The SfAA Podcast Archive

UNT anthropology students Ricardo Carrera del Valle and Natalie White sat down with 2026 Margaret Mead Award recipient Amelia Fiske to discuss her new book, Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia. Recorded on March 20 at SfAA in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

UNT anthropology students Eva Perez Zepeda and Radhika Lade spoke with Michael Paolisso, recipient of the 2025 Sol Tax Award for Distinguished Service, about his career in natural resource management and applied anthropology. Recorded on March 19, 2026 at SfAA in Albuquerque, NM. 

UNT anthropology students Natalie White and Radhika Lade sat down with Robert Rubinstein, recipient of the 2026 Sol Tax Award for Distinguished Service, about his work bringing an anthropological lens to the field of international peacekeeping. Recorded on March 19, 2026 at SfAA in Albuquerque, NM. 

UNT anthropology students Eva Perez Zepeda and Ricardo Carrera del Valle sat down with 2026 Malinowski Award recipient Roberto Alvarez to discuss his life, his work on the border, and the future of anthropology. Recorded on March 19, 2026 at SfAA in Albuquerque, NM. 

CHAIR: MORRIS, Richard W. (MGI) SINGH PUNI, Tirath and MILLER, Christine (SCAD) Breaking Barriers: Applying Ethnographic Tools and Service Design to Integrate Community-Based Research in Medical Education HERMANNS, Kwela (SCAD) and GAGE, Marty (Lextant) What Industry and Education Really Want: Lextant & SCAD Partnership on User-Centered Design Research Training MORRIS, Richard W. (MGI) Towards a Method for Scaling Ethnography by Integrating Anthropology and Engineering DISCUSSANT: EDBERG, Mark (GWU)   For centuries ethnography has offered insights into culture, human behavior, language, social systems, and technology. Yet, they have often encountered barriers in translating their findings into policy and practice. In contrast, other disciplines (engineering and medicine) have proven methods for moving know-how into practice. Here the transfer of ethnographic findings into practice will be treated as a problem of scaling to practice, i.e., showing what applies to one or a few may also apply to many. Participants will report lessons learned and what works from their direct experience in scaling ethnography for business, education, public health, and product development.   SINGH PUNI, Tirath and MILLER, Christine (SCAD) Breaking Barriers: Applying Ethnographic Tools and Service Design to Integrate Community-Based Research in Medical Education. This study examines how ethnographic tools, applied through the lens of Service Design, can assist the medical school leadership of a satellite campus of a state university medical school to redesign their curriculum to incorporate community-based participatory research (CBR). By using mixed methods approaches such as contextual interviews, surveys, and co-creation workshops combined with journey mapping and blueprinting, the leadership can develop actionable strategies to integrate community research, fostering a deeper connection between academic structures and community needs. This approach highlights the potential for scaling ethnographic insights to reform curricula and educational institutions training future medical doctors.   HERMANNS, Kwela (SCAD) and GAGE, Marty (Lextant) What Industry and Education Really Want: Lextant & SCAD Partnership on User-Centered Design Research Training. A collaboration between SCAD and Lextant resulted in 1) curriculum re-designs to reflect actionable research and analysis approaches developed by Lextant in-house, 2) the creation of a textbook and 3) a stand-alone Certification in Design Research & Insight Translation for students. The session proposal falls into the panel’s focus on Educational Policy and Practice: Scaling ethnographic insights. The collaboration included shadowing and on-site participatory co-creation. The resulting curriculum redesign enables students to contribute to real-world problem solving in diverse sectors. This large-scale learning intervention constitutes a unique education / industry partnership within the US.   MORRIS, Richard W. (MGI) Towards a Method for Scaling Ethnography by Integrating Anthropology and Engineering. Here the author will identify recurring themes and assess them through the lenses of applied anthropology, praxis theory, and the Engineering Design Process (EDP), i.e., identify a problem, research solutions, pick the optimal solution, build a prototype, test-evaluate, implement pilot solutions, monitor and redesign (as needed), expand what works. Drawing from cognitive anthropology and discourse analysis, the author will evaluate the methods for scaling according to expressivity, precision, accuracy, relevance, endogenous acceptability, exogenous validity, and reduction to practice. He will propose a method for scaling ethnography to policy and practice. Speakers Richard Morris, MGI Kwela Hermanns Christine Miller, Savannah College of Art and Design, Professor of Design Management Mark Edberg, George Washington University, Professor

CHAIR: MORRIS, Richard W. (MGI) BRUNA, Sean (WWU) An Ethnographic Look Inside a Federal‬‭ Initiative‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ MILLER, Christine Z. and SIGHN PUNI, Tirath (SCAD) Scaling Up: From Small Starts to Big Impacts TELLIEL, Yunus Doğan (WPI) Translational Anthropology: Scaling Ethnographic Inquiry in‬ Human-Computer Interaction MORRIS, J.S.K. (UWisc), LOUIS, C.N. (CNL), and MORRIS, Richard W. (MGI) A Tool for Scaling Ethnography to Support Decision Makers in Public Education ZHENG, Mandy (SCAD) Digitalized Afterlife: A Study on the Management of Digital Preservation   For centuries ethnography has offered insights into culture, human behavior, language, social systems, and technology. Yet, they have often encountered barriers in translating their findings into policy and practice. In contrast, other disciplines (engineering and medicine) have proven methods for moving know-how into practice. Here the transfer of ethnographic findings into practice will be treated as a problem of scaling to practice, i.e., showing what applies to one or a few may also apply to many. Participants will report lessons learned and what works from their direct experience in scaling ethnography for business, education, public health, and product development.   BRUNA, Sean (WWU) An Ethnographic Look Inside a Federal‬‭ Initiative‬. In this presentation, a Senior Advisor at a federal agency explores the role of scaling from individual subject matter science to national policy and provides recommendations for anthropologists who wish to have their research inform national policy. Using a national initiative he led as a case study, he presents the strategic coordination of various components - research by scholars, national organizations, congress, career staffers, and representatives of multiple federal agencies, among others - to move from individual science to policy. While not ethnographic in the formal use of the term, he argues that the initiative's success stems from the application of ethnographic insights into the “field” of policy.   MILLER, Christine Z. and SIGHN PUNI, Tirath (SCAD) Scaling Up: From Small Starts to Big Impacts. This paper explores how student-led multidisciplinary collaborative projects with community actors can scale to have impact far beyond the classrooms in which they were initiated. We argue that applying a transdisciplinary approach that melds theoretical frameworks and methodological practice from anthropology with design’s communicative powers can boost the impact of “classroom projects” to resonate within networks over time. The temporal dimension is important to consider in thinking about scaling. Over time and through the strength of loose ties concepts and practices forged through transdisciplinary perspectives achieve scale in unanticipated ways.   TELLIEL, Yunus Doğan (WPI) Translational Anthropology: Scaling Ethnographic Inquiry in‬ Human-Computer Interaction. This paper focuses on challenges and possibilities of scaling ethnographic inquiry in two U.S.-based collaborative projects on human-computer interaction: the development of 1) an algorithm-based resource exchange platform for nonprofits and 2) of a large-scale program on (generative) AI literacy for faculty in higher education institutions. I have collaborated with industrial engineers in the first project and computer scientists in the second. Drawing on my fieldwork in these two projects, the paper shows that ethnographic inquiry can be used to create mobile and adaptable protocols for translation between different types of knowledge within the context of human-computer interaction.   MORRIS, J.S.K. (UWisc), LOUIS, C.N. (CNL), and MORRIS, Richard W. (MGI) A Tool for Scaling Ethnography to Support Decision Makers in Public Education. This paper shows how data gathered via participant observation can be refined and strengthened with parallel statistical analysis. An ethnography of STEM education in public schools of Maryland, Texas, and the District of Columbia over a three-year period is presented as the source of observations and potential insights which are in need of refinement and testing. These ethnographic insights are then evaluated in iterative fashion using principal component analysis (PCA), a method of multifactorial statistical analysis which can deepen understanding of context (co-occurrence) and salience (causality). This paper demonstrates how using ethnography and statistical analysis can enhance the conduct of ethnography and enable the transfer of qualitative research findings into practice.   ZHENG, Mandy (SCAD) Digitalized Afterlife: A Study on the Management of Digital Preservation. In today's digital age, people have on average 240 online account storing their personal data and information. However, there’s no standardized process for dealing with these digital accounts after death. The increase in online activity has created daunting obstacles in managing and maintaining a user's digital legacy. A systematic solution is urgently needed. This study explores the complexity of and necessity to manage digital legacy through a user-centered design approach. The study aims to raise awareness among users, organizations and society about the importance of digital heritage and to develop an effective, standardized framework for users to manage their digital assets. Speakers Richard Morris, MGI Sean Bruna, Western Washington University, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology (on leave) Christine Miller, Savannah College of Art and Design, Professor of Design Management Yunus Doğan Telliel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Assistant Professor J.S.K. Morris Mandy Zheng

CHAIR: PAZ LEMUS, L. Tatiana (Vanderbilt U) PAZ LEMUS, L. Tatiana (Vanderbilt U) Rethinking Childhoods and Childhood Obesity Through a Cultural Contexts of Health Approach CUJ, Miguel (Vanderbilt U) Feasting on Knowledge: Exploring Guatemala’s Maya Food Groups in a Global Approach KOSS, Sophia (Vanderbilt U) The Cultural Context of Heat: Addressing Heat in the U.S. DISCUSSANT: HARVEY, T.S. (Vanderbilt U)   This session explores how many obstacles to health and wellbeing are grounded in colonial-legacy frameworks that privilege specialized scientific inquiry and give ‘individual autonomy’ and ‘personal responsibility’ outsized roles in their contribution to health outcomes and life chances. These papers will discuss the application of a Cultural Contexts of Health (CCH) approach to issues such as conceptions of childhood, pain, heat, and nutritional science. Building more just and equitable health futures requires addressing how unresolved colonial legacies in Guatemala, the US, and across the globe impact health and wellbeing.   PAZ LEMUS, L. Tatiana (Vanderbilt U) Rethinking Childhoods and Childhood Obesity Through a Cultural Contexts of Health Approach. This paper explores the application of the Cultural Contexts of Health approach to the conceptions of Childhoods and Childhood Obesity in Global Health. Based on the WHO’s Behavioral and Cultural Insights Unit model, the Vanderbilt Cultural Contexts of Health and Wellbeing initiative aims to show how accounting for cultural contexts and lived experiences can help identify upstream sources of health inequalities. In this paper, I aim to map out the colonial legacies in producing scientific knowledge about childhoods and childhood obesity, and the challenges of including medical humanities and children’s epistemologies in public health policy. CUJ, Miguel (Vanderbilt U) Feasting on Knowledge: Exploring Guatemala’s Maya Food Groups in a Global Approach. This paper explores how the K’iche’ Maya people in Guatemala interact with the country’s food guidelines, regional food policies of classification, and nutritional global classification of food. The nutritional global and regional classification of food also influences recent food patterns of ultra-processed products in Guatemalan Indigenous communities. This biomedical approach dismisses Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies of food which classifies food according to relational taste and context. By analyzing contextual data, observing, and speaking with K’iche’ Maya ixoq’ib’ (women) in their food preparation and consumption practices, this paper highlights the cultural values of appropriate food that go unrecognized in food guidelines designed by global health experts.   KOSS, Sophia (Vanderbilt U) The Cultural Context of Heat: Addressing Heat in the U.S. As current heat waves affect different regions of the US, it is necessary to address how these impacts of heat are mostly human-created. As our bodies react to create environments and conditions that make us more vulnerable, exposure to heat can increase disparate health and wellbeing outcomes. This paper explores different angles where a cultural contexts of health approach can provide insights for heat and health policy in the US. By looking at global and local examples, I hope to highlight the potential importance of a cultural context approach to heat and health Speakers L. Tatiana Paz Lemus, Vanderbilt Cultural Contexts of Health Initiative, Program & Research Manager Miguel Cuj, Student Sophia Koss, Vanderbilt University T.S. Harvey, Vanderbilt University, Associate Professor of Medical and Linguistic Anthropology

Kelly Fayard University of Denver Kelly Fayard is speaking at (W-132) Preserving Heritage: Voices of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians March 26, 2025 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm Grand Ballroom II

CHAIRS: ROBERTSON, William (U Memphis) and FLEURIET, K. Jill (UTSA) ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: FLEURIET, K. Jill (UTSA), LAMBERT-PENNINGTON, Katherine and ROBERTSON, William (U Memphis)   Many students gain hands-on experience and training in applied anthropology through the dozens of field schools offered around the world. Field schools are incredibly helpful for revitalizing applied anthropology because they present the next generation of applied anthropologists with opportunities for reflection on the discipline’s past while they help to build our discipline’s future. This roundtable brings together applied anthropologists who have established field schools around the globe to share insights and advice on how to begin a new field school as well as how to run a field school once it is established. Speakers William Robertson, University of Memphis, Assistant Professor Katherine Lambert-Pennington, University of Memphis Full-time , Director School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy and Associate Professor of Anthropology

CHAIR: ILAHIANE, Hsain (U Arizona) JUNG, Yuson (Wayne State U), BATTS, Dawn (Milestone Capital Growth Inst), THOMAS, Frankee, REIMUELLER, Kayleigh, UNDERWOOD, Ricky, EDMOND, Nakim, and WALTER, Morgan (Wayne State U), GONZALEZ, Yoel (Independent) Beyond Hustling and the Individual Entrepreneur: Building a Black Tech Ecosystem in Detroit MINGEE, Jess (UIUC) Compatibility of the Entrepreneurial Mindset With Development Projects in Non-Industrialized Communities: A Case of Zambia ILAHIANE, Hsain (U Arizona) and MILLER, Shane (MS State U) Agent-Based Reality (ABR) in Real Life (IRL): Modelling Financial Uncertainties in the Slums of Greater Casablanca, Morocco BRAZELTON, Elizabeth “Lisa” (UA) Hemp for Hope: Agency Among Alabama Minority Hemp Farmers   JUNG, Yuson (Wayne State U), BATTS, Dawn (Milestone Capital Growth Inst), THOMAS, Frankee, REIMUELLER, Kayleigh, UNDERWOOD, Ricky, EDMOND, Nakim, and WALTER, Morgan (Wayne State U), GONZALEZ, Yoel (Independent) Beyond Hustling and the Individual Entrepreneur: Building a Black Tech Ecosystem in Detroit. While various efforts and initiatives attempt to close the racial wealth gap through economic growth in the US, little is known about underrepresented founders’ distinct experiences in tech ecosystems. The unique aspect of scalability in tech ventures presents both opportunities and challenges, especially for building an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem. Based on a qualitative study with the stakeholders of Detroit’s emerging Black tech ecosystem, this paper discusses their values and practices rooted in Detroit’s deep history and culture of entrepreneurship to demonstrate the importance of reframing entrepreneurship and wealth generation beyond the individual.   MINGEE, Jess (UIUC) Compatibility of the Entrepreneurial Mindset With Development Projects in Non-Industrialized Communities: A Case of Zambia. Within international development work, Western organizations have the difficult task of meeting their own objectives and process requirements while designing a solution that supports community needs. This presentation discusses an autoethnographic investigation of a for-profit startup organization implementing a project in rural Zambia, focusing on how decision-making is driven by the organization’s needs. Despite a profit model centered around community impact, the organization has displayed limited bandwidth to thoughtfully assess local conditions. Instead, they utilize cookie-cutter techniques, prioritizing prompt results to please the funding entities which support the organization – even if those results do not reflect local perception of impact   ILAHIANE, Hsain (U Arizona) and MILLER, Shane (MS State U) Agent-Based Reality (ABR) in Real Life (IRL): Modelling Financial Uncertainties in the Slums of Greater Casablanca, Morocco. In this paper, we challenge conventional assumptions about how low-income Moroccan households earn, spend, borrow and save money and we provide novel ways of “seeing” financial instability flows in real life. Based on ethnographic interviews, financial diaries, and the use of principle component analysis and Sankey diagrams, we graphically categorize and visualize flows of money between households of different socio-economic levels in a world marked by casual labor. We also underscore the utility of financial diaries in revealing the continuous upswings and downswings of household budgets as well as the coping strategies mobilized by various households against precariousness.   BRAZELTON, Elizabeth “Lisa” (UA) Hemp for Hope: Agency Among Alabama Minority Hemp Farmers. Hemp farming is risky business. The 2023 USDA Hemp Report showed a 71% decrease in hemp farming from 2022, and Alabama’s permitted hemp farmers decreased by 90% from 2019-2024. Newly legalized in 2014/2018, hemp was touted as a replacement crop for tobacco. Historically, Southern Black farmers were the predominate U.S. tobacco cultivators, but they are a minority among hemp farmers. I conducted field ethnography with five Black Alabama hemp farmers to examine racial biases and identify farmers’ challenges to success. I found that these farmers are redefining their roles reflected in how they enact agency in a cannabis equity discourse. Speakers Hsain Ilahiane, University of Arizona Yuson Jung, Wayne State University, Associate Professor Dawn Batts, Milestone Growth Capital Institute Frankee Thomas, TechTown Detroit, Customer Discovery Specialist Kayleigh Reimueller, Wayne State University, Grader - CRJ 1010 and 2550 Ricky Underwood Nakim Edmond, Milestone Growth Capital Institute, Research Intern Morgan Walter, Wayne State University , Business Anthropology Jess Mingee, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Doctoral Candidate Elizabeth Brazelton, University of Alabama

David Natcher David Natcher is speaking at (TH-84) In the Shadow of Development: The Persistence of First Nations’ Subsistence Economies in the Peace Country, Canada March 27, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:15 pm Skyline II

CHAIR: PODRABSKY, Dylan (U Oregon) ISLAM, Afsana (TX State U) Vitiligo and the Gender-Based Socio-Cultural Stigma: Contemporary Health Seeking Behaviour and Treatment Practices in Bangladesh NEHUSHTAN, Hilla (U Pitt) Body Size Perceptions Among American Jewish Women PODRABSKY, Dylan, HERBERT, Claire, SNODGRASS, Josh, and WEAVER, Lesley Jo (U Oregon) Symbolic Violence, Embodied Consequences: Stigma, Houselessness, and Health GANLEY, Karla (UF Coll of Med) “Unreliable Historians”: How Physicians Use Patient Clinical Notes as Discursive Tools for Moral Education and Denial of Care   ISLAM, Afsana (TX State U) Vitiligo and the Gender-Based Socio-Cultural Stigma: Contemporary Health Seeking Behaviour and Treatment Practices in Bangladesh. Vitiligo is an autoimmune disorder that results in skin depigmentation, affecting 1-2% of the global population. In Bangladesh, vitiligo patients frequently endure stigma, stress, depression, shame, isolation, and low self-esteem, with notable gender disparities. This research employs a mixed-method design from a medical anthropological perspective to explore the lived experiences of vitiligo patients and the associated stigma in Bangladesh. It investigates pluralistic treatment practices and health-seeking behaviors while elucidating the patient-doctor relationship and therapy management dynamics. Study findings indicate that vitiligo patients face significant stigma in contexts such as marriage, employment, and public life, exacerbated by misconceptions about the disease’s contagiousness.   NEHUSHTAN, Hilla (U Pitt) Body Size Perceptions Among American Jewish Women. Historical studies reveal socio-medical views that associated Jews with immorality, fatness, and lust, connecting them to stereotypes of blackness and immigrants and positioning them as outsiders to the white bodily ideals in the U.S. The current study explores perceptions of bodywork among Jewish women in North America today. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews, this study ties the scholarly worlds of medical anthropology, religious studies, fat studies, and gendered bodywork and asks how religious Jewish women in the US perceive body size and negotiate the intersection of gendered expectations, religious prescriptions, food restrictions, and community ideals? Preliminary results focus on the pressure for thinness before wedlock, challenges with parenthood amid obesity scares and diet culture defiance, and complex relations with parents and family members about body and self-image.   PODRABSKY, Dylan, HERBERT, Claire, SNODGRASS, Josh, and WEAVER, Jo (U Oregon) Symbolic Violence, Embodied Consequences: Stigma, Houselessness, and Health. Stigma constantly exposes people experiencing houselessness (PEH) to symbolic violence – individual or collective actions which reinforce and reproduce internalized understandings of social values and hierarchies. This presentation draws on interviews conducted with government officials and PEH in a US city with a high rate of unsheltered houselessness. Thematic analysis revealed that symbolic violence enacted through stigmatization becomes embodied in PEH, leading to disproportionate health risks and further marginalization. This presentation seeks to illuminate how stigma functions as a form of symbolic violence, how this becomes embodied by the stigmatized, and how this social devaluation is translated into unequal material conditions.   GANLEY, Karla (UF Coll of Med) “Unreliable Historians”: How Physicians Use Patient Clinical Notes as Discursive Tools for Moral Education and Denial of Care. Clinical notes written by physicians are often regarded as objective records of patient health status. But what happens when the patient gives the physician an account of illness that doesn’t adhere to expected chronotopes of linear time and divisible space? By analyzing the case of a homeless patient who sought treatment for substance misuse, I show how this can led to testimonial injustice and denial of care. I will also show how clinical notes are discursive tools that reinforce culturally defined notions of what types of illness stories “count,” which patients are “morally responsible,” and who is “worthy” of care. Speakers Dylan Podrabsky, University of Oregon Jo Weaver, University of Oregon, Associate Professor Afsana Islam, Texas State University Hilla Nehushtan, Religions Studies Department, University of Pittsburgh Karla Ganley, University of Florida, Doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology

Charles MenziesProfessor, The University of British Columbia Charles Menzies is speaking at (TH-114) Confronting Capitalism, Imperialism, and Settler Colonialism: First Nations Authority and Jurisdiction on the Northwest Coast of Canada March 27, 2025 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm Skyline II

CHAIRS: CHARNLEY, Susan and CERVENY, Lee (USFS PNRS) MCLAIN, Rebecca (Independent) Possibilities and Uncertainties in the Emerging Bigleaf Maple Sugaring Industry CHARNLEY, Susan (USFS PNRS) Community Forestry in the Pacific Northwest: Addressing the “Leftovers” Problem SIZEK, Julia, COUGHLAN, Michael, and HUBER-STEARNS, Heidi (U Oregon) Planning Under Fire: How Changing Fire Regimes Reshape Forest and Community Planning Across the Pacific Northwest CERVENY, Lee (USFS PNRS), ARMATAS, Christopher (USFS RMRS), THOMAS, Alyssa (USFS PNRS), RANDRUP, Kristina (UW), and KAMINSKI, Abigail (USFS PNRS) Socio-Spatial Approaches to Engage the Public Around Post-Wildfire Planning in National Forests of the Pacific Northwest ANDERSON, Robert (USFS NRS) Contested Environmentalisms: Reconciling Care, Killing, and Science in Ecological Management   The Pacific Northwest is renowned for its temperate rainforests that harbor rich biodiversity, provide numerous ecosystem services, and form an integral part of the regional identity, while being culturally diverse and growing in population. Managing forests to meet multiple social and ecological goals and interests is challenging. In recent years, the region has met with significant forces of ecological and social change, with implications for community well-being, livelihoods, resource access, local identity, and the region’s forests, including wildlife. This session illustrates how social scientists are applying their research to address a cross-section of forest management issues in the region. MCLAIN, Rebecca (Independent) Possibilities and Uncertainties in the Emerging Bigleaf Maple Sugaring Industry. Maple sugaring is spreading from northeastern North America to the Pacific Northwest (PNW). The emerging PNW maple sugaring industry centers around bigleaf maple which occurs abundantly on small privately owned forests. This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with bigleaf maple sap producers to understand their motivations for engaging in maple sugaring, the types of resources they mobilize, and the logistical and marketing challenges they face. Our study suggests that a thriving bigleaf maple sugar industry could support ecological sustainability while enabling small-scale forest owners to reduce the livelihood risks associated with ecological and economic uncertainties brought about by climate change.   CHARNLEY, Susan (USFS PNRS) Community Forestry in the Pacific Northwest: Addressing the “Leftovers” Problem. The forest products industry, and controversy over industrial forest management, have a long history in the Pacific Northwest. Seeking control over how local forests are managed, communities have been purchasing former timber company land to establish community forests, managing them in an environmentally sound way for local community benefit. A key challenge is obtaining funding for land acquisition and operations. Community groups typically can only afford marginal or cutover forestland that others don’t want: “leftovers,” which don’t generate sufficient revenue to be financially sustainable. I explore this challenge and potential policy solutions to support community forestry in the Pacific Northwest.   SIZEK, Julia, COUGHLAN, Michael, and HUBER-STEARNS, Heidi (U Oregon) Planning Under Fire: How Changing Fire Regimes Reshape Forest and Community Planning Across the Pacific Northwest. Changing wildfire regimes are disrupting communities and surrounding forests across the Pacific Northwest, upending livelihoods, economies, and forest management plans. As summer events are cancelled, recreation-based businesses shut down, and timber sales burn before they can be harvested, both communities and land managers are faced hard decisions of how and what to prioritize in these landscapes. Drawing on case study research from the 30-year social and economic monitoring for the Northwest Forest Plan, this presentation will examine how federal agency employees and community members attempt to mitigate the disruptive impacts of wildfires through new planning processes.   CERVENY, Lee (USFS PNRS), ARMATAS, Christopher (USFS RMRS), THOMAS, Alyssa (USFS PNRS), RANDRUP, Kristina (UW), and KAMINSKI, Abigail (USFS PNRS) Socio-Spatial Approaches to Engage the Public Around Post-Wildfire Planning in National Forests of the Pacific Northwest. Over the past decade, wildfire events have increased in frequency and intensity in Pacific Northwest forests. National forest managers rely on a variety of inputs to guide plans for postfire restoration and recovery in these burned landscapes. We developed a public engagement approach using a socio-spatial tool (human ecology mapping) to identify priority sites and elicit ecosystem benefits as well as preferences for forest treatments and investments. Our presentation focuses on applications in two national forests -- the Mendocino (California) and the Willamette (Oregon). We describe the approach, share project highlights, and discuss applicability to other forest settings. ANDERSON, Robert (USFS NRS) Contested Environmentalisms: Reconciling Care, Killing, and Science in Ecological Management. Environmental managers often grapple with the need to kill one form of nonhuman life to care for other desirable life. I examine these biopolitical tensions via multiple examples from forest restoration and wildlife management in forested ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest and across the United States. Debates over the science behind lethal ecological decisions are intertwined with questions about governmental authority and competing ideas about which non-human lives are desirable. Examining how “the science” emerges as the focal point of debates over killing of nonhuman life offers insight into how scientific knowledge is deployed and contested in American environmental politics. Speakers Susan Charnley, U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Research Social Scientist Lee Cerveny, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Research Social Scientist Rebecca McLain, National Policy Consensus Center, Portland State University, Research Program Director Julia Sizek, University of Oregon, Research Associate Robert Anderson

Andrew GardnerProfessor of Anthropology, University of Puget Sound Andrew Gardner is speaking at (TH-09) Lost Ethnographers in the Anthropological Tradition March 27, 2025 9:00 am – 10:45 am Captain Gray II (Duniway Hotel) (TH-129) P.K. New Award Presentation March 27, 2025 5:45 pm – 7:30 pm Pavillion West (F-12) Professional Strangers in Rural America: A Redux March 28, 2025 9:00 am – 10:45 am Grand Ballroom II (F-69) Applied Anthropological Research Design in the Middle East and North Africa March 28, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:15 pm Captain Gray II (Duniway Hotel)

MODERATORS: WIES, Jennifer (EKU) HÀ, Tiên-Dung (Stanford U) Power of Identification: Transnational Science and Sacred Obligations in Identifying Vietnamese War Dead GILLARD, Sharon (UNCC) Mental Health Stigma Disparities: Cultural Identities and Cultural Values Among Black Women THOMPSON-CAMPITOR, Carly (NAU) “You’re One of Us”: A Reflexive Account of Conducting Insider Research With Lyme Disease Advocates DISCUSSANT: GARDNER, Andrew (U Puget Sound) Speakers Jennifer Wies, Eastern Kentucky University, Associate Provost and Professor of Anthropology Tien-Dung Ha Sharon Gillard Carly Thompson-Campitor, Northern Arizona University Andrew Gardner, University of Puget Sound, Professor of Anthropology

Invisible Battles: Disability, Power, and  Powerlessness (Disability TIG) Speakers: CHAIR: KLEIN, Wendy (CSULB) LILLY, Samantha (U Michigan) A Case Study on the  Efficacy of Argentina’s National Mental Healthcare  Law ‘Ley Nº 26.657’ MCILRATH, Grace (Luther Coll) Invisible Battles of  “Ordinary” Mothers: Stories of Disability Advocacy in  Iowa ROBERTS, Michelle (UKY) Everyday Ablenationalism:  “Drawing a Check” in Appalachian Kentucky DREXLER, Livy (MI State U) Not Like Any Other  School: How the Environment at a Tribal School  Challenges Conceptions of Disability KLEIN, Wendy (CSULB) Autism and Bilingual  Socialization: Perspectives and Practices in Bilingual  Families Abstract MCILRATH, Grace (Luther Coll) Invisible Battles of “Ordinary”  Mothers: Stories of Disability Advocacy in Iowa. This paper  discusses the results from conversations with 17 mothers of  children with special health-care needs in Iowa. Interviews  covered a range of themes, including pregnancy, discovering  the disability, doctors, schools, the child, speaking about the  disability, parenting, and leadership. Many mothers expressed  their longing for a “normal” life doing things “normal families”  often take for granted. A fascinating facet of our explorations were the lessons learned about the invisibility of social movements and activism for disability rights in the United States. The erasure of the dominant role of women leaders fighting for maternal and child healthcare rights was astounding. [email protected] (W107)   Our Mission The SfAA Podcast Project is a student-led initiative to provide audio records of sessions from the Annual Meetings to the public, free of charge. We strive to include a broad range of interests from diverse perspectives with the intent of extending conversations throughout the years. Our ultimate goal is to make these dialogues accessible to a global audience.

PRIBILSKY, Jason (Whitman Coll) Towards a Cultural Ballistics of  Guns. This panel brings together new research into gun culture  and the aftereffects of gun violence in the contemporary US.  In the spaces between the protracted gun debate between  unfettered access to firearms and calls for gun control, we  highlight ways ethnographic attention can serve to reveal  emerging structures of feelings around guns whereby citizens  may be simultaneously “shocked and outraged” but also  largely accepting of the conditions of gun violence. We also  address new forms of visibility in the wake of gun violence  that reveal hidden and as yet unexplored manifestations of the  proliferation of firearm dangers. [email protected] (W-78)

MARKS, Alejandra (NMSU) Transformations in the Reproductive  Domain: Abortion, Birth, and Advocacy in the Post-Roe Era. In  recent years, the legal landscape for abortion has been rapidly  changing. While some countries like Mexico, Argentina, and  Ireland are liberalizing their policies, others, like the U.S. and  Poland, are moving toward greater restriction. To understand  the future of reproductive rights in these times, it is crucial  to examine the cultural and political history contributing to  the reversal of rights and to note the responses this reversal  provokes. This panel will draw on interdisciplinary expertise in  both US and non-US contexts to discuss how their research on  birthing practices, abortion policies, and activist movements  inform anthropological contributions to advocacy efforts,  locally and globally. [email protected] (TH-102)

MCMULLIN, Juliet (UCI) The Meaning of Data Is “to Give”: Health  Equity in an Era of Community Engagement. My paper engages  the call for increased inclusion of community in research as  critical to health equity and a question of data - a question of how we give. I consider the application of community engagement and data gathering within the framework of health equity, then turn to the implications of the call to expand the possibilities for  epistemic and institutional change. In an era of everyone and  potentially no one doing health equity, we must ask what health  equity means as a right when its manifestations are always at the  edge of becoming. (TH-91)

DURBIN, Trevor (KSU) “I know it’s not ethnography!”:  Reimagining Ethnographic Research and Training beyond  Writing Culture. While critiques of ethnographic methods  abound, the primacy of scholarly norms for ethnography  have persisted. Many professionals who use ethnographic  methods, however, may never write ethnography but instead  use ethnographic research for other purposes. As a result, the  practice of ethnographic research, on one hand, and methods  training and publication standards, on the other, have diverged.  Although a well-known problem in some circles, more  explicit attention is needed to the limits and possibilities of  ethnographic research that is intentionally emancipated from  ethnography as a genre of representation. This panel considers  these limits and possibilities of ethnographic research beyond  writing culture. [email protected] (TH-48)

OTAÑEZ, Marty and BURGES, Nikketa (CU Denver) A Graphic  Novel about Overdose Prevention: A Vision for an Arts-Based  Project Co-Created by Medical Anthropologists and People  Who Use Drugs. We share a draft graphic novel co-created  by anthropologists and people who use drugs (PWUDs). This  work derives from 76 participants who completed interviews  in Colorado in 2021. Participants used some kind of mixture  of heroin, methamphetamines, cocaine, and fentanyl and experienced one or more overdoses within the past year.  The graphic novel addresses overdose reversals via naloxone,  stigma, perspectives on harm reduction interventions, and  the drug-user activist movement. By previewing our work and  soliciting opinions from the audience, we will design a graphic  novel that humanizes PWUDs, promotes safer drug supply, and  calls for ending the war on drugs. [email protected] (TH-18)

SHATTUCK, Daniel (PIRE & UNM), RAMOS, Mary (UNM), and  WILLGING, Cathleen (PIRE & UNM) Successes and Challenges  in Recruitment of School-Based Health Centers for Research  Supporting LGBTQ+ Health Equity. School-based health  centers (SBHCs) are at the frontlines of healthcare delivery  and prevention services for young patients across the United  States, including those identifying as LGBTQ+. However, as a vital  behavioral, sexual, and reproductive healthcare resource, SBHCs  are in the crosshairs of pushback against LGBTQ+ rights and  gender-affirming and reproductive healthcare. This presentation  explores the impact of sociopolitical factors on recruiting SBHCs  in New Mexico to participate in efforts to enhance services and  support for LGBTQ+ student patients. Despite pressures from  “parents’ rights” groups and funding uncertainty, SBHCs have  persisted in recognizing the need to address LGBTQ+ health  equity. [email protected] (T-62)

OWUOR, Patrick (Wayne State U), NYAGOL, Hellen and OBONDO,  Doreen (Pamoja Community-Based Org), ONYANGO, Elizabeth (U Alberta), ORERO, Wicklife, OWUOR, Judith, and ODHIAMBO,  Silvia (Pamoja Community-Based Org), BOATENG, Godfred (York  U) Influence of Housing Insecurity on HIV Treatment Outcomes  among People Living with HIV in Kisumu, Kenya. Housing  insecurity (HI) is inextricably linked to health risk behaviors and  poor health outcomes. However, its influence on HIV treatment  remains underexplored. This study qualitatively examined the  impact of HI on HIV treatment outcomes among people living  with HIV in Kisumu, Kenya. We conducted in-depth interviews and  focus group discussions with adult men (n=20) and women (45)  living with HIV. Participants reported feeling stressed, ashamed,  and unable to continue HIV treatment because of housing needs.  HI increases the risk of poor health outcomes among people  living with HIV. Improving HI may play a critical role in enhancing  HIV treatment outcomes. [email protected] (F-78)

GARDNER, Andrew (U Puget Sound) and CHECKER, Melissa (CUNY) The Past and Future of Applied Anthropology. What  integral elements might we discern from applied anthropology’s  long and storied history? In this roundtable discussion,  contributors endeavor to delineate and describe those elements by revisiting one or more of the specific projects,  the mentors, or the ideological junctures they encountered  in their own trajectory through the discipline. Asked to look  both forward and backward, contributors speak to what most  clearly illuminated the applied value of anthropology in their  life experience, and by contemplating what our planetary  future might portend, they consider how anthropology might  be best equipped to both assess and address its challenges. [email protected] (F-62)

BIESEL, Shelly Annette (NPS) Mainstreaming Indigenous  Ecological Knowledge: Considering Possibilities and Ethical  Dilemmas. Evolving over millennia, indigenous ecological  knowledge (IEK) is part of a broader “native science” that  researchers and planners are exploring for combatting climate  change and meeting the needs of a rapidly changing planet.  For example, the White House recently released guidance for  applying IEK in federal programs. However, mainstreaming  indigenous ecological knowledge poses ethical dilemmas for  scholars, practitioners, and indigenous communities. This  panel invites scholars, practitioners, and indigenous peoples  practicing or working within indigenous knowledge systems  to consider the moral and ethical dilemmas of incorporating  cultural knowledge into mainstream applications. shelly. [email protected] (F-48)

REYES-FOSTER, Beatriz (UCF) and BRONDO, Keri (U Memphis)  The Anthropology of Polarization in US Higher Education:  Lessons for a Rapidly Changing Landscape. Political polarization  in the United States has stirred conflict in and against  universities. These new culture wars unfold around inflection  points such as critical race theory, restriction of access to  reproductive and gender-affirming care, accusations of cancel  culture or “woke” politics, and more. Faculty and students  must contend with hostility towards concepts and ideas once  thought settled such as “intersectionality,” “privilege,” and  “structural racism.” Legislation aimed to surveil and intimidate  faculty has resulted in a chilling effect, as faculty leave their  positions or cancel courses. Panelists working on research on  polarization in higher education share strategies for navigating  research and teaching in these critical moments. [email protected] (F-02)

MCCHESNEY, Lea (Maxwell Museum, UNM) Enchanted Futures:  Transforming Museum Practice through Relational Curation.  Groundbreaking exhibitions are transforming museums around  indigenous arts. School of Advanced Research collaborated  with the Vilcek Foundation to mount Grounded in Clay through  its 60+ member Pottery Collective of artists, scholars, and  knowledge bearers, debuting at the Museum of Indian Arts  & Culture before its national tour. The Maxwell Museum’s  Families in Pueblo Pottery is being developed through the  co-curation of 20+ Pueblo artists, scholars, and community  members with museum staff. We explore the relational curation central to these projects: new relationships and relationalities;  transforming colonial museums into indigenized spaces; the  kinds of support available; and prospects for museum futures. [email protected] (T-92)

O’CONNELL, Caela (UNCCH) Unmoored: The Unmaking of Our  Environmental Futures After Disaster. What happens to ongoing  environmental conservation initiatives when disasters strike and  how does this disrupt socio-environmental futures? If a modeler’s  goal is to be able to say what will happen efficiently and accurately,  mine is the inverse. I aim to take what is known and has happened  already— the legacy of underlying inequalities and extraction  and un-model it. In doing so, I am imagining the infrastructure,  community, and culture of a future time that could be radically  different by leveraging the power of the anthropological lens to  demonstrate fictive un-made futures as a way to ensure they  never come to be. [email protected] (TH-77)

VAN VLACK, Kathleen (NAU), LIM, Heather (Living Heritage  Rsch Council), and STOFFLE, Richard (U Arizona) Fostering  Social and Environmental Justice, Parts I-II. Franz Boaz: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is a new book by  Zumwalt that documents the foundation of professional  anthropology in the United States. Boaz was committed to  social justice and actively pursued applied research to improve  the condition of unjustly treated Cultural Groups. He began a  tradition of anthropologists who work for and with people to  improve their social and environmental conditions. Papers in  this session document the continuation of this professional  tradition. [email protected], hyealim.lim@gmail. com, [email protected] (W-91, W-121)

VAN VLACK, Kathleen (NAU), LIM, Heather (Living Heritage  Rsch Council), and STOFFLE, Richard (U Arizona) Fostering  Social and Environmental Justice, Parts I-II. Franz Boaz: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is a new book by  Zumwalt that documents the foundation of professional  anthropology in the United States. Boaz was committed to  social justice and actively pursued applied research to improve  the condition of unjustly treated Cultural Groups. He began a  tradition of anthropologists who work for and with people to  improve their social and environmental conditions. Papers in  this session document the continuation of this professional  tradition. [email protected], hyealim.lim@gmail. com, [email protected] (W-91, W-121)

2023 SfAA Awards Ceremony   The Awards Ceremony is the high point of the annual meeting. President Wies will preside. The Program will recognize and feature the winners of the Margaret Mead Award, Sol Tax Award, and the Bronislaw Malinowski Award. The Bronislaw Malinowski Award will be presented to Dr. Lenore Manderson, University of Witwatersrand. The Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Dr. Orit Tamir, New Mexico Highlands University. The Margaret Mead Award will be presented to Dr. Michael Crawley of Durham University.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March  2023.

Border Dystopias: Indians, Anarchists, and Revolution in the Californias Michael Kearney Memorial Lecture   MODERATOR: NAGENGAST, Carole (UNM) KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ALVAREZ, Roberto (UCSD) COMMENTATORS: ZAVELLA, Patricia (UCSC), HEYMAN, Josiah (UTEP)   ALVAREZ, Roberto (UCSD) Border Dystopias: Indians, Anarchists, and Revolution in the Californias. This presentation addresses untold stories of “histories without people,” not “people without history.” Based on interviews conducted in the 1970’s with Rosa Arballo Salgado, a native PaiPai woman from Baja California, I trace and re-examine the early 1900’s in the Californias. This was the incipient period of the Mexican Revolution. Armed Interventions and raids into Baja California by the liberal party of Ricardo Flores Magon, led to clashes with Federal Forces through the northern territory. This included socialist workers of the world, American “Wobblies” and adventure seekers who were directed by Magon from Los Angeles. The invasion of Baja California and “capture” of both Mexicali and Tijuana, led the liberal forces towards the then capital Ensenada. Written histories and ethnographic work describe the clashes and violence in now forgotten mining towns and the Sierra Juarez. This was the range of native Yuman speaking groups caught in the insurrection. Rosa’s story provides a native perspective and illustrates the long-term, generational effects of revolution and insurrection that continue to this day. Her story underlines the central role of women in the struggle. Specific anthropological themes I address include resilience and perseverance, native voice and insider research. Utopian visions of the border contrast with the dystopian outcomes and add a new narrative to Mexico-U.S. Border studies.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Collaborative Community Engagement: The Work of the Miami University Center for Community Engagement Robert A. and Beverly H. Hackenberg Prize and Lecture   CHAIRS: BLAKE, John (Miami U-OH Ctr for Community Engagement) and SCHWARTZ, Tammy (Miami U-OH) PANELISTS: DARDEN, Dorothy and NEUMEIER, Bonnie (Community Artists)   BLAKE, John (Miami U-OH Ctr for Community Engagement) and SCHWARTZ, Tammy (Miami U-OH) Collaborative Community Engagement: The Work of the Miami University Center for Community Engagement. The sustained partnerships of the Miami University Center for Community Engagement were born through acts of solidarity between faculty and community leaders in the Over-the-Rhine People’s Movement— a multi-faceted, grassroots struggle to protect human rights in a Cincinnati neighborhood marginalized by systemic discrimination and disinvestment. Miami faculty and community leaders connected across their positions in academia and in community- based organizations, engaging in mutual learning and collaboration for nearly 40 years. With this relationship-building came a vision for what we call Collaborative Community Engagement, with new models of education for university students working alongside community members for movement- building and social change.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Engaging Communities to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health (MASSH)   CHAIR: HOLBROOK, Emily (USF) ALTMAN, Heidi M. (GA Southern U) Sex and Childbirth Education and Maternal Health  HOLBROOK, Emily (USF) Delivering Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare to Resettled Refugee Women through Collaborative Research PESANTES, Amalia (Dickinson Coll) and GIANELLA, Camila (Pontificia U Catolica del Peru) Providing Sexual and Reproductive Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Lima, Peru   HOLBROOK, Emily (USF) Delivering Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare to Resettled Refugee Women through Collaborative Research. This research explores the intersections of biopolitics, citizenship, and feminist perspectives on women’s health that result in poor health outcomes for resettled refugee women in the United States. Ethnographic research among female-headed households in the refugees from the Congo Wars community will be used to develop, pilot, and evaluate a health-at-home program for sexual and reproductive healthcare through collaboration with a local medical outreach program. This research will highlight the ways that anthropological theories help to better understand factors in health disparities in vulnerable communities and how an applied approach can work with community partners to mitigate barriers to care for those most in need.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Explaining Anthropology to Others: Developing Our Disciplinary Narrative-A Career Readiness Commission Panel   CHAIRS: NOLAN, Riall (Purdue U) and STUDEBAKER, Jennifer (Ewing Marion Kauffman Fdn) PANELISTS: NOLAN, Riall (Purdue U) and STUDEBAKER, Jennifer (Ewing Marion Kauffman Fdn)   NOLAN, Riall (Purdue U) and STUDEBAKER, Jennifer (Ewing Marion Kauffman Fdn) Explaining Anthropology to Others: Developing Our Disciplinary Narrative-A Career Readiness Commission Panel. Recent Commission research revealed that many practitioners don’t feel they were well prepared in school to explain anthropology to recruiters, supervisors, or workplace peers. This panel will present our findings, and then invite participants to join in a discussion of how to a) explain our discipline to those unfamiliar with it; and b) provide them with concrete examples of its usefulness in the workplace. Instructors who teach practice and application will find this session useful, as will practitioners, and students intending to pursue careers in practice.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

History, Ideology, and Public Space at the War Frontiers   CHAIRS: KLUMBYTE, Neringa and MORRIS, Ashley (Miami U-OH) DAY, Scott and UNDERWOOD, Ricky (Miami U-OH) History and Mockery of Soviet Monuments in a Public Space MORRIS, Ashley (Miami U-OH) The Presence of Ukraine in Everyday Life in the Baltic States and Germany: A Case Study. ABBOTT, Malia (Miami U-OH) The War in Ukraine and the Politics of History in Lithuania DISCUSSANT: KLUMBYTE, Neringa (Miami U-OH)   KLUMBYTE, Neringa and MORRIS, Ashley (Miami U-OH) History, Ideology, and Public Space at the War Frontiers. The session will present explorations of how historical narratives and political ideologies are articulated in the public space in the Baltics after the war erupted in Ukraine in 2022. All papers are based on this summer study in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia by four Miami University Students.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Innovative Approaches in Immigration Research (Migration & Int’l Dialogue TIG)   CHAIR: HASSOUN, Rosina (SVSU) HASSOUN, Rosina (SVSU) Applied Anthropology Aiding Refugees and Asylum Seekers KNAUER, Lisa Maya (UMass-Dartmouth) Anthropological Knowledge and Immigrant Justice: Turning Activist Anthropology into Activist Pedagogy SOSA, Gloria (CSULA) Decolonizing Research through the Analysis of Undoculeaders’ Oral Histories MONTANOLA, Silvana (UMD) Navigating Legal Deservingness within Latinx Immigration Advocacy in the DMV   HASSOUN, Rosina (SVSU) Applied Anthropology Aiding Refugees and Asylum Seekers. With over 2.2 million refugees in the world today, there are diverse ways that applied anthropologists can aid refugees and asylum seekers. Applied anthropologists bring the weight of anthropological inquiry, expert witness, narrative analysis, network building, and community engagement to the role of helping refugees and asylum seekers. Medical anthropologists bring the ability to elucidate trauma narratives of survivors of war. This work builds upon a history of over 30 years of engagement with refugees including Arabs, Sudanese, and Somalis in research conducted in Metropolitan Detroit and Lansing, Michigan.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Multifaceted Water Insecurity: Local and Regional Concerns for Health, Equity, and Justice, Part II An SfAA Critical Conversation   CHAIRS: WILFONG, Matthew (ASU) and ROQUE, Anais (OH State U) THOMPSON, Deborah (LiKEN) Blessed and Stressed by Water in Our Hollers: Cross-sectoral Collaborations and Knowledge Sharing in Eastern Kentucky DISCUSSANTS: CORNETT, Jeremy C. (UKY), Ohio Water Environment Association, Drink Local. Drink Tap.   WILFONG, Matthew (ASU) and ROQUE, Anais (OH State U) Multifaceted Water Insecurity: Local and Regional Concerns for Health, Equity, and Justice, Parts I-II. Water’s essentiality for sustaining life allows it to pervade into every aspect of the everyday, taking various shapes, forms, and identities. As a result, water challenges, as seen through drought, flooding, and within household experiences, produce a profound multiplicity of effects on our everyday lives where water plays a physical, cultural, and symbolic role. In this critical conversation, we seek to explore the multifaceted nature of water with a focus on insecurity - inadequate access to safe and reliable water for human health and ecological well being - including the underlying political, economic, and material causes and the resulting sociocultural and biophysical impacts. We aim to investigate the socioeconomic and sociopolitical assemblages that create various forms of water insecurity (affordability, reliability, adequacy, and/or safety of water) and the resulting effects on environmental and human health outcomes. To do this, this critical conversation will focus on highlighting water insecurity within the local tri-state (Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana) and Appalachian regions. The first session of this critical conservation, we invite local community groups, practitioners, and scholars to present and discuss issues surrounding water insecurity, the effects on public and environmental health, and how applied anthropological research can help to address and overcome these challenges. In our second session, we will present and view the film “And Water For All…” by scholar Ramiro Berardo focused on water affordability in the state of Ohio with a focus on governmental and non-governmental actors towards ensuring water security in the present and future. This will be followed by a discussion about the film and the overarching concerns of water insecurity within the local region. Throughout this critical conversation, we seek to illuminate the continued need for applied anthropological work, research, and support towards investigating and solving issues focused on the equity and justice of water insecurity at the local, regional, and global scales.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Multifaceted Water Insecurity: Local and Regional Concerns for Health, Equity, and Justice, Part I   An SfAA Critical Conversation CHAIRS: WILFONG, Matthew (ASU) and ROQUE, Anais (OH State U) BERARDO, Ramiro (Sch of Env & Natural Resources, OH State U) “And Water For All…”   WILFONG, Matthew (ASU) and ROQUE, Anais (OH State U) Multifaceted Water Insecurity: Local and Regional Concerns for Health, Equity, and Justice, Parts I-II. Water’s essentiality for sustaining life allows it to pervade into every aspect of the everyday, taking various shapes, forms, and identities. As a result, water challenges, as seen through drought, flooding, and within household experiences, produce a profound multiplicity of effects on our everyday lives where water plays a physical, cultural, and symbolic role. In this critical conversation, we seek to explore the multifaceted nature of water with a focus on insecurity - inadequate access to safe and reliable water for human health and ecological well being - including the underlying political, economic, and material causes and the resulting sociocultural and biophysical impacts. We aim to investigate the socioeconomic and sociopolitical assemblages that create various forms of water insecurity (affordability, reliability, adequacy, and/or safety of water) and the resulting effects on environmental and human health outcomes. To do this, this critical conversation will focus on highlighting water insecurity within the local tri-state (Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana) and Appalachian regions. The first session of this critical conservation, we invite local community groups, practitioners, and scholars to present and discuss issues surrounding water insecurity, the effects on public and environmental health, and how applied anthropological research can help to address and overcome these challenges. In our second session, we will present and view the film “And Water For All…” by scholar Ramiro Berardo focused on water affordability in the state of Ohio with a focus on governmental and non-governmental actors towards ensuring water security in the present and future. This will be followed by a discussion about the film and the overarching concerns of water insecurity within the local region. Throughout this critical conversation, we seek to illuminate the continued need for applied anthropological work, research, and support towards investigating and solving issues focused on the equity and justice of water insecurity at the local, regional, and global scales.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Native Americans’ Environmental Justice: Expanded in Scope and Time   CHAIR: STOFFLE, Richard (BARA, U Arizona) STOFFLE, Richard (BARA, U Arizona) and VAN VLACK, Kathleen (Living Heritage) Native Americans’ Environmental Justice Expanded in Scope and Time BOCHNIAK, Victoria (UMass) Settler Colonial Legacies of the Second Crow Agency (1875-1884) BRUNO, Jasmine and GALVIN, Kathleen (CO State U) Using Qualitative Methods to Advance Conservation Strategies HAAS, Caitlin, DALEY, Sean M., GOECKNER, Ryan, and, MAKOSKY DALEY, Christine (Lehigh U) American Indian and Alaska Native COVID-19 Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors During the Pandemic STONER, Denise (NAU) A Study of Food Programs and People in Flagstaff, Arizona from an Indigenous (Navajo/Eastern Shawnee) Perspective MCCUNE, Meghan (NMU) and OLSON, Ernie (Wells Coll) Anthropology in the Weeds: Gardening as Decolonization in Central New York   STOFFLE, Richard (BARA, U Arizona) and VAN VLACK, Kathleen (Living Heritage) Native Americans’ Environmental Justice Expanded in Scope and Time. Environmental Justice was initially defined by Bunyon Bryant at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. His research, centered largely in Detroit, identified special and unequal impacts absorbed by African Ancestry people due to development projects like urban renewal and highways. He significantly encouraged the addition of another Environmental Impact Assessment variable which has lasted until now as a key factor in project decisions. It is also key in the management of interconnected social and natural environments. This paper is based on research about the inter/relationship of Native Americans and natural resource managers. Native people struggle to ensure their EJ issues are considered in EIS and management because these are different than those which originally were used to define EJ.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Rethinking Risk and Preparedness (Risk & Disaster TIG)   CHAIR: CANNON, Terry (IDS UK) BALAGNA, Jay (Pardee RAND Grad Sch) Stuck in the Smokey Bear Era: Examining the Ways Cultural Processes Contribute to Disaster Policy and Wildland Fire DYER, Christopher (UNM) Building Disaster Resilience: Application of the CART Model in Rural North Carolina DOERING, Zach (Butler U) Building Community Resiliency against Disasters CANNON, Terry (IDS UK) Is Disaster Risk Creation More Significant Than Risk Reduction? JINKA, Malavika and BARO, Mamadou (U Arizona) Rethinking Resilience in Senegalese Communities: Insights from the COVID-19 Crisis   CANNON, Terry (IDS UK) Is Disaster Risk Creation More Significant Than Risk Reduction? Most research and practice in disaster risk reduction (DRR) is based on the assumption that it reduces vulnerability or mitigate hazards. Research is supposedly ‘taken up’ by governments and relevant institutions and used to inform DRR policy. Donors, NGOs and other actors supposedly engage in activities that reduce disaster risk. This session upsets these comforting assumptions. It argues that government and the private sector are much more likely to create disasters than to reduce them. Understanding that Disaster Risk Creation (DRC) is more significant than the efforts of academics and organizations to reduce disasters is essential.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Not Doing Anthropology Like an Anthropologist Would: Professionally Trained Anthropologists Reskilling Themselves   CHAIR: BENDIXSEN, Casper (Marshfield Clinic Rsch Inst) FLYNN, Michael A. (NIOSH) Creating Space for a Social Perspective in a Technical Field: Integrating Anthropology into Occupational Safety and Health RISSING, Andrea (ASU) Hybridizing Anthropology: Early Career Reflections on Evolving towards Interdisciplinarity RODRIGUEZ-MEJIA, Fredy (Purdue U & NW State CC) Learning to Work in Multidisciplinary Teams: Anthropologists, Engineers, and Short-Term Ethnographic Research   BENDIXSEN, Casper (Marshfield Clinic Rsch Inst) Not Doing Anthropology Like an Anthropologist Would: Professionally Trained Anthropologists Reskilling Themselves. This invited panel invites colleagues with anthropological pedigree to reflect on how they’ve established themselves in other fields of research, service, or education. Of particular interest is how anthropological training created the ability, perhaps even desire, to reskill and become some new form of professional. What are motivations and techniques to reskill? What skills and ways of thinking remain? What has been augmented or lost? It’s valuable for students to witness how careers form outside of the traditional academic framework. There is value in codifying the process, making “studying anthropology to not be become an anthropologist” track accessible and acceptable.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Rethinking Student Training and Preparation for Diverse Career Pathways (Higher Ed TIG)   CHAIRS: MURPHY, Daniel (U Cincinnati) and BRUNO, Jasmine (CO State U) ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: KAHN, Linda (U Buffalo), ROMERO-DAZA, Nancy (USF), CADZOW, Renee (D’Youville U), MATTER, Scott (U Tech- Sydney), MAXWELL, Keely (EPA), MOECKLI, Jane (VA)   MURPHY, Daniel (U Cincinnati) and BRUNO, Jasmine (CO State U) Rethinking Student Training and Preparation for Diverse Career Pathways. Applied anthropologists use anthropological knowledge and skills to address real-world challenges; yet, preparing students for employment outside of academia continues to challenge college faculty. Likewise, students struggle to translate and package their skills and training for careers where they might best apply them. In this roundtable, we bring together representatives from a diverse array of agencies, institutions, and private industry to address the variety of ways academic institutions might improve student preparation and bridge the gap between academic training and employment. We will also discuss how applied anthropology students can effectively frame their expertise as they move into non-academic careers.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.      

Risky Business: Applied Anthropologists in Danger(ous) Research Fields   CHAIR: BENDIXSEN, Casper (Marshfield Clinic Rsch Inst) MONAGHAN, Paul (SE Coastal Ctr for Ag Hlth & Safety) Weighing the Risk of Heat Related Illness and Piece-rate Work in Agriculture KLATASKE, Ryan (U Nebraska Med Ctr) Beef Production and Processing: Risk, Work, and Rural Life in the Great Plains SORENSEN, Julie (NE Ctr for Occupational Hlth & Safety: Ag, Forestry & Fishing) Finding the Value: Reshaping the Concept of Safety to Connect with Risk-Takers   BENDIXSEN, Casper (Marshfield Clinic Rsch Inst) Risky Business: Applied Anthropologists in Danger(ous) Research Fields. This invited panel will ask those colleagues how they work to better understand the human relation to danger and risk-taking as well as applied anthropologists’ roles and responsibilities in identifying, analyzing, and characterizing these conditions, e.g. mitigate human risk, but it may also be in the vein of how to best prescribe risk, e.g. clinical trial research, pedagogy, or financial investment. Papers may also highlight the difficulties of working within in multidisciplinary fields where there is less consensus about what substantiates unacceptable danger or risk in light of what may result to improve the human condition.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

The Coal Transition in the Ohio River Valley: Using Social Science and Fine Arts to Understand Community Impacts and Pathways for Resilience An SfAA Critical Conversation   CHAIR: JACQUET, Jeffrey (OH State U) CAPOBIANCO, Brian and BIELICKI, Jeff (OH State U) Energy Transitions in the Ohio River Valley STEWART, Gwynn and JACQUET, Jeffrey (OH State U) Community Development and Arts in the Coal Transition FINNERAN, Kathryn Jane (OH State U) Trauma Informed Approaches to Coal Transitions DUGDALE, Tom (OH State U) and CORNELL, Anne (Pomerene Ctr for the Arts)‘Calling Hours’ Documentary Theatre Project   JACQUET, Jeffrey and FINNERAN, Kathryn (OH State U) The Coal Transition in the Ohio River Valley: Using Social Science and Fine Arts to Understand Community Impacts and Pathways for Resilience. This paper reviews the trans-disciplinary Ohio Coal Transitions Project, which seeks to combine social science with theatrical performance, fine arts photography, and archival library science to the tell the story of three Ohio case study communities in the midst of their transition away from coal. Over 50 key informant interviews with coal industry workers, elected officials, community leaders and residents produce scholarly articles, community toolkits and transition guides, a curated archival and fine arts photography exhibition and a community-theatre-produced theatrical production that uses the interview transcripts as the basis of a two- hour play centered on the experiences of plant workers.   Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

SfAA Awards Ceremony   The Awards Ceremony is the high point of the annual meeting. President Briller will preside. The Program will recognize and feature the winners of the Margaret Mead Award, Sol Tax Award, and the Bronislaw Malinowski Award.    Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.