2011 Members in the News Archive December
Irma McClaurin (McClaurin Solutions), The Perils of Leadership in Higher Education , Insight News
Dena Plemmons (U of California-San Diego), Nine UC San Diego Professors Named 2011 AAAS Fellows , UC San Diego News Center
Niko Besnier (U of Amsterdam), ERC Advanced Grant: Globalization, Sports and Precarity of Masculinity , U of Amsterdam News
George Cowgill (U of Arizona) and Susan Gillespie (U of Florida), Original Offering Found at Teotihuacan Pyramid , NPR
Ana Celia Zentella, Occupy Language? , New York Times
T.J. Ferguson (U of Arizona), History Helps Make Sense of Wildfires , Green Valley News
George Armelagos (Emory U), Did Christopher Columbus Bring Syphilis to Europe? , The Star
Benjamin Campbell (U of Wisconsin - Milwaukee), David Lancy (Utah State U), Jennifer Thompson (Uof Nevada - Las Vegas), Now We Are Six - The Hormone Surge of Middle Childhood , New York Times
Kristen Ghodee (Bowdoin College), The Fall of Communism in Bulgaria , PRI-The World
Carol Worthman(Emory U), Emory Anthropologist Named Fellow , Virginia Highland-Druids Hill Patch
Barbara J. King (College of William and Mary), Retirement Home or Research Lab? Report Weighs Fate of US Chimpanzees , 13.7 Cosmos and Culture – NPR
Sarah Kendzior (Washington U St. Louis), The Strange Saga of a Made-Up Activist and Her Life-and Death - as a Hoax , The Atlantic
Hugh Gusterson (George Mason U), Analyst Sees Lasting Damage to Los Alamos , Livermore Labs, The Independent
Barbara J. King (College of William and Mary), Joining the Dementia Network, and Finding Gratitude , 13.7 Cosmos And Culture – NPR
Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Classroom Commentaries , Huffington Post
Alison Brown (U of Aberdeen), Blackfoot Shirts Make Historic Atlantic Crossing , HorseTalk
Gabriella Coleman (New York U), The Academics of Anonymous , The Washington Post
Joseph S. Alter (U of Pittsburgh), Celibacy & Masculinity Go Together in Various Ways , The Bangalore Mirror
Judith Hanna (U of Maryland), Lap Dances Find Academic Champion as Cities Rein in Strip Clubs , Bloomberg
Richard Grinker and Frances Norwood (George Washington U), Anthropologist Association Revises Code of Ethics , The GW Hatchet
Janine R. Wedel (George Mason U), It Was A Wonderful Life: My Odyssey with Bank of America , Huffington Post
David Giles (U of Washington), There's no time to waste , Financial Times
November
Beverly Davenport, (U of North Texas), UNT Anthropology Assistant Professor Honored for Commitment to Ethics and Education , UNT News
Elisa J. Sobo, (San Diego State U), What Can Slow Schools Teach Us? , SignOn San Diego
Gillian Tett (Financial Times), Interrogation is not a social science , Financial Times
Gabriella Coleman (New York U), Digital Activism From Anonymous to Occupy Wall Street: a Conversation with Gabriella Coleman , Death and Taxes Magazine
Karen Strier (U of Wisconsin), Study finds monkey mothers are key to sons' reproductive success , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Barbara J. King (College of William and Mary), Should Babies Co-sleep with their parents? NPR
David Price (Saint Marin U), Case Western Breakdown , Counterpunch
Kate Hennessy (Simon Fraser U), Art meets academia: a field study , The McGill Daily
Leila Rodriguez (U of Cincinnati), Research Examines a Growing Immigrant Population's Self Employment in the US , Science Codex
Stephanie Sadre-Orafai (U of Cincinnati), Research Shows Art Imitates Life – The 'Hard' Life, That Is , Newswise
Jonathan Maupin (Arizona State U), Undergrad aims to reduce childhood illness in Guatemala , ASU News
Aisha Khan (New York U), Scholars Consider Creolization Themes , The Daily Targum
H. Russell Bernard (U of Florida), Virginia R. Dominguez (U of Illinois), John Hawks (U of Wisconsin at Madison), Peter Peregrine (Lawrence U), Daniel Segal (Pitzer College), Not Feeling the Kinship , Inside Higher Ed
Virginia R. Dominguez (U of Illinois), Helen E. Fisher (Rutgers U), John Hawks (U of Wisconsin at Madison), Jonathan Marks (U of North Carolina at Charlotte), Daniel A. Segal (Pitzer College), Karen B. Strier (U of Wisconsin at Madison), Anthropologists Seek a More Nuanced Place for Science , The Chronicle of Higher Education
Simon J. Craddock Lee (U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), Janet E. Levy (U of North Carolina at Charlotte), Laura McNamara (Sandia National Laboratory), Nancy Scheper-Hughes (U of California at Berkeley), Dena K. Plemmons (U of California at San Diego), Ethics Without 'Thou Shall Not' , Inside Higher Ed
Simon J. Craddock Lee (U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), Laura McNamara (Sandia National Laboratory), Dena K. Plemmons (U of California at San Diego), David H. Price (Saint Martin's U), Anthropologists Consider a New Code of Ethics , The Chronicle of Higher Education
April M. Beisaw (Heidelberg U), Psst: Don't Tell Anyone, but Some Professors Like Teaching , The Chronicle of Higher Education
Brian McKenna, Student Loan Fury in the Occupy Movement , CounterPunch
Susan C. Dewey (U of Wyoming), Anthropologists Grapple With Drawing the Line Between Research and Advocacy , The Chronicle of Higher Education
William Beeman (U of Minnesota), Will Congress Disrupt Diplomacy? , Star Tribune
Christa Salamandra (Lund U), The Message From Damascus , Al Jazeera
Julienne Rutherford (U of Illinois Chicago), Evolution Offers Clues to Leading Cause of Death During Childbirth , News.Gnome.Es
Linda Layne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Studies in "Choice Moms" – Single Mothers (and Mums) by Choice , Rensselaer News
October
Robert Albro (American U), Bolivinan Indigenous Struggle To Be Heard- By Indigenous President Morales The Christian Science Monitor Ronald Niezen (McGill U), Does Muammar Gaddafi’s swift excecution signal revival of old feuds? National Post Mark Auslander (Central Washington U), Oxford’s racial history uncovers slave’s descendants but mysteries remain The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Robert Albro (American U), Spies To Use Twitter As Crystal Ball Nature Lavanya Proctor (Lawrence U), The secret lives of our profs The Lawrentian Balmurli Natrajan (William Patterson U), Anthropology Course Explores the Life Cycle of, Say, Your Pen The Chronicle Charlotte Noble (U of South Florida), IUN Alumna Spearheads Anthropology Awareness Campaign Matthew Rhode (Clarion U), Anthropologist to Share Work on Identification of Lost WWII Soldiers David Lancy (Utah State U), Mine! Don’t Force Kids to Share Barbara King (College of William & Mary), The Paleo-Diet: Not The Way to a Healthy Future J ames Brennan and Susan Scrimshaw (Russell Sage College), Picking Up the Pieces after Katrina Aldo Civico (Rutgers U), Leading Peace-Building Strategist Leads International Institute for Peace at Rutgers Kathleen Richardson (U College of London), The Rise of the Machines? Not Any Time Soon Elizabeth D. Tunstall (Swinburne U), Audio Interview with Design Anthropologist Dori Tunstall Michael Wesch (Kansas State U), Michael Wesch: It’s a ‘Pull,Pull’ World Rachel Newcomb (Rollins College), To Governor Rick Scott: What Anthropologists Can Do for Florida The Huffington Post William Garriott (James Madison U), “Narcopolitics is Everywhere:” An Interview with William Garriott Susan Blum (U of Notre Dame), 21st -Century Campus Culture Matti Bunzl (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Humanities Festival: Circuits of Change Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Social Renaissance The Huffington Post Kathryn Dudley (Yale U.), Luthiers: The Next Endangered Species The New York Times Paul Stoller (West Chester U), The Limited Good of Rick Scott’s Anthropology The Huffington Post Hugh Gusterson (George Mason U), Pentagon Cultural Analyst Helped with Interrogations Nature Kathleen Hull (U of California - Berkeley), Pestilence and Persistence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California National Parks
September
Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Class Illusion , The Huffington Post Mario Longoni and Eve C. Pinsker (Field Museum of Natural History), Get Healthy at Saturday’s Active Living Faire , Hammond Community News Dennis Van Gerven (Colorado U-Boulder), CU anthropologist bringing mummies to Longmont , Times Call Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin College), Ghodsee Book Wins Douglass Prize , Bowdoin Daily Sun Claudia Valeggia (U of Pennsylvania), President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists , Office of the Press Secretary - The White House Beverly Strassman (U of Michigan), Raising a Child Doesn’t Take A Village, Study Finds , The Toronto Star Kenneth Broad (U of Miami) & Ben Orlove (Columbia U), AAA Members Showcase NSF Study to US Senate , U of Miami News Richard A. Schweder (U of Chicago), Phi Beta Kappa Scholar’s Presentation to Examine Cultural Practices of Minority , ValpoLife Douglas Feldman (The College at Brockport), Professor to Help AIDS Victims Overseas , The Stylus Greg Urban (U of Penn), Talk About Teaching and Learning , U of Pennsylvania Almanac Barbara King (College of William & Mary), Apes and Anthropomorphism , NPR – Cosmos & Culture Julia King (St. Mary's College of Maryland), Long-sought Zekiah Fort Likely Found , Baltimore Sun Kelsey Morgan (Juniata College), Juniata Junior from Media, Pa. Receives EPA-GRO Fellowship , Juniata Campus News Alice James (Shippensburg U), AHI Commemorates the 89th Anniversary of the Catastrophe at Smyrna , Greek Reporter USA\ Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Tea Party America , Huffington Post William Fairbanks, Retired Anthropologist Turns to Open Road , Cumberland Times-News Barbara King (William and Mary U), Humans and Other Animals: A Voice from Anthropology , NPR M. Nazif Shahrani (Indiana U-Bloomington), Obama’s Vietnam . Huffington Post Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh (Denver Museum of Nature & Science) and David Hurst Thomas (American Museum of Natural History - New York), The Remains of That Day , Macleans Junaid Rana (U of Illinois) and Kamala Visweswaran (U of Texas – Austin), Trend of Islamophobia disconcerting for many, author finds , The Daily Texan David Stoll (Middlebury College), Old Footage Haunts General and a Director , New York Times Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Seeking A More Cosmopolitan America , Huffington Post John Bowen (Washington U), 9/11 Impact Was Less in Europe , Washington University Newsroom Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer (Purdue U), The Peculiar Case of the Black American Islamophobe , Muslims Matters Carol Worthman (Emory U), Men's Testosterone Drops After Fatherhood, Study Says , Huffington Post Annie Barnes, New Book "Thorns: Black Spousal Abuse" Addresses Domestic Violence Amongst Black Couples , Black News.com
August
July
Daniel E Moerman (U Michigan-Dearborn), Meaningful Placebos-Controlling the Uncontrollable , The New England Journal of Medicine Rachel Caspari (Central Michigan U), Few Grandparents Until 30,000 Years Ago , The Telegraph (UK) Alex Hinton (Rutgers U), Is There Justice in Cambodia? , The Phnom Penh Post Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Mediums and Their Political Messages Gina Ulysse (Wesleyan U), Why Context Matters: Journalists and Haiti , Ms Magazine Paul Stoller (West Chester U), In Search of the Public Good Mike McGovern (Yale U), Before You Judge Strauss-Kahn's Accuser, Stand in Her Shoes , The New York Times
June
Erin Finley (UMBC), For Soldiers with PTSD, A Profound Daily Struggle , Talk of the Nation, NPR Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Politics and Cultural Critique , The Huffington Post Melissa Cefkin (IBM) and Ken Andersen (Intel), Think Before Wiping That Whiteboard , Financial Times Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Anthony Weiner's Fair Weather Friends Adrienne Pine (American U), Zelaya’s Return: Neither Reconciliation nor Democracy in Honduras , Democracy Now Sarah Green (U of Manchester), IAS Fellow at Hatfield College, Durham University April Beisaw (Heidelberg U), Professor’s Paper Wins National Award Elzbieta Gozdziak (Georgetown U), GU Anthropologist Elzbieta Gozdziak a winner of California Series in Public Anthropology’s International Competition
May
Phillip Herr (U.S. Government Accountability Office), The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse David Price (St. Martin’s U), Cultural Anthropologist David Price Breaks Summer Tradition to Teach, St. Martin’s University News Paul Farmer (Harvard U), Commencement Speakers Ask Graduates to Find a Higher Calling Marcia Mikulak (U of North Dakota), National Group Endorses UND Human Rights Petition Daniel Smith (Brown U), Smith discusses AIDS in Nigeria Alexandra Brewis (Arizona State U), Trade-Offs to Being Tall Kathryn Oths (U of Alabama), Dr. Kathryn S. Oths to be honored at the 121st Annual Wellston Alumni Banquet Jennifer Foster (Emory U), American College of Nurse-Midwives Elects Emory Nursing Professor Meg Jordan (California Institute of Integral Studies), Healing Circles in Integrative Medicine Roy Richard Grinker (George Washington U), Study in Korea Puts Autism’s Prevalence at 2.6%, Surprising Experts Erik Trinkaus (Washington U – St. Louis), Neanderthals' Last Stand Possibly Found Leith Mullings Marable (CUNY Graduate Center), Lee Baker (Trinity College), Johnnetta Betsch Cole (Smithsonian National Museum of African Art), Arthur Spears (City College of New York), Audrey Smedley (Virginia Commonwealth U), A Select Six Black Anthropologists, The Network Journal Najwa Adra, Conference Explores World of Islamic Poetry Holly High (U of Cambridge), No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, News from Cambridge Susan Needham (California State U - Dominguez Hills), Cambodians' place in the Fabric of Long Beach Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Longing for Competence in a Land Where Nothing Works Alexander Barker (U of Missouri), Salazar Names Barker, Farm to NAGPRA Committee Jason Jackson (Indiana U), Folklore Professor Jason Jackson Honored with Annual Faculty Mentor Award Seth Messinger (U of Maryland, Baltimore County), Anthropologist and Artist Collaborate in Prosthetics Experience Research Eric Delson (Lehman College), Heidelberg Man Links Humans, Neanderthals Greg Acciaioli, Katie Glaskin and Nick Harney (U of Western Australia), Anthropologist Put People into Research William Beeman (U of Minnesota), We Killed Osama bin Laden, Now Let's Kill the Myth, New America Media
April
Chelsey Kivland (U of Chicago) and Gretchen Pfeil (U of Chicago), Woodrow Wilson Foundation Names Newcombe Fellows for 2011 Devin Tepleski (Friends of Bui), Channeling Margaret Mead: Photographs by Devin Tepleski Alex Hinton (Rutgers U), The Scholars' Circle Paul Stoller (West Chester U), Media Failure and the Image of Africa Deborah Reed-Danahay (U of Buffalo), Deborah Reed-Danahay Brings European View to Anthropology Department Josiane Le Gall (CSSS de la Montagne) & Deirdre Meintel (U de Montreal), Mixed Unions Lead to More Tolerance and Respect for Cultural Differences, The Gazette Michael Wesch (Kansas State U), A Conversation with Michael Wesch Kate Barrett (Olson), For Cultural Anthropologist Kate Barrett, a Day at the Agency is Field Research Robert Desjalais (Sarah Lawrence College), For Love of the Game; A Dancer's Spirit Marshall Sahlins (U of Chicago), Chesley Lecture to Feature Veteran Anthropologist Tricia Redeker Hepner (U of Tennessee), Human Tsunamis Nir Avieli (Ben-Gurion U), Q&A: The Culture of Israel's Markets
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