To participate, go to http://research.zarca.com/k/QsRXQTsQRSsRRTWRVSPRsP

Results of the survey will be shared with you via NAPA and directly from AAA.

    Up to $18/per hour, depending on skills and experience
    Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that studies children at all stages of development. Our mission is to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analyses to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children. Founded in 1979, Child Trends helps keep the nation focused on children and their needs by identifying emerging issues; evaluating important programs and policies; and providing data-driven, evidence-based guidance on policy and practice.  For more information, please visit our website at:  http://www.childtrends.org.
    General Description

    Child Trends has an openings for full-time (37.5 hrs/week) and part-time graduate student interns to assist researchers. An interest and/or experience in child welfare, education, early childhood development, parenting, health, or other areas of Child Trends’ focus is strongly recommended.  We will work with the intern to accommodate his/her class schedule and exams.
    Typical Responsibilities and Duties

    ·      Conducts literature reviews and assists in synthesizing research findings.
    ·      Processes secondary data using SAS, STATA, or other statistical packages.
    ·      Enters, cleans, codes, and analyzes qualitative and quantitative data.
    ·      Produces presentations for conferences and helps format journal articles, briefs, and reports.
    ·      Manages meeting logistics, takes detailed meeting notes, and organizes project files.
    ·      Assists with clerical tasks, information requests, and photocopying, when necessary.
    ·      May perform other duties as assigned.

    Qualifications

    ·         B.A. or B.S. in sociology, demography, public policy, economics, psychology, or related field required.

    ·         Excellent writing skills.

    ·         Strong analytical and organizational skills.

    ·         Some coursework and research experience in qualitative or quantitative research methods and statistics.

    ·         Experience with surveys or data collection preferred.

    ·         Must be a motivated worker and detailed oriented, with excellent grades.
    For spring start- please include desired schedule (hours per week) in your cover letter.

    How to Apply

    Apply to:  https://home2.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=2013781.  Upload in one document your resume with a cover letter, indicate if you wish to have a spring or summer internship as well as the days and times you are able to work, salary requirements, transcripts, writing sample, and three professional references. NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE!

Background Information: East European Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research are soliciting applications for the twenty fourth annual training seminar for junior scholars in East European studies, to be held during August, 2012. All domestic transportation, accommodation and meal costs will be covered by the sponsors.

Eligibility: These scholarships are available to U.S. citizens. While Southeast Europe remains a primary focus, projects on Central Europe and the Baltic states are again eligible. Projects should focus on fields in the social sciences and humanities including, but not limited to: Anthropology, History, Political Science, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Sociology. All projects should aim to highlight their potential policy relevance.
Disciplines represented at JSTS 2011 included: anthropology; history; political science; and, sociology.

Program Description: JSTS successfully combines formal and informal meetings to promote a variety of intellectual exchanges. Past activities have included:
- individual presentations;
- constructive feedback and question and answer sessions;
- one-on-one meetings for Junior Scholars with Senior Scholars;
- advice regarding publishing;
- discussions about the state of the profession and obtaining employment in the field;
- various social activities, including the crab-fest and the annual volleyball challenge.

Additional Requirements: Successful applicants are expected to submit a five-page paper no later than July 1 on the sources and methodology of their report and the wider significance of their work. (In other words, what was researched, how it was researched, and what it all means.) This paper will serve as the basis for discussion at the seminar.

Application Information: To apply for the Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar (JSTS), the applicant must submit the following:
- a completed application form a curriculum vitae (which must include social security number and full date of birth, institution where degree is expected or was received, title of dissertation/thesis, and name and department of academic advisor);
- a single page, single-spaced statement of the work you wish to discuss – either the dissertation/thesis or another project;
- one letter of recommendation from academic advisor.
Please mail application materials for all grants to:
East European Studies
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
OR send them by email to: European.Studies@wilsoncenter.org

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Anne Thompson, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, A Wider Circle
o:301-608-3504; c:301-461-1332
www.awidercircle.org
CFC #21120

Op-Ed Columnists and Contributing Editors will commit to one year of monthly op-ed essays to be published as part of *AN’s* exclusive online content. Columnists write their essays themselves, and Contributing    Editors are responsible for managing their column that either they write themselves or edit a piece they solicit from an author. The specific topic will depend on each *AN* volunteer’s expertise and experience. There is great opportunity for creativity and fruitful in-depth discussions about any of the many facets of anthropology.****

The term will begin in September 2012 and go through August 2013. Columns have a flexible word count, between 600 and 1000 words, and we encourage the use of multimedia content. You will also have the option of publishing additional columns in any given month. All columns will be publicly available at www.anthropology-news.org throughout the publication month, plus the following month. After that, they will be available to AAA members through AnthroSource.****

If you are interested in being considered as a columnist or a contributing editor  <http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/category/editors-columnists/> for this new endeavor and are a current AAA member, email a brief proposalof your column theme and summary of your qualifications to *Assistant to the Director of Publishing* Emilia Guevara at eguev…@aaanet.org by May 15, 2012.****

AAA Summer Internship Program

The American Anthropological Association is pleased to offer two internship opportunities funded by member donations for the summer of 2012.

Internships are six weeks in length, from July 9 through August 17, 2012.  Internships are unpaid however; interns will be provided housing and a meal/travel stipend.

Interns will spend approximately 40 percent of their time working onsite at the AAA offices in Arlington, Virginia, and the other 60 percent of their time working on-site at one of the two locations in the metro area.

For more details see:
http://www.aaanet.org/profdev/internships/AAA-Summer-Internship-Program.cfm

Over the years, sporadic attempts have been made to use ethnographic methods in the study of business organizations and practices of all kinds. Such attempts have begun to coalesce in recent years to create a field of ‘business’ anthropology, supported by two recently-launched journals (the Journal of Business Anthropology and the International Journal of Business Anthropology). The term ‘business anthropology’, however, is by no means fixed, as we may see in the continued usage of parallel terms like ‘applied’, ‘organizational’, ‘corporate’, and ‘design’ anthropology, as well as other business-related sub-divisions of the discipline.

What unites them all is their espoused methodology of ethnography, although it may well be the case that there are more people writing about ethnography, than actually doing it.

Given that qualitative research of any kind is often equated with ‘ethnographic’ research, and that, strictly speaking, ‘ethnography’ is about the writing up, rather than the gathering, of research data, we would like to suggest here that we think of ethnography as:
(1) a type of research method (fieldwork, participant-observation, and so on);
(2) an accompanying frame of mind or ‘intellectual paradigm’; and
(3) a way of writing.This workshop invites you as participants to reflect upon business ethnography in the light of these conceptions, and to ask three questions of your fieldwork data.

1.      Firstly, what do you consider to be the salient features of ‘business ethnography’ as a method? In this respect, were the methods that you used to obtain your research data any different from those used by mainstream anthropologists (and some qualitative sociologists) and/or scholars in organizational behavior and management studies? Have you tried out joint or team fieldwork, with what results?

2.      Secondly, what kinds of observations and analyses do you think your ethnographic methods have led to and supported, that other methodologies would not have done? In other words, what makes business ethnography special as a frame of mind?

3.      Thirdly, what are the challenges you face in the writing up of your ethnographic data for presentation at workshops and conferences, or as submissions to journals?

The workshop is intended for a limited number of participants. Interested scholars are invited to submit abstracts to the convenors, Christina Garsten and Brian Moeran, by April 15, 2012.
Brian Moeran (bdm.ikl@cbs.dk)
Christina Garsten (christina.garsten@score.su.se)

Field project in Italy this summer: of interest to archaeologists, classicists and museum curators.

The course aims to give basic knowledge and hands on experience in the field archaeological ceramics conservation. Through classroom and workshop sessions the participants will be introduced to the following knowledge and skills:
· Learn about materials, manufacturing processes and the evolution of the ceramic technology
· Typologies of ceramic objects from the Classical, Medieval and Early Modern period, normally found in archaeological sites in Central Italy.
· Analysis and documentation of ceramic artifacts, including diagnostic pottery and architectural components for their materials, morphology and object typology
· Conservation including: cleaning, reassembly, infill techniques and presentation methods
· Categorizing, organizing and storage of pottery sherds and other ceramic artifacts

Some of the work in the workshop will be done using recently excavated materials from the Baths of the ancient Roman town of Carsulae.

We have a couple of spaces left, so we are extending the deadline for applications to March 31st, 2012.

Contact: Polly Withers, San Gemini Preservation Studies, pwithers@iirpsemail.org
Further information: please visit the course WEBSITE

http://www.italy-program.net/ceramics.html