Members in the News
AAA Members in the News
Featured Members:
Victoria Sanford (CUNY)
Guatemala: Why We Cannot Turn Away
PBS Newshour
Ex-Dictator Rios Montt is currently undergoing trial for genocide in Guatemala.
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
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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