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Association Operations Committee Information

Committee Description

Objectives: This committee reviews association administrative issues, academic and external relations, governance issues, membership benefits, section relations, and financial resources.

Duration of Committee: Permanent

Committee Reports to: The Executive Board

Responsibilities:

  • Review new section and interest group applications and monitors continuing eligibility and membership numbers;
  • Respond to concerns about the structure of the AAA, especially the liaison between sections, committees, and the AAA administration and memberships;
  • Five-year review of all standing committees;
  • Reviews AAA member dues and benefits;
  • Reviews projects and initiatives of the AAA and the financial resources necessary to carry them out;
  • Reviews external relations of the association;
  • Reviews Association personnel policies that need action by the Executive Board.

Membership and Appointment: Six members of the executive board appointed by the AAA president to include the president or president-elect, secretary, and section assembly convenor.

Product: Written reports to the executive board

Meetings and Schedule: To be scheduled

Staff Liaison and contact information: Elaine Lynch, American Anthropological Association, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22201; Phone (703) 528-1902, Fax: (703) 528-3546.

  • Review Date: May 18, 2003
  • Review Body: Executive Board
  • Adopted May 18, 2003
Committee Members

Chair
Deborah L. Nichols (E 05-08)
Department of Anthropology
6047 Silsby Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755-4030
Phone: (603) 646-3033
Fax: (603) 646-1140
deborah.l.nichols@dartmouth.edu

Secretary
Dan Segal (E 06-09)
Dan Segal (E 06-09)
Department of Anthropology
Pitzer College
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone:  (909) 607-3645
Fax: (909) 626-3412
dsegal@pitzer.edu

Theodore C. Bestor (06-09)
Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland St 420
Wm. James Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 496-6539
Fax: (617) 496-8355
bestor@wjh.harvard.edu

Thomas L. Leatherman (E 05-08)
Department of Anthropology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-7261
Fax: (803) 777-0259
leatherman@sc.edu

Jennifer L. Jackson (E 06-09)
2200 19th St., NW, Apt. 707
Washington, DC 20009
Fax: (773) 834-8700
jennifer.jackson@yale.edu

Ex-Officio
President
Setha M. Low (E-05-07)
46 Landfall Rd.
East Hampton, NY 11937
Phone: (212) 817-8725
Fax: (718) 768-6806
slow@gc.cuny.edu

President-Elect
Virginia Dominguez
Department of Anthropology
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148
607 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone: (319) 335-1866
Fax: (217) 366-3216
vdomingu@illinois.edu

Undesignated #5
Katherine Spielmann (E 07-10)
SHESC
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
Phone: (480) 965-7212
Fax: (408) 965-7671
kate.spielmann@asu.edu

Section Assembly Convenor
Susan Sutton (06-08)
7931 Ferrell Lane
Indianapolis, IN 46260-4907
Phone: (317) 278-1265
Fax: (317) 278-2213
ssutton@iupui.edu