Members in the News
AAA Members in the News
August
Hugh Gusterson (George Mason U), McDonnell Should Beware of Donors with Gifts , The Washington Post
Gina Athena Ulysse (Wesleyan U), Presumed Innocent: On Bill Traylor's Verve , Anthropology Now
Seth Holmes (U California - Berkeley), Why Picking Your Berries for $8,000 A Year Hurts A Lot , The Salt, NPR
Robin Nagle (New York U & New York City Department of Sanitation) Museum of the City of New York Hosts 'Trash Talk' with Robin Nagle , BWWVisual Arts World
Tejaswini Ganti (New York U), Despite New States Mumbai Film Industry Still Follows Map of the British Raj , The India Times
Erin Busbee (U Michigan), Erin Busbee Blog , MGoBlue.com
July
Hugh Gusterson (George Mason U), Not All Secrets Are Alike, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Robin Nagle (New York U & New York City Department of Sanitation), A Facination with Sanitation Work , The New York Times
Gina Athena Ulysse (Wesleyan U), Immeasurable Inspiration: On Robert Pruitt's Women , Huffington Post
Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford U), The Hour of Anthropology May Have Struck , The Toronto Star
Seth Holmes (U California - Berkeley), Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: The True Cost of Our Produce , Modern Farmer
Hugh Gusterson (George Mason U), Work Life Balance , Voices In The Family - WHYY TV
Jason De Leon (U Michigan), Backpacks from the Border , The New York Times
Dylan Kerrigan (U West Indies - St. Augustine), Marriage and Other Arrangements , The Trinidad Guardian
Rachel Newcomb (Rollins College), The Florida Moment , Huffington Post
Ashkuff (U Florida), Did Zimmerman Really 'Stand His Ground?' , Huffington Post
Seth Holmes (U California - Berkeley), Not All Migrants Want To Be Immigrants , Salon
Douglas Feldman (SUNY-Brockport), Gay Marriage: The Struggle is Far From Over , Huffington Post
Barbara Mills (U Arizona), Social Networks in Pre-Columbian North America , Inside Higher Ed
Michelle Marzullo (American U), If the Entire Human Race Had a Facebook Page, The Relationship Status Would Read "It's Complicated", Huffington Post
June
Paula Sabloff (Santa Fe Institute), Genghis Kahn Democracy , Newsweek
Jenny Chio (Emory U), Chinese Rural Tourism , Impact, BBC World News
Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Big Data, Thick Description and Political Expediency , Huffington Post
Milford Wopoff (U Michigan), A Long Anthropolgoical Debate May Be on the Cusp of Resolution , io9
Setha Low (Graduate Center - CUNY), Beach Fire Pits Spark Battle Between Private Interests and Public Land , Marketplace, American Public Media
Mark Schuller (Northern Illinois U), Performing Progress in Haiti, Aloral , Haitian Times
Tom Boellstorff (U California-Irvine), Four Anthropological Reactions to the End of DOMA , Huffington Post
Setha Low (Graduate Center - CUNY), Finding Peace During Noisy Trips , The New York Times
Rosemary Joyce (U California-Berkeley), DOMA, Prop.8 and Marriage: An Anthropologist's View , Los Angeles Times
Christa Craven (College of Wooster) and Dana-Ain Davis (Queens College), Equity at the Peril of Normativity: A Feminist Anthropological Take on Race, Marriage and Justice , The Feminist Wire
Kate Clancy (U Illinois), Ladybusiness Anthropologist Throws Up Hands, Concedes Men Are the Reason for Everything Interesting in Human Evolution , Scientific American
Deana Weibel (Grand Valley State U), GVSU Department Head: Despite Criticism, There Is Value In An Anthropology Degree , MLive.com
Niko Besnier (U Amsterdam), Polynesian Men a Global Sports Commodity , Stuff.co.nz
Jason DeCaro (U Alabama), Alexandra Brewis Slade (Arizona State U), NYU Visiting Professor Insults the Obese Ph.D.s With 'Impulsive' Tweet , Daily News
Christa Salamandra (Lehman College - CUNY), NY1 Online: Experts Examine Crisis in Syria , NY1
Cynthia Fowler (Wofford College), Public Offers Opinions on Forest Plan , Asheville Citizen-Times
May
Katherine McCaffrey (Montclair U), The US Legacy of Vieques , Al Jazeera
Craig Mishler (U Alaska - Anchorage), Folklorist Follows Trail of an Artic Classic , Anchorage Daily News
Jonathan Marks (U North Carolina - Charlotte), Scientific Racism Rears its Ugly Head Once Again , Al Jazeera
Alisse Waterston (John Jay College), Professor Waterston Serves as Editor of the American Anthropological Association's Newest Publication , CUNY Newswire
Lise M. Dobrin (U Virginia), Dena Plemmons (U California - San Diego), Why One Food Writers Group Updated Its Ethics Guidelines , Associations Now
Jessica Barnes (Yale U), Michael Dove (Yale U), Andrew Mathews (U California - Santa Cruz), Pamela McElwee (Rutgers U), Roderick McIntosh (Yale U), Jessica O'Reilly (St. John's U), Ben Orlove (Columbia U), Karina Yager (NASA), Contribution of Anthropology to the Study of Climate Change , Nature Climate Change
Peggy Reeves Sanday (U Pennsylvania), What Does 'Sexual Coercion' Say About A Society? , NPR
Victoria Sanford (CUNY), Guatemala: Why We Cannot Turn Away , PBS Newshour
Ana Zentella (U California, San Diego), What Made Boston Bombing Suspects Tick , USA Today
Julianne Jennings (Arizona State U), When the Last American Indian Dies , Indian Country
Kathryn Clancy (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Anthropology Students Face Abuse, Even Rape, at Field Sites , The Globe and Mail
April
Alisse Waterston (John Jay College), Anthropology Weighs In On the Marriage Debate in New Public Journal , Digital Journal
Victoria Sanford (CUNY), Trial Annulment in Guatemala Rejected by Judge , The New York Times
Kathryn Clancy (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Female Anthropologists Harassed , The Scientist
Jonathan Marks (UNC-Charlotte), A Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic 'Exile' , The Chronicle of Higher Education
Victoria Sanford (CUNY), Guatemala Confronts a Dark Chapter , CNN
Michael Di Giovine (West Chester U), UNESCO World Heritage Sites , WorldView
Kathryn Clancy, Abuse of Students Doing Anthropological Fieldwork , Science Daily
Gina Athena Ulysse (Wesleyan U), TEDxUofM: Untapped Future Game Changers , Huffington Post
Debbora Battaglia (Mt. Holyoke College), Anthropologists Explain How to Approach Aliens Parked in Earth Orbit , io9
Kathryn Clancy (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Survey Finds Sexual Harassment in Anthropology , Science Insider
Ty Matejowsky and Beatriz Reyes-Foster (U Central Florida), Anthropologists Should Do A Better Job of Promoting Their Field , Orlando Sentinel
Gina Athena Ulysse (Wesleyan U), Paul Stoller or Why Anthropology Still Matters , Huffington Post
Mary Shank (U Missori), Economics Influence Fertility Rates , MU News
Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford U), How Skeptics and Believers Can Connect , The New York Times
John J. Gumperz (U California Berkeley), John J. Gumperz, Linguist of Cultural Interchange Dies at 91 , The New York Times
Ira Bashkow (U Virginia), Relative Returns , The Time Literary Supplement
Linda Cordell (U New Mexico), Southwestern Archaeologist Linda Cordell Found Dead at 69 , The Santa Fe New Mexican
March
Kristin Ghodsee (Bowdoin College), Sixth Bularian Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Poverty , PRI's The World
Robin Nagle (New York U), Trashy Reading: New Book Is An Anthropological Study of the Sanitation Department , New York Observer
Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Northern Lights/Global Activism , Huffington Post
Irma McClaurin (McClaurin Solutions), "Race" and the persistence of health disparities: How far have we come? , Insight News
Katie Hinde (Harvard U), The Science of Breast Milk , Slate
Chapuruka Kusimba (Field Museum), Field Museum, UIC Anthropologists Find Ancient Coin , The Daily Sizzle - Chicago Sun Times
Matthew Wolf-Meyer (U California Santa Cruz), Up All Night , The New Yorker
Robert Rubinstein (Syracuse U), Rubinstein: Anthropologists Should Contribute to National Security Discussion , Syracuse University News
Matthew Wolf-Meyer (U California Santa Cruz), Sleep Deprivation Effects: 8 Scarey Side Effects of Too Little Shut-Eye , Huffington Post
February
Victoria Sanford (CUNY), Guatemala's Former Dictator Goes on Trial for Genocide , The Burt Cohen Show
Ken Anderson (Intel), Anthropology, Inc. , The Atlantic
Paul Shankman (U Colorado Boulder), Sex, Lies, and Separating Science from Ideology , The Atlantic
Gina Ulysse (Wesleyan U), Seeing Haiti's Promise Through Her Art, Haitian Times
Barbara J. King (College of William and Mary), The Napoleon Chagnon Wars Flare Up Again in Anthropology , 13.7 Cosmos & Culture Blog, NPR
Paul Stoller (West Chester U), The Real News of Anthropology , Huffington Post
Gina Athena Ulysse (Wesleyan U), Encuentro: A Space for Artistic Collaboration and Experimentation , Huffington Post
Hugh Gusterson (George Mason U), Primitive Mythology , The New York Times
David Price (St. Martin's U), The Destruction of Conscience in the National Academy of Sciences , CounterPunch
Irma McClaurin (McClaurin Solutions), Just Speak: Unlearning Racism Requires Taking Positive (Affirmative) Action , InsightNews
Rachel Newcomb (Rollins College), 'Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes – The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists' by Napoleon A. Chagnon , The Washington Post
Marshall Sahlins (U Chicago), A Protest Resignation , Inside Higher Ed
Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia U), Tribal Warfare , The New York Times
Forensic Anthropology Team (U South Florida), At Boys Home, Seeking Graves, and the Reason , The New York Times
Dr. Yolanda Moses (U California Riverside), Audio: 1370 Connection with Dr. Yolanda Moses , WXXI News
Brian Hare (Duke U), How Smart Is Your Dog? Test Your Pet's Brain Power for Science , Wired
Victoria Sanford (CUNY), Ex-Dictator Is Ordered to Trial in Guatemala for War Crimes , The New York Times
January
Gina Athena Ulysse (Wesleyan U), On Learning Entitlement or the Seminar That Changed Me , Huffington Post
Rachel Newcomb (Rollins College), Book Review: 'The World Until Yesterday' by Jared Diamond , The Washington Post
Anthony P. Graesch (Connecticut College), The Agenda with Steve Paikin - Too Much Stuff , The Agenda
Dr. Kathryn Weedman Arthur (U of South Florida), USF St. Petersburg Professor Honored by National Group , Tampa Bay Times
Gina Athena Ulysse (Wesleyan U), How Vodoun Became 'Voodoo' and Vodou , Huffington Post
Dr. Hillary Haldane (Quinnipiac U), Violence Against Women, Stigmatization of Victims Persist Across Cultures , Between the Lines
Caitrin Lynch (Olin College of Engineering), Manufacturer Vita Needle Finds Investment in Older Workers Turns a Big Profit , PBS Newshour
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