National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Dear NAPA Members: All AAA and Section elections are now underway. We have several members running for AAA and NAPA positions. Please vote ASAP. Voting is simple. All members need to do is the following: Login to the AAA website using…
The COPAA Visiting Fellows Program is a short-term partnership opportunity involving a professional, practicing, or applied anthropologist (the Visiting Fellow) and a COPAA-Member Anthropology Department. The program is designed to be mutually beneficial to both parties. The Visiting Fellow and…
A job posting with a very short time window recently popped up. It’s the kind of job that not enough anthropologists get involved with, which is a shame. If the time was ever right for anthropologists to be Foreign Service…
You may have noticed that we have posted lots of User Experience and other types of hip job listings lately. But don’t despair; the classic anthropology jobs are still out there. As ye seek, O curious ones, so shall ye…
NAPA will be hosting a Careers Spotlight at the SfAA meetings on Saturday, March 23 from 10 until 2. It is a chance for students and early career professionals to talk to practitioners about jobs for anthropologists in various sectors. There will also…
Are there really any jobs out there for those holding a bachelor’s degree in anthropology? In a word, yup. A search today shows job listings requiring a BA/BS in anthropology for the following outfits in various parts of the U.S.,…
Biography Stan Yoder is a social anthropologist with 30 years experience conducting research in more than 20 countries in Africa on topics ranging from childhood illness and treatment, family planning, the practice of traditional healers, health program evaluation, HIV/AIDS, and…
Biography Laurie Schwede has worked for the U.S. Census Bureau for over 25 years. She currently works as a social science research analyst in the Bureau’s Center for Survey Management.
Biography Ellen’s expertise is all areas of qualitative research methods. Her research background includes educational issues, such as technical/vocational education, educational policy evaluation, and multicultural education; organizational culture, specifically high technology workplaces and the work of women; migrant and immigrant…
BiographyDr C. Timothy McKeown is a legal anthropologist whose career has focused exclusively on the development and use of explicit ethnographic methodologies to document the cultural knowledge of communities and use that knowledge to enhance policy development and implementation. He…
BiographyFor more than 35 years, including 20 years overseas, in the public, private and non-profit sectors Adam Koons has focused his career and passion on successfully assisting the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized people through leadership in poverty reduction and…
Biography Patricia Ensworth is a business anthropologist with more than 25 years of leadership and management experience for diverse teams in global organizations. Her career has focused upon the development and implementation of innovative technologies that produce new products and…