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Judith WilliamsJudith Williams is a Ph.D. Candidate in sociocultural anthropology. A former chef and caterer, her research interests involve food labor, racial hierarchy, colorism, and the negotiation of racial inequalities. Her dissertation will explore the practices, traditions and socio-cultural beliefs, that reproduce and justify continued anti-black discrimination, within Miami’s restaurant industry, as well as the ways in which this discrimination is resisted and contested. Judith is a McKnight doctoral fellow and holds a master’s degree in Hospitality Management. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she was a Chef instructor at FIU’s Chaplin School of Hospitality Management.
Fadwa El GuindiFour-field sociocultural anthropologist, Retiree at UCLA, who writes widely and lectures internationally. She is elected Trustee at the World Academy of Art & Science, a think tank for generating ideas and insights about global affairs. For a partial record of her awards and publications see https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6365-101X. She has 7 books and more than 130 research articles, with works translated into 5 languages. Research articles published in high impact journals
Dmitry BondarenkoI graduated with the M.A. degree cum laude in 1990 from the Moscow State University, Department of Ethnography, School of History. I completed my Ph.D. in 1993 and D.Sc. in 2000 at the Russian Academy of Sciences. At present, I am Vice-Director for Research of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Inrternational Center of Anthropology of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and Full Professor with the Center of Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities. In the past, I was a visiting scholar with the Program of African Studies of Northwestern University (Evanston, USA), Institut fuer Geschichte (Goettingen, Germany), and Maison des sciences de l'homme (Paris, France). I have lectured at universities of Russia, the USA, Egypt, Tanzania, Slovenia, and Angola. I have conducted field research in a number of African countries (Tanzania, Nigeria, Benin, Rwanda, Zambia, Uganda) and among Black people in Russia and the USA.
Lorna ButlerProfessor Emeritus, Iowa State University (Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture 2000-2007); co-editor (with Della E. McMillan) of Tapping Philanthropy for Development. Lessons Learned from a Public-private Partnership in Rural Uganda. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2015.
Carole CounihanCarole Counihan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Millersville University. She is a cultural anthropologist who has been studying food, gender, and culture in Italy and the USA for forty years. She is author of Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia (2019), A Tortilla Is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado (2009), Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence (2004), and The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power (1999). She is co-editor of several books including Food and Culture: A Reader (1997, 2008, 2013, 2018), Making Taste Public (2018), and Food Activism (2014). She is editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Food and Foodways.
Elizabeth BriodyFollowing my PhD at The University of Texas at Austin, my career has been centered in anthropological practice – first as an organizational-culture and change researcher at General Motors R&D, and now as the founder and principal of Cultural Keys which specializes in improving organizational culture, increasing partnership effectiveness, and understanding and reaching customers. In both organizations, I have initiated and managed research projects for clients domestically and abroad. I have held adjunct positions at six universities, most recently at Purdue University. At Purdue, I am also a Co-PI on a five-year NSF RED (Revolutionizing Engineering Departments) grant in the School of Mechanical Engineering. I am currently Secretary of the AAA and Past President of NAPA. Much of my career has been dedicated to raising awareness of careers in business, non-profits, government agencies and NGOs. I have been involved in roles such as:
1) Co-Executive Producer of the NAPA/AAA careers video “Anthropologists at Work: Careers Making a Difference”
2) Co-Author of the textbook The Cultural Dimensions of Global Business (8th ed., 2017), the edited volume Cultural Change from a Business Anthropology Perspective (2018), and the book Transforming Culture: Creating an Sustaining a Better Manufacturing Organization (2010).
3) Co-Leader of the Business Anthropology on the Road program that promotes the value of business anthropology scholarship, employment, and professional organizations to students, faculty, and staff
4) Organizer of eleven 2020 AAA career webinars and workshops
5) PI of a 2020 Wenner-Gren grant “Anthropologists on the Public Stage: A Training Program” to offer web-based, modular training to learn how to work successfully in media and public policy circles
