provide local Finally, the extension of this publishing partnership information for attendees wishing to see more of helps sustain AAA’s diversity of voices, as Wiley- the city. Blackwell’s agreement continues to protect smaller titles through pooling communal resources. In 2011, the publishing program published nearly 600 articles, spanning the expanse of the discipline, and its titles published another 482 book and multimedia reviews, supporting the efforts of university presses, independent fi lmmakers and museum exhibitions.

We are proud of the enormous investment and effort of our members, authors, reviewers, editors and our team of publishing professionals who all work to ensure the widespread distribution of anthropological knowledge and perpetual RACE: Are We So Different? Advisory board co-chair Yolanda Moses (left) talks to members at the 2011 Annual Meeting. archiving of that content.

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2011 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 7 AssOciATiON bRiEFs cONTiNUEd

AAA Announces New summer internship Program

Last year, the AAA announced its fi rst ever summer internship program, in partnership with host organizations in the Washington DC, metropolitan area: the Naval Historical Heritage mEmbER PROFiLE: ALEc bARKER Command (NHHC) and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). The placement at Dr. Alex (Alec) Barker NHHC focused on cultural resource management, is a museum-based historical preservation and artifact conservation archaeologist with and the ICRW placement focused on international more than thirty years development and gender rights. of fi eld experience in Melissa Campbell-McIntosh, a rising junior from the archaeology of the Saint Mary’s College in California was awarded Americas and Europe. the NHHC placement, while Juliana Bennington, His research focuses a rising senior from Wheaton College in on the rise of social Massachusetts was awarded the ICRW placement. complexity, the communication of meaning through art and iconography, and ethics of collecting Last year, the AAA announced cultural property. its fi rst ever summer internship Barker is president of the Council for Museum program, in partnership with host Anthropology, serves on the Board of Directors organizations in the Washington DC, of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), and is Section Convener-Elect of the American metropolitan area. Anthropological Association. He has chaired the Committee on Ethics of both the AAA and the Ethics committee Announces SAA. He served on the Task Force for Cultural Winners of small Grants Program Property Ethics of the American Association of Museums (AAM), which developed guidelines Last year, the Committee on Ethics presented cash for the ethical acquisition of antiquities by awards to two separate teams of anthropologists American museums, and on the AAA Presidential who offered proposals centered on encouraging Task Force for Comprehensive Ethics Review, awareness of and innovation in ethics curricular materials used in introductory, undergraduate, and which developed a draft revision of the AAA graduate classes. Code of Ethics. In 2010 he was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to the Native Samuel Gerald Collins and Matthew Slover American Graves Protection and Repatriation Durington of Towson University were awarded Review Committee. Recipient of both the SAA $350 for their proposal “Multimedia Ethics for Presidential Award for service to archaeology a Networked Anthropology,” which seeks to formulate and freely disseminate ethical guidelines and the AAM Peer Service Award for his work in for a public anthropology premised on the museum accreditation and assessment, Barker production and dissemination of multimedia. currently serves as Director of the University of Lakshmi Fjord and Devva Kasnitz of AAA’s Society Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology. for Medical Anthropology, Disability Research Barker received his undergraduate degree from Special Interest Group were awarded $650 Marquette University, his MA from Wichita State for their proposal, “Disability and Bioethical Curriculum: Please Mind the Gaps.” Their project University and his doctorate from the University is designed to address the absence of the disability of Michigan. experience, expertise, and theory in anthropology and bioethics curricula.

8 American Anthropological Association • 2011 Annual Report Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies: President’s Page

A Word From the President

have had the privilege and honor of serving as the AAA President for the past two years, and want to thank all of the members, offi cers and staff of the AAA for the wonderful opportunity to lead such a diverse, talented and inspired group of professionals and professionals in training. While President, I was pleased to introduce several new programs, and want to highlight just a few of them here. MEMBERSHIP by reading and giving feedback on this type of IDuring my tenure as President, AAA membership work. Lastly, I was delighted to appoint creative, numbers rose and expanded. Part of this expansion committed colleagues to CFPEP (AAA’s Committee came as a result of new programs designed to on the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing) reach undergraduate students (e.g., the creation and to encourage them to be bold and forward- of the undergraduate membership category and thinking about AAA’s print and online publishing. the creation of the Presidential Incentive Program for Undergraduates). This effect also came from POLICY maintaining AAA dues levels, actively welcoming Many issues tend to arise during the course of non-US based members, and holding the 2010 one’s Presidency, with wide-ranging policy impacts and 2011 AAA Annual Meetings in cities of great for issues that anthropologists (and others) care appeal to attendees (New Orleans and Montréal). I about very deeply. I was proud to support the am proud of the work of Monica Heller (University World Council of Anthropological Association of Toronto) and Sarah Green (University of work on the international level and, when a spate Manchester) as Executive Program Chairs of those of anti-immigrant legislation began to crop up AAA Annual Meetings, and of the fact that we (and become law) in U.S. states like Georgia, broke all attendance records in the history of the Alabama and Utah, I led the creation of an ad-hoc AAA, fi rst in New Orleans and again in Montreal. I group of the AAA Executive Board to consider this am also very grateful to Canadian anthropologists legislation and issue a statement clearly outlining and CASCA, the Canadian anthropological our policy of not holding any AAA-related meeting association, for their kindness and thoughtfulness in states that pass laws restricting the civil liberties in welcoming the AAA to Canada in 2011. of immigrants. With the capture and death of Osama Bin Laden INNOVATIONS in the spring of 2011, I thought it important that One of my priorities as President was to try to the AAA blog launch a Free Speech Anthropology move our discipline in areas in which we could Forum in order to stress the value of space for (and should) do better. Along these lines, I was thoughtful, scholarly, and analytic debate and pleased to host a series of podcasts called “Inside discussion among anthropologists and others the President’s Studio.” With these podcasts we seek to reach. I also created this forum to (heard around the world) I was able to conduct show that our association endorses and seeks to one-on-one interviews with members of our facilitate the space for dissent, free speech, and discipline, grant-makers and even AAA staff, thoughtful analysis, a point amply illustrated by featuring them, some of their passions, ideas, the intense discussion of anthropology and science research and activities. throughout much of the 2010–11 winter. I also thought it critical that we engage the public This is just a short list of innovations and actions on topics of central importance to anthropology that I was happy to be able to introduce to our through the publication of op-ed pieces, short members, and I think they, in some small part, will magazine articles, and other short pieces in a help make our discipline stronger and more widely variety of local, regional and national media known. It was a fruitful and intense two-year outlets. The creation of the AAA Writers Circle period, and I thank you all for your support and aimed to support anthropologists working on hard work on behalf of the profession. original, accessible writing for a broader audience Virginia R Dominguez, AAA President

2011 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 9 RACE: Are We So Diff erent? ExHibiTiON FEATUREd AT THE smiTHsONiAN NATiONAL mUsEUm OF NATURAL HisTORY

he summer of 2011 saw the opening of the AAA’s powerful and thought-provoking exhibition RACE: Are We So Diff erent? at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Th e exhibition was booked for an unprecedented six-month run from June 18, 2011 through January 1, 2012. The opening of the exhibit at the Smithsonian education through the biological sciences and featured a well-attended special lecture and cultural perceptions of race. subsequent discussion with Dr. TYolanda T. Moses on the project, its AAA Fights to Protect Anthropology development, content, themes and Program at Howard University messages. The audience included Smithsonian offi cials, students, As 2010 came to close, AAA was dismayed to fi nd researchers, community activists and out that Howard University President Sidney A. government offi cials. Ribeau made the controversial decision to close the anthropology program at Howard University and In a move that spoke to the turn its existing major into a track within sociology. popularity of the project and the importance of the issue of race to Pointing out the richness of the Howard Yolanda Moses talks to reporters at Smithsonian offi cials, several other Smithsonian anthropology program as well as its critical the exhibit opening. museums held RACE-related events. Most contribution to the discipline at large, AAA notably, the National Museum of National History President Virginia R. Dominguez noted in several held a discussion series in conjunction with their pieces of correspondence to Dr. Ribeau that Greensboro Lunch Counter sit-in exhibition, and without anthropology (and other humanities- the Anacostia Community Museum held a family related) programs at Historically Black Colleges day of activities entitled “Families Are Talking and Universities (HBCUs) a much-needed diversity About Race at the Smithsonian.” in science, research, and scholarship would at risk.

The NMNH also used the RACE project to reach According to the university-sponsored President’s out to local schools and teach them about Commission on Academic Renewal, the the project. Several local schools had students anthropology program at Howard was not slated design school lockers with art items and other to be closed or merged, and was recognized as materials to express their views on race, using the expanding Howard’s international footprint and exhibitions’ school locker project as a template. its collaborative scholarly networks. However, the program was merged with the sociology program In other RACE- related events, the Annual Meeting in 2011. for the National Humanities Alliance took place on March 7, 2011 at George Washington University, followed by Humanities Advocacy Day on March 8 at Capitol Hill. The Annual Meeting was an opportunity to provide concrete ways to exemplify and frame arguments to support the humanities, skills meeting participants would need for the following Advocacy Day.

AAA Director of Public Affairs, Damon Dozier was featured in a three-member panel that exemplifi ed the fi eld of humanities. In his presentation, Dozier AAA Executive Director Bill Davis and Director of the talked the audience through a virtual tour of the Smithsonian Museum of African Art Johnetta Cole at the opening of the RACE exhibit at the Smithsonian National project, and also emphasized the importance of Museum of Natural History.

10 American Anthropological Association • 2011 Annual Report mEmbER PROFiLE: LisE dObRiN Dr. Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia) AAA Weighs in On is a linguistic anthropologist whose work spans linguistic analysis, history Human Subjects Research of anthropology, ethnography of PROTEcTiONs ANNOUNcEd NOTicE OF language documentation, and ethics PROPOsEd RULEmAKiNG advocacy. Dobrin conducted fi eldwork on sound-based noun classifi cation in the traditionally Arapesh-speaking n July 26, the region of Papua New Guinea. She then received NEH support through the Documenting Endangered Department of Health Languages initiative to create the Arapesh Grammar and Digital and Human Services Language Archive, a joint undertaking with the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. (HHS) announced a She is now at work on a grammar of Cemaun Arapesh. notice of proposed Dobrin is a strong advocate for taking an ethnographic approach to research ethics, especially in endangered rulemaking (ANPRM) for “Human language documentation and archiving. Her recent writings address the discourse of language preservation, the changing Subjects Research: Enhancing Protections place of speakers in language documentation, obstacles to Ofor Research Subjects and Reducing applying western models of community empowerment in a Melanesian cultural context, and the practical and ethical Burden, Delay and Ambiguity for implications of Christian missions’ continuing involvement in basic linguistic research. Investigators.” Dobrin was the founding chair of the Linguistic Society The notice was published in the Federal Register. of America’s Ethics Committee. She is chair-elect of the Because of the importance that this issue has on American Anthropological Association’s Committee on Ethics. the entire discipline, comments were submitted Dr. Dobrin received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from to the HHS by AAA President Virginia Dominguez the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her MA (University of Illinois) and the comments were and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago. authored by Rena Lederman (Princeton University) mEmbER PROFiLE: RENA LEdERmAN and Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia). The comments refl ect extensive consultation with a Dr. Rena Lederman (BA, Barnard College; PhD, Columbia University) range of anthropologists of differing specializations, is Professor of Anthropology at and were reviewed by the Association’s Committee Princeton University, where she has on Ethics as well as the AAA Offi cers, Executive taught since 1981. She did fi eldwork Director, and Legal Counsel. in Papua New Guinea in the late 1970s and early 1980s on exchange, The submission urges HHS “to more narrowly gender, politics, and historical delimit the object of regulation.” Rather than representations; and fi eld and archival attempting to target all research with human research in the US since the 1990s on disciplinary knowledges and ethics, and the cultural politics beings, as the current rules do, the comments of expertise, training, “method,” and research regulation. propose that the rules focus specifi cally on research Her publications include What Gifts Engender (Cambridge, involving human experimentation and/or biomedical 1986), “Contested Order” (American Ethnologist 16[2], 1989), procedures. This would prevent the kinds of ethical “Pretexts for Ethnography” (in R. Sanjek, ed., Fieldnotes: breaches that provided the original motive for ethics The Making of Anthropology, 1990), “Globalization and the Future of Culture Areas” (Annual Reviews in Anthropology regulation, without interfering with valuable low- 27, 1998), “Towards an Anthropology of Disciplinarity” risk social and humanistic research. (D. Ball, ed., Disciplines and Disciplinarity, Critical Matrix, 2004), “Anxious Borders Between Work and Life in a Time of The comments also strongly object to the Bureaucratic Ethics Regulation” (editor, American Ethnologist proposed rulemaking strategy of segmenting out Forum 33[4], 2006), “Comparative ‘Research’”: A Modest “informational risks,” like loss of confi dentiality, for Proposal Concerning the Object of Ethics Regulation” (PoLAR mitigation through a process modeled on the Health 30[2], 2007) and other contributions both to Melanesian Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA): studies and to the anthropologies of knowledge and of ethics. “Applying systems designed to protect health data” Lederman received her BA from Barnard College and PhD to humanistic social studies like anthropological from Columbia University. At Princeton, many years as an IRB fi eldwork “makes no sense, intellectually or member and service on other cross-disciplinary committees, among other things, were springboards for comparative ethically.” Instead, the AAA proposes the formation research on disciplinary cultures, which has proved of a commission composed of social and humanistic invaluable in understanding the contradictory forces at play researchers, tasked with developing a review process in contemporary regulatory regimes that are shaping the appropriate to non-biomedical, non-experimental conditions of possibility of critical research. research methodologies.

2011 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 11 2011 AAA Award Winners AAA minority dissertation Fellowship (CBC national Canadian), the AAAS Science Radio and BBC international radio. Fisher has AAA and the Committee on Minority Affairs in published in leading scientifi c journals such as Anthropology (CMIA) is pleased to announce the Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of selection of Shankari Patel as recipient of the Neurophysiology, Philosophical Transactions of 2011–12 AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship. the Royal Society, Biological Science, Archives Patel’s dissertation, titled “Journey to the East: of Sexual Behavior, The American Journal of Pilgrimage, Politics and Gender in Postclassic Physical Anthropology, Human Nature as well as Yucatan,” focuses on “the rise in women’s status popular magazines such as The New York Times and authority in the religious institutions of Book Review, Psychology Today, Natural History, Postclassic (AD 909–1519) Maya society following Scientifi c American, New Scientist and The the decline and collapse of the Classic (AD 250– Chronicle of Higher Education. 909) Maya state.” Patel’s dissertation committee chair, Thomas C Patterson, says “Ms. Patel is committed to a career in academic research, AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate teaching and service to students, the institutions, Teaching of Anthropology the wider community, and the profession.”

Patel received her BA at California State University, AAA is pleased to announce Bonnie Pitblado is Los Angeles in anthropology and continued on the recipient of the 2011 AAA/Oxford University to receive an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate anthropology, geography and religious studies. She Teaching of Anthropology. Pitblado is a scholar of is currently working on her PhD in anthropology at boundless energy, enthusiasm and commitment University of California, Riverside. to undergraduate education and community outreach. She embodies the Utah State University Patel was recognized during the AAA Awards (USU) motto to take students to greater heights. Ceremony at the 2011 AAA Annual Meeting Her concept of an undergraduate classroom in Montréal in November. Natalie Newton, PhD includes the high mountain ridges of the Rocky candidate at the University of California, Irvine, will Mountains of Colorado or Idaho where her be acknowledged as the Honorable Mention. Patel students are searching for evidence of the and Newton were invited to attend lunch and most ancient inhabitants of North America or other events with the CMIA during the meeting. at the prehistoric road shows in a remote town of southern Idaho where local people bring Anthropology in media Award (AimE) artifacts and interact with her students. Bonnie Pitblado recruits Latino high school interns to AAA congratulates Helen E Fisher, write and record Museum of Anthropology audio anthropological researcher, communicator and interpretations in Spanish. This program increased world citizen, as the 2011 Anthropology in Media the accessibility of Museum’s exhibits to the fast- (AIME) Award recipient. An expert on the biology growing Cache Valley Hispanic community and of love, Fisher is one of the most referenced to introduce at-risk high school students to the scholars in love and relationship research. Her university. She was the driving force in promoting research receives broad media exposure. Discover the restoration and rehabilitation of one of USU’s Magazine recognized her publication as one of the most beloved historic buildings, the Aggie Barn, to 100 most important scientifi c articles published serve as a USU Welcome Center and an expanded in 2010. She hosted the four-part radio series Museum of Anthropology. Pitblado embodies What Is Love? for the BBC World Service, and an extraordinary dedication to teaching in her a four-part TV series on Anatomy of Love for scholarly approach to undergraduate education Turner Broadcasting. She has been featured on or community outreach whether in the classroom, Nightline (ABC), The Colbert Report, The View, museum or a remote rural Utah town. Dateline NBC, ABC 20/20, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America (ABC), Charlie Rose Robert b Textor and Family (PBS New York), The Cronkite Report, The News Prize for Excellence in Hour with Jim Lehrer, the Oprah Winfrey Show Anticipatory Anthropology and BBC London. Fisher is a featured guest on national and international talk radio programs AAA is pleased to announce Mark Nichter (University including Larry King Live, Talk of the Nation (NPR), of Arizona) as the winner of the 2011 Robert B Textor All Things Considered (NPR), Quirks and Quarks and Family Prize in Anticipatory Anthropology.

12 12 American Anthropological Association • 2011 Annual Report Nichter’s work has been at the forefront of global of the experiences of these people through an health research and policy in an anticipatory imaginatively rendered pairing of David Schneider manner. Combining theoretical insights and and Michel Serres, arguing that new imaginations ethnographic fi eldwork, Nichter has examined of “biogenetic substance” are in the making. issues ranging from women’s reproductive and sexual health to the risk factors and vulnerabilities margaret mead Award of commercial sex workers suffering from STDs and AIDs. AAA congratulates Frances Norwood on her selection as the 2011 Margaret Mead Award Most recently, Nichter has been conducting winner for her book The Maintenance of Life: fi eldwork in Indonesia and India on tobacco Preventing Social Death through Euthanasia cessation interventions. His recent affi liation with Talk and End-of-Life Care–Lessons from the the Cancer Prevention and Control Program of the Netherlands (2009). This award is offered Arizona Cancer Center illustrates his commitment jointly by the AAA and the Society for Applied to tackling major human challenges. Such research Anthropology (SfAA). is in direct accordance with the Textor Prize’s ambition of recognizing scholars whose work Norwood’s research interests include long term allows “citizens, leaders and governments to make care health policy, disability, innovative care informed policy choices and thereby improve their solutions, spirituality and health, vulnerable societies or community’s chances for realizing populations, health care reform and health policy, preferred futures and avoiding unwanted ones.” critical medical anthropology, qualitative and quantitative methodologies; United States and Besides such focused research projects, Nichter the Netherlands. One of her nomination letters has also worked to illustrate how medical describes the book as “intellectually challenging anthropology in general yields important but also broadly accessible” and another calls it insights about global health, ones that are of “A book for everyone interested in how we die in direct relevance to practitioners and policy- contemporary society.” makers. For example, in Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter (2008), he argues for 2011–12 AAA Leadership Fellows the critical importance of grappling with local ethnophysiology, illness categories, and idioms AAA was pleased to announce last year the of distress even as he notes how the biomedicine selection of Heide Castañeda (University of South is framed by a set of preexisting representations Florida) and Julienne Rutherford (University of that diminish the need for understanding local Illinois at Chicago) as the 2011–12 AAA Leadership knowledge and practices. Fittingly for the Textor Fellows. The AAA Leadership Fellows Program Prize, this volume concludes with the chapter, provides a unique opportunity for anthropologists “Toward a Next Generation of Social Science early in their careers to learn about leadership Research in Global Health.” This example provides opportunities and to encourage future leadership a glimpse of the many ways in which Mark in the association. Nichter’s distinguished career has excelled in Fellows are paired with a mentor chosen from anticipatory anthropology and why he merits the among AAA leadership, usually members of 2011 Textor Prize. the AAA Executive Board. Current EB members Jean “Jay” Schensul (Institute for Community david m schneider Award Research) and Lee Baker (Duke University) will serve as mentors for Castañeda and Rutherford, AAA is pleased to announce the selection of respectively. The mentors provide a personal Amy Moran-Thomas as the 2011 Schneider point-of-contact to the fellow for networking and Award winner for her paper “Kinship Electric: active entree into the AAA governance system Technological Worms and the Parasitism of as well as an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at Americana.” This gripping essay documents AAA’s governance. They also share career planning the eerie biosociality being fashioned by some advice that encourages balancing association residents of American suburbia who believe service along with research, teaching and other that their bodies are being invaded by fi brous community and professional service. Mentors are entities of uncertain origin. In her essay, Moran- available to the fellows throughout the year to Thomas offers a brilliant ethnographic reading answer questions related to AAA.

2011 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 13 13 Statement of Financial Position

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION 2011 Sources of AAA Revenue December 31, 2011 I Membership 36.0% (With Summarized Financial Information as of December 31, 2010) I Annual Meeting 24.5% I Publications 21.2% 2011 2010 I Academic Services 7.5% I Public Education 6.0% ASSETS I Contributions 2.3% I Sections 2.1% Cash and cash equivalents $396,885 $533,786 I Investment Income 0.3%

Accounts receivable 237,514 269,787

Prepaid expenses and other assets 95,210 164,997

Investments 10,693,718 10,487,196

Property and equipment 496,576 530,495

Total Assets $11,919,903 $11,986,261

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Accounts payable and accrued expenses $658,711 $609,716

Deferred membership and subscription 938,859 997,643 revenue

Deferred publication royalties — 254,689 2011 Uses of AAA Revenue I Deferred life member revenue 184,489 178,758 G&A Development 37.5% I Publications 20.5% I Annual Meeting 12.9% Deferred lease benefi t 53,841 80,372 I Sections 10.4% I Academic Services 7.6% Deposits 1,482 — I Membership 7.0% I Government Relations 3.0% Total Liabilities $1,837,382 $2,121,178 I Public Education 1.1%

Net Assets

Unrestricted:

Operating 6,635,145 6,586,301

Sections 2,645,504 2,461,155 Total Unrestricted 9,280,649 9,047,456

Temporarily restricted 422,020 465,104

Permanently restricted 379,852 352,523

Total Net Assets 10,082,521 9,865,083

Total Liabilities and $11,919,903 $11,986,261 Net Assets

Information has been excerpted from our audited fi nancial report for 2011. For a complete copy of the audited fi nancial statements please contact the AAA offi ces at 703–528–1902.

14 American Anthropological Association • 2011 Annual Report Statement of Activities

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES December 31, 2011 (With Summarized Financial Information for the Year Ended December 31, 2010) Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted 2011 Total 2010 Total

REVENUE AND SUPPORT Membership dues $1,852,060 $— $— $1,852,060 $1,994,917 Annual meeting 1,263,596 — — 1,263,596 1,183,099 Publications 1,091,300 — — 1,091,300 970,730 Grants and contributions 295,231 104,897 27,329 427,457 449,911 Other income 387,950 — — 387,950 327,305 Section meetings 110,501 — — 110,501 134,860 Net assets released from restrictions: Satisfaction of program restrictions 180,382 (180,382) — — — Total Revenue and Support 5,181,020 (75,485) 27,329 5,132,864 5,060,822

EXPENSES Program services: Publications 1,011,022 — — 1,011,022 965,164 Annual meeting 635,268 — — 635,268 514,978 Sections 513,502 — — 513,502 498,888 Membership 343,599 — — 343,599 391,018 Academic services and media relations 376,944 — — 376,944 271,722 Government relations and minority 149,030 — — 149,030 173,799 affairs Public education 55,605 — — 55,605 131,457 Total Program Services 3,084,970 — — 3,084,970 2,947,026 Supporting services: Management and governance 1,782,500 — — 1,782,500 1,515,733 Development 64,545 — — 64,545 76,093 Total supporting services 1,847,045 — — 1,847,045 1,591,826 Total Expenses 4,932,015 — — 4,932,015 4,538,852 Change in Net Assets before 249,005 (75,485) 27,329 200,849 521,970 Investment Income Investment income (losses/fees) Interest and dividends 220,680 32,401 — 253,081 238,259 Investments fees (91,464) — — (91,464) (79,707) Realized (losses) gains on investments 545,062 — — 545,062 120,047 Unrealized (losses) gains on investments (690,090) — — (690,090) 506,656 Total investment income (loss), net (15,812) 32,401 — 16,589 785,255 Change in Net Assets 233,193 (43,084) 27,329 217,438 1,307,225 Net Assets, Beginning of Year 9,047,456 465,104 352,523 9,865,083 8,557,858 Net Assets, End of Year $9,280,649 $422,020 $379,852 $10,082,521 $9,865,083

2011 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 15 2011 AAA Section Award Winners

Anthropology & Association of Black General Anthropology Division Society for Linguistic Society for the Environment Section Anthropologists General Anthropology Award for Anthropology Anthropology of Europe Julian Steward Book Award Legacy Scholar Award (2) Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship SLA Student Essay Prizes William A. Douglass Distinguished Michael Dove Tony Whitehead and Gwen Michel Kathryn Weedman Arthur Graduate Prize Lecture Didier Fassin Small Grants Fostering John L Gwaltney Native Middle East Section Rebecca M. Pardo Collaboration Awards (2) Anthropology Scholarship Distinguished Scholar Undergraduate Prize William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology Shannon Dosemagen and Sara Valerie Joseph Dale Eickelman Janet Connor Wylie, Rebecca Zarger Kristen Ghodsee Association for Political Outstanding Student Paper Prize Society for Medical Junior Scholar Award and Legal Anthropology SAE/ Council of European Studies Elif Babül Anthropology Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Award Peter Rudiak-Gould Graduate Student Paper Prize MASA Dissertation Award National Association for the Tyler Boersen Archeology Division Chika Watanabe Kenneth MacLeish Practice of Anthropology Graduate Student Paper Gordon R Willey Prize for Association of Queer NAPA Student Paper Prize MASA Mentor Award Competition Excellence in Archeological Article Anthropology Cheryl Case Frances Barg Naor Ben-Yehoyada April M. Beisaw Ruth Benedict Prize New Millennium Book Award 2011 Patty Jo Watson Outstanding Monograph (2) National Association Of Society for the Anthropology Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly of North America Distinguished Lecturer Evelyn Blackwood and Roger Student Anthropologists Barker Barbara J. Mills Lancaster Carrie Hunter Tate Award (2) Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America Theresa Arriola and John Whitton WHR Rivers Undergraduate Field School Award Outstanding Anthology Student Paper Competition Ellen Lewin NASA Travel Award (5) Michael McDonald and Annette Peter A Jackson Shannon Ward Sharp Khrystyne Tschinkel, Morgan Society for the Anthropology Kenneth W Payne Student Prize Iddings, Xueting Liu, Elizabeth The Steven Polgar Professional Of Religion Student Membership Award Eric Plemons and Jia Hui Lee Marks, and Sarah Alper Paper Competition Roy A. Rappaport Distinguished Anastasiya Travina, Francois Sarah Horton and Judith Barker Lecture in the Anthropology of Guindon, and Dru McGill Biological Anthropology Society for Anthropology Religion Section In Community Colleges Eileen Basker Memorial Prize(2) Peter Pels Association for Africanist W. W. Howells Book Prize in Presidential Recognition Award Leslie Reagan and Ida Susser Anthropology Biological Anthropology Clifford Geertz Prize in the Ann Kaupp Anthropology of Religion Distinguished Lecture Wenda Trevathan Society for Psychological Maria Cattell SACC Student Award for Anthropology Amira Mittermaier Distinguished Lecturer Academic Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award Society for the Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Jonathan Marks Danielle Emond Student Paper Award Gananath Obeyesekere Anthropology Of Work Student Prize Winner Erica Fontana Society for Cultural Stirling Prize Eric R. Wolf Prize Meredith Ellis Anthropology Nancy Schwartz Undergraduate Anand Pandian Jeffrey Hoelle and June Hee Kwon Cultural Horizons Prize Student Paper Award Central States Condon Prize SAW Book Award Jessica Cattelino Sean Brimmer Anthropology Society Saiba Varma Anne Kingsolver and Nandini Beth Wilder Dillingham Award Gregory Bateson Prize Gunewardena Association for Feminist Boyer Prize Evelyn Dean-Olmsted Karen Strassler Anthropology Kevin P. Groark Diana Forsythe Book Prize Association for Feminist Leslie A. White Award (awarded jointly with CASTAC, a Society for Humanistic committee of GAD) Anthropology Dissertation Award Janni Pedersen Anthropology Society for Anthropology Shankari Patel of Consciousness Alexander Edmonds Student Paper Prize Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Distinguished Article Award and Sylvia Forman Paper Prize Graduate Student Award Distinguished Lecturer Society for Urban, National Graduate Student Award Janni Pedersen Neni Panourgair and Transnational/ Bonnie Glass-Coffi n Global Anthropology Jacob Nerenberg Ethnographic Fiction Competition Undergraduate Student Award Society for Anthropological Graduate Student Paper Prize Undergraduate Student Award Kristen Ghodsee Geoffrey Grimm Sciences Lindsay Bell Shannon Ward Ethnographic Poetry Competition Student Paper Travel Award Council on Museum Undergraduate Student Paper Prize Zora Neale Hurston Travel Grant Carolyn Moore Courtney Kurlanska Anthropology Nicholas Caverly Erin Durban-Albrecht , Margie CMA Student Travel Award (2) Society for Latin American Society for East Asian Serrato, and Wendy Vogt Fiona MacDonald and Diana And Caribbean Anthropology Anthropology Society for Visual Anthropology Best Student Film Association for Latina and Marsh Roseberry-Nash Award The Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize Harjant Gill Latino Anthropologists Michael M. Ames Award for Ainhoa Montoya Professor Li Zhang Book Award Innovative Museum Anthropology Jean Rouch Award Kearney Lecture on Responsible David Plath Media Award (2) Luz Maria Gordillo Laura Peers, Alison K Brown and Anthropology P. Kerim Friedman and Shashwati Mark Patrick McGuire and Jean- Heather Richardson Talukdar Carole Browner Marc Abela, Karen Nakamura Best Short Film Evolutionary Theodore C. Bestor Prize for Anthropology Society Outstanding Graduate Student Nina Sabnani Best Student Paper Presentations Paper Kathrine E Starkweather Emily Wilcox Best New Investigator Brooke Scelza

16 16 American Anthropological Association • 2011 Annual Report AAA sTAFF ANd PUbLicATiONs 2011 Donor Recognition

AAA sTAFF ANd AAA PUbLicATiONs The American Anthropological Association would like to thank the following PUbLicATiONs EdiTORs individuals and institutions for their support in 2011. All listings are based on actual Executive Offi ce American Anthropologist donations to the AAA Annual Campaign or AAA award funds received from January Bill Davis, Executive Director Tom Boellstorff 1 through December 31, 2011. This list does not include donations made to section Kimberly Baker, Section and American Ethnologist funds or any multi-year grants received before 2011. A complete list of donors is Governance Coordinator Donald L Donham also available on the AAA website (www.aaanet.org). We would also like to extend Sabrina Booth-Phillips, Executive special thanks to our donors who joined the Annual Campaign Leadership Circle Assistant to the Executive Director Anthropology & Education Quarterly with donations of $500 and above. These names are denoted with an asterisk. Finance and Operations Nancy H Hornberger Elaine Lynch, Deputy Executive Director / Chief Financial Offi cer Anthropology and Humanism Benefactors James Peacock* Samantha Martin John Heron George Mentore ($5,000 and Up) Carol Rector* Mary Moran Josiah Heyman Suzanne Mattingly, Controller Maria Vesperi* Robert Munroe Fredrik Hiebert Kathy Ano, Staff Accountant Anthropology of Consciousness Oxford University Hillary S Webb Press Triangle Community Philip Newman Nicholas Hopkins Richard Thomas, Manager, Foundation Joseph Polifroni Judith Irvine Member Services Anthropology of Work Review Patrons Ronald Provencher Deborah Jackson Dion P Dears, Assistant Manager, ($1,000–$4,999)* Friends Michael Chibnik Paula Rubel Member Services ($250–$499) Suad Joseph Archeological Papers of the AAA Nathan Altshuler* Jeremy Sabloff Dolores Koenig Lisa Myers, Web Services Manager Cathy Costin AYCO Charitable Kathryn Anderson- Paula Sabloff Robert LeVine Travis Raup, Web Services Levitt Foundation Mari Lyn Salvador Alice Littlefi eld Assistant Manager City & Society Wendy Ashmore The Battelle Molly Schuchat Elaine Lynch Petra Kuppinger Foundation Florence Babb AAA and Section Meetings James Trostle Patricia Mail Paul Doughty* Richard Bauman Jason G Watkins, Director Cultural Anthropology Bonnie Urciuoli Kathryn March Anne Allison and Charles Priot Heaney Family Bone Clones, Inc. 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