CHANGING THE ATMOSPHERE

2014 ANNUAL REPORT

Advancing Knowledge, Solving Human Problems EXECUTIVE BOARD AND COMMITTEES

AAA 2014 Practicing/ AAA Treasurer-Ex Officio Committee on Ethics Executive Board Professional Seat Edmund T Hamann Pamela Stone Elizabeth Briody (2013–16) (2012–15) President Cultural Keys LLC University of Nebraska, Committee for Monica Heller (2013–15) Lincoln Human Rights University of Toronto, Student Seat Eric Johnson Ontario Institute for Studies Karen G Williams (2012–15) AAA Committees In Education The Graduate Center of the and Chairs Committee on Minority City University of New York Issues in Anthropology President-Elect/Vice Annual Meeting Shalini Shankar President Undesignated #1 Executive Program Alisse Waterston (2013–15) Cheryl Mwaria (2012–15) Committee Committee on Gender John Jay College of the City Hofstra University Mary Gray Equity in Anthropology University of New York Rachel Watkins Rebecca Galemba Undesignated #2 Secretary Mark Aldenderfer (2013–16) Audit Committee Committee on Practicing Margaret Buckner (2012–15) University of California, Cheryl Mwaria Applied and Public Missouri State University Merced Interest Anthropology Awards Committee Mary Butler Archaeology Seat Undesignated #3 Bernard Perley Sandra Lopez Varella Fran Mascia-Lees (2011–14) Committee on (2011–14) Rutgers University Association Operations Labor Relations Facultad de Filosofia Committee y Letras, Universidad Christine Walley Undesignated #4 Karen Nakamura NacionalAutonoma Rayna Rapp de Mexico Committee on (2012–15) Anthropological World Anthropologies New York University Communications Biological Seat Florence Babb & Bela Committee David Himmelgreen Feldman Bianco Section Assembly Mark Aldenderfer (2011–14) Convenor University of South Florida Finance Committee Alex W Barker (2012–14) Committee on the Ted Hamman University of Missouri Future of Print and Cultural Seat Electronic Publishing A Lynn Bolles Nominations Committee Section Assembly EB #1 Deb Nichols (2012–15) Margie Buckner Karen Nakamura (2012–15) University of Maryland Yale University Committee on Resource Development Public Policy Linguistic Seat Committee Section Assembly EB #2 Gregory Button Niko Besnier Linda Whiteford Ramona Perez (2013–16) (2011–14) San Diego State University University of Amsterdam

Minority Seat Bernard Perley (2013–16) University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee 2014 ANNUAL REPORT CHANGING THE ATMOSPHERE

CONTENTS

Executive Board and Committees inside front cover

Letter from the President 2

A Word from the Executive Director 4

World on the Move —100,000 Years of Human Migration 6

Changing the Atmosphere 8

Association Briefs 10

Staff Updates 11

In Memoriam 14

Association Spotlight 15

2014 AAA Photo Contest Award Winners 16

2014 AAA Award Winners 18

Financial Report 22

2014 AAA Section Award Winners 24

AAA Staff and Publications inside back cover

2014 Donor Recognition inside back cover Letter from the President

e adapted (ok, stole) Changing the Atmosphere from our Global Climate Change Task Force and used it for this year’s AAA annual report. at’s because it ties in so well with what we accomplished during the year. From race relations to climate concerns to issues surrounding the political climate in the Middle Monica Heller President (2013–15) East, the Association worked hard to “charge” the atmosphere in our field and make sure Wthe winds of change blew strong in 2014. The changes began with our continued push ➤ The Task Force on Israel/Palestine was to bring anthropology into public debate and established to gather a wide range of public awareness, locally, regionally, nationally information, expertise and viewpoints. We and internationally. We made progress on our believe the association is well placed to internal ability to keep on top of, and respond offer AAA members a chance to gain an to, breaking news, as well as on shaping stories anthropologically informed perspective on (I became the first tweeting AAA president — the region and the broader questions it raises, follow me @anthroprez). This included work by and to participate in productive conversations our Task Forces, as well as major interventions in about them. Our members can provide us both national and international discussions, and with a diverse set of lenses through which to LETTER FROM THE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT LETTER FROM THE ASSOCIATION increased relations with sister organizations. understand and illuminate these questions. If we are able to have a focused conversation Three Task Forces set up a few years ago submitted in which opposing views can be expressed, their final reports this year: the Task Force on and complexities can be acknowledged and Anthropology and (K–12) Education, the Global understood, we will have made progress Climate Change Task Force, and the Task Force on in exploring how to make dialogue work Race and Racism. All three reports are available despite — or maybe because of — difference. In on the AAA website. Follow-through on their and of itself we believe this is a worthy goal. recommendations is taking a number of forms, from releasing a statement on humanity and AAA also entered into several robust debates in climate change, to strategies to work towards 2014, starting with our well-received response to the inclusion of anthropology in K–12 curriculum, a book by former New York Times science editor, to the development of a survey instrument that Nicholas Wade, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, will allow AAA to regularly track our progress on Race and Human History (published in March the inclusion of racialized minorities within the 2014 by Penguin). With the rapid mobilization of association, and within the discipline more broadly. key colleagues and the use of our new webinar infrastructure, we were able to establish a strong Two other task forces were also hard at work: counter-narrative to Wade’s astonishingly well- ➤ The Task Force on Cultural Heritage began publicized attempts to bring back social Darwinism. work with the Associação Brasileira de Largely due to the efforts of our executive director Antropología and the Society for American and staff, we consistently responded, together with Archaeology to explore the establishment sister US-based social science organizations, to the of a UNESCO-sponsored Interamerican unceasing stream of US lawmaker efforts which Forum on Cultural Heritage. seriously threaten anthropology funding programs,

2 American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT LETTER FROM THE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT both in terms of available resources and in terms As for increasing our relations with sister of the degree of close oversight government organizations, we coordinated joint panels with wishes to exert on thematic eligibility. We worked the American Association of Applied Linguistics to construct strong relations with Congressional and the Linguistic Society of America, at both staffers so that it becomes increasingly possible to their conferences and ours. We also successfully educate elected officials about anthropology, not negotiated a joint conference in 2019 with the simply react to their initiatives. Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d’anthropologie. At the invitation of the Japanese We also continued to develop, on our own and Society of Cultural Anthropology (JASCA), a in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, a delegation from AAA attended the IUAES inter- public education initiative on mobilities, migration congress and 50th anniversary JASCA conference, and displacement, with a core team involving presenting our public education initiative and members from around the US and Europe. Our taking part in a joint AAA-JASCA panel. Executive goal is to use the classic anthropological strategy board members, Ed Liebow and I also each of making the familiar strange and the strange attended sister organization conferences and familiar, in order to place the often fractious meetings throughout the world, including Taiwan, contemporary debates around immigration in a Mexico, Canada, and even Estonia. much broader context in which we can take stock of the fact that moving around is a normal thing for humans, and that we all have migration stories In my first year as president I have been of one kind or another. struck by the power of anthropological Lastly, with the help of the World Council of approaches to understanding just Anthropological Associations, and the financial about anything. support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, George Washington In the years ahead, we will continue to work University, and the International Development on the issues that are important to AAA and, Research Centre (Canada), we initiated most importantly, our members. In my first year development of an initiative to use anthropological as president I have been struck by the power of expertise to help stem the spread of the Ebola anthropological approaches to understanding just virus and address the suffering it causes. We hope about anything. I have also learned a great deal the international communication infrastructure about how anthropologists ask questions, including developed through this initiative will lay the questions you didn’t know were there to be asked. groundwork for better coordinated rapid response I do think we have the ability to use this association to global health crises and global health concerns as a safe space to do that, in the service of broad generally, not only among anthropologists enquiry, and in the service of managing to hold in worldwide, but also among anthropologists, health one frame many ways of knowing and of being in professionals, health agencies and government. the world. People laugh when I say that what can look like fragmentation is actually our signature strength — but I mean it. In the upcoming year, let’s use it well.

American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 3 A Word from the Executive Director

014 has been a productive year, marked by a number of changes and noteworthy accomplishments. We finalized the Strategic Communications Plan that guides our communications/ outreach /engagement activities, and our attention has been focused on: Edward Liebow Executive Director ➤ Our Publishing Program—working with cadre of members who are willing and able to Wiley-Blackwell on designing the launch of respond to media requests. We staged a lively AnthroSource 2.0, supporting the efforts of Annual Meeting that attracted press interest on 2the Committee for the Future of Print and several fronts. Our webinar program has proven Electronic Publishing, and the Publishing so popular that we have stepped it up to two Oversight Working Group to position us well offerings each month. We retained an outside for a sustainable future, starting development consultant to help us develop a Request for of the AnthroBook Forum prototype. Proposals for revamping our web presence, and expect to have a completely overhauled web site ➤ Advocacy Efforts—working with a broad next year, for the first time in nearly eight years. coalition of social and behavioral science and humanities associations to protect public ➤ Public Education Initiative—After completing

A WORD FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR research funding and increase public awareness an agreement with the Science Museum of

of the value of anthropological research. Minnesota to extend our partnership through We have also been active in advocating a 2018 on the Race: Are We So Different? flexible approach to open access to data and project, we are now discussing the possibility publications, anthropologists’ perspectives on of extending this agreement beyond 2018, the World Bank safeguard policies, protection as demand for the exhibit remains strong. of cultural resources, and contributions that We are working with the Race project leaders anthropologists can make to medicine and on various public education and outreach public health in general and, more specifically, activities that will take advantage of the in stemming the most recent Ebola outbreak long-term displays in St Paul and San Diego, in western Africa. We are well positioned to and prospects for a third long-term display in continue our members’ dialogue on the nature another location. For the “World on the Move” of AAA’s engagement with the ongoing Israel- project, we continue our collaboration with Palestine conflict. We are also supporting the the Smithsonian (which has received ACLS work of the Language and Social Justice Task support to host a Public Fellow dedicated to Force’s public statement about sport mascots. supporting the SI/AAA collaboration). We have realigned the core project management to focus ➤ Communication/Engagement/Outreach— on developing a clearer case statement that We have a new membership development staff, can be presented to funders, and we retained and a new director of communications and an expert consultant to guide us through public affairs. Our strategy has been finalized, the development of this case statement. and short-term priorities have focused on plans for the first National Anthropology Day, increasingly sophisticated use of social media to communicate with our members and the general public, earned media coverage for our members’ research and advocacy efforts, and building a

4 American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT A WORD FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

➤ Meetings—We had a record-breaking number We will also be casting our gaze a bit further out of papers and sessions at the 2014 Annual on the horizon, directing our attention to one of Meeting. Thanks to our energetic program our long-range planning objectives, Teaching. chair and the Executive Program Committee, This planning objective commits the Association to this year’s attendees encountered a host of promoting quality and effectiveness in the teaching innovative events and features. We are planning of anthropology and anthropological research at all a joint meeting with the African Studies levels. We currently pursue this objective through a Association in Senegal for 2016, and at the end variety of activities, including integrating teaching of the year welcomed Ushma Suvarnakar as our events and workshops at the annual meeting, new Director of Meetings and Conferences. maintaining a teaching materials exchange, recognizing teaching excellence through an annual We had a record-breaking number award, compiling information about teaching around the world, and publishing our annual of papers and sessions at the 2014 AnthroGuide.

Annual Meeting. Thanks to our This past summer, recommendations from the energetic program chair and the Task Force on Anthropology and Education were delivered by the EB Working Group to staff with a Executive Program Committee, this request to translate them into concrete activities. year’s attendees encountered a host of These focus on building a stronger education innovative events and features. outreach capability on staff, working to ensure that anthropology is well integrated into K–12 curricular frameworks, beefing up our web ➤ Member Services—We have simplified the content, and more generally, strengthening the online join/renew process; we are repositioning public’s awareness of anthropology’s contributions the Career Center to include more practitioner to important public conversations. jobs, continuing our outreach to new and recent Our public education initiatives on Race and PhDs, making improvements in new member Migration are two such efforts, as is our effort orientation, continue our efforts to acknowledge to establish the third Thursday in February as our distinguished long-term members, and the annual Anthropology Day. This day has been we have rejuvenated efforts to consider an recognized by a Congressional resolution, and will array of affinity benefits at a member discount continue to be propelled by the activities of campus- (e.g., insurance and a branded credit card). based student clubs. We are encouraging these In looking ahead to 2015, our general priorities clubs to promote anthropology on their respective remain fixed on enhancing AAA’s financial campuses, and also off campus with nearby primary sustainability, promoting global scholarly exchange and secondary schools. through publications and meetings, growing and diversifying our membership to include under- We are in the early stages of developing a represented categories of anthropologists, and pilot project aimed at sustaining the quality of increasing the public visibility of the field. undergraduate education. The thinking here is that if we are successful in generating excitement We will be completing the forward-looking 5-year among high school students to consider enrolling in planning process for our publishing program, as well anthropology courses when they get to college, their as strengthening our institutional research capability, enthusiasm for the field will be further deepened if so that AAA truly becomes the go-to place for they encounter great teachers. information about the discipline. The assignments of the Task Forces on Cultural Heritage and AAA In short, I am pleased to report that our organization Engagement with Israel/Palestine was completed, and is sound, financially healthy, up to the remarkable we will be implementing the recommendations from challenges that accompany our growing public the now-completed Task Forces on Anthropology and visibility, and looking ahead to what is in store for Education and Global Climate Change. our future. I thank you for your confidence and support in this past year, and see great prospects for the year ahead.

American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 5 World on the Move— 100,000 Years of Human Migration AAA Launches its New Public Education Initiative

e hear a great deal of talk these days about how people move around much more than we used to. We also hear about what this moving does to our communities — and it usually is not good news. Economic hardships, a shortage of affordable housing, religious persecution, the threat of disease, and even the effects of climate change may force people to move. People may also move in search of economic and educational opportunity. At the end of Wa migrant family’s journey, sometimes the reception is a hearty embrace. But the reception is not always with open arms. In some places, there is concern that too many “immigrants” will take away jobs, or change a place beyond recognition. “World on the Move” will offer people a ➤ We must ask ourselves how we can use chance to pause and rethink ideas about moving, what we learn to better understand our displacement, and belonging. Drawing on a wealth own stories and the stories of others. of case studies from the depths of human history and the breadth of cultures across the planet, the Mobility always brings changes in how Initiative aims to help people appreciate migration histories — their own and others. we live, whether we are among those

Among our central messages are: who move or those who stay: what

➤ Movement is not new: people have been moving we eat, how we dress, what we speak, around for as long as we have traces of humans where we live, what we believe. on the planet. Today, every one of us has such a story in our own lives or in our family histories. Our Audiences ➤ People move for many reasons. We will focus on economic, political, and cultural We will reach out to three main audiences: WORLD ON THE MOVE—100,000 YEARS OF HUMAN MIGRATION changes that drive movement, as well as the families, educators, and community organizations. global threat of environmental change. For families who encounter the initiative’s activities, we aim to see them begin sharing ➤ Mobility always brings changes in how we migration stories among family members and with live, whether we are among those who move their neighbors and friends, gain greater empathy or those who stay: what we eat, how we towards other families in their neighborhoods, and dress, what we speak, where we live, what recognize diversity in peoples’ migration stories. we believe. It triggers many feelings, from We hope that educators who engage with the hope to fear, as much linked to individual lives initiative will gain a deeper understanding of their as to public debates, to individual and family students’ experiences, enlarge their repertory of or community strategies or to institutional strategies and tools for supporting their students, and state policies and regulations.

6 American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT WORLD ON THE MOVE—100,000 YEARS OF HUMAN MIGRATION WORLD ON THE MOVE—100,000 and use the Initiative’s curricular materials in their classrooms. For community organizations, we Voorhies Receives Gender hope they will value the Initiative’s materials as a resource for their continuing education activities Equity Award and to facilitate community conversations. At the 2014 AAA Annual Meeting, the Committee on Gender Equity in We will reach out to three main Anthropology (CoGEA) recognized Barbara Voorhies for the many things audiences: families, educators, and she has done to challenge gender- community organizations. based barriers, promoting equity within our discipline, and examining the To reach these three audiences, we will combine: nature of gender as a topic of inquiry. The CoGEA Award (formerly known as the Squeaky Wheel ➤ A traveling museum exhibition Award), recognizes anthropologists whose service to the ➤ An interactive website discipline and the collective spirit of their research, teaching and mentoring, demonstrates the courage to investigate and ➤ Other interactive media platforms that bring to light practices in anthropology that are potentially allow people to share their own stories and perspectives (e.g., gaming platforms, sexist and discriminatory based on gender presentation. social media, an opportunity to record and upload “story corps”-like content). Barbara earned her PhD at Yale University, and has spent nearly her whole career at the University of California- ➤ Conferences and symposia Santa Barbara (UCSB), where she is professor emerita for scholarly exchange but remains active as a research professor. Her research ➤ Educational material, brochures, and specialties include Mesoamerican prehistory, with special posters for use at different grade levels emphasis on the adaptation to living in coastal zones. The “World on the Move” initiative will incorporate knowledge from archaeologists, who Barbara was nominated for the award by 15 of her former can track human movements back thousands students, now all well advanced in their careers. She played of years; biological anthropologists, who look at an essential role in mentoring a whole generation of genetic evidence, the environment and health; graduate students at UCSB, helping ensure their success as linguistic anthropologists, who study language professionals at a time when there were few role models to change and the making of social boundaries; emulate. It is hard to imagine in these days where we have and cultural anthropologists, who look at the achieved near parity in terms of representation of women link between culture and economic and political in the professoriate, but for a long period beginning in the activities. World on the Move is yet another late 1970s through the early 1990s Barbara Voorhies was the of our large scale public education initiatives, lone female tenured faculty member at UCSB. Because of this including the Association’s RACE: Are We So she felt a special responsibility for all of the female graduate Different? Project, which hosts an award-winning students, in an era where sexual harassment and gender website (www.understandingrace.org) and three discrimination were commonplace and swept under the rug. versions of a museum exhibit traveling around the United States. In addition, Barbara coauthored one of the earliest books to examine gender as a construct in the discipline of anthropology. Her book (with Kay Martin) Female of the Species (1975) was one of the fi rst books to examine the role of women cross-culturally. She taught a course on gender and anthropology beginning in the 1970s; a course that was groundbreaking for universities at the time. Barbara also blazed trails in the fi eld of archaeology that made it possible for a whole generation of women to follow in her footsteps. She is credited with opening the fi eld of archaeology in Mesoamerica to women at a time when the discipline was overwhelmingly male dominated.

American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 7 Changing the Atmosphere

Global Climate Change Task Force Issues Final Report

n the face of increasingly widespread environmental shifts linked to climate change — glaciers retreating, increasing rain, higher temperatures, rising sea levels and ocean acidification, and increasing desertification, to name but a few — AAA decided to take action by forming the Global Climate Change Task Force (GCCTF) in November 2010. With this effort, AAA joined the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological

CHANGING THE ATMOSPHERE Society, the American Sociological Association, and the American Psychological

IAssociation, among other professional and scholarly organizations, that have convened working groups, commissions, workshops, and reports on climate change. This year the GCCTF issued its final report, entitled The report also suggests re-thinking climate policy, “Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and which has focused on top down emissions reductions Climate Change.” The report’s aim is to serve as such as emissions trading mechanisms, or national a guiding document to recognize anthropological carbon taxes. “This re-framing the ‘problem’ contributions to global climate change-related of climate change,” the report added, “means issues, articulate new research directions, and accepting the issue in all its social and political provide AAA with actions and recommendations to complexity, as a culturally-driven problem with support and promote anthropological investigation multiple solutions at different scales, and requires of these issues. The recommendations include: using a holistic anthropological perspective.”

➤ Publicize the Report broadly and develop The Task Force enabling mechanisms for anthropological concluded that climate change research and knowledge. anthropology has made numerous contributions ➤ Expand anthropological knowledge to climate change and perspectives on climate change science, discourse, into the public domain. and policy, but added ➤ Provide ongoing capacity to monitor that it needs to do and respond to climate change and more to bring to the global environmental change issues forefront the methods affecting humanity worldwide. and insights from our AAA Global Climate Change Task ➤ discipline to address the Force at the School for Advanced Continue aggressively with developments Research, Santa Fe, NM. (Photo by in AAA that reduce the carbon footprint complex challenges that William Geoghegan, courtesy SAR) due to association-wide activities. lie ahead. For example, the report pointed out anthropologists “have ➤ Build capacity in anthropology research and long recognized what has now become common engagement to address issues of climate change. knowledge: that all adaptation is local and that ➤ Encourage stronger cross-disciplinary ties with climate change and other environmental changes existing professional associations linked with will be experienced locally. However, because of the climate change and global environmental change. other global forces in addition to climate change, acting upon the local, including globalization of ➤ Enhance capacity for policy statements, financial markets, the increasing dependence of recommendations, and endorsements. every community on international trade, etc., ➤ Develop/expand dissemination strategies for anthropology must collaborate with interdisciplinary communicating anthropological knowledge with and transdisciplinary efforts towards resolution, the public, communities, agencies, and NGOs. sometimes at the national or global level.”

8 American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT The GCCTF report identifi ed multiple contributions that anthropology makes to the understanding of global climate change science and policy, including: Executive Director Awards ➤ Anthropologists have traced the diversity of human adaptive Three individuals were responses throughout human history, both before and during the Anthropocene context, with attention to migration, emergence presented with Executive of complex societies, transformation, and collapse. Director Awards at the Annual Meeting for their outstanding ➤ By refocusing adaptation discussions on sub-state levels, service to the fi eld. Alan Bain anthropologists can do our part — not only by clarifying how is a retired archivist from adaptation is decided in local and regional contexts, but also by the Smithsonian Institution’s identifying means to strengthen interactions among various levels. Archives with a love of Alan Bain ➤ Anthropology was among the early observers to call attention to the anthropology. The Association has differential impacts of climate change on people across the globe more than 50 meters of records in storage at the and to point out the fundamental environmental injustice of climate Smithsonian National Anthropology Archive. On a change — that it has affected the vulnerable, marginal, and otherwise completely volunteer basis over the past fi ve years, disadvantaged peoples the most, though these are the same peoples Alan has organized and thoroughly described this who have contributed the least to the accumulation of GHGs. remarkable historical treasure trove, and written a ➤ As anthropologists we understand that a changing climate is one of massive (300+ page) fi nding aid. the many drivers of social change in the set of globalized processes affecting cultures and their interactions with their environments. Dr. Mitch Allen of LeftCoast Press, and Dr. Marion Berghahn of Berghahn Press, the founding owners of ➤ Recent anthropological work points to the need to focus attention on the ethics, practices, and policies/politics of transitioning to a low-carbon two small publishing houses, were also recognized. society, including the resistance these changes will inevitably entail. Both Mitch and Marion received their formal training in anthropology and have each worked in ➤ Anthropologists engage with communities to understand the publishing trenches for decades. how they are affected by local climate change impacts, and work to identify the path-dependent vectors of vulnerability “Small presses like LeftCoast and Berghahn are which are instrumental in facilitating adaptive capacity. absolutely essential to scholarly communication in our fi eld,” said AAA Executive Director Ed Leibow. The Global Climate Change Task Force is chaired by Shirley Fiske (Univ. “Drs. Allen and Berghahn have been courageous of Maryland), and includes Susan Crate (George Mason Univ.), Carole risk-takers, remaining independent and without a L. Crumley (Swedish Agricultural Univ. Centre for Biodiversity), Kathleen safety net at a time of upheaval and consolidation Galvin (Colorado State Univ.), Heather Lazrus (National Center for in the publishing world.” Atmospheric Research), George Luber (National Center for Environmental Health), Lisa Lucero (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana), Anthony Oliver-Smith (Univ. of Florida), Ben Orlove (Columbia Univ.), Sarah Strauss (Univ. of Wyoming), and Richard R. Wilk (Indiana Univ.).

“Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and Climate Change”can be found on the AAA website’s homepage (www.aaanet.org).

Shirley J. Fiske is an environmental anthropologist and research professor at the University of Maryland,

College Park, and Chair of the American Anthropological Dr. Marion Berghahn (left) and Dr. Mitch Allen. Association Global Climate Change Task Force. She is a former NOAA program offi cial, and senior legislative advisor in the U.S. Senate, working on climate, oceans,

Shirley J. Fiske fi sheries, public lands and energy issues.

American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 9 Association Briefs

Webinars Reviewers will then upload their reviews into the database for approval and eventual publication AAA’s first full year of webinars was a tremendous online at the award-winning Anthropology News success and one of our most popular public website (anthropologynews.org). outreach endeavors. Five university presses pledged early support of the In an ongoing effort to showcase the amazing platform (University of Chicago Press, University of ASSOCIATION BRIEFS ASSOCIATION diversity of the anthropological field, the AAA Nebraska Press, University of New Mexico Press, webinar series has grown from a monthly to a University Press of Colorado, and the University biweekly segment. It focuses both on topical and Press of Florida), with more than 20 publishers now professional development subjects — ranging participating. from best practices in a job interview to the utilization of film in ethnographies, and our virtual conference on the Ebola Crisis. The talented Annual Meeting speakers all come from the AAA membership, but Utilizing the theme “Producing Anthropology,” the the topical suggestions were crowd sourced from Annual Meeting drew more than 6,000 attendees the global anthropological community. Over the to Washington, D.C., in 2014. Sessions were well last year the project has become more structured, attended, with more than 400 members present at and reactive to the needs of the community as we the annual business meeting. Conference highlights slowly build an archive of valuable knowledge for included two exclusive screenings —The Act future generations. of Killing, and The Look of Silence — by Oscar nominated filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer. Digital book review process In response to an emotional and poignant call An innovative new platform for producing scholarly to social action by the Association of Black book reviews was initiated with the support of the Anthropologists, several hundred members staged Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Anthropology Book a “die-in” in the Washington Marriot Wardman Forum will reduce editorial turn-around time and Park Hotel lobby to protest the shooting of Michael expense, increase readership, and introduce dynamic Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and other similar content. incidents throughout the country. The die-in lasted 4.5 minutes to symbolize the four-and-a-half hours Using the current print-centric process, only a small Brown’s body was left on the street in Ferguson. fraction of books mailed out by presses results in a published book review. And even among these published reviews, they often appear at least one year — and sometimes up to four years — after a book’s publication. By using a completely digital workflow, the AAA will provide book authors with a wider audience and an opportunity for social engagement, as well as reducing costs for scholarly presses and the journals featuring reviews.

The platform expanded the open source Open Journals System from the Public Knowledge Project now available to any discipline or journal using OJS software. Publishers will upload book descriptions into the system along with digital versions that will be electronically available to authorized reviewers. Participants at the die-in during the annual meeting on December 5, 2014. (Photo courtesy Marco Hill, www.marcohill.com)

10 American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT STAFF UPDATES

Staff Updates

Ushma J. Suvarnakar Tatiana M. Cornejo joined joined the AAA in November AAA in September 2014 as 2014 as the director of the AnthroGuide and meetings and conferences. Publications coordinator. In She serves as the lead for this role, she manages the directing the association’s development of the annual meeting, special eAnthroGuide database, events and conferences. print AnthroGuide and guide websites. She also supports the Anthropological Ushma brings more than 10 years of meetings Communication Committee. experiences to AAA. Prior to joining the staff, she served as the meetings manager for the American Tatiana comes to AAA with two years of experience Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and in the insurance industry. There, she developed as a meeting planner for the American Institute of customer service and marketing skills that she Architects (AIA). She received her BS in business hopes to implement in her outreach strategies for administration and a certificate in international the AnthroGuide. business from the University of Pittsburgh. She Tatiana received her BA in anthropology from James also received her Master of Tourism Administration Madison University (Go Dukes!) where she was (MTA) from the George Washington University heavily involved on-campus as a student leader in the School of Business in 2013. Ushma attained her Latino Student Alliance (LSA). LSA helped contribute Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) certification to the campus and surrounding community through in August 2014. volunteer work and cultural awareness events. In 2013, she was recognized by the Professional She has continued to give back to her community Convention Management Association (PCMA) as by becoming the co-chair of communications for the Distinguished Emerging Leader of the Year the Arlington Latino Network. The network works for her efforts in bridging the gap between new to disseminate information to Latino students in and seasoned professionals within the hospitality Arlington about opportunities for higher education, a industry. The American Society of Association cause that she fervently supports. Executives (ASAE) also recognized her by accepting In her spare time, Tatiana enjoys watching her as one of 12 senior executives into their two- independent and foreign films, playing her guitar, year Diversity Executive Leadership Program. Ushma and trying to get on Jeopardy. is an active member of both PCMA and ASAE. Arvenita Washington As a native of Western Pennsylvania, Ushma is a Cherry joined the AAA staff die-hard Steelers fan and bleeds for the black and in February 2014 as project gold. She enjoys spending time with friends and manager for the new public family, in particular with her amazing one-year-old education initiative on niece Zadie. migration and displacement. Arvenita is a sociocultural and educational anthropologist. She is also adjunct faculty at University of Maryland University College and principal of Phoenix Cultural Resources, LLC, where she has had substantial experience in philanthropy and with non-profit organizations. She earned her PhD in anthropology with a concentration in race, gender and social justice and an MA in public

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anthropology from American University. Arvenita Jennie is an applied anthropologist whose work received a master’s in teaching middle/secondary examines the intersections of policing, mental biology and a BS in biology from Hampton health and homelessness. She received her BA in University, as well as a graduate certificate in anthropology from the University of Texas in Austin nonprofit studies from Johns Hopkins University. and earned her PhD in cultural anthropology from Arvenita’s primary research focuses on the African American University in 2011. Her dissertation, Diaspora in Prince George’s County, MD with Policing the New Downtown: The Costs of STAFF UPDATES STAFF emphasis on social constructions of race and Community for Homeless Individuals and People

ethnicity among diverse African Americans and with Mental Illnesses in Washington, DC, is based Afro Latinas/os in predominately Black suburban on ethnographic fieldwork exploring interactions spaces and in public education. She is particularly between police officers and homeless individuals interested in diaspora as an important aspect of with mental illnesses in the context of neoliberal migration and as a tool for teaching and urban development processes in Washington, DC. community building. Prior to joining AAA, Jennie worked with Pathways Her work with museums has included being to Housing DC, a Housing First service organization, scholar-in-residence and History Keepers program as a program manager and criminal justice and coordinator at the Prince George’s African American legal specialist. Additionally, she worked with the Museum and Cultural Center. She also completed Council of State Governments Justice Center, where a competitive two-year post-doctoral fellowship she provided research support, law enforcement at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in policy and program design, and technical assistance the Department of Africana Studies and Language, to police agencies developing specialized responses Literacy and Culture program. to people with mental illnesses. In addition to her job at AAA, she is preparing several publications Arvenita will draw upon her project management based on her dissertation research and applied experience and formal training in anthropology work in community mental health and law to oversee the development and implementation enforcement policy and program design. of this initiative that will encompass a traveling museum exhibit, web site, curriculum guides, Elyse C. Bailey joined AAA interactive multi-media applications, and other staff in July 2014 as the suitable public education activities. She will Anthropology News Digital also contribute to fundraising efforts, manage Editorial Assistant. She serves publicity and promotional activities, and establish as the main point of contact partnerships with appropriate organizations. for opinion columnists, AN’s Additionally, Arvenita will make public WordPress users and presentations about the initiative and its outcomes, generally provides extensive and coordinate the activities of the AAA steering support for anthropology-news.org. Elyse also group that provides technical and policy guidance supports the AAA journals during editorial concerning the initiative. transitions and with annual deadlines. In addition, she is the staff liaison to the AAA Task Force on Arvenita lives in Maryland with her husband Cultural Heritage. Richard, their son Bryce, and their dog Bruno (their other son). She enjoys traveling, genealogy research Prior to her position at the AAA, Elyse interned and exercising. at the Petrie Museum of Archaeology in London, England and also served as a research assistant Jennie M. Simpson joined for a project focused on religion and technology AAA in February 2014 as applications for one of her college professors. She part-time assistant to the received her BA in anthropology from George director of publishing. In this Mason University, with a double minor in biology role, she will be the and information technology. webmaster for Open Anthropology, a regular Elyse currently lives in Virginia and when she is not contributor to the AAA blog working, she likes to find new places to eat with and maintain the publishing department webpages. her friends, dreams of owning a puppy, roots for the Washington Capitals or binge watches a new television show on Netflix.

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Amber D. Johnson joined Katie Vizenor joined AAA AAA in August 2014 as the in June 2014 as the coordinator of member professional fellow in the services. She is the first point department of professional of contact for the day-to-day services. In this role, she customer service needs of manages existing AAA AAA members. She also programs and services and assists the manager of will research and develop member services with the day-to-day operations of new ones aimed at enhancing education and the Career Center and the development of new professional support. services and products for our members. Katie is an applied anthropologist interested in Prior to her work at AAA, Amber served as the technology use among both special populations customer experience and membership specialist (eg, older adults, rural populations and the at the Design-Build Institute of America. Before disabled) as well as professional communities starting a career in the association world, she of practice and interest. She received her BA in worked as a visual merchandiser and brand sociology and anthropology from Millsaps College manager, and has over five years of customer in 1999, a MLS from University of Maryland- service experience in many different avenues. College Park’s iSchool in 2005 and her PhD in Putting her creative background to good use, anthropology from University at Buffalo-SUNY Amber enjoys brainstorming innovative ways to in 2013. Her dissertation, Binary Lives: Digital enhance membership with the AAA. When she is Citizenship and Disability Community in a Massively not working, she enjoys trying new restaurants with Multiplayer Online World, explored the concept her husband and convincing her family that she of platform-specific citizenship and the various should redecorate their homes. ways that the underlying structure and rules of online environments may encourage or discourage Haleema M. Burton joined commitment among users. AAA staff in May 2014 as the manager of membership Katie also has experience working in both non- development. She serves as profit and academic settings. As a public health one of your main points of informationist and researcher at Johns Hopkins contact for all things School of Medicine, she trained graduate students membership related including and faculty on ways to improve their research member record inquires and process and was a regular advisor on evidence based the career center. medicine projects. She was the primary researcher for an NIH nationwide study to assess access to Haleema brings over eight years of membership and evidence based resources by public health workers. association management to AAA. Prior to joining As the senior public policy research associate for the staff, she served as the director of member the American Foundation for the Blind, her work relations at the Design-Build Institute of America concerned improving access to technology and (DBIA) and as the manager of member services at popular media for the blind and visually impaired. the National Association of College and University She managed a national survey of health website Attorneys. She received her BA in communications use and accessibility and was involved in efforts from the University of Maryland, College Park and to improve policies, technologies and funding her MS in Marketing from Johns Hopkins University. for video-description, the equivalent to closed- When she is not strategizing on ways to engage captioning for the blind and visually impaired. AAA members, she either has her nose in a Because she likes a good intellectual debate every historical fiction novel, is planning her next day, she married a PhD in philosophy. Katie and international trip, finding a new cookie recipe, Lowell live in Virginia with their daughter and cat. or trying really hard not to register to become a She enjoys being outdoors with her family, cooking, certified professional organizer! and both reading and watching Game of Thrones.

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a smile. One staff member remarked about his having “the patience of Job” fielding call after

IN MEMORIAM call needing assistance to register or help putting

an abstract into the system. Richard whispered, “They’re all my best friends.”

He was particularly proud of his “Save the Dates” reminder postcards for the annual meeting and the “Leave your mark. Major in Anthropology” footprint poster distributed to anthropology departments far and wide. He also worked with numerous committees and groups. Over the years he staffed the Association Operations Committee, the Committee for Human Rights, the Student Assembly and the Education Task Force. He was also involved with the formalization of AAA interest groups.

Richard Thomas, 63, passed away Tuesday, Richard graduated from Brigham Young University April 1, 2014. He served as the AAA summa cum laude with a BA in history. Prior membership manager for 14 years, joining to working for AAA he worked at the National the staff on March 31, 2000. Society of Professional Engineers and the Nature Richard was the face of our Annual Meeting Conservancy. Richard had a love for the west coast Career Center (previously named the Placement and talked often of returning to California for his Center) for employers and job candidates. He golden years. developed the AAA online Career Center into Richard is survived by a partner of 36 years and a valuable resource of anthropology job ads for two sisters. He will be remembered fondly by staff both employers and job seekers. His work on the for his love of history and dry wit. career center was something he was proud of and enjoyed doing. He also was instrumental in streamlining the Membership Services Department over the years as AAA moved along with the rest of the world from the heavily paper driven processes to the cloud.

Richard was the voice of calm during the annual mayhem of the annual meeting abstract submission deadline, with around 5,000 individuals submitting papers and sessions, many during the last 48 hours before the deadline. He spent hours on the phone helping members, and always with

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Association Spotlight

AAA Summer Interns

AA completed its fourth successful Summer Internship Program in 2014. anks to the generous support of our members, we were once again able to provide opportunities for undergraduate juniors and seniors, and first-year graduate students to work at esteemed institutions in Washington, DC. After an extremely competitive selection process, Joshua Anderson and Katie Patschke were named as this year’s interns. A Joshua Anderson is a Katie Patschke, a senior at Minnesota junior at Susquehanna State University, University, graduated Mankato, majoring in December 2014 with a Anthropology with an Bachelor of Arts in emphasis on International Studies, Archaeology. He also Anthropology, and has a technical degree Studio Art. An active in Honda and Yamaha motorcycle mechanics student leader who currently holds three from Universal Technical Institute in Phoenix, president positions for clubs, she was also a AZ. Joshua served in the United States Army member of the service fraternity Alpha Phi Reserves for 12 years, with two deployments. Omega. Katie interned with the Currently, he is an instructor teaching Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Carpentry/Masonry courses, as well as actively African Art and was placed in the museum’s working as a field supervisor for a country- curatorial department where her tasks wide archaeological survey at Minnesota State included research on gender theory and University, Mankato. Joshua interned with the object-based work related to a future Naval History and Heritage Command exhibition on the contributions of and (NHHC), the official history program of the issues addressed by African contemporary Department of the Navy. He worked with the women artists. Underwater Archaeology Branch of the NHHC and conducted archaeological and historical research, synthesizing field information to prepare policy and case studies, and assisted with the inventory, management, and artifact loan programs.

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11 12 1. A Call to End Gun Violence in South Bronx Ashley Marinaccio Girl Be Heard Company member Karen Vigo participating in street performance with Girl Be Heard to end gun violence in NYC communities. 2. A Day’s Work Anna Rushton In this remote village, landless families struggle to fi nd day jobs and often turn to traditional pottery making in order to make a few francs. Historically favoring immediate returns on labor, Batwa have continued pottery making for generations. The time and labor that goes into getting clay, making the pots, and fi ring them is rarely worth the amount of money they will get from the pot, but this practice is continued anyway. 3. Afghan Men Pulling Heavy Load Damon Lynch Afghan men pulling heavy load. Photo taken on March 29, 2014 in 3 Afghan Bazaar, Ishkashim, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. 4. Batwa Children, Western Province, Rwanda Anna Rushton I met these children in a small village reachable only by footpath in the hills above Lake Kivu in Rwanda’s Western Province. The Batwa, numbering less than 1% of the population, are widely accepted as the indigenous minority in Rwanda, although post-genocide policies have criminalized ethnic identifi cation as inciting divisionism. Historically marginalized and currently among the poorest groups in Rwanda, the Batwa have struggled to make the transition from forest to village life. Many children in this village refused to go to school because of the discrimination they faced by their classmates and teachers for being poor, for being dirty, and for being Batwa. 5. Blok, T, Nuuk, Greenland Hunter Snyder 6. By the End of a Day Ming Xue A shop owner was sitting in front of his fi sh tanks. He moved over 800 miles from his home town in Sichuan to Xining to make a living. More and more people are moving to this plateau city from other big cities in China, due to the lower living cost and the slower pace of life in Xining, although it means they have to get used to the plateau and to cope with the cold weather for more than half of the year. 7. Cooking Vessels Drying in the Village of Chijipata Alta, Bolivia Andrew Roddick 7 The specialized potting village of Chijipata Alta has been producing cooking vessels for many generations. These hand constructed pots are produced by more than half of the 30 families living in the village, and are distributed throughout Bolivia and Peru through both markets and personal trade relationships. 8. Cosmologies of Capture Lys Alcayna-Stevens Young boys (and sometimes girls) begin hunting and trapping in the forest with their older siblings from a young age. In order to capture animals, they must have a keen knowledge of those animals’ relations of kinship and predation, as well as their behavior and habits. In this photograph, three young boys proudly display a sunbird (Cyanomitra) which they have lured into a trap with her favorite fl ower. 9. Interior of an Ifugao Rice Granary Glenn Stone Interior of an Ifugao alang (rice granary), showing bundles of seed rice and bulul rice gods. 10. Morning Sun on Rice Terraces Glenn Davis Stone Morning sun on rice terraces, Ifugao Province, the Philippines. 11. ‘Nothing Going On’ Jesse Colin Jackson and Lindsay A. Bell The circumpolar world is often depicted as distant, empty, and 10 isolated, disconnected from powerful economic or cultural centers further south. Life north of the 60th parallel is assumed to be rural, slow paced, and non-modern. The region’s disparities in health and wealth are often attributed to there being “nothing going on”. Using a composite of stills gathered in thirty seconds at the main intersection of the peri-urban town of Hay River, Northwest Territories, the image “Nothing Going On” reveals a circumpolar city in motion and gestures to the particularities of attempts at northern modernization. 12. The Bride’s Butterfl ies Viktoria Ivanova Delicately grasping her bouquet of peach roses, the young bride awaits her husband-to-be in her childhood bedroom; meanwhile he energetically negotiates with her mother at the front door to be let into the apartment. By Bulgarian tradition the mother-in-law urges the groom to fi rst fi ll one of the wedding shoes with all the money he has before entering and taking her daughter away to the church to get married. 13. Preparing for World Cup Gregory Goodrich Havana, Cuba. June 2014.

13 2014 AAA Award Winners

Franz Boas Award for Exemplary (Basso and Selby, eds, 1976). Unflaggingly Service to Anthropology energetic, Silverstein has published a continuous stream of articles over the last 40-plus years, as Michael Silverstein, the well as a co-edited Natural Histories of Discourse Charles F Grey Distinguished with Greg Urban (1996), wrote a monograph Service Professor of aimed at a wider audience, Talking Politics: The Anthropology, Linguistics, Substance of Style from Abe to ‘W’ (2003), and a and Psychology, and in the co-authored Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, Committee on and the American Presidency with Michael Interdisciplinary Studies in Lempert (2012). the Humanities at the 2014 AAA AWARD WINNERS 2014 AAA AWARD University of Chicago, is the recipient of the 2014 The central thrust of Silverstein’s work can be Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to summarized as a hugely ambitious effort to Anthropology. He was honored with the Boas integrate our understanding of linguistic structures medallion at the AAA Annual Meeting in and speech practices with material reality, practical Washington DC in December. activity and political dynamics of social existence. His rich conceptual and observational toolkit brings Michael Silverstein received his PhD from Harvard a subtle sense of realism into the symbolic life of in 1972 at the age of 27, and took a position at cultures, while forcing us to rethink what language the University of Chicago, where he has remained is. Cultural analysis, in Silverstein’s approach, must to this day. A student of wide ranging interests attend to the ways in which semiotic processes and remarkable skills, he was recognized early work at scales ranging from the intimacy of face- on for his technical abilities in linguistic and to-face interaction to globally circulating media. ethnographic analysis, based on fieldwork with This approach sheds new light on the emergent, speakers of indigenous languages of the American constraining, yet unstable character of categories Northwest Coast and Australia. From there, his like gender, class and ethnicity. The power of his research expanded to a host of other topics approach lies both in its methodological rigor in the study of language (historical linguistics, applied to the particularities of each case, and American political rhetoric, translation theory, and the generality of the models it makes available for several topics in formal linguistics) and beyond comparative research. (kinship systems, ritual, consumerism, media, and the disciplinary histories of both linguistics and In recognition of the originality and creativity of anthropology). In the process, Silverstein has come his work, Silverstein was one of the first — and at to reshape linguistic anthropology and bring it into the time youngest — recipients of the MacArthur a closer relationship to the rest of the discipline. In Award (1982). He has held a John Simon his breadth of vision and range across subfields, as Guggenheim Fellowship and been elected to the well as his unstinting service to the profession, he American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the is an exemplary recipient of an honor bearing the American Philosophical Society, and the American name of Franz Boas. Association for the Advancement of Science.

Silverstein’s widest impact on anthropology lies Silverstein has also made a major contribution in the area of culture theory. He has developed a to the discipline through his pedagogy and semiotic approach to culture as a fluid, emergent service. For 40 years he has been a virtual force phenomenon grounded in concrete economic, of nature in the graduate program at Chicago. political, and social realities. An early formulation The generosity and energy he has poured into of this approach, “Shifters, Linguistic Categories the training of several generations of students and Cultural Description,” was a keystone in the is legendary. He has been a tireless citizen groundbreaking volume, Meaning in Anthropology of his university and the profession across

18 American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 AAA AWARD WINNERS several disciplinary lines. He was president of Anthropology in the Media Award the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, and served on the boards of the AAA, the Linguistic Since 2009 Tara Waters Society of America, and the Society for Cultural Lumpkin has been the Anthropology. As he enters his fifth decade in executive director and editor our profession at full throttle, Michael Silverstein of Voices for Biodiversity, a merits this most distinguished accolade. nonprofit online magazine that shares the stories of people from around the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence world about their in the Field of American Archaeology relationships with other species and nature. The Timothy Kohler of e-zine’s goal is to end the sixth extinction and help Washington State University other species flourish using a community platform was this year’s award winner that shares the voices of those whom generally for eminence in the might not be heard. In 2000 she co-founded the archaeology of the US nonprofit Perception International, which is Voices Southwest. Kohler’s for Biodiversity’s parent organization, for the contributions to the discipline purpose of exploring the relationships between of anthropological cultural, biological and perceptual diversity. archaeology have had a widely recognized impact Perception has run numerous projects worldwide. within the community of researchers working in the In 1996 Lumpkin received her PhD in US Southwest and abroad. He is recognized environmental and medical anthropology. She primarily for his steps to create a transdisciplinary subsequently worked as an international science of human-environment interactions — development consultant for the United Nations studies that feature evolutionary approaches to Children’s Fund, the United States Agency for understanding human behavior, human social International Development, Conservation institutions, and their interactions with the broader International, and other nongovernmental ecologies in which they reside. Kohler has organizations. Prior to international aid work she approached these problems using the methodology was a professor in the Writing and Media of agent-based computer modeling to simulate Department at Loyola University in Baltimore, MD. ancient societies. He then compares the results of She interned for the nonprofit environmental these models to empirical data from the newspaper High Country News. In addition, Tara archaeological record. His objective is to understand has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as and assess ancient human decision making, and to well as having won more than half a dozen writing attempt to both theoretically and empirically prizes, fellowships, and grants. At this time she is formulate and test the rules by which ancient also at work on an eco-memoir. societies adapted to their socio-natural environments. His research on this topic is set within the Four Corners region of the American Southwest 2014 AAA AWARD WINNERS CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 between 600–1300 CE, a period during which ancient Pueblo peoples came to increasingly rely on cultivation (primarily of maize), settled into larger and larger villages, demonstrated increasing complexity of social institutions, and ultimately left the region in the face of environmental degradation, severe drought and social strife. Kohler and his research team have recently expanded this research effort to include portions of the Northern Rio Grande, the region to which many former Four Corners residents appear to have relocated to in the later 1200s.

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AAA/Oxford University Press Award Robert B Textor and Family Prize for for Excellence in Undergraduate Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology Teaching in Anthropology Duana Fullwiley is a “Beyond the books and the scholar whose work box” as one student exemplifies complex describes her, Jan cross-disciplinary Newberry has cultivated anthropological research in fields of possibility and its broad contributions to opportunity for her students medical anthropology. to grow and mature as Fullwiley’s work on the scholars and citizens in the biology, meaning, and politics of sickle cell world. Beginning at Bryn Mawr, a career choice genomics in West Africa is an exemplary model of that did not include full-time teaching in a excellence in anticipatory anthropology. As an recognizable department, Newberry’s dedication to innovative inaugural ethnography that focuses on 2014 AAA AWARD WINNERS 2014 AAA AWARD boundary crossings for collective educational understanding a key genetic disorder in Africa, The purposes derived from her career in anthropology Enculturated Gene, is an excellent example of in western Canada at the University of Lethbridge. translational medicine in its synergistic view of both The student letters supporting Newberry’s the science of gene expression and the exploration nomination for the teaching award share several of disease conceptualization in multiple stakeholder themes that course through her history as a groups. This work combines rich ethnographic professor, mentor and colleague. As noted in all research on the cultural, political, and community the letters Newberry is cited as having great definitions and meanings of both genetics and passion for anthropology and what it can offer population health from multiple constituent undergraduate students. Every letter makes this perspectives that, together, form an important point and clearly is one of her “teaching methods” framework for translational health research and that drew these and numerous other students into policy related to health disparities, economic her world of anthropology. In addition to her skill disparities, structural adjustment policies, clinical and dedication to teaching, the students also management, and community engagement. admire and value Newberry’s way in the world as a Fullwiley’s work clearly meets the criteria of being a way worth considering, even emulating — strong contribution that “will allow citizens, leaders and testament indeed for this dedicated and engaged governments to make informed policy choices, and teacher. thereby improve their society’s or community’s chances for realizing preferred futures and avoiding Her students at Bryn Mawr College, and her unwanted ones.” students at the University of Lethbridge, many of whom are the first in their families to attend university, agree that her special amalgam of AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship passion, disciplinary dedication, cross-disciplinary prowess, belief and faith in teaching informed by The AAA’s Committee on scholarship has made a difference in the lives of Minority Issues in her colleagues, her students, and her ever growing Anthropology (CMIA) community. It is this kind of difference-making selected Adela Amaral as that especially qualifies Newberry for the AAA/ the recipient of the 2014–15 Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in AAA Minority Dissertation Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology. Fellowship. This annual fellowship of $10,000 is intended to encourage members of ethnic minorities to complete doctoral degrees in anthropology, thereby increasing diversity in the discipline and promoting research on issues of concern among minority populations.

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Adela received her BA in anthropology and history private property and liberal selfhood torque not from UCLA and her MA in anthropology from only what it means to be a good bride or husband, the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, “The but also the material implications of marriage and Archaeology of a Maroon Reducción: Colonial marriage housing. These are moral and economic Beginnings to Present day Ruination” combines knots that are twisted yet again by the intricacies archaeological, historical and ethnographic work to of financing, growth, and speculation in a booming develop a thorough and long term understanding real estate market. An especially memorable of African slavery and runaway slavery in Colonial anecdote in which some realtors and Wang debate Veracruz, Mexico. Her work centers around the only half-jokingly whether an infamous marriage reducción, Nuestra Señora de los Negros de housing scandal involving a relationship gone bad Amapa, founded in 1769 by runaway slaves of is best evaluated as adultery, as cheating, or as African descent or, maroons. Adela’s dissertation business fraud drives the point home, crystallizing examines the political impulses that led to the wonderfully a new entanglement of forms for founding of Amapa and its short and long term thinking, doing, and judging properly gendered ramifications. The project investigates the local and economic subjecthood. For the wonderful way creation of the maroon colonial social category and Wang’s paper explicates the ways people negotiate questions the connections between racialized social moral and economic position in the shifting groups, built environments and things. Her work family/economy nexus of marriage housing, while also uses the political present as local knowledge simultaneously critiquing the persistently unequal and present day relationships are used to interpret field of action it comprises, the AAA is proud to the past and to understand how the past is used in award this original graduate student essay prize to the present. Mengqi Wang.

David M. Schneider Award AAA/SfAA Margaret Mead Award

Mengqi Wang won the Seth M. Holmes won the award for her essay, “The Margaret Mead Award for Woman Who Asks for a his book entitled Fresh Fruit, Home — Blame at the Broken Bodies: Migrant Encounter of Housing and Farmworkers in the United Marital Exchanges.” States, published by the University of California Press This essay is an excellent in 2013. Holmes’ work is a analysis of the shifting consummate, timely, compellingly original grounds of kinship and economic exchange in ethnography that bravely depicts the plight of the post-socialist China, focusing particularly on the Mexican migrant laborer experience with rich negotiation of discourses on hunfang, or marriage candor, expertise and sensitivity. Dr. Holmes’ housing. Of particular note is Wang’s attention academic qualifications are superb on all levels, in three nicely chosen examples to the minute and his work is deeply informed by his training as financial and filial calculations and evaluations both a physician and a medical anthropologist concerning purchasing, property, title and location committed to the biocultural well-being of made by men and women of different generations underrepresented minorities in the US and beyond. and social positions. Wang’s paper works on two Holmes’ manuscript has been heralded by leaders levels; on one level, it levies a cultural critique in the field including Paul Farmer and James of the emergent discourse on “greedy women” Quesada, each of whom offer resounding (whether brides-to-be or mothers-in-law-to-be to a approbation in their accompanying letters of potential husband) who make explicit requests for support for Holmes and his herculean efforts to hunfang. On another, it offers ethnographic insight capture the complexities of the migrant laborer into the ways people find and generate room for plight, especially the day-to-day suffering and the maneuver and moral rectitude within the shifting structural violence associated therein. His work has and self-consciously moral economies of male received highest accolades from numerous honor, family duty, and conjugal independence. high-profile reviewers, including the New York All this is framed within an account of a shifting Journal of Books, the National Catholic Reporter, symbolic and economic terrain in contemporary and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. China. In this terrain, emerging enactments of

American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 21 Financial Report

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION 2014 Sources of AAA Revenue Membership Dues December 31, 2014 2013 Sources of AAA (WithRevenue Summarized Financial Information as of December 31, 2013) I Membership Dues 35.9% Membership dues - 27.1% 27.1% 1,961,806 Sections I Annual Meeting 26.2% Annual meeting - 19.7% 19.7% 1,425,297 2014 2013 I Publications 19.7% Publications - 13.8% 13.8% 1,002,462 I Grants and Academic Services Grants and contributionsASSETS - 7.1% 7.1% 517,341 Academic Services - 4.9% 4.9% 353,955 Contributions 10% I Other Income 5.8% FINANCIAL REPORT Sections - 2.0% Cash and Cash 2.0% Equivalents 145,924 $447,157 $205,207 Grants and Contributions Investment Income - 25.4% 25.4% 1,842,778 I Section Meetings 2.3% 7,249,563 Accounts Receivable 241,083 247,343 Publications

Prepaid Expenses and Other Assets 228,971 173,431 Annual Meeting Investments 14,225,385 13,795,129 Investment Income Deferred Compensation Plan — 95,149

Property and Equipment, Net 750,948 903,680

Total Assets $15,893,544 $15,419,939

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 2014 Uses of AAA RevenueAccounts Payable and $755,144 $708,971 Accrued Expenses Deferred Membership and 883,434 914,980 G&A and DevelopmentSubscription 36.5% Revenue 2014 Uses of AAA Revenue Membership Dues Deferred Compensation Liability — 95,149 Publications 17.3% I G&A and Development 36.5% Sections I Annual Meeting Deferred 14.5% Life Member Revenue 183,625 178,071 Publications 17.3% Membership Dues 35.9% I Annual Meeting 14.5% Academic Services Sections Annual Meeting 26.2%11.8% I Sections 11.8% Deferred Lease Benefit 347,715 172,294 Publications 19.7% I Government Affairs 8.8% Government Affairs 8.8% I Membership 4.9% Grants and Contributions MembershipGrants and CoDeferredntributions Tenant 4.9% Allowance 10% 449,328 492,307 I Academic Services 3.2% Other Income 5.8% I Public Education 2.9% Academic Services Total Liabilities 3.2% 2,619,246 2,561,772 Publications Section Meetings 2.3% Public Education NET ASSETS 2.9% Annual Meeting

Unrestricted Investment Income Operating 9,194,102 8,926,017

Sections 2,960,261 2,861,104 Total Unrestricted 12,154,363 11,787,121

Temporarily Restricted 524,687 484,284

Permanently Restricted 595,248 586,762

Total Net Assets 13,274,298 12,858,167 Information has been excerpted from our Total Liabilities and audited financial report for 2014. For a complete $15,893,544 $15,419,939 copy of the audited financial statements, please Net Assets contact the AAA offices at +703.528.1902

22 American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES For the Year Ended December 31, 2014 (with Summarized Financial Information for the Year Ended December 31, 2013)

Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted 2014 Total 2013 Total REVENUE AND SUPPORT Membership Dues $1,870,145 $— $— $1,870,145 $1,961,806 Annual Meeting 1,364,752 — — 1,364,752 1,425,297 Publications 1,026,791 — — 1,026,791 1,002,462 Grants and Contributions 488,175 25,906 8,486 522,567 517,341 Other Income 304,463 — — 304,463 353,955 Section Meetings 120,184 — — 120,184 145,924 Net Assets Released from Restrictions: Satisfaction of Program Restrictions 33,620 (33,620) — — — Total Revenue and Support 5,208,130 (7,714) 8,486 5,208,902 5,406,785 EXPENSES Program Services: Publications 942,087 — — 942,087 933,059 Annual meeting 786,356 — — 786,356 750,937 Sections 639,174 — — 639,174 715,462 Academic, Practicing and 174,590 — — 174,590 146,463 Career Center Membership 265,342 — — 265,342 316,470 Government Affairs, Marketing/ 480,405 — — 480,405 285,702 Communications and Media Relations Public Education 158,144 — — 158,144 42,905 Total Program Services 3,446,098 — — 3,446,098 3,190,998 Supporting Services: Management and governance 1,924,149 — — 1,924,149 1,986,765 Development 60,083 — — 60,083 54,982 Total Supporting Services 1,984,232 — — 1,984,232 2,041,747 Total Expenses 5,430,330 — — 5,430,330 5,232,745 Change in Net Assets before (222,200) (7,714) 8,486 (221,428) 174,040 Investment Income Investment Income (Losses/Fees): Interest and Dividends 243,899 48,117 — 292,016 267,782 Investment Fees (122,677) — — (122,677) (109,467) Realized Gains on Investments 670,439 — — 670,439 496,595 Unrealized (Loss) Gains on Investments (202,219) — — (202,219) 1,187,868 Total Investment Income, Net 589,442 48,117 — 637,559 1,842,778 Change in Net Assets 367,242 40,403 8,486 416,131 2,016,818 Net Assets, Beginning of Year 11,787,121 484,284 586,762 12,858,167 10,841,349 Net Assets, End of Year $12,154,363 $524,687 $595,248 $13,274,298 $12,858,167

American Anthropological Association • 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 23 2014 AAA Section Award Winners American Ethnological Association for Political Council on Anthropology Harold K. Schneider Paper Society for Psychological Society for the Society and Legal Anthropology and Education Prize, Undergraduate 1st Anthropology Anthropology of Food Elsie Clews Parsons Prize APLA Graduate Student Shirley Brice Heath New CAE Stefan Stackhouse Condon Prize, and Nutrition Paper Prize Scholar Travel Stipend Best Student Essay Christine Wilson Alexa Hagerty Harold K. Schneider Paper Andrea Pia Christian Ziga Nofi t Itzhak Student Award Senior Book Prize Prize, Undergraduate MinSoo Kim-Bossard Honorable Mention Tiana Hayden Tine Gammeltoft Graduate Student Paper Mariama Gray Stirling Prize, Best Serena Stein Prize, Finalist Sarah Jean Johnson Nathan Eisenberg Published Article Senior Book Prize Thomas Marchione Prize Veronique Fortin SEA Book Prize, 1st place Geoffrey Saxe (Honorable Mention) Georgina Ramsay The Frederick Erickson CAE Serena Stein Anne Allison Guy Shalev Outstanding Dissertation Sarah Besky Boyer Prize for Contributions Chris Upton Rolf Straubhaur to Psychoanalytic Society for the Anthropology and SEA Book Prize, Anthropology Honorable Mention Anthropology of Environment Society APLA Annual Book Prize Concha Delgado Gaitan CAE Tine Gammeltoft North America The Rappaport Lori Allen Presidential Fellows David Stoll Lemelson/SPA Distinguished Student Award Michelle Bellino Halperin Fund Achievement Award APLA Annual Book Prize, Usree Bhattacharya Conference Fund Stefanie Graetner and Honorable Mention Andrea F. Rissing Johnnetta Cole Jerry Zee Christina Convertino Claudia Strauss Matthew Hull Danny Martinez Halperin Fund 2014 Jack Friedman Eleanor “Happy” AES Photo Contest- Susan Woolley Katie Orelmanski Leacock Award Profi le Picture Association for Queer Lemelson Student Fellowship Anthropology George & Louise Samuel Dira Jilo Danielle Carr Megan Smetzer Sarah La Borde Spindler Award Benedict—Individually Society for Humanistic Devin Flaherty St. Clair Drake Student AES Photo Contest- Authored Monograph Nancy Hornberger Anthropology Ting Hui Lau Travel Award Cover Photo Emily Lucitt Noelle M. Stout, Culture and Agriculture Victor Turner, First Prize Kari Colosi Mascha Gugganig Jessica McCauley Arie Molema Benedict—Anthology Graduate Winner S. Lochlann Jain Noha Roushdy Laura Baum Junior Scholar Award Tyler Zoanni Lal Zimman, Jenny L. Davis, Manoj Misra Victor Turner, End Prize Nikhil Anand and Sarah Besky and Joshua Raclaw International Early Career Society for the Netting Undergrad Anand Pandian and Anthropology of Religion Archaeology Division Payne Paper Prize Student Paper Award M.P. Mariappan Scholar Travel Grant Fahimeh Mianji Clifford Geertz Prize Patty Jo Watson Justin Perez Kristin Gjelsteen Victor Turner, 3rd Prize (Book Prize) Distinguished Lecture Jacqueline Garvin Student Travel Award Association of Black Zareena Grewal Stephen Palmi Joe Watkins Michael Thomas Anthropologists Evolutionary 1st Prize Fiction Clifford Geertz Prize Anthropology Society Gordon R Willey Prize Johnnetta B. Cole Caitlin Baird Student Paper Award Honorable Mention Christopher Morehart Student Travel Award New Investigator (Spring Meeting) Emilio Spadola Corliss Heath Fiction Honorable Mention Student Diversity Award Mathew Gervais Bethany Ojaleto Kesia Alexandra Caitlyn Placek Student Paper Prize Juan Argueta John L. Gwaltney Award Best Student Paper Emma LeBlanc Reighan Gillam Samuel Urlacher 1st prize Poetry Society for the Student Membership Award Heather Altfi eld Anthropology in Society for Urban, National, Maia Dedrick ABA Legacy Scholar Award General Anthropology Community Colleges and Transnational/ 2nd prize Poetry David Mixter Prof. Anselme Remy Division Teacher of the Year Award Global Anthropology Jon Spenard Diana Forsythe Prize Adrie Kusserow Leeds Book Prize Association of Latina and Amanda Paskey AD Grant for Archiving Latino Anthropologists S. Lochlain Hain 3rd Prize Poetry Angela Jenks Mun Young Cho Digital Data ALLA Book Award GAD Cross-Field Prize John O’Connor Student Award for Graduate Student Paper Prize Michelle Hegmon Gilberto Rosas (First Place) Charles Briggs Lifetime Service Award Academic Excellence Ashley E. Sherry Anahi Viladrich (Second Place) Katy Fulp and Association for Africanist Edith Turner Undergraduate Student Anthropology Ramon Rivera-Servera Middle East Section Chrysoula Georgiou (Second Place) Paper Prize Elliot P. Skinner Book Award MES Distinguished Society for Latin Scholar Award American and Caribbean Student Award for Anna E. Wherry Jemima Pierre Biological Anthropology Anthropology Academic Excellence Section Susan Slyomovics Graduate Student Bennetta Jules-Rosette Rosebery-Nash Graduate Vivian Nguyen Howells Book award MES Student Paper Prize Panel Award Graduate Essay Award Paper Award Society for the Lynne A. Isbell Zachary Cuyler Sean Mallin Uwa Oduwa Krystin Mallon Andrews Anthropology of Nick Caverly Central States National Association of Consciousness Nancy “Penny” Schwartz SLACA Book Award Society for Visual Undergraduate Essay Award Anthropological Society Student Anthropologists 2012 Outstanding Paja Faudree Article Award Anthropology Alexis Coopersmith CSAS Undergraduate AES-NASA Emerging Leader Student Paper Competition Bonnie Glass-Coffi n SVA Lifetime Aries de la Cruz Society for Linguistic Achievement Award Honorable Mention Elsa Kendal Kristen Connors Anthropology Kiiskeentum Undergraduate Essay Award Elizabeth Edwards Joel Thomas SLA Edward Sapir Book Prize 2013 Outstanding Sarah Razyl Lansky CSAS Graduate Student Isabella Alexander Paper Competition Francis Cody (co-winner) Article Award Best Feature Length Film Nicholas Harkness (co-winner) Elliot P. Skinner Book Award, Heather O’Leary Society for Cultural Matthew Wolf-Meyer Mike Majoros Honorable Mention Anthropology SLA Undergraduate Student Society for the Best Short Film Wyatt MacGaffey The Beth Wilder Paper Prize (Winner) Dillingham Award Gregory Bateson Prize Anthropology of Europe Jared and Carly Jakins Eduardo Kohn Joshua Babcock Association for Feminist Suzette Vontell Chang William A. Douglass Best Ultrashort Film Anthropology Distinguished Lecture Society for East Asian SLA Undergraduate Student Mitchell Rose Sylvia Forman Graduate Council for Museum Paper (Honorable Mention) Thomas Hylland Eriksen Anthropology Anthropology Student Paper Prize Patrick Wu Best Graduate CMA Student Travel Award 2014 Francis L.K. Hsu William A. Douglass Student Film (Tie) Jessica Mason Book Prize Michael Elster Book Prize HannahTurner Ambarien Alqadar Sylvia Forman Undergraduate Joseph Feldman Manduhai Buyandelger SLA Graduate Student Krisztina Fehervery Anna Wilking Paper Prize Paper Prize 2014 David Plath SAE/CES Pre-dissertation Brenna McCaffrey Michael Ames Award Magnus Pharao Hansen Best Undergraduate for Innovative Museum Media Award Fellowship Student Film Zora Neale Hurston Anthropology Dipesh Karel and Asami Saito SLA Graduate Student Paper Grace Gu Trent Monahan Travel Award (Honorable Mention) Noeleen Murray Society for Economic SAE Graduate Student Sarah Prothero Holly Okonkwo Leslie Witz Anthropology Perry Sherouse Paper Prize Jennifer Torson Kamal Arora Katherine B Martineau Harold K. Schneider Paper Matthew L Hale Chelsi West AFA Dissertation Award Prize, Graduate Winner Lori Labotka Megan E. Springate Laura Tilghman SLA Award for Harold K. Schneider Paper Public Outreach & Prize, Graduate Runner-up Community Service Nicolas Lainez Mary Bucholtz AAA Staff and Publications 2014 Donor Recognition

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