AAA Research & Report Repository

One of the major organizational goals of the AAA is to promote the public visibility of the profession of anthropology. To this end, AAA committees, task forces and staff regularly conduct research on the discipline and profession. On this page, their reports and surveys are preserved and made available to the public.

The following is a selection of AAA reports and surveys that are available for download. The list is curated by Daniel Ginsberg, Professional Fellow; if you have questions, or if you are aware of AAA-produced materials that are not currently available, please contact him at using this form.

Except where noted, all documents are in PDF format.

Anthropology Education

• Students Look Toward the Job Market
  2016 Member Survey Report #4
• What Association Research Can Do For Departments
  Department Chairs' Breakfast, 2016 Annual Meeting
• Anthropology Education: An investigation into the teaching of anthropology in schools of education and in K-12, community college, and museum settings
  Education Task Force, 2014
• Strategies and Possibilities for AAA Mentoring
  Mentoring Working Group, 2014
• Graduates 2012 Report
• Anthropology Companion Document for the C3 Framework (College, Career & Civic Life Framework for Social Studies State Standards)
  Education Task Force, 2013
• Race, Gender, and Mentoring in Anthropology Departments
  Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology, 2004
• The Growth and Changing Composition of Anthropology, 1966-2002
• Surveys of Anthropology Departments: 1998, 1996, 1989, 1979, 1978, 1977, 2013, 2016, 2019
• Surveys of PhD Recipients: 1997, 1995, 1990, 1986

Academic Careers and Workforce

• Faculty Members, Tenure and Precarity
  2016 Member Survey Report #3
• Guidelines for Evaluating Scholarship in the Realm of Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology for Academic Promotion and Tenure
  Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology, 2011
• What is Happening with Anthropology? Recent Trends Regarding Faculty, Enrollment, Degrees Granted and Departments, 2011 (ppt)
• Anthropology Faculty Job Market Report, 2009
• Who is doing the teaching … and how are they being supported?
  Survey on the use of part-time instructors, 2001

Practicing and Applied Careers and Workforce

• AAA Members Outside the Academy
  2016 Member Survey Report #2
• Exploring the Relationships of Anthropological Practitioners to Academic Departments
  Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology, 2015
• The changing face of anthropology
  Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology, 2009
• Recommendations for better serving practicing anthropologists
  Practicing Advisory Working Group, 2007

Gender and Sexuality

• Sexual Harassment: A Stubborn Fact of Anthropologists' Work Life?
  2016 Member Survey Report #5
• Work climate, gender, and the status of practicing anthropologists
  Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology, 2009
• We’ve come a long way, maybe: Academic climate report
  Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology, 2008
• Final report
  Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Issues in Anthropology, 1999

Race and Ethnicity

• Report on Survey of the Membership
  Task Force on Race and Racism, 2014
• Racism in the Academy: The New Millennium
  Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology, 2012
• Final Report
  Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology, 2010
• The Minority Experience in Anthropology (html)
  Committee on Minorities and Anthropology, 1973

Communication and Public Policy

• Report to the Executive Board
  Task Force on Israel/Palestine, 2015
• Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and Climate Change
  Global Climate Change Task Force, 2014
• Strengthening West African Health Care Systems to Stop Ebola: Anthropologists Offer Insights
  AAA/WCAA/Wenner-Gren Foundation Emergency Initiative on the Ebola Outbreak, 2014
• Social Media Survey
  Subcommittee on Intradisciplinary Communication, Anthropological Communication Committee, 2012
• Survey of Policy Interests and Activities of AAA Sections & Interest Groups
  Committee on Public Policy, 2011
• Final Report on the Army's Human Terrain System Proof of Concept Program
  AAA Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities, 2009

Association Business

• Survey Respondents At-A-Glance
  2016 Member Survey Report #1
• Association Annual Reports: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008
• Committee and Commission Reports
• Section Reports
• Annual Meeting Site Selection Survey, 2011
• Membership Survey, 2008
• Guide to AAA Records 1904-2005