2015 Annual Meeting Activities

Wednesday, November 18 8:00 AM-12:00 PMSession #2-0010. NAPA WORKSHOP: GETTING ANTHROPOLOGICAL WRITING PUBLISHED. Mitch AllenSession #2-0020. NAPA WORKSHOP: MIXED METHOD EVALUATIONS, QUALITATIVE, QUANTITATIVE OR WHAT? Fatimah Williams Castro and Mary Odell Butler 1:00 PM-5:00 PM Session #2-0195. NAPA WORKSHOP: APPLIED CAREERS FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS: JOB SEARCH STRATEGIES AND TIPS. Fatimah Williams Castro 2:00 PM-3:45 PM Session…

Kristy Keller
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Kristy Keller

BiographyKristy Keller has provided direct service to displaced families since 2009.  With experience in program management, service development and evaluation, Ms. Keller received an MA in Applied Anthropology in 2013 from San Jose State University. In graduate school, Kristy partnered with fellow students to study different sites of the Occupy Movement. Together, they produced an ethnographic pamphlet, “Occupying…

Amelia Jamison
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Amelia Jamison

 Biography Amelia Jamison is a graduate student and researcher at the University of Maryland. Her research interests are broadly focused on the intersections of applied anthropology and public health, with a specific focus on health disparities in infectious disease. Having completing her M.A.A. in Applied Anthropology in 2014, she is currently pursing an M.P.H. in Epidemiology…

Laurel Dillon-Sumner
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Laurel Dillon-Sumner

 BiographyLaurel is a qualitative researcher, currently employed as a Research Coordinator with the University of Washington in Seattle. In this role she supports several research projects related to cancer prevention and control, working closely with interdisciplinary teams based in the Department of Health Services and representatives from the Department of Health, Veterans Administration, and elsewhere….

AnthroCurrents – July 24, 2015

A biweekly look at recent stories on anthropology and practicing anthropologists in the popular media Anthropologist Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics punctures the dream that microfinance will help alleviate poverty. You may have heard that the U.S. military’s HTS (Human Terrain Systems) program is no more. You can read this nice overview…

AnthroCurrents – July 10, 2015

A biweekly look at recent stories on anthropology and practicing anthropologists in the popular media In case you’re sleeping too well at night, read anthropologist Hugh Gusterson’s piece on the American cultural traits that make us most vulnerable to a nuclear accident. It’s an unsettling laundry list of human weaknesses that includes America’s tendency to…

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