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….

Changes to the Annals as of January 2015

Editorial After many years of remarkable service as editors, Drs. David Himmelgreen and Satish Kedia turned over AAP editorial responsibilities to the incoming editor, Dr. John Brett of the University of Colorado Denver. Format In light of the American Anthropological Association’s review of its publishing program, which reflects the significant changes in the journal publishing…

2014 AAA Annual Meeting Audio Archive

At the 2014 AAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, three NAPA sessions were audio recorded. One was a NAPA Invited Roundtable; the other two were part of a special four-part series presented in close collaboration with the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA), with presenters consisting of WAPA members. NAPA Invited Roundtable: The Practice of Anthropology:…