The Global Affairs program at George Mason University is seeking to hire an instructor for the course “Globalization in/of Europe” for Spring 2021. This is a virtual course with instructor led sessions on Monday 4:30-7:10pm. It is a stacked class (GLOA 400/615), meaning it enrolls both graduate and undergraduate students. The faculty member who was to teach the course, but has received a fellowship for the semester, has about one-third of it developed already, which could be used by the new instructor in the spring. Pay is commensurate with experience. PhD required. The semester runs January 25 to April 30, 2021. Please direct questions to Cortney Hughes Rinker, Director of the Global Affairs Program, at chughe13@gmu.edu, and if interested in the position, please send a CV to her. Do not need to be physically located in the Washington, D.C. region.

Maryland Milestones/Anacostia Trails Heritage Area Inc. is seeking an executive director to manage a regional tourism program based in the Washington DC area. Applicants must have three to five years of relevant experience, with a focus on those that have government relations experience within the heritage field. Applications can be sent to ATHAEDSearch@gmail.com Full description can be found here: http://www.anacostiatrails.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ED-Description.pdf

Call For Submissions:

Business Anthropology Topical Interest Group: 81st Annual Meeting—Society For Applied Anthropology Hampton Roads, VA and Online. Theme: Linking Social, Cultural, And Physical Ecologies

The American Anthropological Association is participating in #ShutDownAcademia/#ShutDownSTEM day today, June 10 2020, established by a grassroots movement whose goal is to eradicate  racism and systemic bias in academia and the STEM disciplines. Go to https://www.americananthro.org/ to learn more and reflect on ways to help.   How can we bring diversity, inclusion equity and justice to WAPA?  Let's reflect on where we might be discriminatory and what actions we can take to improve WAPA.  Please use use this blog as a forum to continue the conversation.

How do you feel about silos that exist in our discipline? You are invited to review audio-visual presentations on the NAPA website from a 2019 AAA Presidential Session, and add your thoughts to the discussion forum on how to break down silos in anthropology: 

https://www.practicinganthropology.org/annual-meeting/breaking-down-silos/ 

Highlights include addressing the separation of theory from practice in anthropology, and creating new collaboration models to bridge silos between academics and practitioners. There are also video remarks by Gillian Tett (Financial Times), who served as the remote discussant. 

In reviewing the presentations, ponder these questions: 

• What is anthropology's collective future? 

• How will we adopt, adapt, and create new models to develop as a collaborative discipline, using both theory and practice and reaching out to “The Other”? 

• How do we scale up collaboration within the discipline to be more engaged with each other and the world around us? 

This is a starting point. Add your reflections, thoughts, and ideas in the discussion area, and let’s see what we can break down and rebuild.

A local immigration attorney is seeking country experts with knowledge of violence in NW rural Honduras and the situation of educated gay men in Nigeria. The experts would write affidavits and testify in support of asylum seekers from those countries. Modest payment might be available.

If you can help, please contact Linda Rabben (associate research professor of anthropology, UMD, and WAPA member) at lrabben@verizon.net. She will forward your CV and contact information to the attorney and provide general information about asylum affidavits.

I have been explicitly asked to recruit more anthropologists for this conference. It will be held in DC this year (not competing with AAAs). I used to be the chair, and it would be a great venue for anyone working on energy or climate change, but we are also interested in food, transportation, and other sustainability related issues. 

BECC

WAPA would like to congratulate the five recipients of the 2017 Praxis Award. There was one first place award, and four honorable mentions (typically, a maximum of four awards are presented). This was a very competitive year, reflecting the tremendous value of the work being done by anthropologists. The awards were presented on December 1, 2017, in Washington, DC, immediately following the business meeting of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology as part of the American Anthropological Association annual meeting.

The 2017 Praxis Award recipient is Luisa Cortesi, Yale University, for the competition entry, “Dug-well Revival: Tradition, Knowledge, and Equity in Drinking Water in North Bihar, India.”

Honorable Mentions were presented to the following:

Cathleen Crain, Nathaniel Tashima, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, and Erick Lee Cummings, LTG Associates, Inc., for the project: "A Video Ethnographic Study: Raising Healthy Children in Poverty and Examples of Excellence in Addressing Childhood Wellness."

Adam B. Seligman, Rahel R. Wasserfall, and David W. Montgomery, CEDAR (Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion) Program, for the project: "Learning to Live with Difference: Taking Anthropology Out of the Classroom and Into the World."

Thurka Sangaramoorthy, U of Maryland, and the Project Team, for the project: "Marcellus Shale Public Health Study."

Olive M. Minor, International Rescue Committee (current), for the project: "Socio-cultural Barriers and Enablers in the Ebola Response."

Additional information about the awardees and their projects can be found under the Praxis Award link on this site (use the drop down menu under the "Professional Anthropology" link near the top of the page.)

PROFESSIONAL CAREER PATHS! NETWORK AND DISCOVER COLLEAGUES! 

Students, new professionals, and faculty who mentor young anthropologists: Come and meet with professional anthropologists to explore career options.  Careers Expo sponsored by NAPA and AAA Friday December 1st at the AAA meeting in the atrium just outside the main exhibit hall, 11am-4:00pm; 660 Woodley Rd NW, Washington, DC 20008

FREE ADMISSION - Register Here

NYU Washington, DC -1307 L Street Northwest

Thursday, November 30, 2017 from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)

This public event is in conjunction with the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) held in Washington DC, November 29 – December 3.  World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration is an AAA initiative designed to change the public conversation about migration, immigration, and displacement. The special event will include the screening of El mar la mar, a documentary on undocumented immigration.

Still taken from film, El mar la mar (2017)

 Over the last 20 years, the US border patrol is alleged to have retrieved 6,029 human remains from the arid terrain of the Sonoran desert that stretches across the US-Mexico border. The bodies of thousands of others who have tried to enter the US through this treacherous stretch of desert may have been obliterated by the sun before they were found.

 El mar la mar shares the harrowing stories of individuals who attempt this journey. Filmmakers Joshua Bonnetta and JP Sniadecki spent almost three years documenting this hostile environment, filming the landscape, recording wildlife, and talking to border rangers, aid workers and people-smugglers to put together a film that speaks to the devastating reality that many who set out to find a better life in the US never make it through.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/205561041