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Cheryl Rodriguez
President (07-09)
Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Anthropology
Interim Director
Institute on Black Life
FAO 291
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
(813) 974-5949
crodriguez@ibl.usf.edu
http://www.usf.edu/ibl

Cheryl Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Anthropology at the University of South Florida. She is also the Director of USF’s Institute on Black Life, an organization that conducts scholarly and community-based research on issues related to Africa and the African Diaspora. She has conducted a range of anthropological projects on the intersection of gender, race and poverty. Her research on women and microenterprise development was partially supported by the Women’s Research and Education Institute. Recent research on women and low-income housing issues has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Collaborative for Children, Families and Communities. She has also conducted extensive research on programs for youth in low-income communities and is currently the PI on a major grant on after-school programming from the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Rodriguez has served in several leadership positions in the AAA, including chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology.

Dorothy L. Hodgson
President Elect (07-09)
President (09-11)
Professor of Anthropology Director of the Institute for Research on Women Department of Anthropology Rutgers University 131 George St. New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1414 Tel: 732-932-0633 Fax: 732-932-1564 http://anthro.rutgers.edu/faculty/hodgson.shtml
Dorothy L. Hodgson is Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and President-elect of the national Association for Feminist Anthropology. As a historical anthropologist, she has worked in Tanzania, East Africa, for over twenty years on such topics as gender, ethnicity, cultural politics, colonialism, nationalism, modernity, the missionary encounter, transnational organizing, and the indigenous rights movement. She is the author of Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development (Indiana, 2001) and The Church of Women: Gender, Power and Missionary Encounters in Tanzania (Indiana, 2005) and editor of Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives (Palgrave, 2001), Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist (James Currey & Ohio 2000), and, with Sheryl McCurdy, “Wicked” Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa (Heinemann, 2001). She recently co-edited a special volume of WSQ (formerly Women’s Studies Quarterly) with Ethel Brooks on Activisms, and is currently completing a book about the dynamics of civil society, transnational advocacy and the state in Africa tentatively title Positionings: Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World. Her work has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, American Council for Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, American Philosophical Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Evelyn Blackwood
Treasurer (07-09)
Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology 700 W. State Street Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 (765) 496-1728 blackwood@purdue.edu Homepage: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~blackwoo

Evelyn Blackwood divides her work between research on the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra and studies of female same-sex relations outside the West. Her publications include work on Native American female two-spirits and tombois in Indonesia as well as several articles on gender, kinship, and political economy in rural West Sumatra. She edited The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropology and Homosexual Behavior (1986) and with Saskia Wieringa co-edited Female Desires: Same-sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures (Columbia University Press 1999). She is also the author of a monograph on the Minangkabau entitled Webs of Power: Women, Kin and Community in a Sumatran Village (Rowman and Littlefield 2000).

Bonnie McElhinny
Secretary (09-11)
bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca

Srimati Basu
Executive Board Member (09-11)
srimati.basu@uky.edu

Martin Manalansan
Executive Board Member (07-09)
manalans@illinois.edu

Ara Wilson
Executive Board Member (07-09)
ara.wilson@duke.edu

Deborah Elliston
Executive Board Member (09-11)
elliston@stny.rr.com

Jodi Nettleton
Program Chair
jnettlet@cas.usf.edu

Jessica Smith
Anthropology Newsletter Contributing Editor
sjessica@umich.edu

Damla Isik
Anthropology Newsletter Contributing Editor
isikd@wcsu.edu

Suzanne Baker
AFA Website Coordinator
suzbaker@twmi.rr.com

Suzanne Baker is a socio-cultural anthropologist and former Director of the Women's Resource Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She lived in Nicaragua for two and a half years, conducting research and assisting with development projects. Her research focused on the changes in gender ideology that the population underwent before, during and after the Sandinista Revolution. Before returning to academia in 1997, Dr. Baker worked as a consultant in Boston, and provided a variety of services to non-profit agencies that worked with immigrants and refugees. In addition to continuing her interest in and research on gender ideologies, particularly in Latin American contexts, Dr. Baker continues to work with immigrant and refugee populations, particularly with regard to domestic violence and the issue of culturally and linguistically accessible services. Dr. Baker has several publications on gender-related issues, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of International Women's Studies.

Lauren Fordyce
AFA Book Review Editor
fordycel@gmail.com

Lauren Fordyce is a recent PhD graduate in Anthropology from the University of Florida. She conducted her dissertation research on issues of reproductive health among Haitian women in South Florida and Haiti. Her areas of interest include: the anthropology of reproduction, medical anthropology, feminist anthropology and science and technology studies.

Colleen Morgan
AFA Listserv Coordinator
clmorgan@berkeley.edu

Beth Uzwiak
Voices Editorial Board (until 2010)

Amy E. Harper, Ph.D.
Voices Editorial Board (until 2011)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Central Oregon Community College
2600 NW College Way
Bend, OR 97701
(541) 383-7268
aeharper@cocc.edu

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