AnthroCurrents – May 17, 2016

NAPA is happy to announce the re-launch of AnthroCurrents, a bi-weekly look at anthropology in the news. Anthropology of Climate Change In the online magazine, popmatters, a review of the 2015 documentary film “The Anthropologist” (screened at the Independent Film Festival Festival, Boston 2016), the reviewer describes this “spry and crisp” film as a multi-layered…

AAA CoGEA Award

Nominations Due: May 1 to Anne Kelsey, CoGEA Liaison at akelsey@americananthro.org The CoGEA Award (formerly known as the Squeaky Wheel Award), sponsored by the AAA Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology (CoGEA), recognizes individuals whose service to the discipline (inclusive of research, teaching and mentorship) demonstrates the courage to bring to light and investigate practices…

Kimball Award Receiving Applications

The Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology offers an opportunity to honor exemplary anthropologists for outstanding recent achievements that have contributed to the development of anthropology as an applied science and that have had important impacts on public policy.   The range of eligible nominees is unusually broad: the Kimball Award can…

Post-Doc Opportunity with AAA

Dear Colleagues: We have an opening here in the AAA office (Arlington, VA) for a post-doc fellow. The initial term is two years, but it is renewable, to support our departmental services and applied/practicing services. Please pass along this opportunity to any promising candidates you think might be interested. http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/7772409/professional-fellow Edward Liebow, Executive Director American…