AAA Committee for Human Rights

 Members,Task Groups, Procedures,and Records


CfHr Mission

Current Committee Members

Former Committee Members

Current CfHR Task Group

ChHR Procedures

Annual Reports of the Committee


CfHR Mission

Established in 1995, after a 3-year planning effort by its predecessor, the AAA Commission on Human Rights. The Committee's work falls broadly into internal and external categories.

Internal Mission
To stimulate informed involvement in the human rights area among professional anthropologists through publications, panels and network building. The Committee's proposed Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights, the white papers of its task groups on ethnic cleansing and on the human rights of women are further examples, and these web pages are among the products of this effort. 

External Mission
To gather information on selected, anthropologically relevant, cases of human rights abuse and to propose action in the name of the American Anthropological Association to the Association's leadership. The committee's briefing documents, prepared in order to brief the Association's leadership on particular cases of human rights abuse, are one product of the external mission.

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Current Committee Members

Committee Members

Robert Albro, Chair (06-08)
International Communications   Program
School of International Service
American University
McCabe Hall 205
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington , DC 20016-8071
TEL 202.885.1546
albro@american.edu Robert.albro@verizon.net

Kamran Ali (05-07)
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
1 University Station C3200
University of Texas
Austin, TX   78712
TEL:  512/471-7531
FAX:  512/471-6535
asdar@mail.utexas.edu

Meg Davis (06-08)
P.O. Box 896
New York, NY 10027
TEL:  347/210-8544
sara.meg.davis@gmail.com
www.songandsilence.com

Vilma Santiago-Irizarry (05-07)
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
265 McGraw Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
TEL:  607/255-6773
FAX:  607/255-3747
vs23@cornell.edu

Ellen L. Lutz (07-09)
Executive Director
Cultural Survival
215 Prospect Street
Cambridge, MA  02139
TEL:  617/441-5404
FAX:  617/441-5417
elutz@cs.org

Susan Slyomovics (06-08)
Department of Anthropology
University of California,
Los Angeles
341 Haines Hall - Box 951553
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553

ssly@anthro.ucla.edu

Kimberly Theidon (05-07)
Department of Anthropology
William James Hall 406
Harvard University
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
TEL:  617/495-3805
FAX:  617/495-8355
ktheidon@aol.com

Peter Van Arsdale (07-09)
Senior Lecturer & 
CORD Faculty Advisor
Graduate School of
International Studies
University of Denver
Denver, CO  80208
TEL:  303/871-3281
FAX:  303/871-2456
pvanarsd@du.edu

AAA STAFF LIAISON

Dinah A. Winnick
External, International & Government   Relations Assistant
American Anthropological Association
2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 600
Arlington , VA 22201-3357
703.528.1902 ext. 3002
dwinnick@aaanet.org

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Former Committee Members

David Valentine (2002-2005)
Barbara Rose Johnston (1997-2001)
Jennifer Schirmer (1997-2000)
Linda Rabben (1997-2000)
Carole Nagengast 1993-99 (Commission and then the Committee)


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Current CfHR Task Forces

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CfHR Procedures

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Annual Reports of the Committee

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