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Borders & Crossings

New Ways to Generate Conversations & Experiences

2012 ANNUAL REPORT Executive board and committees

2012 AAA Linguistic Seat Section Assembly Committee on the Executive Board Niko Besnier EB Seat #1 Future of Print (2011–14) Gabriela Vargas– and Electronic President Publishing University of Cetina (2010–12) Deborah Nichols (2011–13) Amsterdam Universidad The Graduate Center Committee on Minority Seat Autonoma de Yucatan of the City University Equity in Ana L Aparicio of New York Section Assembly (2010–13) Jennifer R Weis EB Seat #2 Northwestern President–Elect/Vice Ida Susser University Committee for President (2010–13) Human Rights Practicing/ , (2011–13) Ilana Feldman Professional Seat City University of Jessica Winegar University of Toronto, New York Ontario Institute for (2010–13) Committee on Labor Studies in Education John Jay College of Treasurer–Ex Officio Relations Criminal Justice, Edward Liebow Michael Chibnik Secretary City University of (2008–12) Debra L Martin New York Battelle Committee on (2009–12) Minority Issues in University of Nevada, Student Seat Anthropology Las Vegas Jason E Miller AAA Committees Simon Craddock Lee (2009–12) and Chairs Section Assembly University of South Committee on Convenor Annual Meeting Practicing, Applied Florida Program Chair Vilma Santiago– and Public Interest Carolyn Rouse Anthropology Irizarry Undesignated #1 (2011–13) Keri Brondo Hugh Gusterson Anthropological (2009–12) Communications Committee on Committee George Mason Public Policy Seat University Alisse Waterston Sandra L Lopez Varela Elisa J Sobo (2011–14) Association Undesignated #2 Committee Departamento Operations Susan D Gillespie on World de Antropología, Committee (2010–13) Universidad Florence Babb University of Florida Autónoma del Estado Gustavo Lins Ribeiro Audit Committee de Morelos Undesignated #3 Hugh Gusterson Frances E Mascia–Lees Finance Committee Biological Seat (2011–14) Edward Liebow David Himmelgreen Awards Committee Rutgers University Susan Gillespie (2011–14) Nominations University of South Undesignated #4 Committee Committee on Ethics Florida Jean J Schensul Debra L Martin Lise Dobrin (2009–12) Cultural Seat Resource Institute for Florence E Babb Development Research (2009–12) Committee University of Florida 2012 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 1 2 3 4 6 8 9 10 12 13 14 18 19 20 inside back cover inside back cover inside front cover inside front 2012 ANNUAL REPORT 2012 ANNUAL Borders& Crossings New Ways to Generate Conversations & Experiences to Generate New Ways s able of Content and Committees Executive Board Statement of Purposes and Executive Director the President Letter from Ethical Currents & Crossings: Borders Association Briefs Update: Arrivals and Departures Staff Long Time Retires Executive Director Winners 2012 AAA Photo Contest Award Public Education: Migration & Displacement Policy Impacts and Crossings: Borders Winners 2012 AAA Award Statement of Financial Position Statement of Activities Winners 2012 AAA Section Award and Publications AAA Staff 2012 Donor Recognition T 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 , 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. 2012 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 3 Edward Liebow Edward Executive Director Leith Mullings President (2012–13) Edward Liebow Executive Director The Executive Board approved two new sections: two new sections: approved The Executive Board inequality, incorporation and a host of other issues, incorporation and a host of other issues, inequality, initiative with a focus on migration and displacement. initiative with a focus on migration and displacement. program. These members receive special recognition at at special recognition These members receive program. promotes the study of policy, including its makings, including its makings, the study of policy, promotes review this report, we ask that you help us celebrate the this report, review members, we have created our Distinguished Members our Distinguished Members members, we have created Foundation, Northwestern University, the Smithsonian the Smithsonian Foundation, Northwestern University, of Association leadership service opportunities. To service opportunities. To of Association leadership Anthropology in Anthropology profiled our Annual Meeting and are Institution, among others. expertise from all sub-fields of the discipline. It will all sub-fields of the discipline. It will expertise from career scholars a chance to gain a first-hand sense a chance to gain a first-hand sense scholars career on the terrific success of our public building Finally, So Different?, AAA education initiative, RACE: Are We how we can best help you in achieving our long-term using such knowledge to solve human problems. highlight the enduring contributions of our long term contributions of our long term highlight the enduring supported with key partnerships like the Wenner-Gren supported with key partnerships like the Wenner-Gren working and effects, and the of Economic and the Society of Economic working and effects, speak to historical movements of people, displacement, speak to historical movements of people, displacement, goals of disseminating anthropological knowledge and goals of disseminating anthropological guided by a broad-based working group and and working group guided by a broad-based accomplishments of the past year, and also reflect on and also reflect accomplishments of the past year, announced this past year its intent to create a new a new announced this past year its intent to create formally merged with the AAA. News. the Association for the Anthropology of Policy of Policy the Association for the Anthropology Anthropology, formerly a separate organization, formerly a separate organization, Anthropology, 2012 Annual Meeting, Borders and Crossings. As you and Crossings. 2012 Annual Meeting, Borders This year’s Annual Report draws on the theme of the Annual Report draws on the theme This year’s This new public education initiative will draw on on This new public education initiative will draw From the Association the From Leadership This year, we put the finishing touches on the Association’s revised revised on the Association’s we put the finishing touches This year, that involved review process a five-year Statement on Ethics, completing of member engagement, comment and feedback. several rounds President Leith Mullings s your Association’s President and Executive Director, we are pleased we are and Executive Director, President s your Association’s accomplishments during the past year. We took some important steps We past during the year. accomplishments more visible, and engaging in enduring new partnerships. We continue to to visible,more and engaging continue in enduring new partnerships. We to provide this report on AAA’s signature activities, signature programs and report provide this to on AAA’s in 2012 to advance the Association. We are making our public profile making public profile our are Association. the advance in 2012 to We Statement on Ethics—Principles of Professional Statement on Ethics—Principles of Professional inequalities, and increasing awareness of the many of the many awareness inequalities, and increasing is involved in pushing the frontiers of knowledge of knowledge is involved in pushing the frontiers in the past year in working with a number of media of media in the past year in working with a number discipline. We have helped have helped discipline. We policymakers and elected data, and establishing and maintaining respectful data, and establishing and maintaining respectful officials see the value of see the value of officials our work, pointing out of our membership continued in its fourth year, providing six early six early providing continued in its fourth year, cultural heritage protection, reducing global global reducing cultural heritage protection, endeavors as improving healthcare and educational and educational healthcare endeavors as improving outlets to highlight anthropologists’ work, and work, and outlets to highlight anthropologists’ relationships with research subjects, colleagues and subjects, colleagues and with research relationships how a large segment how a large segment of member engagement, comment and feedback. comment and feedback. of member engagement, with the Association. Our Leadership Fellows program with the Association. Our Leadership Fellows program systems, working towards environmental sustainability, sustainability, environmental systems, working towards your contributions and expand ways of engaging your contributions and expand ways of engaging students. Organized around seven basic principles, the seven basic principles, the students. Organized around settings, collecting and disseminating research settings, collecting and disseminating research and take care of our elderly. and take care about the human condition through research and and research about the human condition through accurately portray the accurately portray the appropriate conduct in professional and academic and academic conduct in professional appropriate a five-year review process that involved several rounds rounds several that involved review process a five-year forms of household and family that raise our children forms of household and family that raise our children taken some key steps in the past year to recognize taken some key steps in the past year to recognize training, while a growing segment are involved in such involved in such segment are training, while a growing that encourages member commentary and cases. that encourages member commentary and offers guidance to anthropologists about about guidance to anthropologists Responsibility offers improve member supportimprove and guidance. Speaking of members and your interests, we have we have Speaking of members and your interests, As part of our ongoing efforts to increase the the to increase As part of our ongoing efforts we have been active public visibility, Association’s Association’s revised Statement on Ethics, completing Statement on Ethics, completing revised Association’s 2012 Statement on Ethics has a new, interactive format interactive format 2012 Statement on Ethics has a new, The This year, we put the finishing touches on the on the we put the finishing touches This year,

A ➔ ➝ Borders & Crossings: Ethical Currents

AAA Finalizes Revisions to Ethics Code

fter a five-year review process, members of the American Anthropological Association approved a rigorous overhaul of the association’s code of Ethics in 2012. The code offers guidance to anthropologists concerning responsible conduct in professional and academic settings, in collecting and disseminating research data, and in their relationships with research subjects, colleagues and students. The new document, titled“Statement on Ethics: Principles of Professional AResponsibility,” strengthens the previous ethics code, adapts it to the digital age, and makes use of a fundamentally new format. The first AAA ethics code was written in 1971, in your records, and maintain respectful and ethical response to controversies over anthropologists’ professional relationships. involvement in the Vietnam War. Where previous This 2012 revision has its origins in a controversy AAA ethics codes resembled legal codes, the over U.S. Army human terrain teams five years new Principles of Professional Responsibility take ago. In response to that controversy the AAA the form of a hyperlinked living document in a convened a Task Force on Comprehensive Ethics simple, user-friendly format. While still offering Review, chaired by Dena Plemmons (U California- guidance for ethical conduct in the form of San Diego). The membership of that Task Force general principles, the new document features was carefully chosen to represent the different embedded hypertext links to pertinent case study sub-disciplines of anthropology as well as a range materials, reference documents, websites and of opinions on anthropological work for the articles. The Principles Statement has a series of military. The Task Force recommendations were references after each defining principle to allow passed forward to the AAA Executive Board, which the readers to find further created a separate review group led by Hugh sources of information and Gusterson (George Mason U) and Monica Heller data. These resources give (U Toronto). This review group finalized the version readers a richer sense of the accepted by the Executive Board in April and context of the ethics code approved by the membership in October. and of specific dilemmas anthropologists have faced The document is available online at http://www. in their work. aaanet.org/coe/Code_of_Ethics.pdf

2012 Annual Report The Principles Statement is built around seven basic organizing principles: do no harm, be open and honest regarding your work, obtain informed consent and necessary permissions, weigh competing ethical obligations due collaborators and affected parties, make your results accessible, protect and preserve American Anthropological Association • American Anthropological

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Nuclear Rites Why America’s Top Pundits (University of California of California (University People of the Bomb (UC Press, 2005), and T 2005), (UC Press, Statement on Ethics: Principles of Should DoAbout It : : Member Profile Hugh Gusterson Professional Responsibility. Are Wrong American: HowWe Got Here andWhat We He is the author of Hugh Gusterson, born born Hugh Gusterson, in the United Kingdom, in earned his B.A. history at Cambridge a in 1980, University at the Anthropology in degree Masters and a in 1982, of Pennsylvania University in University at Stanford PhD in anthropology of 1992. He taught at Massachusetts Institute a 1992-2006 and is currently from Technology Mason University. faculty member at George A leading critic of attempts to recruit work, for counterinsurgency anthropologists of the Network he is one of the founders He also Anthropologists. of Concerned writes about militarism and about science interest and has a strong generally, more He was centrally ethics. in professional report of of the final involved in the review AAA Commission on the Engagement the with the US Security and Anthropology of and Intelligence (CEAUSSIC) Subcommittee served on the Executive Board of for the final draft that was responsible the 2012 Press, 2009). Press, 1996) and 2004) and co-editor of (Minnesota, 1999), (Minnesota, AAA also lodged a protest with the National with the National AAA also lodged a protest Geographic Society and its cable television which show “Diggers.” The program, hobbyists looking for archeological features heritage sites, may be near national treasure in violation of the Antiquities Act of 1906, Act Protection Resources the Archaeological of 1979, and the Native American Graves One of AAA’s responsibilities as a professional organization is to represent organization is to represent as a professional responsibilities One of AAA’s In 2012, the AAA in the public sphere. interests its members and their to accurately in key education and advocacy efforts worked tirelessly research. anthropological and image of anthropology the project of Spike TV and National Geographic we became aware Early in the year, damaging inaccurate and potentially offer television shows that portrayals of anthropology. asking them to TV in March, of Spike the President The AAA wrote television the new “reality” withdraw support or modify the contents of out that the program series entitled “American Diggers,” pointing in which adventure, as a treasure-seeking archaeology represents wrongly Intended or not, this heritage is dug up and sold for monetary gain. sends the unfortunate message that it is okay for an ordinary program sites for monetary gain. As archaeological viewer to loot and destroy we believe that critical public support is undermined for the a result, record. archaeological of the and interpretation preservation, protection, archaeologists AAA urged Spike TV to consult with the appropriate (SHPO) for advice on the legality Offices in State Historic Preservation a hire and preferably, and ethics of the exploits shown on the program, before (RPA), Archaeologist Professional consultant who is a Registered in the series. any of the programs broadcasting Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, each provide protection to to protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, each provide Protection the AAA warned, Additionally, sites on federal property. archaeological and while many states have stricter laws that apply to private property, of it is legal to excavate on private land in some states, the removal or indigenous artifacts for sale is highly unethical, and the removal in the US is forbidden by law. disturbance of indigenous human remains The AAA urged National Geographic to change the emphasis of this series—one that will highlight viewers’ or substitute a different program for cultural heritage and enlighten the public concerning respect the archaeology. conduct of professional responsible Education and Advocacy Education ➔ ➝ Association Briefs

AAA Welcomes New Sections Annual Meeting Continues and Interest Groups to Set Records

In 2012 AAA welcomed two new Sections. The In 2012, the AAA returned to San Francisco, CA first was the Association for the Anthropology of for its 111th Annual Meeting November 14–18. Policy which started off as the Interest Group for Following a hugely successful 2011 Annual the Anthropology of Public Policy. The Section Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada the 2012 (ASAP) promotes the anthropological study AAA meeting, themed, “Borders & Crossings,” of policy, including its making, workings, and included 6,650 registrants attending more than effects, and seeks to advance the contributions 775 scholarly sessions. The 2012 meeting marks of the anthropology of policy to theory and the largest annual meeting in AAA’s history. method in anthropology, as well as to research While breaking attendance records the meeting in public policy. Our second new Section, the also featured a new innovative program format, Society for was an Salons. Salons were hosted in neighborhood outside association that AAA members voted in eateries, bars and coffee shops in the Union December by a AAA ballot to the members, to Square area of the city allowing scholars to discuss become part of AAA. Their Section is a group of important historical texts in informal book group anthropologists, economists and other scholars style formats. who are interested in the connections between economics and social life. The 2012 Annual Meeting featured an opening plenary session on Wednesday evening, the AAA also had one new Interest Group created first of its type for the annual gathering of this year, the Interest group. anthropologists. The panel, “Why We Can’t All They are a network of anthropologists interested in how Internet driven platforms Their Section is a group of anthropologists, of social exchange are challenging the way research is done, how economists and other scholars who are interested in anthropology is taught, and how the connections between economics and social life. anthropologists communicate with each other, the public, and Just Get Along: Race, Language, and Meaning our subject communities. Their interest in the in the 2012 Presidential Election,” organized digital environment as an infrastructure for doing by Carolyn Rouse () and anthropology also includes the ethnographic study 2012 Annual Meeting Program Chair, was of digital worlds and networked sociality. conducted in panel format with guests, Johnnetta Betsch Cole (Smithsonian Institution), H Samy

2012 Annual Report AAA Recognizes Distinguished Members Alim (Stanford University) and Rogers Smith (University of Pennsylvania). On Friday evening the Last year, the association created a new program Distinguished Lecture, “Engendering the Field: designed to highlight the contributions of long- An Anthropological Story of Contingency” was term members. Members of the “Distinguished delivered by Rayna Rapp (). Members” program will be listed in Anthropology News, with certain members being subjects of The 2012 Annual Meeting attracted 60 exhibitors biographical articles and interviews. representing a spectrum of publishing & government organizations, foundations, film As a special bonus, Distinguished Members will be producers and technology firms whose interests or given a certificate, special lapel pins and ribbons to products support anthropologists worldwide. More be worn at each year’s Annual Meeting. than 20 institutions conducted interviews with

American Anthropological Association • American Anthropological potential job candidates in the Career Center.

6 Towards A Data Registry: National Science LIDaR scans, biometric databases, or sound Foundation Funds A Workshop at Aaa recordings. While the registry would support a uniform interface, it would respect sub disciplinary With funds from the standards and, above all, encourage researchers to NSF (grant number: continue to negotiate on a case-by-case basis the BCS-1159109), Oona tricky space between the AAA Principles of “do no Schmid and Lisa Cliggett harm” and “protect and preserve your records.” assembled some of A registry thus would support anthropologists in the foremost collectors navigating individual solutions for their records; of digital and analog complement the existing investments being made collections, including in analog archives and digital repositories; yet also Stephen Abrams of the California Digital Library; maximize discoverability and increase access to the George Alter of the Inter-University Consortium for range of anthropological source materials. Political Science Research; Aaron Bittel of the UCLA Archive; Sonia Barbosa of the Imagine being able to locate a nearly Murray Archive; Chris Cieri of the Linguistic Data comprehensive list of source records by linguistic- Consortium; Louise Corti of the UK Data Archive; cultural group. In the current Kathleen Creeley of the Tuzin Melanesian Archive; widely-distributed system, Carol Ember of the Human Relations Area Files; scholars need a priori Candace Greene of the National Anthropological knowledge of source records. Archives; Robert Hilliker of the ’s A registry might help searchers Academic Commons; Bert Lyons of the American identify lesser-known works; Folklife Center; Frank McManamon of Digital and might foment discovery Antiquity; and Chris Miller of Cross-Cultural Dance across the sub disciplines. If Resources. In addition two funding agencies a researcher seeks to build sent representatives: Mark Mahoney of Wenner- on prior research on Kiowa Gren and Deborah Winslow of the NSF. These 17 language, currently s/he might individuals met in September 2012 and discussed turn to the published record the best means to collect the necessary metadata, and then to the authors of these works: William defined the various data fields that would be critical Meadows and John P Harrington. A registry might to a data registry, and elaborated on best ways to well point to Harrington’s papers at the National take the project forward. Anthropological Archives and Meadows’ linguistic materials deposited at the American Philosophical A data registry would provide a centralized finding Society’s Library. But the registry might also draw guide. If developed, it would help researchers attention to Kiowa grammar texts and linguistic sift through the range of source materials that 2012 Annual Report audio recordings (like those catalogued in the are currently dispersed across myriad archives, Online Language Archives Consortium); recordings institutional repositories, and subject-level data of dances such as those within University of New banks. The registry Mexico’s digital repository, the Kiowa drawings would not contain at the National Anthropological Archives; data artifacts; it archeological surveys of Kiowa lands deposited would point to at tDAR; Jane Richardson Hanks’s field notes and the extant source • American Anthropological Association correspondences held at the Newberry Library… materials, be they and much more. A fully-realized registry would also ethnographic connect the dispersed works of a single researcher, photographs, which are often separated by media for optimal physical specimens, preservation and storage, such as when the sound linguistic recordings, recordings go to a sound/music library and the archaeological paper records held by an ephemeral archive. data, field notes,

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Publishing Innovations Chibnik will began his service at the beginning of July when former Editor-in-Chief, Tom Boellstorff’s Last year, the AAA made a number of steps to term ended. Boellstorff had been the journal’s strengthen its publishing program. Editor-in-Chief since September 2008. During his First, the Executive Board appointed Michael Chibnik tenure, American has dramatically (U Iowa) as Editor-in-Chief of its flagship journal, increased its audience base and is currently the . most downloaded journal in Wiley-Blackwell’s Chibnik has a of social science and humanities journal portfolio. experience in journal editing Second,in late 2011, AAA made plans to launch and publishing, as he is a former its first digital-only publication that will be editor of the Anthropology of provided to the public free of charge. Named Work Review and a member Open Anthropology, the journal is expected to of the Advisory Board of the launch in the second quarter of 2013. University of Iowa Press. In providing this journal to the public, AAA Chibnik is an active member of the AAA and its is alerting its members and other interested committees and sections; he is a former chair of audiences that it is committed to examining new AAA’s Labor Relations Committee and is a current approaches to journal publishing, and that some member of the executive board for the Society of these potential options include “open access” for the Anthropology of Work. He has also served models for in-demand content. as the Associate Editor for Reviews for the AAA journal American Ethnologist. He currently teaches In its inaugural issue, Open Anthropology editor a wide array of courses spanning anthropological Alisse Waterston (John Jay College, CUNY) theory, research design and proposal writing plans to curate AAA’s finest articles on marriage to economic anthropology, environmental and other arrangements. Waterston plans to anthropology and world problems. include ten articles and two book reviews to provide provides a cross-cultural sampling of the Published quarterly, American Anthropologist anthropological research on the subject. reaches over 12,000 members with each issue and advances the AAA’s mission by publishing articles Content in Open Anthropology will be culled from that add to, integrate, synthesize and interpret the full archive of AAA publications, curated into anthropological knowledge; commentaries and issues, and will be freely available on the internet essays on issues of importance to the discipline; for a minimum of six months, permitting any and reviews of books, films, sound recordings, users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, exhibits and websites. The journal announced search or link to the full text of these articles. a number of innovations in 2012, including Each issue will be dedicated to topics of interest publishing “virtual issues,” introducing a new to the general public, and that may have direct or “World Anthropology” section and presenting indirect public policy implications. non-English article abstracts. Open Anthropology will be made available at www.aaaopenanthro.org.

2012 Annual Report New Department Gets New Hire

Courtney Marie Dowdall joined the AAA staff in October alternative markets for coffee. She is currently co-authoring 2012 as Professional Fellow in the new Department of a book with Ryan Klotz on Guatemalan farmers’ efforts to Professional Services. In this role, she will enhance existing overcome the sociocultural treadmill of agrochemical use AAA programs and develop new services that provide in coffee and vegetable production. educational and professional support. Research design and methods have always been central to Courtney is an applied anthropologist specializing in her anthropological training. Since her first anthropology program evaluation and development studies. She received course, she has been a champion of the unique role that her BA in sociology and anthropology from Truman State anthropology’s holistic approach offers to the creation of University in 2002, and earned her PhD in global and meaningful programs and policies, ranging from education

American Anthropological Association • American Anthropological sociocultural studies with an emphasis in anthropology and public health initiatives to environmental stewardship from Florida International University in 2012. Her and livelihood strategies. Her experience as program National Science Foundation-funded dissertation research, coordinator of supported employment at the non-profit “Small Farmer Market Knowledge and Specialty Coffee MERS/Goodwill opened her eyes to the insights that Commodity Chains in Western Highlands Guatemala,” anthropology can contribute to effective communication 8 employed a mixed-method, multi-site comparison to between diverse stakeholders and the refinement of evaluate market-based development programs centered on objectives and measures of success. 2012 Annual Report • American Anthropological Association 9 William (Bill) Davis, who has held the position of Executive Director has held the position of Executive Director who (Bill) Davis, William (AAA) for 16 years, Association Anthropological American of the 2012. AAA in the from announced his retirement of balanced 16 years AAA experienced the leadership, Under Bill’s In addition to his reserves. operating of its budgets and growth for anthropological grants political support for federal constant efforts to increase to develop than $6 million in grants more to raise Davis also helped research, including the award-winning Association, of the projects and fund cornerstone largest world’s and the So Different? We Are RACE: public education project to he worked At the same time, AnthroSource. library, electronic anthropological in global participation through scholarship of anthropological expand the reach accessibility programs. attention to player in expanding public engagement and drawing Bill was a key He built an extensive print and electronic the contributions of anthropologists. forums that facilitated anthropological helped create program, media relations the Human the US census categories, participation in such debates as those over and has displacement of indigenous populations, and the System, Terrain and local legislative and policy on national the association current consistently kept that affect the discipline and the profession. proposals the digital age with the development AAA into the Davis ushered Thinking globally, He the way for active engagement with social media. paving website, first AAA’s of Association’s the inception of the through international relations AAA’s extended Council of World in the and active membership Anthropologies World Committee on AAA at the NGO status for the By obtaining official Associations. Anthropological to international policy-making. access of anthropologists Bill increased UN, and proud Davis noted that he felt fortunate this retirement, about asked When of the interests to represent to have had the opportunity over these years higher to the world of scholarly , and anthropology anthropologists He also noted that the media and the public at large. government, education, for the wonderful opportunities I have had in serving the “truly grateful he was AAA.” of the members s Retires e Executive Director Long Tim 1 2

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1. Drew Gerkey ’ Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia 2. Tracey Heatherington ’ Urzulei, Sardinia 3. Stephen Pavey ’ Portland, Oregon 4. Damon Lynch ’ Dushanbe, Tajikistan 5. Ann Gold ’ Rajasthan, India 6. Matt Hale ’ Atlanta, Georgia 7. Matthew Gervais ’ Yasawa Island, Fiji 8. Jesse Karnes ’ Helmand, Afghanistan 9. Pat Foley ’ Ethiopia 10. Mark Moritz ’ Cameroon 11. Christopher Morris ’ Eastern Cape, South Africa 12. Ming Xue ’ Qinghai TAP, China 13. Amir Hampel ’ Xiamen, China 14. Bonnie Ruder ’ Jacmel,

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AAA Announces New Public AAA Selects Summer Interns for 2012 Education Initiative Anthropology students Eric Rodriguez and In 2012, the AAA announced its plans to launch Susannah Reed Poland, had the opportunity to a new public education initiative. Building on spend this summer working with the AAA as part the popular success of AAA’s RACE: Are We of the Association’s Summer Internship Program, So Different?, the new initiative will focus on thanks to generous member donations, and the immigration and displacement—a theme that hard work of the AAA’s Resource Development was selected after a year-long consultation Committee (RDC). Eric and Susannah were process with AAA committees, sections and selected from almost fifty candidates based on other interested internal groups. The planning their field of anthropological interest, academic effort is guided strength, and recommendations from their by a committee professors. Over the course of the summer, they whose co-chairs worked with partnering host organizations in the are Ana Aparicio Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. (Northwestern U), Antoinette Jackson (U South Eric Rodriguez was a senior at the University of Florida), and Leo Chavez (U California, Irvine). Pittsburgh, and majored in anthropology. As an The initiative is expected to examine migration AAA summer intern, Eric interned with the Naval and displacement through a broad lens—reporting History and Heritage Command (NHHC). NHHC on historical movements of people, displacement, is the official history program of the Department inequality, incorporation, and others. The of the Navy. Eric worked with the Underwater initiative will portray migration and displacement Archaeology Branch of the NHHC and conducted throughout world history, helping place issues that archaeological and historical research, as well affect the United States in a larger context. At a as assisting on an effort to recover underwater time where national debate on how to address artifacts from underwater wreckage located just immigration policy in the US is paralleled by similar off the coast of . conversations around the globe, it is the perfect Susannah Reed Poland, interned with the time to showcase ways in which the relevant Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. She work of anthropologists from many sub-fields and was hosted in the museum’s curatorial department areas can dispel myths and stereotypes where her tasks included research on gender about migration and displacement. theory and object-based work related to a future AAA is also working with the Smithsonian exhibition on the contributions of, and issues Institution on a related effort. The Smithsonian’s addressed by, African contemporary woman artists. project, “Our American Journey,” has a focus Both Rodriguez and Poland spent a portion of

2012 Annual Report on immigration and migration, which will be their time at the AAA offices, where they worked featured in the 2015 National Folklife Festival, with the Association’s public education program, and a new permanent exhibit at the National RACE: Are We So Different?, researching various Museum of American History beginning in 2017. pieces of Federal legislation and regulatory Anthropologists are being invited, through the initiatives and sharing their internship experience AAA, to work with the Smithsonian as exhibit with members in Association publications and collections and story lines are developed. social media.

The AAA Summer Internship Program is now in its third year. The internship provides professional experience to anthropology students and assists in shaping the foundation of their anthropological American Anthropological Association • American Anthropological careers. This program is fully funded through member donations.

12 ➔ ➝ Borders & Crossings: Policy Impacts

Five Ways to Advance the AAA

Ed Liebow, AAA Executive Director As the association’s new executive director, I could where strength in numbers can help overcome not be in a more fortunate position. Thanks to the roadblocks to professional development. And finally, wise stewardship of Bill Davis, I have inherited a highly it means demonstrating that membership has talented staff and a financially healthy organization. value for archaeologists, biological, and linguistic I work with a committed board and an engaged anthropologists, who are currently under-represented membership. And yet, at this moment, challenges among our membership. and opportunities are looming on the horizon for The next planning element is to make the association which we must be prepared as we move ahead. a welcoming home for practicing and applied The publishing landscape is changing and we must anthropologists. This means continuing to offer change with it. Although we have had record-setting services that meet the needs of people employed attendance at three annual meetings in a row, I think outside the academy. we must plan for the day when enabling technologies, a demand for deeper exposure to specialized The final piece of the plan is to increase the exchanges, and diminished travel support prompt association’s public us to reimagine our meetings program. And the visibility, particularly in the membership value proposition itself— what people Washington, DC area, in judge to be the value of being a AAA member—is service of our long-term something we must never take for granted. strategic objectives. It is my sense that we can do I presented to the AAA Executive Board a five-point more to take advantage of plan to guide us over the next several years. There are our location. This means no dramatic changes envisioned, but in keeping with working closely together our Long Range Plan update, I am committed to these with our sister associations fundamental five points as we advance the association for in the social sciences and our members and meet those challenges on the horizon. humanities—many of which First is keeping the association on solid financial are located in the national capital area—to advocate footing. This means effective operational on behalf of continued research funding. It means management, strengthening our fundraising activities, strengthening our partnership with the Smithsonian and being wise stewards of our investment portfolio. Institution through our common interest in our public 2012 Annual Report education initiative on immigration and displacement. Next is supporting global scholarly exchange through I hope to highlight our members’ great work and to innovative forms of publication and meetings. This feature the global-to-local connections by staging means revamping our publishing program while various events, salons, book readings, and perhaps an maintaining our commitment to the diversity of voices ethnographic film festival. in the discipline. It also means experimenting with I cannot possibly be more excited about the smaller-scale meetings organized around specialized, • American Anthropological Association problem focused themes like global climate change, prospects for anthropology. Now is the time for megacities and trafficking in looted heritage properties. wider recognition of the value of our work, and the And it certainly means seeking collaborations with our association is exceptionally well positioned, working sister associations outside the US. with numerous others, to promote innovative approaches to knowledge production and exchange, Another key point is increasing the association all with the aim of tackling the most challenging, membership’s size and diversity. We can do this enduring problems of human existence. It is my by attending to a range of services that appeal to fervent hope, with apologies to a certain technology students, researchers, teachers, practitioners and giant, that when people wonder how on earth we are to organizations outside the academy that employ going to wrestle with the big issues we face about anthropologists. It also means demonstrating conflict reduction, global justice, sustainability, they in concrete ways that the association can be will come to realize: there’s an anthropologist for that! meaningful sources of support for anthropologists of color and for other minoritized categories,

13 ➝➔ 2012 AAA Award Winners

Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service (2010) returns to his early work on the creolized to Anthropology cultures of Haiti, , and . His , Research Professor (Emeritus) ethnographic investigations are notable for his at The , received the attention to everyday activities and objects and for 2012 Award for Exemplary Service his commitment to empirical research. to Anthropology. In his 60-plus year career, Among his other honors and awards, Mintz Mintz has pioneered multiple contributions to has received the TH Huxley Memorial Lecturer anthropological thought and practice, influencing Award and Medal from the Royal Anthropological major shifts in the discipline through his fieldwork, Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1994), scholarship, teaching and mentorship. the Distinguished Lecture Award from the AAA Mintz received his PhD in 1951 from Columbia (1996), the Premio Internacional of the Fundación University, where he worked with Fernando Ortiz (2002), and honorary degrees and . He served on the faculty at from the University of Puerto Rico, the University and later Johns Hopkins University, of the West Indies, and Oberlin College. He has where he was on the faculty when the department held teaching appointments in France, Germany, began offering anthropology classes in1975. He Italy, China and Australia as well as at multiple US retired from Hopkins in 1997. Beginning with his universities, widening his pedagogical influence doctoral fieldwork on peasantries, he beyond his publications. pioneered the development of the Caribbean as an Sidney Mintz is one of a handful of anthropologists anthropological region. Together with , in the US who so fundamentally influenced the Sidney Mintz incorporated Steward’s notions of discipline in the second half of the 20th century, sociocultural integration with Marxist-influenced carrying on a Boasian legacy into the 21st. notions of power, laying the groundwork for the anthropology of political economy. Solon T Kimball Award for Public and In the 1980s Mintz deftly turned anthropological attention to studies of consumption—a topic Stanley E Hyland, professor of anthropology that is now an entire industry—most notably at the University of Memphis, and head of the with his 1985 book Sweetness and Power, School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, received now translated into at least nine languages. the 2012 Solon T Kimball Award for Public and Combining consumption with production to Applied Anthropology. The award recognizes his examine questions of power, contributions to the development of public policy this work details the history aimed at issues of poverty and social inequalities in of an extraordinary but Memphis, TN and the mid-South, and his intertwined neglected commodity— contributions to the development of anthropology 2012 Annual Report sugar—that transformed the as an applied science through what Hyland calls “an lives, health and economies of ecological approach to policy change.” the Western world. This book Hyland is an exemplar of the participatory action is a stellar example of how research (PAR) approach in applied anthropology. anthropologists should address His contributions to community development and the phenomenon of historical policy change have centered on the development change, linking anthropology and advancement of African American with history. communities in the greater Memphis area and the In the 1990s Mintz was instrumental in founding Mississippi delta, fostering university community the subfield of the anthropology of food, including engagement in Memphis, and furthering the with his 1996 book of essays, Tasting Food, Tasting development of relevant anthropological theory American Anthropological Association • American Anthropological Freedom. His most recent book, Three Ancient and practice. He has also worked closely with Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations Memphis’ governmental entities including the

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New , and New Los Angeles Times AAA Annual Meeting in 2005. AAA Annual Meeting th In a different media realm, media realm, In a different Gibbons has been a expert consultant frequent and interviewee on radio and television broadcasts, including National Public of America. Radio and Voice University Press AAA/Oxford in for Excellence Award in Undergraduate Teaching Anthropology University of the AAA/Oxford The 2012 recipient for Excellence in Undergraduate Award Press of is Peter Brown in Anthropology Teaching developed Emory’s Brown Emory University. He initiated and in . program Global undergraduate (2001–10) Emory’s directed programs of the faster growing one Health Minor, a half-dozen for which he created at the university, courses. In his 36 years at Emory he has taught a nearly 3,000 undergraduates and mentored whom generation of graduate students, many of in medical have gone on to successful careers fields. or health care anthropology in 1979 his PhD in anthropology received Brown at Stony the State University of New York from in the and began his academic career Brook department at Emory in 1978. anthropology in the Since 1996 he has also been professor He has Rollins School of Public Health at Emory. taught a wide variety of courses in biocultural and evolutionary aspects of , , medical anthropology, mental health, emerging diseases, and other topics in public and global health. His positive impact on so many students is attributed to his nurturing in students as support of and fervent interest In addition to her scientific articles, Ann Gibbons Ann Gibbons to her scientific articles, In addition book, The First Human: a best-selling authored Ancestors Discover Our Earliest The Race to language narrates in accessible (2006), which discover to by paleoanthropologists the attempts of early humans. Her the oldest known examples have appeared research articles on anthropological by the in other journalsread and newspapers Smithsonian Magazine, general public, including Discover Magazine, to present . She has also been invited Times York including at the , on lectures 104

st Anthropology in the Media the 2012 Anthropology Ann Gibbons received individuals which recognizes in the Media award, for their accomplishments in communicating topics to the general public anthropological the media. For over a decade, Gibbons through for Science magazine, has been a correspondent writing lucid accounts of advances in evolutionary In the last 10 years she published anthropology. nearly 100 articles covering some of the most including issues in anthropology, controversial and DNA studies. genetics paleontology, A 1979 graduate of the University of California, in English and with BA degrees Berkeley, journalism, Gibbons was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute and a Science Journalism Fellow at of Technology Hole, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods is especially notable for her MA. Her reporting first person accounts, based on her observations recovering of scientists working in the laboratory, hominid fossils in Africa, or excavating skeletal She brings “the field” and the excitement remains. discoveries to her readers. of anthropological Gibbons translates esoteric findings and analyses and terms, making them intelligible into laymen’s to the public. relevant Century (Hyland and Owens, Santa Fe: School of Advanced Seminar Series). American Research Housing Authority (MHA) and the Division of Division of (MHA) and the Housing Authority organizations like Community (DHC), Housing and Memphis Foundation of Greater the Community Mid-South among of the Way and the United it has transformed his own university as others, and for change in its own itself into a positive force to one nominator, According urban neighborhood. short of ingenious in his he “has been nothing and means to connect energetic pursuit of ways poverty and to bring their with persons living in processes.” voices into public policy to applied anthropology contributions Hyland’s various aspects of theory and practice on than detailed in more are community development journals, peer reviewed twenty publications in “Developing 2010 (eg, Hyland and Maurette’s in the Memphis Region: Poverty Reform Efforts in Urban Lessons for an Engaged Anthropology” 2005 Anthropology 39[3]), and his well-regarded edited volume Community Building in the 21 2012 AAA Award winners continued

individuals, generously making time for them, As richly described challenging them to be their best. His classroom in their co-authored teaching is clear, engaging, and enlivened by book Transforming rich insights based on his tremendous depth and Culture: Creating breadth of anthropological knowledge. His humor, and Sustaining patience and ability to make teaching relevant a Better also endear him to his students. His concern to Manufacturing ensure that his graduate students become good Organization teachers in their own right is further evidence of (Palgrave his commitment to teaching excellence. Macmillan, 2010), Briody, Trotter and Brown’s impact on students goes far beyond Meerwarth used his own university. Since 1989 he has co-edited cultural models theory to identify the cultural Applying Anthropology: Introductory Readings patterns and practices that made it difficult for (Mayfield Press), whose nine editions have been GM to innovate and remain competitive. Drawing read by an estimated 100,000 undergraduates. on cultural consensus methods they helped GM Since 1991 eight editions of a companion volume, community members identify their ideal culture. Applying Cultural Anthropology: Introductory Recognizing that cultural transformation is Readings (Mayfield Press) have been read by some difficult, Briody, Trotter and Meerwarth helped 80,000 undergraduates. community members understand the dynamics Brown’s prior teaching awards and of change by identifying elements of cultural recognitions include Teacher-Scholar adaptiveness and cultural responsiveness. The Ideal of the Year, Emory University (2007), Plant Culture Project then created ten innovative Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Recognition and engaging tools, including an interactive, (2005), Hughes Teaching Grant for computer-based video game “Explore Plant Science Teaching, Emory (1993), Culture: Stud Gun Story,” to empower community Senior Council Award for Outstanding members to make the changes they desired. Teaching and Service to Undergraduate The Ideal Plant Culture Project helped the GM Students, Emory (1986), Emory Williams community conceive of and move toward a Distinguished Teaching Award in the preferred future, and while doing so Briody, Social Sciences (1985), and the Lilly Trotter and Meerwarth modeled collaboration in Foundation Post-Doctoral Teaching their team’s work, and in their interactions with Award Fellowship (1985). the many constituencies that make up the GM Robert B Textor and Family Prize in community, from management, to union officials, Anticipatory Anthropology to factory workers. Their use of anthropology in the private sector anticipates and provides a Elizabeth K Briody, Robert T Trotter II and signpost for others who will engage in an area of Tracy L Meerwarth were awarded the 2012 increasing importance for both anthropological Robert B Textor and Family Prize in Anticipatory scholarship and practice. Anthropology for their work on “The Ideal Plant Culture Project.” Working collaboratively and in AAA Minority Dissertation Award 2012 Annual Report cooperation with the General Motors’ community, the Ideal Culture Project helped bring about AAA’s Committee on Minority Affairs in organizational change in General Motors, and in Anthropology (CMIA) selected Carwil Bjork- the course of this work developed an approach James to receive the 2012–13 AAA Minority that can be used by others seeking organizational Dissertation Fellowship. Bjork-James’ dissertation, change. The Ideal Plant Culture project used titled “Claiming Space, Redefining Politics: Urban a cultural models perspective to help the GM Protest and Grassroots Power in Bolivia,” focuses community understand their own culture, identify on “analyzing the spatial logic of the protests that areas that the community wished to change, led to Bolivia’s current political transformation.” and devised tools to assist the community as its Bjork-James’ dissertation committee chairperson, members pursued desired changes. Marc Edelman, says “He [Bjork-James] is a rigorous, creative and very promising scholar.” American Anthropological Association • American Anthropological

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Fields of The Mead Award The Mead Award ward AA Margaret archaeology and beyond that continues to that continues to and beyond archaeology on settlement Her many publications this day. patterns, and landscape have the household, Maya in particular to the our approach reshaped and cultural the human and to understanding in the past in significant landscapes produced new research to inspire ways that will continue and interpretations directions chneider A M S David recognizes The 2012 David Schneider Award Not Left vs Right, It’s “It’s paper, Kaja Tretjak’s The Cultural Impact of the US the State vs You: Libertarian Resurgence.” The Schneider Award of work that focuses in innovative recognizes and American fashion on , cultural theory, central to Professor topics that were culture, is a doctoral Tretjak career. research Schneider’s City University candidate at the Graduate Center, a wonderful Her paper offers of New York. account of the ways young people in the United occupying and rearticulating presently States are the spaces and meanings of “libertarianism” in the United States. Particularly striking in the study portrayal of how people in the new is Tretjak’s liberty movement self-consciously denaturalize and critique the assumed fit between conservative and libertarian political commitments, as well as made in US conservative institutions to the efforts their energies (and votes). and reclaim realign AAA/Sf Mead A The 2012 AAA/SfAA Margaret is recipient Mead Award based on Erin P Finley, her 2011 book, Combat: Understanding PTSD and of Iraq among Veterans Afghanistan. to a younger is presented scholar for a particular accomplishment, such as a book, film, monograph, or service, which interprets data and principles in ways that anthropological concernedmake them meaningful to a broadly a person clearly and recognizes public. The award and/or practice in integrally associated with research exemplify skills activity The awardee’s anthropology. or the impact of anthropology—skills in broadening Finley widely. Mead was admired which Margaret at the SfAA 2013 with the award will be presented Colorado. meeting in Denver,

for ward Established in 1950, the Established in 1950, the an recognizes Kidder Award outstanding archaeologist specializing in the of the Americas. archaeology by presented This award, the AAA but selected by the Division of AAA, Archaeology is now given every two years. A past member of the American Anthropological Executive Association’s has served Ashmore Board, as chair of the Archeology Division, and on many other committees and programs. received the 2012 Kidder the 2012 Kidder received Ashmore Wendy has been an active and Ashmore Award. field influential member of our field through involvement in professional publication, research, organizations, training and supervision of graduate students, and teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. A Alfred Vincent Kidder She has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1991 in the and has also played an important role Institute of America. Archaeological has become a touchstone for research Ashmore’s the development of Mesoamerican archaeology. work of Gordon Building on the groundbreaking Mesoamerican provided Ashmore Willey, with a “sense of the field” as well archaeologists as valuable overviews of settlement patterns She has built a solid record in the Maya area. of contributions to the field of Mesoamerican of American Eminence in the Field Archaeology Carwil received his BA from Northwestern BA from his Carwil received and a mathematics and physics, University in in environmental policy degree master of public working is currently He rights policy. and human at CUNY in cultural anthropology on his PhD Graduate Center. during the Awards Bjork-James will be recognized at the 2012 AAA Annual Meeting Ceremony Rafael Maurice in San Francisco in November. at the University of Magaña, PhD candidate will be acknowledged as the Honorable Oregon, hosted by the CMIA. Mention at a luncheon Statement of Financial Position

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION December 31, 2012 (With Summarized Financial Information as of December 31, 2011) 2012 Sources of AAA Revenue 2012 2011 ■ Membership 32.0% ■ Annual Meeting 23.2% ASSETS ■ Publications 16.4% ■ Investment Income 13.4% Cash and cash equivalents $104,646 $396,885 ■ Academic Services 6.2% ■ Contributions 3.3% Accounts receivable 178,051 237,514 ■ Public Education 3.5% ■ Sections 1.7% Prepaid expenses and other assets 84,211 95,210

Investments 11,616,629 10,607,407

Deferred compensation investments 121,564 86,311

Property and equipment, net 412,662 496,576

Total Assets $12,517,763 $11,919,903

Liabilities And Net Assets

Accounts payable and accrued expenses $398,211 $572,400

Deferred membership and subscription 955,247 938,859 revenue

Deferred compensation liability 121,564 86,311 2012 Uses of AAA Revenue Deferred life member revenue 180,230 184,489 ■ G&A Development 40.2% ■ Publications 20.3% Deferred lease benefit 19,680 53,841 ■ Annual Meeting 10.8% ■ Sections 10.7% Deposits 1,482 1,482 ■ Academic Services 6.7% ■ Membership 6.6% Total Liabilities $1,676,414 $1,837,382 ■ Government Relations 3.7% ■ Public Education 0.9% Net Assets

Unrestricted:

Operating 7,089,811 6,635,145 2012 Annual Report Sections 2,802,551 2,645,504 Total Unrestricted 9,892,362 9,280,649

Temporarily restricted 429,344 422,020

Permanently restricted 519,643 379,852

Total Net Assets 10,841,349 10,082,521

Total Liabilities and $12,517,763 $11,919,903 Net Assets

American Anthropological Association • American Anthropological Information has been excerpted from our audited financial report for 2012. For a complete copy of the audited financial statements please contact the AAA offices at 703–528–1902.

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— 55,605 64,545 16,589 415,459 392,450 117,553 635,268 513,502 376,944 343,599 149,030 253,081 545,062 (91,464) 200,849 217,438 2011 Total 2011 Total (690,090) 1,338,136 1,016,760 1,011,022 1,782,500 1,847,045 5,132,864 3,084,970 4,932,015 9,865,083 $1,852,506 $10,082,521

— 48,327 50,360 980,190 479,978 302,589 103,342 565,641 558,641 349,610 342,256 192,819 284,865 125,133 487,300 798,192 (99,106) 758,828 (39,364) 2012 Total 2012 Total 1,387,389 1,061,504 2,050,133 2,100,493 5,179,927 3,118,798 5,219,291 $1,926,439 10,082,521 $10,841,349

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — $— 139,791 139,791 139,791 139,791 379,852 $519,643 Permanently Restricted Restricted Permanently

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — $— 7,324 59,603 34,475 34,475 (86,754) 422,020 (27,151) (27,151) $429,344 Temporarily Restricted Temporarily

86,754 48,327 50,360 980,190 280,584 302,589 103,342 565,641 558,641 349,610 342,256 192,819 250,390 125,133 487,300 763,717 (99,106) 611,713 1,387,389 1,061,504 2,050,133 2,100,493 (152,004) 5,067,287 3,118,798 5,219,291 9,280,649 $1,926,439 Unrestricted $9,892,362 ctivities

Satisfaction of program restrictions Satisfaction of program Total Revenue and Support Total Publications Annual meeting Sections Academic services and media relations Membership Government relations and minority affairs Public education Services Program Total Management and governance Development Supporting Services Total Total Expenses Total Interest and dividends Investments fees Realized gains on investments Unrealized gains (losses) on investments Of A Statement 2011) December 31, Ended Year Information for the Financial 2012 (With Summarized December 31, REVENUE AND SUPPORT Membership dues Annual meeting Publications Grants and contributions Grants Other income Section meetings Net assets released from restrictions: EXPENSES Services: Program Supporting Services: Change in Net Assets before Assets before Change in Net Investment Income Investment Income (Losses/Fees): Total Investment Income, Net Investment Income, Total Change in Net Assets Change in Net Net Assets, Beginning Net Assets, of Year

Net Assets, Net Assets, End of Year Statement Activities of 2012 AAA Section Award Winners

American Ethnological Ruth Benedict Book Prize— Early Career Presidential Ethnographic Poetry (First CAGH Virchow Professional CWA Undergraduate Society Anthology Fellowships Prize) Award Julia McClean Graduate Gayle Rubin Amy Brown & Juliette De Carlota Silber Sarah Willen Student Prize Wolfe Society for the Anthropology Payne Student Paper Prize Ethnographic Poetry (Second STM Graduate Student Sarah Vaughn of North America Natalie Newton Culture and Prize) Paper Prize Delmos Jones and Jagna Society Elsie Clews Parsons Netting Award Kuo Zhang Natalie Porter Sharff Memorial Book Prize Prize (Honorable Mention) Payne Student Paper Prize (Honorable Mention) Karen Rignall Ethnographic Poetry (Third CAR Most Notable Recent Mark Auslander Reighan Gilliam Prize) Collection Ryan Richard Thoreson Evolutionary Delmos Jones and Jagna Senior Book Award Anthropology Society Jonathan Glasser Carole Browner & Sharff Memorial Book Prize Payne Student Paper Prize Carolyn Sargent (Honorable Mention) Richard Price (Honorable Mention) Best Paper by a New Ethnographic Poetry Khiara Bridges Senior Book Award Jake Silver Investigator (Honorable Mention) CAR Most Notable Recent (Honorable Mention) Aaron Blackwell Elena Harap Collection SANA Prize for Distinguished Dorothy Hodgson Association of Black Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli & Achievement in the Cr Anthropologists Best Paper by a Student Ethnographic Fiction (First Marcia Inhorn Michael Blakey Anthropology and Johnnetta B Cole Student Adam Boyette Prize) Environment Section Travel Award Thararat Chareonsonthichai CAR Graduate Student General Anthropology Paper Prize Society for the Award Vanessa Agard Jones Division Ethnographic Fiction Kathryn Goldfarb Geertz Prize Sarah R Osterhoudt The John L Gwaltney Native Diana Forsythe Prize (Honorable Mention) Anthropology Scholarship Rene Almeling Cynthia Keppley-Mahmood Society for Psychological Julia Chu Junior Scholar Award Anthropology Melanie Madieros Shaylih Muehlman GAD Prize for Exemplary Society for Latin American Stirling Prize, Best Published Society for the and Caribbean Anthropology Anthropology of Work Small Grants for Association of Latina and Cross-Field Scholarship Book in Psych Anth Collaborative Problem Latino Anthropologists Jonathan Marks Roseberry-Nash Graduate Cherly Mattingly Eric Wolf Prize Solving ALLA Book Award Student Paper Prize Rachel Wright National Association for the Joseph Wilberger Condon Prize, Best Student Joshua Griffin Alyshia Galvez Practice of Anthropology Essay in Psych Anth SAW Book Prize Association for Africanist ALLA Book Award Student Achievement Award Society for Linguistic Sara Lewis Carrie M Lane Anthropology (Honorable Mention) Winner Anthropology Boyer Prize, Contributions to Arensberg Award Naheed Ahmed Sapir Prize Book Award Elliott Skinner Book Award Elaine A Pena Psychoanalytic Anth Frances Rothstein Hans Lucht E Summerson Carr Student Achievement Award Doug Hollan (First Runner-Up) SLA Student Essay Contest Society for Urban, National, Bennetta-Jules Rosette Section and Transnational/ Carla Pezzia (Undergraduate) Society for the Graduate Student Paper W. W. Howells Book Award Anthropological Sciences Global Anthropology Award Kamala Russel Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Student Achievement Award Student Paper Prize SUNTA Graduate Student George Paul Mieu (Second Runner Up) SLA Student Essay Contest Paper Prize Distinguished Lecturer Chelsey R Carter Michael Brydge (Undergraduate) Claudio Sopranzetti Nancy Schwartz Darna Dufour Undergraduate Paper Award Honorable Mention Travel Award SUNTA Undergraduate Paper Student Prize National Association of Hannah Carlan Lisa Beiswenger, James E Divya Bhat Student Anthropologists Prize Michaela Howells Coxworth, H. J. Francois Distinguished Lecturer and Carrie Hunter Tate SLA Student Essay Contest Dengah II, Kristen D Pierce, & Andrea Chiriboga Flor Scholarship Award (Graduate) Caitlyn D Placek Central States Belinda Ramirez Spencer & SUNTA Graduate Student Anthropological Society Jessica Peters Jennifer Guzman Society for the Anthropology Panel Prize Distinguished Leadership Leslie A White Award Emerging Leaders in SLA Student Essay Contest in Community Colleges Joanne R Nucho (organizer) and Service Award Kelly R LaFramboise Anthropology (Graduate) Runner-Up President’s Award SUNTA Leeds Prize Mwenda Ntarangwi Matthew Canfield, Richard Charles Zuckerman, Dario Beth Wilder Dillingham Valles, Laren Zentz Autumn Cahoon Danny Hoffman Award Powis, Bethany Lowe, & Association for Feminist Kwame Otu Student Award for Academic Anthropology Elizabeth A Kickham Society for Medical Excellence Society for Anthropology Dissertation Award Undergraduate Student Society for Cultural Ember Knight Anthropology Career Achievement Award Best Student Film Asli Zengin Paper Award Robert Hahn Society for the Stephen Loring Sweta Basnet Cultural Horizons Prize Sylvia Forman Paper Award, Mette N Svendsen Anthropology of Undergraduate Polgar Prize Best Undergraduate Student Graduate Student Paper William A Douglass SAE Film Lilia Kilburn Award Book Prize Cecilia Van Hollen & Maryna Distinguished Lecture Bazylevych Katherine Tygielski Diana Steele Sylvia Forman Paper Award, Graduate The Hughes Graduate Best Ultra-Short Film Council for Museum Society for East Asian Student Paper Prize William A Douglass Book June Hee Kwon Anthropology Anthropology Prize in Europeanist Anth Olatz Gonzalez Abrisketa Daisy Deomampo CMA Student Travel Award Bestor Prize for Outstanding Gerald Creed & Miriam Best Short Film Zora Neale Hurston Travel Essay Ticktin Award Rachel Roy, Jennifer K Brown AARG Distinguished Service Jeong-One Park Chigusa Yamaura Award Christine A Pinnock, Paola Michael Ames Award, SAE Student Paper Prize Jean Rouch Award Canova, Tami Navarro Merrill Singer Innovative Museum Hsu Book Prize Julie Kleinman Paul Wolffram Anthropology Andrew Kipnis ADTSG Annual Graduate Association for Political Student Paper Prize SAE/CES Pre-dissertation Jean Rouch Jr Award and Candace Greene Fellowship Society for Humanistic Saiba Varma Lea Furrer APLA Graduate Student Council on Anthropology Anthropology Laura Levon Paper Prize (Winner) and Education Prize (First (MASA) Graduate Student The John Collier Jr Award for Rachel Dotson Mentor Award Society for the Anthropology Still Photography George and Louise Spindler Place) of Food and Nutrition Award Peter J Brown Haidy Geismar and Anita APLA Graduate Student Angela Garcia Food Anthropologist of the Margaret Gibson Herle Paper Prize (Honorable Victor Turner Prize (Second CAGH Virchow Year Mention) Outstanding Dissertation Place) Undergraduate Student Penny Van Estrik Collier Award (Honorable Eli Elinoff Award Paper Award Mention) Mark Auslander CWA Runner Up Marguerite Fillion Wilson Victoria Koski-Karell Sara Wiles Association for Queer Victor Turner Prize (Third Hannah Garth Anthropology Outstanding Dissertation Place) CAGH Virchow Graduate Student Paper Award CWA Graduate Ruth Benedict Book Prize— Award (Honorable Mention) Daniel R Reichman Monograph Brendan Harold O’Connor & Nora J Kenworthy Ariana Hunh Margot Weiss Tyler Bickford

20 AAA staff and publications 2012 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 2012. All listings are based on Executive Office American Anthropologist actual donations to the AAA Annual Campaign received from January 1 through Bill Davis, Executive Director Tom Boellstorff December 31, 2012. This list does not include any pledges or multi-year grants Kimberly Baker, Section and American Ethnologist received before 2012, nor does it include any gifts made directly to a section. Governance Coordinator Donald L Donham Special thanks to our donors who joined the Annual Campaign Leadership Circle Dexter Allen, Executive Assistant to Anthropology & Education Quarterly with a donation to this campaign of $500 and above. These names are denoted the Executive Director Nancy H Hornberger with an asterisk (*). 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