Getting Proximate on Israel-Palestine
Alisse Waterston, AAA President This month through next, AAA members are voting on a resolution to boycott Israeli Academic Institutions. This is a huge decision and thus it…
Tag: April
Is Humans of New York’s Refugee Series Public Anthropology?
Mohamad Hafez’s sculptural mural, Between Love and War. Photo courtesy Zareena Grewal In his recent open letter to Donald Trump, Brandon Stanton, the self-described journalist and photographer-blogger…
The Tip of an Archaeological Iceberg
Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument in Wiltshire, England. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1986. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons.…
A Tale of Two Syrias
A view of Damascus. Photo courtesy Faedah M Totah The human misery and destruction created by regime forces bombarding Syrian cities and towns has reinforced the unique status…
Abortion and Human Rights in Mexico
Feminist Approaches within and Around the Law At a recent Mexico City training session in her organization’s model of abortion accompaniment (the provision of emotional and logistical support…
Using Satellite Imagery to Monitor Syria’s Cultural Heritage
The military conflict that now consumes Syria and neighboring parts of Iraq and Turkey, the northern portion of the Fertile Crescent, are home to an extraordinarily rich archaeological…
AAA Members and the Membership Survey
My background is in sociocultural and applied linguistics, and I first joined AAA as a fifth-year doctoral student. It took me a while to learn to feel comfortable…