National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cheers from the NAPA Secretary! Hi all – my name is Lisa Henry and I’m serving my 2nd term as NAPA Secretary. Yep, that’s right…my 2nd term. I am also an associate professor and chair of the anthropology department at…
Hi, I’m Kevin Preister and I’m the new treasurer for NAPA. My goal during my tenure is to do as well as outgoing treasurer John Massad; John did tremendous work to develop protocols for budget development and reimbursements that will…
The most recent interview in the NAPA LinkedIn interview series has been posted. This week’s inteviewee is past president of NAPA Susan Squires. Read all about it at
What “What” Was: Musings of your retired Treasurer (John Massad) Be Treasurer of NAPA? You want me to do what? But, I had no idea what “what” was. What was it to be Treasurer? What does one actually do? So,…
The AAA annual meeting in Chicago last week was a lot of fun and a bundle of activity. The NAPA Governing Council gathers during the meeting to discuss NAPA business and activities. To prepare for the discussion, committee chairs submit…
Note: Niel Tashima is Chair of the NAPA Mentoring Committee. To navigate to the pages described below, hover over the “Careers” tab on the top right of the navigation bar above, and select the “Mentoring” or “Mentoring FAQs” drop-down link.…
Note: This post was originally published in the NAPA section of Anthropology News, which is run by the American Anthropological Association. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.…