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2023

April

AAA News
April 27, 2023
New NEH Grants Awarded to Individuals in Field of Anthropology

March

AAA News
March 1, 2023
Dr. Haile Eshe Cole Awarded First-Ever Anthropologist-In-Residence Theatre Fellowship

February

AAA News
February 12, 2023
AAA Applauds the release of Fariba Adelkhah
AAA News
February 9, 2023
Black History/Academic Freedom Under Attack in Florida
AAA News
February 6, 2023
NEH Grants Awarded to Individuals in Field of Anthropology

January

AAA News
January 23, 2023
Appointees to New College of Florida an Attack on Academic Integrity
AAA News
January 23, 2023
Libraries Selected to Host Traveling Exhibition "World on the Move"
AAA News
January 20, 2023
Call for Applications – Theatre Group Anthropologist-in-Residence
AAA News
January 9, 2023
AAA stands in solidarity with our Brazilian colleagues
AAA News
January 4, 2023
American Anthropological Association Executive Director Ed Liebow Set To Retire
Dr. Liebow announces retirement

2022

December

AAA News
December 22, 2022
AAA/SHA help push African American Burial Grounds Preservation Act
AAA News
December 9, 2022
AAA Emphatically Endorses MESA Statement Supporting Protests In Iran
AAA News
December 5, 2022
It’s Time for Congress to Act on DACA
In the wake of the November mid-term elections, it is imperative that Congress act to pass legislation enshrining the protections of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program into federal law.

November

AAA News
November 10, 2022
2022 AAA Anthropology Photo Contest Selections Announced
AAA News
November 3, 2022
3-Minute Thesis Finalists Announced

October

AAA News
October 17, 2022
AAA Denounces Iran’s Brutal Crackdown On Peaceful Protests
AAA News
October 11, 2022
AAA Mourns the Loss of Bruno Latour
AAA News
October 5, 2022
The Dana +20 Manifesto of Mobile Peoples

September

AAA News
September 30, 2022
SMA statement on the Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Decision
AAA News
September 19, 2022
20 Members Selected to Participate in the AAA’s 2022 OpEd Project Initiative!
AAA News
September 12, 2022
AAA’s Response to OSTP Public Accessibility Memo

August

AAA News
August 30, 2022
Three-minute Thesis Competition
AAA News
August 3, 2022
AAA Signs on to AERA Amicus Brief in Support of Race-Conscious Admissions Practices
AAA News
August 2, 2022
AAA 2022 Award Recipients

July

AAA News
July 28, 2022
AAA Mourns the Loss of SAA President Deborah Nichols
AAA News
July 28, 2022
Open Anthropology Research Repository Relaunches
AAA News
July 8, 2022
New World on the Move Exhibit Tackles Migration/Displacement

June

AAA News
June 13, 2022
The AAA stands with the Brazilian Anthropology Association in support of the region’s indigenous peoples’ rights and resources
AAA News
June 10, 2022
Anthropology Photo Contest
AAA News
June 9, 2022
AAA Renews Partnership with Wiley Publishing
AAA News
June 2, 2022
Ukraine Resources

May

AAA News
May 12, 2022
The Op-Ed Project is Back!

April

AAA News
April 15, 2022
New Anthropology Brief Enhances Team Alignment, Company Culture
AAA News
April 1, 2022
AAA Opposes Israeli Restrictions on Palestinian Higher Ed Institutions

March

AAA News
March 31, 2022
AAA Calls for the Montpelier Foundation to Honor Agreement with Enslaved Descendants
AAA News
March 31, 2022
AAA supports Bogaziçi University’s Protest In Turkey
AAA News
March 24, 2022
AAA Decries CRT/LGBTQ Legislation
AAA News
March 15, 2022
Virtual Graduate School Fair
AAA News
March 7, 2022
AAA Supports InSAF India's Open Letter Against National Overseas Scholarship Restrictions
AAA News
March 1, 2022
Registration Now Open for 2022 SLA Conference

February

AAA News
February 28, 2022
Anthropology Live Online Event Series
AAA News
February 23, 2022
AAA joins the AHA in condemning the recent HBCUs bomb threats
AAA News
February 21, 2022
AAA Mourns the Loss of Dr. Paul Farmer
AAA News
February 3, 2022
Joint Statement in Support of Afghan Scholars and Students

January

AAA News
January 19, 2022
AAA Collaborates with HRAF to Develop New Tool for Discovering Anthropological Research and Subject Matter Experts
AAA News
January 18, 2022
The Proliferation of Border Walls

2021

December

AAA News
December 21, 2021
A Look Back at 2021
AAA News
December 11, 2021
Science societies launch Community Science Knowledge Exchange forum and the journal Community Science

November

AAA News
November 17, 2021
AAA Apology To the Indigenous Community
AAA News
November 15, 2021
Three-Minute Thesis Competition Selections Announced

October

AAA News
October 13, 2021
Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste Elected To Serve as President-Elect/Vice President
AAA News
October 8, 2021
Annual Meeting Task List Deadline Extended To Oct 22

September

AAA News
September 30, 2021
New Strategic Plan Calls For Greater Trust, Accountability
AAA News
September 8, 2021
2021 OpEd Project Project Finalists Selected

August

AAA News
August 13, 2021
AAA Partners With Leading Societies To Launch Portal For Community Science
AAA News
August 12, 2021
Important 2021 Annual Meeting Update

July

AAA News
July 21, 2021
The Op-Ed Project – It’s On Us!
AAA News
July 12, 2021
AAA Urges the Release of Dr. Dawut in China
AAA News
July 7, 2021
AAA 2021 Award Recipients

June

AAA News
June 16, 2021
Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism in American History
AAA News
June 11, 2021
Guidelines For Mitigating The Uneven Effects Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Faculty

May

AAA News
May 21, 2021
The Removal and Erasure of Palestinian People Must End
AAA News
May 14, 2021
AAA Calls On Biden Administration to Cease the Separation of Im/migrant Families and the Detention of Children
AAA News
May 10, 2021
AAA Opposes Introduction of Anti-Transgender Youth Bills

April

AAA News
April 26, 2021
First, Do No Harm - AAA Condemns Handling of Philadelphia Bombing Victims’ Human Remains

March

AAA News
March 27, 2021
New Georgia Voting Law 'Racist'
AAA News
March 26, 2021
More than 200 organizations support funding to research firearm morbidity and mortality prevention
AAA News
March 18, 2021
AAA Joins ACLS in Condemning Anti-Asian Violence

February

AAA News
February 22, 2021
2021 Anthropology Day
AAA News
February 22, 2021
A Tribute to Leith Mullings from AAA Past Presidents
AAA News
February 5, 2021
A Call to Release Ahmed Samir Abdelhay Ali

January

AAA News
January 25, 2021
AAA Urges Kansas Regents to Reconsider Tenure Decision
AAA News
January 20, 2021
Moving Forward, Together
AAA News
January 7, 2021
A Statement Regarding the Violence at the US Capitol
AAA News
January 7, 2021
Anti-Racism Resources
AAA News
January 5, 2021
Mary Catherine Bateson, 1939-2021

2020

December

AAA News
December 22, 2020
Thank You
AAA News
December 18, 2020
Dr. Leith Mullings, 1945-2020
AAA News
December 9, 2020
New MPAAC Seats Named - Committee Seeks Input On Key Topics

November

AAA News
November 25, 2020
How AAA Created a Successful Virtual Internship Program During the Pandemic
AAA News
November 16, 2020
That’s Time! Three-Minute Thesis Competition Selections Announced
AAA News
November 13, 2020
2020 AAA Leadership Fellows Announced
AAA News
November 9, 2020
Important Raising Our Voices Update

October

AAA News
October 26, 2020
Raising Our Voices in 2020

September

AAA News
September 29, 2020
AAA supports the American Historical Association’s statement condemning the “White House Conference on American History”
AAA News
September 28, 2020
We’re joining FAS to call for stringent scientific and medical standards in the vaccine approval process
AAA News
September 24, 2020
The AAA, along with several other scientific societies, endorses the AERA and NAEd statement in support of anti-racist education
AAA News
September 8, 2020
AAA Stands in Solidarity with #ScholarStrike
AAA News
September 1, 2020
Round 2 of AAA COVID-19 Emergency Grants

August

AAA News
August 31, 2020
2020 OpEd Project Finalists Selected
AAA News
August 11, 2020
2020 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology to be awarded to Dr. Carlos Velez-Ibáñez

July

AAA News
July 30, 2020
Commission on Unalienable Rights Draft Report ‘Wholly Inadequate’
AAA News
July 27, 2020
AAA 2020 Award Recipients
AAA News
July 24, 2020
AAA Statement on the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
AAA News
July 20, 2020
AAS Statement on the 2020 Hong Kong National Security Law
AAA News
July 7, 2020
New ICE Rule Threatens Foreign Students, Protects No One

June

AAA News
June 26, 2020
Fall-Term Campus Health
AAA News
June 24, 2020
This fall, we’re RAISING OUR VOICES
AAA News
June 17, 2020
The OpEd Project 2020 – It’s On Us!
AAA News
June 5, 2020
The Consequences of Sexual Harassment
AAA News
June 1, 2020
A Rush to Judgment Rather Than Justice

May

AAA News
May 28, 2020
2020 AAA Annual Meeting Update
AAA News
May 20, 2020
For the first time, Anthropology is included in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Humanities Department Survey
AAA News
May 15, 2020
AAA Joins The Call To Provide Temporary Accommodations For Students Impacted By The Pandemic

April

AAA News
April 21, 2020
AAA COVID-19 Emergency Grants
AAA News
April 14, 2020
Elizabeth Chin Appointed Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist
AAA News
April 6, 2020
300 Days of Detention: #FreeFariba

March

AAA News
March 23, 2020
AAA COVID-19 Resources
AAA News
March 18, 2020
2020 AAA Annual Meeting Deadlines Extended
AAA News
March 17, 2020
AAA Response to OTSP Request for Information on Public Access
AAA News
March 9, 2020
AAA Section Meetings & COVID-19 Preparedness
AAA News
March 2, 2020
Twitter #AccessibleAnthChat on Fieldwork Accessibility

February

AAA News
February 26, 2020
The Assault on Indigenous Peoples in Northwest China Must End
AAA News
February 19, 2020
The General Call for Papers IS OPEN.
AAA News
February 13, 2020
India’s Citizenship Law Crosses The Line

January

AAA News
January 6, 2020
Targeting Cultural Sites is a War Crime

2019

December

AAA News
December 31, 2019
Happy New Year
Open Anthropology
December 5, 2019
Open Anthropology Call for Editor
AAA News
December 1, 2019
Congratulations to the New AAAS Fellows

November

AAA News
November 12, 2019
AAA Calls On India To Remove “no exit/entry” List In Kashmir
AAA News
November 12, 2019
Changes to the AAA Dues Structure | Letter from Alex Barker

September

AAA News
September 13, 2019
Introducing AAA's New Accessibility & Meetings Coordinator
As a physically disabled, neurodivergent, hearing, and sighted anthropologist, Nell has dedicated the majority of her academic and professional career to disability activism and creating accessible and welcoming spaces for her community.
AAA News
September 9, 2019
AAA Endorses Statement on Student Evaluations of Teaching

August

AAA News
August 28, 2019
AAA OpEd Project Finalists
The OpEd Project's mission is to increase the range of voices and quality of ideas we hear in the world. Their one-day “Write to Change the World” workshops are based on time-tested models of transformational learning.
American Historical Association appears in white t
August 27, 2019
Statement on Domestic Terrorism, Bigotry, and History
AAA News
August 9, 2019
What is it like to be a AAA Summer Intern?

July

AAA News
July 13, 2019
AAA Calls for Immediate Reversal of “Major Operation” Raids against Immigrants

June

AAA News
June 25, 2019
AAA Announces Ramona Pérez as President-Elect/Vice President
As president, Dr. Pérez plans to build on the synergies developed by past leadership, broaden the Association's networks, and advance the AAA's contributions in public policy, research, and advocacy.

May

AAA News
May 1, 2019
AAA Grieves for Victims at UNCC Once again calls for Congress to commit to gun violence research
Today, we share our sorrow and deepest condolences with the families and friends of those who lost their lives, as well as the victims who survived last night’s senseless shooting on the University of North Carolina-Charlotte (UNCC) campus.

April

AAA News
April 16, 2019
Important Note Concerning 2019 AAA/CASCA Meeting Safety
AAA’s 2018 Policy on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault establishes a clear framework for responsible professional conduct. AAA will do what it takes to enforce these policies and protect our members, staff, and other individuals from harassment, assault, and other misconduct while they are taking part in AAA-sponsored events and activities. As we look forward to the 2019 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, co-organized with CASCA, AAA is building on these policies to finalize a set of implementation procedures for meetings and conferences, governance activities, and editorial office activities.
AAA News
April 10, 2019
President’s Executive Order/College Scorecard Perpetuate Misleading “Job Ready” Stereotype

March

Forbes
March 19, 2019
Archaeological Geneticists Call Jack The Ripper DNA Study 'Unpublishable Nonsense'

February

AAA News
February 21, 2019
AAA Signs Gun Violence Prevention Letters
AAA News
February 11, 2019
AAA Response to Plan S

January

AAA News
January 22, 2019
AAA Names Ombudspersons for Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault

2018

December

AAA News
December 18, 2018
AAA Announces New Undergraduate Research Fellows
The AAA is thrilled to announce six inaugural Undergraduate Research Fellows. Funded by the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, this program supports research projects that use ethnographic or mixed methods to address the question, how do anthropology majors prepare for life after college?

November

AAA News
November 28, 2018
Restore “Anthropology/Ethnology” to Poland's Classification of Domains and Disciplines
We are writing to add the voices of our 10,000 Association members in support of our Polish colleagues who ask that your government restore the designation of “anthropology / ethnology” as distinct and not hidden behind the more general category of “Cultural and Religious Studies.”
AAA News
November 19, 2018
AAA, SAA, AIA File Amicus Brief to Contest Reducing National Monument Borders
AAA News
November 12, 2018
2018 AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology Recipient
Laura Tubelle de González has been teaching anthropology for 19 years in San Diego, California, mostly at San Diego Miramar College.
AAA News
November 12, 2018
2018 Executive Director's Awards
Chip Colwell, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, receives an award for his creative, resourceful, and risk-taking work as founding editor-in-chief of SAPIENS. Robert Lemelson, Elemental Productions and UCLA, is recognized for his innovative ethnographic filmmaking and his philanthropy.
AAA News
November 12, 2018
2018 Minority Dissertation Fellowship Recipient
The Minority Dissertation Fellowship Committee is pleased to award Saira Mehmood with the 2018–2019 Minority Dissertation Fellowship. Mehmood's doctoral work, which looks at mental health services available to medically underserved racially minoritized communities in post Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana, is needed research.
AAA News
November 12, 2018
Browne Honored with Boas Award for Exemplary Service
Katherine E. Browne’s academic research and engaged anthropology have energized the fields of economic anthropology, disaster studies, and visual ethnography.
AAA News
November 12, 2018
Crown Wins Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence in the Field of American Archaeology
Patricia L. Crown is a Southwestern archaeologist whose work is as big picture, pioneering, and exemplary as that of A. V. Kidder. She earned her PhD from the University of Arizona in 1981 and is currently the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor at the University of New Mexico and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
AAA News
November 12, 2018
Gina Athena Ulysse Wins Anthropology in Media Award
This year, we honor Gina Athena Ulysse, who identifies as artist-anthropologist-activist, for her powerful and effective work communicating anthropological insights to a broad general public.
AAA News
November 12, 2018
Jennifer Mack Honored with SfAA/AAA Margaret Mead Award
Jennifer Mack’s The Construction of Equality (2017) is an innovative foray into urban design, architecture, and anthropology, combining meticulous archival research of nation-state building and modernization in Sweden and rich ethnography of the daily life of Syriac immigrants living in Södertälje on the periphery of Stockholm.
AAA News
November 12, 2018
Kaufman Receives Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology
Sharon Kaufman’s two books, Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line (2015) and …And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life (2005, probe how and why the structures, ethos, and organization of our health care bureaucracy, largely hidden from public view, determine the kinds of medical treatments patients receive.

October

AAA News
October 23, 2018
Administration’s Attempt to Rollback Transgender Protections Flies in the Face of a Century of Anthropological Evidence
AAA News
October 11, 2018
CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move, an audio collaboration from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the American Anthropological Association, and This Anthro Life Podcast.
AAA News
October 3, 2018
Consortium to Prevent and Address Sexual Harassment in STEMM

September

AAA News
September 27, 2018
2018 AAA Award Recipients
AAA News
September 18, 2018
2018 Leadership Fellows
AAA News
September 14, 2018
Rio de Janeiro's National Museum: How You Can Help
AAA News
September 6, 2018
Have a big idea? NSF 2026 Idea Machine

July

AAA 2018
July 16, 2018
Dolores Huerta to Open 2018 AAA Annual Meeting
Dolores Huerta, president and founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, will present the opening keynote at the 2018 AAA Annual Meeting in San Jose.
AAA News
July 3, 2018
Anthropology News Honored with AM&P EXCEL Award

June

AAA News
June 19, 2018
AAA Rejects Separating Immigrant Children From Their Parents as Mean-Spirited Political Ploy
AAA News
June 15, 2018
AAA Releases Comprehensive Policy on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault
The American Anthropological Association released its Policy on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault in an effort to set standards of responsible professional conduct for AAA members and to call for continuing awareness and education, as well as institutional and cultural change.
AAA News
June 4, 2018
AAA Letter in Support of the 2020 Census IDEA Act

May

AAA 2018
May 29, 2018
2018 Distinguished Lecture: Emily Martin
AAA News
May 29, 2018
Letter to Jeb Hensarling Re: Application of Bank Secrecy Act to Dealers in Art or Antiquities
AAA News
May 24, 2018
AAA Privacy Policy Highlights Your Rights Under GDPR
The Washington Post
May 23, 2018
A new Ebola vaccine could help stop an epidemic — but faces enormous obstacles in crucial test
AAA News
May 16, 2018
AAA Opposes EPA Effort to Limit Scientific Research
AAA News
May 7, 2018
AAA Joins 47 Scientific Organizations Urging Puerto Rico’s Governor to Keep the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Autonomous and Independent
AAA News
May 2, 2018
Introducing the 2018 AAA Summer Interns
Each summer, the American Anthropological Association offers two internship opportunities funded by member donations.

April

AAA News
April 9, 2018
AAA members honored with awards at the SfAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

March

AAA News
March 21, 2018
Fight Racism and Stand Up for Human Rights
AAA News
March 15, 2018
Statement Opposing Proposed Program Cuts at UW Stevens Point
AAA News
March 1, 2018
AAA Stands for Fair Graduate Labor Standards and Practices

February

AAA News
February 27, 2018
AAA Offers Principles For Equitable and Effective Immigration Policy Reform
AAA News
February 23, 2018
AAA Renews Call for Preservation of Bears Ears
AAA News
February 22, 2018
AAA Pushes for Comprehensive Evidence-Based Approach to Prevent Gun Violence
AAA News
February 1, 2018
The US Needs an Immigration Policy “Framework” That Is Humane, Fair, and Secure

January

AAA News
January 31, 2018
Announcing the Digital Library of the Middle East Prototype
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today released a prototype proof of concept for the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME).

2017

December

AAA News
December 8, 2017
AAA Announces Official Partnership with Wiki Education
AAA is thrilled to announce our official partnership with Wiki Education’s Classroom Program.
AAA News
December 4, 2017
Administration’s Willful Disregard for Antiquities Act/Native American Concerns Shameful

November

AAA News
November 28, 2017
AAA Joins 30+ Organizations on Statement Opposing Proposal to Tax Tuition Waivers
Anthropology Matters
November 22, 2017
Anthropologists Go Back to School at Browne Middle School
AAA News
November 21, 2017
AAA Calls on Administration to Extend TPS for Haitians

October

AAA News
October 24, 2017
Diana Burnett Named 2017 AAA Minority Dissertation Fellow
AAA News
October 24, 2017
Rami Salameh Receives First Palestine Israel Fellowship Fund for Travel
AAA News
October 23, 2017
Richard Moore Receives 2017-18 Anthropology in Public Policy Award
AAA News
October 21, 2017
Joyce V. Millen Honored for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology
AAA News
October 20, 2017
2017 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology Goes to Sarah Horton
AAA News
October 19, 2017
Maria Vesperi Receives 2017 Anthropology in Media Award
AAA News
October 18, 2017
2017 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology Awarded to Donald Brenneis
AAA News
October 18, 2017
Carol Mukhopadhyay Receives AAA’s Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology (CoGEA) Award
AAA News
October 18, 2017
Sameena Mulla Named 2017 Recipient of the Margaret Mead Award
AAA News
October 16, 2017
A Call for Better Conduct in Field Research
Scientists, especially female scientists, experience widespread sexual harassment and hostile work climates. While these experiences can have lasting detrimental career consequences, the incidence of unwanted and unprofessional behavior can be reduced by specific interventions, according to a new report published online in American Anthropologist (AA), the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association.
AAA News
October 13, 2017
AAA Remains Committed to UNESCO
NPR
October 11, 2017
Jason De León Selected as MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient
AAA News
October 10, 2017
AAA Urges Congress to Swiftly Secure DACA Legislation
AAA News
October 2, 2017
AAA Grieves for Victims in Las Vegas
AAA News
October 2, 2017
MPAAC is Ready to Roll!
We are excited at the prospects of moving forward and in fulfilling MPAAC’s commitment to be attuned and responsive to the membership, our discipline, and the people and issues we work with as anthropologists.

September

AAA News
September 25, 2017
Travel Ban Remains Unjustified
AAA News
September 5, 2017
Phasing Out DACA is a Grave Injustice

August

AAA News
August 14, 2017
Charlottesville Aftermath: AAA Resources on Race

June

AAA News
June 29, 2017
Latest Travel Ban Decision Cause for Concern
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is deeply concerned about the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to partially reinstate the revised Executive Order (EO) travel ban.
AAA News
June 28, 2017
AAA Announces Akhil Gupta as President-Elect/Vice President
AAA is pleased to announce that Dr. Akhil Gupta (University of California, Los Angeles) has been selected to serve as president-elect/vice president.
AAA News
June 27, 2017
2017 AAA Leadership Fellows Offer Diverse Perspectives Across Anthropology
AAA News
June 27, 2017
Bending the Arc of Change: A Conversation at AAA 2017 with Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim
Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, co-founders of Partners In Health, will open the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) on Wednesday, November 29 in Washington, DC by reflecting on the remarkable trajectory of their organization and what their work demonstrates about using anthropological training to make a difference in the world.
AAA News
June 15, 2017
AAA Members Named to 2017 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellowship Class
AAA News
June 2, 2017
A Just and Sustainable Climate for All

May

AAA News
May 24, 2017
AAA Condemns Senseless Gutting of Science In White House Budget
AAA News
May 23, 2017
On the Move: AAA Events at the 2017 Folklife Festival
The AAA's latest public education initiative World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration is collaborating with the Smithsonian Institution to support special programming at this year's Folklife Festival, June 29-July 4 and July 6-9 on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The 2017 On the Move program explores how American culture has been shaped by the movement of people to and within the United States, focusing on the perspectives of youth, past and present. It invites intergenerational conversations about the interplay of migration, creativity, and culture.
AAA News
May 9, 2017
AAA Stands in Solidarity with Brazilian Anthropologists

April

AAA News
April 27, 2017
Anthropology Grad Students Named 2017 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows
Thirteen anthropology graduate students have been named 2017 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows. The fellows were selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants through a rigorous, multi-stage peer-review process. Now in its eleventh year, the fellowship program provides a $30,000 stipend and up to $8,000 in research funds and university fees to advanced graduate students in their final year of dissertation writing.

March

AAA News
March 29, 2017
AAA Slams Trump’s Reversal on Climate Policy
National Humanities Alliance
March 16, 2017
Administration Seeks to Eliminate Humanities Funding, but We Can Fight It
AAA News
March 9, 2017
AAA Extends Partnership with Wiley
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) today renewed its publishing agreement with Wiley, continuing a decade long partnership. Wiley will publish the AAA’s portfolio of 23 anthropology journals, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
AAA News
March 7, 2017
AAA Statement on Revised Travel Ban

February

AAA News
February 24, 2017
AAA Joins Forces with March for Science
Anthropology Day
February 19, 2017
Third Annual Anthropology Day Celebrations a Success
The 2017 Anthropology Day celebrations reached millions of people around the world, helping the Association to spread awareness about anthropology and our work to resolve some of the world's most pressing problems.
AAA News
February 9, 2017
AAA Leads Cultural Heritage Advocacy Coalition
In an effort to increase advocacy for the nation's historic preservation program, AAA has joined forces with the Society for Historical Archaeology, the American Cultural Resources Association, and the Society for American Archaeology to form the Coalition for American Heritage.
AAA News
February 6, 2017
AAA Opposes the Congressional Review Act Resolution (H.J. Res. 44)
AAA News
February 2, 2017
AAA Calls for Anthropologists to “Take Action – Come to our Meeting in D.C.”
AAA stands in solidarity with those wishing to take action in opposing the executive order. We acknowledge the motivations of those proposing a boycott of international conferences held in the US until the ban is lifted. Our call to action, however, offers a different tack – be present, not absent.

January

AAA News
January 29, 2017
AAA Calls for Immediate Reversal of Executive Order Banning Immigrants
AAA calls on the US government to immediately reverse its ill-informed, heavy-handed executive order suspending entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, barring Syrian refugees indefinitely, and blocking entry into the United States for 90 days for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
AAA News
January 26, 2017
Still Standing At Standing Rock
AAA Denounces Move to Advance Dakota Access Pipeline
AAA News
January 25, 2017
AAA Calls on Trump Administration to Condemn Torture
The AAA today reaffirmed its condemnation of torture and called on the incoming U.S. administration to fully implement its absolute prohibition, without exception, along with other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
AAA News
January 23, 2017
Members Announced for AAA Rapid Response Network on Academic Freedom
AAA has announced the following members have been selected to serve on the Rapid Response Network on Academic Freedom.
American Alliance of Museums
January 23, 2017
President Trump Takes Office; Museums Need to Mobilize Now
AAA News
January 9, 2017
AAA Strengthens Academic Freedom Protections for Anthropologists
AAA has moved to strengthen its commitment to protecting academic freedom by establishing a Rapid Response Network and activating an affiliation with Scholars At Risk, an international non-profit organization that works to protect threatened scholars and promote academic freedom around the world.

2016

December

AAA News
December 14, 2016
AAA Members Receive NEH Grant Funding
The American Anthropological Association congratulates the AAA members who today received a total of more than $150,000 in grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
AAA News
December 9, 2016
#AnthroForward Post-Election AAA Twitter Chat Highlights
A Storify compilation of the great conversation we had in our #AnthroForward Twitter chat on Wednesday, December 7.
AAA News
December 2, 2016
AAA Lifts Arizona Conference Ban After State Rejects Anti-Immigration Law
AAA News
December 2, 2016
Cultural Resource Groups Ask President Obama to Create Bears Ears National Monument
AAA News
December 1, 2016
Post-Election AAA Resolution and Resources

November

AAA News
November 23, 2016
Post-election message: We have work to do
Thanks for a powerful meeting in Minneapolis. The inspiration and positive energy flowing through every session, workshop and presentation made us realize, once again, why we turn to our community of anthropologists for inspiration and solidarity, especially in these troubling times. Now, with knowledge gained and connections made, it’s time to roll up our sleeves – we have work to do.
AAA News
November 15, 2016
Anthropologists Go Back To School At Phyllis Wheatley
The Anthropologists Go Back to School initiative of the American Anthropological Association was spearheaded by Dr. Johnnetta Cole, former president of Spelman College and Bennett College, and director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. Heyward-Rotimi and Watkins have assumed the charge to encourage anthropologists to bring the knowledge of anthropology to America’s young learners.
AAA News
November 13, 2016
Jeremy Sabloff Honored for Eminence in the Field of American Archaeology
Jeremy Arac Sabloff is the 2016 recipient of the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence in the Field of American Archaeology.
AAA News
November 12, 2016
Shirley Fiske Receives 2016 Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology
Shirley Fiske is this year’s recipient of the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology, which “offers an opportunity to honor exemplary anthropologists for outstanding recent achievements that have contributed to the development of anthropology as an applied science.”
AAA News
November 11, 2016
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology Goes to Bianca Williams
The AAA and Oxford University Press are pleased to announce the recipient of the AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology is Bianca Williams.
AAA News
November 10, 2016
Seth Holmes Honored for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology
Seth Holmes is this year’s recipient of the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology for his book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farm Workers in the United States.
AAA News
November 10, 2016
The Way Forward
This week we find ourselves absorbing the outcome of a long and contentious national election campaign without precedent in recent memory. Strong, divisive language gained the most public attention, sometimes escaping the orbit of facts and launching into some parallel universe.
AAA News
November 9, 2016
Mark Schuller Receives 2016 Anthropology in Media Award
AAA is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2016 Anthropology in Media Award is Mark Schuller. Since receiving his PhD in 2007, Schuller has become one of the most productive and dedicated scholars on the contemporary anthropological scene.
AAA News
November 8, 2016
Richard Bauman Honored for Exemplary Service to Anthropology
AAA is pleased to announce the 2016 recipient of the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology is Richard Bauman. Bauman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Communication and Culture, and Folklore at Indiana University. Bauman’s work significantly reshaped linguistic anthropology to make it a stronger presence within the discipline and enhanced anthropology’s visibility in such disciplines as communication, media studies, folklore, history, linguistics, literary and performance studies.
AAA News
November 7, 2016
Jason De León Receives 2016 Margaret Mead Award
Congratulations to Jason De León, the 2016 recipient of the Margaret Mead Award for his scholarship, including the book, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Sonoran Desert Migrant Trail.
AAA News
November 1, 2016
AAA Stands with Polish Ethnological Society On Discrimination
AAA stands in support of the Polish Ethnological Society as it expresses profound concerns in a statement about the tone and content of public discourse regarding the current wave of immigrants and refugees that have poured into central and northern Europe, fleeing war and conflict in the Middle East.

October

AAA News
October 28, 2016
AAA Calls for De-escalation of Situation in Standing Rock
Tensions over the Dakota Access oil pipeline have been escalating, with the company pressing ahead and opponents setting up a camp in the path of construction. The county sheriff called for more law enforcement from surrounding states. Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters have joined the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in their effort to block construction. Yesterday, armed soldiers and law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear advanced and began arresting protesters who had set up a camp on private land.
AAA News
October 13, 2016
Patricia Zavella Honored for Career Contributions to Gender Equity

September

AAA News
September 6, 2016
AAA Stands with Tribal Nations Opposing Dakota Access Pipeline

August

AAA News
August 30, 2016
AAA Stands With Imprisoned and Recently Hospitalized Professor Homa Hoodfar
AAA News
August 29, 2016
Announcing the Members’ Programmatic, Advisory and Advocacy Committee
AAA News
August 25, 2016
AAA Members Awarded NEH Grants
AAA News
August 10, 2016
AAA Mourns the Passing of Elizabeth Colson
Elizabeth Colson, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, passed away earlier this month in Zambia. She was 99 years old.

July

AAA News
July 29, 2016
2016 AAA Leadership Fellows Apply Anthropology to Today’s Pressing Issues
Julia Wignall, Courtney Kurlanska and Alisa Perkins have been named the 2016 AAA Leadership Fellows. The AAA’s Leadership Fellows program is designed to provide a unique opportunity for anthropologists beginning their careers to learn about leadership opportunities and to encourage future leadership in the Association.
AAA News
July 21, 2016
Threats to Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Turkey
AAA joins fellow scholarly associations in collectively noting with profound concern the apparent moves to dismantle much of the structure of Turkish higher education through purges, restrictions, and assertions of central control, a process begun earlier this year and accelerating now with alarming speed. As scholarly associations, we are committed to the principles of academic freedom and freedom of expression. The recent moves in Turkey herald a massive and virtually unprecedented assault on those principles. One of the Middle East region’s leading systems of higher education is under severe threat as a result, as are the careers and livelihoods of many of its faculty members and academic administrators.
AAA News
July 8, 2016
AAA Calls for Systemic Change in U.S. Public Safety
Again. It has happened again … and again …and again. A black man shot down by a police officer. Tuesday in Baton Rouge, Wednesday in St. Paul. Five officers killed and seven others wounded in Dallas. The American Anthropological Association (AAA), indeed the entire nation, once again expresses outrage, horror and sadness at the events that have taken place.
AAA News
July 5, 2016
AAA Public Education Initiative on Migration Featured at Smithsonian Folklife Festival

June

AAA News
June 24, 2016
AAA Implements Action on Israel-Palestine
AAA News
June 17, 2016
Milena Melo Named AAA Fellow
AAA and the Committee on Minority Affairs in Anthropology (CMIA) announce Milena Melo as recipient of the 2016 AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship.
AAA News
June 13, 2016
AAA Stands With Orlando
AAA News
June 9, 2016
AAA Mourns Israeli Anthropologist Killed in Tel Aviv Shooting
AAA News
June 8, 2016
AAA Requests Release of Imprisoned Anthropologist in Iran
We believe that accusations leveled against Professor Dr. Hoodfar are unjust and the result of a misunderstanding about anthropological scholarship. We petition you to help resolve this unfortunate situation by doing what is in your authority to see to a dismissal of these unjust accusations before the situation escalates any further.
AAA News
June 7, 2016
AAA Votes Down Academic Boycott Resolution
In a close vote, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) membership voted against a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Voting took place by electronic ballot between April 15 and May 31. Fifty-one percent of AAA’s eligible members voted, the largest turnout in AAA history, with 2,423 members opposing the resolution, and 2,384 voting to support it.
AAA News
June 6, 2016
Courses of AAA Action Concerning Israel-Palestine

April

AAA News
April 6, 2016
Melissa Harris-Perry to Deliver Opening Keynote Address at AAA Annual Meeting
Melissa Harris-Perry, former MSNBC host, award-winning author, and Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, will deliver an inaugural keynote address at the opening general session ceremony of the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) 115th Annual Meeting in Minneapolis on Wednesday, November 16.

March

AAA News
March 15, 2016
AAA Member John Ziker Named University Foundation Scholar
AAA News
March 11, 2016
Army’s Human Terrain System needs to be buried once and for all

February

Anthropology Day
February 24, 2016
Worldwide Anthropology Day Celebrations Reach Millions
AAA News
February 17, 2016
Taking a Stand for Academic Freedom in India
AAA stands in solidarity with faculty and students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in protesting the Indian state’s actions against the freedom to debate and dissent on campus.
AAA News
February 10, 2016
AAA Has Zero Tolerance for Sexual Harassment
AAA News
February 8, 2016
Alicia Odewale Named AAA Minority Fellow

2015

December

AAA News
December 16, 2015
Shu-min Huang Receives Taiwan's 2015 Presidential Science Prize
AAA News
December 9, 2015
Carlos Velez-Ibanez Named AMC Corresponding Member
AAA member Carlos Velez-Ibanez has been named as a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences
AAA News
December 1, 2015
AAA Issues Joint Statement on “Campus Carry” Legislation
The American Anthropological Association joins our colleagues in 28 other scholarly societies in opposing legislation designed to facilitate the carrying of guns on college campuses. We encourage our members in any state considering such legislation to bring an anthropological perspective to the debate.

November

AAA News
November 21, 2015
Resolution Calling for Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions to be Placed on AAA Spring Ballot
Members attending the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) Annual Meeting in Denver yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favor of placing a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions on the organization’s spring ballot in April.
AAA News
November 20, 2015
NAGPRA Review Committee Gets Three New Members
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has appointed three new members to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee.
AAA News
November 5, 2015
Promising Anthropologists Selected as 2015 AAA Leadership Fellows
Carrie C. Heitman, Vanessa Esther Martinez-Renuncio and Aaron Thornburg, have been selected to serve as 2015 AAA Leadership Fellows. The AAA Leadership Fellows program is designed to provide a unique opportunity for anthropologists early in their careers to learn about AAA and leadership opportunities and to encourage future leadership in the Association.
AAA News
November 5, 2015
Protection of cultural resources at Amity Pueblo
On behalf of the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) 10,000 members, we want to express our deep concern regarding the lack of prompt and proper treatment of the human remains of Zuni ancestors that were disturbed by blading their graves at Amity Pueblo (AZ Q:15:25 (ASM)) as a result of construction activities funded by your agency. This situation resulted when the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to comply with the legally required Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act prior to providing funding for the construction of a fishing pond near Eagar, Arizona.
AAA News
November 3, 2015
Debra L. Martin Awarded for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology
AAA and Oxford University Press have named human osteology and bioarchaeology expert Debra L. Martin, Ph.D. as the recipient of the 2015 AAA/Oxford Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology.

October

AAA News
October 23, 2015
Dr. Mark Schuller Honored with 2015 Margaret Mead Award
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) are pleased to announce Mark Schuller, Ph.D., has been named the recipient of the 2015 AAA/SfAA Margaret Mead Award.
Paul Stoller
October 21, 2015
Paul A. Stoller Receives 2015 Anthropology in the Media Award
Paul A. Stoller, Ph.D., whose 30 years of anthropological research produced 12 books, including ethnographies, biographies, memoirs and two novels, has been selected to receive the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Anthropology in the Media Award (AIME).
AAA News
October 16, 2015
Familiar Strange: Attend the World's Largest Gathering of Anthropologists
The AAA Annual Meeting is the world’s largest gathering of anthropologists, granting you access to more than 6,000 experts who can shed light on a vast assortment of topics. Held November 18-22 in Denver, this meeting is an incredible opportunity to speak with researchers who are examining everything from the realities of the American health care system to tensions in the Middle East. Topics to be covered include: ebola, indigenous issues, environmental issues, education, racialized police violence, cannabis, and more.
AAA News
October 15, 2015
ETHNOGRAPHIC TERMINALIA Presents: Aeolian Politics — Denver, 2015
Ethnographic Terminalia is an on-going critical art initiative that places modes of exhibiting anthropology (the study of human beings) in conversation with contemporary art practices. From November 17-22, 2015 our curatorial collective presents its eighth international exhibition, Aeolian Politics — Denver, 2015.
Anthony Wallace
October 14, 2015
AAA Mourns the Loss of Dr. Anthony Wallace
The AAA mourns the loss of Dr. Anthony Wallace (president in 1972). Once called the “Quiet Anthropologist” in a Philadelphia Inquirer article, Dr. Wallace taught at the University of Pennsylvania upon graduating from there with a Ph.D. in Anthropology.
Ernestine Friedl
October 13, 2015
AAA Saddened by the Loss of Ernestine Friedl
The AAA is saddened by the loss of Ernestine Friedl, who served as the organization's president from 1974 – 75. Born August 13, 1920, Ernestine served as the president of the American Ethnological Society (1967) and was the first female Dean of Arts and Sciences and Trinity College at Duke University.
AAA News
October 5, 2015
AAA Task Force Outlines Options for Board to Consider Regarding Israel/Palestine
In response to mounting interest from its membership, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) today released a task force report listing recommendations as to how the organization might best engage with the issues concerning Israel/Palestine. The report lists a wide range of measures that can be adopted and strongly urges that the “no action” option be taken off the table.

August

AAA News
August 20, 2015
AAA Outraged by Brutal and Senseless Murder of Khaled al-Asaad
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) mourns the loss of Khaled al-Asaad, a renowned Syrian antiquities scholar and archaeologist. Asaad was held captive by ISIS militants for over a month before he was brutally executed for refusing to divulge the location of hidden artifacts.

July

July 27, 2015
Peggy Sanday Honored for Contributions to Gender Equity in Anthropology
The American Anthropological Association’s Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology (CoGEA) has honored Dr. Peggy Reeves Sanday (U Penn) with the 2015 CoGEA Award for her numerous contributions to the fight for gender equality.
July 13, 2015
Yolanda T. Moses Honored with 2015 Franz Boas Award
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is proud to present the 2015 Franz Boas award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology to Past President Dr. Yolanda T. Moses.
July 2, 2015
AAA Announces Alex Barker as President-Elect/Vice President

June

June 29, 2015
Deborah Thomas Appointed Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist
Dr. Deborah Thomas (U Penn) has been selected to serve as editor-in-chief of the American Anthropological Association’s flagship journal, American Anthropologist effective July 1, 2016.
June 26, 2015
AAA Celebrates Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality
AAA joins same-sex partners across the country in celebrating the Supreme Court’s ruling in the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges, a onsolidation of four marriage equality cases from Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan. The Court declared that it is in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment for states to deny same-sex couples the fundamental human right to marry.
AAA News
June 19, 2015
Anthropologist Advocates Honored with 2015 Anthropology in Public Policy Award
AAA has named Dr. Edmund “Ted” Hamann (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) and Dr. Barbara Rose Johnston (University of California, Santa Cruz & Center for Political Ecology) as the 2015 recipients of the Anthropology in Public Policy Award. The award honors anthropological insights and an alyses that have resulted in the implementation of effective and beneficial policies within the last five years.
June 9, 2015
Open Anthropology Addresses the Pleasures and Problems of Youth
Open Anthropology, a digital publication of the American Anthropological Association, announces its latest issue on the study of youth.
June 4, 2015
AAA Hires Anne Kelsey as New Marketing and Communications Manager
June 4, 2015
AAA Statement on the House FY 2016 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act

April

April 22, 2015
Anthropologists Honored with Carnegie Fellowship, Peace Corps Award
Two members of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Dr. Leith Mullings and Dr. Ralph Bolton have recently been awarded with prestigious honors for their contributions to humanity. In its inaugural year, Dr. Leith Mullings has been named a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Dr. Ralph Bolton will be honored with this year’s Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service at the upcoming National Peace Corps Association Peace Corps Connect annual conference in June.
April 8, 2015
AAA : Racialized police violence...again

March

March 24, 2015
AAA Calls on Sports Organizations to Denounce Inappropriate American Indian Mascots
March 19, 2015
AAA Appoints Jeff Martin as New Director of Communications and Public Affairs
March 10, 2015
New Issue of Open Anthropology Addresses Climate Change

February

February 28, 2015
AAA Adds Its Voice on the Cultural Destruction in Iraq
February 16, 2015
Global Celebration of Anthropology
February 9, 2015
Anthropologists Release Statement on Humanity and Climate Change

2014

November

November 25, 2014
AAA Appoints New Director of Meetings and Conferences: Ushma Suvarnakar
November 25, 2014
AAA President Calls for Dialogue on Race and Justice
November 25, 2014
Tara Waters Lumpkin Wins 2014 Anthropology in the Media Award
November 24, 2014
AAA’s Inaugural Media Festival, filmmakers Joshua Oppenheimer, Trinh T. Minh - ha
November 24, 2014
Anthropologists Address Climate Change
November 24, 2014
Anthropologists Go Back to School
November 24, 2014
Anthropologists Release Recommendations, Better Practices to Contain Ebola
November 24, 2014
Anthropologists on the Middle East: Youth Protest, Islam, Israel, Archaeology
November 24, 2014
Food Security, the Environment and Waste: Issues for a World of 7 Billion People
November 24, 2014
Michael Silverstein Honored With Most Prestigious Award in Anthropology
November 24, 2014
Timothy Kohler Awarded Anthropology’s Top Archaeology Award
November 24, 2014
Top Washington D.C. Political Artists to Host Free, Public Performance
November 24, 2014
Vanguard of Science Studies To Speak At 2014 AAA Annual Meeting
November 4, 2014
Public Forum Features Leading Anthropologists’ Recommendations for Ebola Response

October

October 20, 2014
AAA Appoints New Director Communications and Public Affairs: Rachael Bishop
October 6, 2014
New Issue of Open Anthropology – World on the Move: Migration Stories

July

July 17, 2014
Anthropologists Uncover Harrowing Statistics On Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
July 7, 2014
American Anthropological Association Pioneers Digital Book Review Process

June

June 17, 2014
Anthropologist Welcomes Football Team Name Trademark Cancellation

April

April 14, 2014
2014 AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship Awarded

2013

November

November 27, 2013
Anthropologists “Wow” Chicago

September

September 11, 2013
AAA Committee on Public Policy Names 2013 Anthropology in Public Policy Award Winner
Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes honored as first award recipient of the Anthropology in Public Policy Award.

June

June 26, 2013
Anthropologists Welcome Supreme Court Rulings in Historic Prop 8 and DOMA Cases

April

April 26, 2013
Anthropology Weighs In On the Marriage Debate in New Public Journal
April 10, 2013
Anthropology Students Selected for National Internship Program

March

March 19, 2013
Economic Anthropologists Join World’s Largest Professional Anthropology Association
March 11, 2013
AAA's Society for Cultural Anthropology Paves New Way For Anthropological Publishing Program

February

February 13, 2013
New Book Synthesizes and Reorients Ideas About Race
February 4, 2013
New Executive Director Leads American Anthropological Association

January

January 11, 2013
Anthropologists Release Statement on Gun Violence

2012

November

November 20, 2012
American Anthropological Association Names New Executive Director
November 8, 2012
The Role of Gender in Anthropological Fieldwork
November 7, 2012
Anthropologists Approve Comprehensive Overhaul of Ethics Code
After a five-year review process, members of the American Anthropological Association have approved a rigorous overhaul of their ethics code.
November 5, 2012
Anthropologists Roundtable the 2012 Presidential Election

April

April 10, 2012
AAA Selects Summer Interns for 2012

March

March 29, 2012
President Obama Nominates Anthropologist to Lead World Bank

February

February 29, 2012
What It Means to Be Egyptian In Post - Mubarak Egypt
February 28, 2012
Developments in Access to Research
February 28, 2012
The Role of Religion in the Arab Spring Uprising and its Aftermath
February 28, 2012
The Untold Personal Side of Egypt’s Revolution Featured in American Ethnologist
February 28, 2012
What Did Egyptian Women Gain from Arab Spring Uprising?

January

January 25, 2012
Anthropologists Provide New Insights on the Arab Spring Uprising

2011

December

December 21, 2011
Ethics Committee Announces Winners of Inaugural Small Grants Program
December 19, 2011
Anthropologists Announce New Task Force on Climate Change
December 7, 2011
Castañeda and Rutherford named 2011 AAA Leadership Fellows

November

November 29, 2011
New Editor-in-Chief for American Anthropologist
November 20, 2011
American Anthropological Association Statement on Electronic Publishing

October

October 27, 2011
AAA Responds to Possible Changes in Regulations Governing Human Subjects Research

June

June 14, 2011
RACE: Are We So Different? Exhibit to Arrive at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

May

May 27, 2011
Anthropologists Denounce New Georgia Anti-Immigration Law
May 6, 2011
American Anthropological Association Member Appointed to NAGPRA Review Committee
May 5, 2011
American Anthropological Association Reaches Record Registration for 2011 Annual Meeting
May 2, 2011
American Anthropological Association Spurs Elimination of “Linguistically Isolated” as Classification by the U.S. Census Bureau

April

April 18, 2011
AAA Recognition of World Malaria Day
April 4, 2011
Anthropologists Speak Out in Protection of Academic Freedom

March

March 21, 2011
AAA Expands Global Network by Joining IUAES
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is pleased to announce its membership in the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).

January

January 31, 2011
The Face of Anthropology is Changing one Master’s Degree at a Time
The rise of students earning Master’s degrees in Anthropology has spurred study to measure the degree’s effectiveness in the workplace.

2010

December

December 13, 2010
AAA Responds to Public Controversy Over Science in Anthropology
Some recent media coverage, including an article in the New York Times, has portrayed anthropology as divided between those who practice it as a science and those who do not, and has given the mistaken impression that the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Executive Board believes that science no longer has a place in anthropology.

May

May 24, 2010
Executive Board Passes Resolution Challenging Immigration Law in Arizona
In a strongly-worded resolution passed by its Executive Board on May 22, 2010, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) condemned the enactment of a new law in Arizona that directs law enforcement officers to detain individuals and investigate their immigration status if they think they might be in the country without documentation.

2009

November

November 12, 2009
AAA Experts Called to Nation’s Capital for CBC “Discussion on Race”

September

September 22, 2009
Race Is a $50 Billion Reality for the U.S. Health System: Traveling Exhibit Asks Los Angeles to Explore Why at California Science Center
A recent study of the economic burden of U.S. health disparities provides staggering proof that race is a social reality in America, with dramatic and troubling effects. According to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, racial inequalities in health care access and quality added more than $50 billion a year in direct U.S health care costs from 2003 to 2006.

August

August 11, 2009
Supporting and Framing a National Dialogue on Race
While commenting on the recent the arrest of scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr, President Obama drew attention to the “indisputable” reality of racial profiling and again called for a “national dialogue on race.” This raises the question: what, exactly, constitutes a “national dialogue on race?” The American Anthropological Association developed the public education project RACE: Are We So Different? to launch and support robust discussions of race and diversity nationwide.

July

July 13, 2009
American Anthropological Association Freezes 2010 Journal Subscription Prices
Today, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) announced that its Executive Board voted to freeze 2010 subscription rates for all of its journals in an effort to respond to the concerns of their primary subscribers.

June

June 18, 2009
Understanding "Whiteness" and Unlearning Racism
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has produced the public education program RACE Are We So Different? to "unteach" racism.

May

May 11, 2009
RACE: Are We So Different? Interview with Yolanda Moses
May 6, 2009
Teaching RACE and Unlearning Racism Project Exploring Race in America proves to be a Catalyst for Change

April

April 1, 2009
Choosing Anthropology over the NFL
Florida State safety Myron Rolle, projected as a first round NFL draft pick for 2009, has received a Rhodes Scholarship to study medical anthropology. He plans to complete a one-year master’s at Oxford before participating in the 2010 NFL draft.

January

January 22, 2009
RACE Project Moves to Cincinnati
RACE Are We So Different?, American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) traveling exhibit exploring the science, history, and everyday lived experience of race in America, landed in Cincinnati this past Saturday with an enormously positive response from the community. The opening dates corresponded with events during Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend and the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African-American president.

2008

October

October 28, 2008
Expanded Tour Schedule for RACE Exhibit
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has finalized an agreement with Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) to develop a clone of its award-winning RACE: Are We So Different? traveling exhibit. The exhibits are a part of the larger public education program developed by AAA.
October 27, 2008
Students and Community Leaders Discuss Race
Comcast, the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications, is making available a unique dialogue about race in Connecticut available through its signature On Demand service. The wide-ranging discussion, which took place at the “RACE: Are We So Different?" exhibit at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center this summer, features insight from Hartford community leaders and children from the Urban League of Hartford.
October 13, 2008
AAA Awarded Planning Grant to Examine Future of Scholarly Journals
October 6, 2008
AAA Executive Board Votes for "Open Access" to Archival Resources

September

September 24, 2008
RACE Exhibit Moves to Cleveland, Ohio

July

July 31, 2008
NSF-DOD Issue Joint Solicitation for Minerva Research: AAA to Host Media Conference Call
July 29, 2008
The Price of Hunger: A Conversation on the World Food Crisis with Anthropologist Solomon Katz
July 16, 2008
Anthropologists Critique Pentagon’s ‘Minerva’

June

June 10, 2008
‘Pulse of the Planet’ Series Sets Agenda for National Debate: New Op-Ed Column in CounterPunch Magazine

May

May 20, 2008
Women in Anthropology Continue to Face Barriers
AAA News
May 15, 2008
RACE Exhibit Moves to Mashantucket, Connecticut

April

April 30, 2008
RACE Receives AAM Award of Excellence in Exhibition
April 8, 2008
ETHOS Presents Special Issue on Jerome Bruner

March

March 25, 2008
Ford Foundation Awards $450 K Grant to RACE Project
March 25, 2008
Ford Foundation Awards $450 K to RACE Grant to Fund Second Exhibit and Book
March 25, 2008
Race Continues to Define America
March 20, 2008
AAA Executive Board Continues Efforts to Address Ethics of Secret Research

February

February 7, 2008
RACE Moves to Wichita
February 1, 2008
AAA Launches Redesigned Web Site

January

January 30, 2008
RACE Goes to Jersey City, NJ New Exhibit to Open at Liberty Science Center

2007

December

December 14, 2007
Anthropology Honor Roll AAA President Delivers Top Awards at Anthropology Conference
December 6, 2007
Anthropologists Oppose US Military Action Against Iran: New Resolution Passed by American Anthropological Association
December 5, 2007
Anthropology Conference Spurs Media Blitz: A round-up of news coverage of the AAA’s 2007 Annual Meeting in DC

November

November 30, 2007
AAA Commission Delivers Report on Engagement with U.S. Security and Intelligence Agencies
November 16, 2007
AAA Appoints New Director of Public Affairs: Damon Dozier

October

October 17, 2007
AAA Responds to Barnard College Tenure Debate
October 16, 2007
American Anthropological Association Honors Members for Contributions to Anthropology
October 3, 2007
African Burial Ground National Memorial Honors Africans Departed

September

September 27, 2007
AAA Opposes California Law for Stigmatizing Same-Sex Relationships
AAA News
September 24, 2007
AAA Wins 2007 Summit Award For RACE: Are We So Different? ASAE and The Center’s Top National Honor
September 23, 2007
New Orleans to Host AAA Annual Meeting in 2010: AAA Shows Commitment to Post-Katrina Relief
September 11, 2007
AAA and NAPA Sponsor Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference

August

August 29, 2007
AAA Appoints New Director of Publishing: Oona Schmid

July

July 17, 2007
Jump on Board! RACE Moves to Wichita, Kansas

March

March 12, 2007
Sweet Briar professor promotes humanities on Capitol Hill
March 12, 2007
Two Members Appointed to Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Review Committee

February

February 28, 2007
American Anthropological Association announces Coca-Cola resolution

January

January 31, 2007
African-American history explored in new educational Web site on Race
January 19, 2007
Anthropologists give back: offer wider access to online anthropology archive

2006

December

December 8, 2006
Race in America: What has and hasn't changed since Martin Luther King?
Douglas Cardinal to Open AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting
A conversation between world-renowned architect Douglas Cardinal and AAA Past President Monica Heller will open the 2019 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC.