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GOOD NEWS Fall 2015

As we come to the end of the calendar year, it is a great time to reflect upon and celebrate our department’s many successes. This fall Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman joined our growing faculty and we now have one of the leading programs in zooarcheology in the United States. We are also in the process of searching for a faculty member in the area of health and by this time next year we should have one or two new faculty members in our department. This fall our colleague, Judith Freidenberg has decided to retire in June 2017. Dr. Freidenberg has been in our department for about 20 years and she has provided great strength and wisdom in helping to shape our program, serving terms as graduate director, undergraduate director, and now director of the Certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture. We owe her many

thanks for her service to the department, the university, and the local community. In this newsletter you will see that members of the department continue to be successful in publishing in top tier journals as well as successfully earning grants that support their research. Following is an overview of some of our student and faculty accomplishments. Hope you have a great New Year and please keep in touch. - Paul A. Shackel

Message from Chair

Spring Break March 13-20, 2016

Upcoming Events

Winter Term January 4-22, 2016

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Spring Term January 25, 2016

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Department of Anthropology

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Winter Term Courses

Awards, Honors, and Grants

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Jen Shaffer and Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels were recipients of the Council on the Environment seed grant for their application entitled, “Middle East-Working Group to Develop a Center for Water Research and Modeling (CWARM) for the Middle East and North Africa”.

Judith Freidenberg was named to the Advisory Board Anthropology of Well-Being Book Series, Lexington Books

Mark Leone has been named the 2016 recipient of the Society for Historical Archaeology’s most prestigious award, the J. C. Harrington Medal in Historical Archaeology.

Mark P. Leone and Anson Hines, Director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), were awarded the University of Maryland and Smithsonian Institution Seed Grant for producing two successful field seasons with Archaeology in Annapolis. Elizabeth Pruitt, Benjamin Skolnik, Patricia Markert, Stefan Woehlke, Tracy Jenkins, and Sarah Janesko trained field school students at SERC in Edgewater, MD. This project produced 3-Dimensional scans of the excavated house site and students conducted oral history interviews with local residents who knew the African American family to last occupy the house.

Michael Paolisso’s proposal, “Integrated Geospatial, Cultural and Social Assessment of Coastal Resilience to Climate Change”, was funded for a two-year project by the Maryland Sea Grant.

Michael Paolissois the co-principal investigator on the project: “Synergizing public participation and participatory modeling methods for action oriented outcomes”, which was funded by National Science Foundation, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC).

Sean Downey and Bruce James, professor in Department of Environmental Science, received an interdisciplinary two-year grant in collaboration between the University of Maryland and University of Tubingen for their proposal entitled, “Soil and Human Culture Dynamics During the Holocene Epoch. An International, Interdisciplinary Training and Research Program in Anthropology, Archaeology and Soil Science.”

Cathleen Crain was honored at the 25th anniversary celebration for the NAPA Mentor Program that she and Madeline Iris founded and ran for many years.

ANTH 222: Introduction to Ecological and Evolutionary Anthropology

Taught by: Robert O'Malley

ANTH260: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology and Linguistics

Taught by: Stanley Herman

ANTH263: Sexuality and Culture

Taught by: Charneka Lane

ANTH266: Changing Climate, Changing Cultures

Taught by: Elizabeth Van Dolah

ANTH469C: Advance Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology

Taught by: Jacqueline Messing

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Cathleen Crain was appointed as the new co-chair of the AAA Committee on Practicing Applied and Public Interest Anthropology (CoPAPIA); she will serve with Jean Schensul of the Institute for Community Research.

Judith Lynne Hanna has been awarded the Erasmus+ Erasmus Mundus grant for visiting scholars in the Choreomundus International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage program at Froebel College, Roehampton University, London, UK.

Linda Rabben received a grant from the Lyman Fund to do research on refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and Sweden.

Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts and Niel Tashima received an award from NAPA and the AAA at the 10th Career Expo in Denver, honoring their years of ongoing participation and mentoring.

Niel Tashima and Cathleen Crain were awarded an honorable mention at this year’s Praxis Awards given for excellence in professional anthropology. They were honored for their work on a five-year evaluation that was particularly grounded in anthropological methods. The entry was entitled: “Pastors at Risk: Toward an Improved Culture of Health for United Methodist Clergy in North Carolina.” A team of anthropologists from LTG’s Takoma Park, MD office conducted the evaluation.

Elizabeth Van Dolah was awarded a Maryland Sea Grant Research Fellowship as part of the Deal Island Project headed up by Michael Paolisso, Jo Johnson, and colleagues.

Fabio Correa was accepted as an International Teaching Fellow into the Graduate School International Teaching Fellows (ITF) Program.

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Scholarship and Service

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Leslie Crippen was selected as the winner of the Student Paper Competition for the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) for her paper entitled “Finding our Place: Uncovering Queer Hidden Heritage in the U.S. with the National Park Service”. And Camille Westmont was a runner-up for the SHA Student Paper Competition.

Rebecka Lundgren received the Marjorie C. Horn Operations Research Award in September from the Research, Technology and Utilization (RTU) Division of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health, Bureau for Global Health at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Lundgren is the principal investigator and director of the Passages project.

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Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman was invited to present the paper, Recent Zooarchaeological Research from Apalachicola, at the 2015 Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Nashville, TN.

Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman was invited to present the paper, Field School with A Mission: The Guevavi Archaeological Project, at the University of Arizona School of Anthropology 100th Anniversary “100 Years of Field Schools” Symposium.

Mark P. Leone, Stefan Woehlke, Tracy Jenkins, Elizabeth Pruitt, and Benjamin Skolnik gave an essay on African spirit practices and the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. The lecture was sponsored by Historic Easton and given at the Avalon theatre in Easton on October 9, 2015.

Paul Shackel was invited to give a lecture on “Race and Memory on the Western Frontier” at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN in October 2015.

Paul Shackel gave a keynote address entitled, “From Coal Barons to Amazon: Finding a Heritage in Northern Appalachia” at the Midwestern Historical Archaeology Conference in October 2015.

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Tony Whitehead was an Invited Speaker at the Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association, Workshop on Juvenile Justice. Title of the talk: Healing Cultural Pathologies: Grass Roots Recommendations for Healing a Sick Society.

Tony Whitehead was a five day Visiting Instructor in the University of Florida’s NSF sponsored 6-week Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)Ethnographic Field School in Tallahassee, Florida.

Tony Whitehead was a Keynote Speaker at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association. Title of Talk: The African American Incarceration Epidemic, Mental Health Issues and Gender Health.

Tony Whitehead submitted a List of Further Recommendations to the DC Mayors Office of Returning Citizens Affairs as a Complement to MAA Alum, Maya Kearney’s White Paper Report to MORCA, titled, An Ethnographic Assessment of MORCA’s History and Activities in Responding to the Needs of Returning Citizens.

Tony Whitehead convened in the UMCP’s Nyumburu’s Cultural Center for the 4th University-Community (U-C) Dialogues focused on the topic, Local Responses to the African American Incarceration Epidemic in November. Representatives from 8 Washington, DC agencies and organizations providing services to prison-community reentrants attended this event. The 5th Dialogues are tentatively scheduled for February 25, 2016.

Cathleen Crain and Niel Tashima (LTG Associates) were awarded an evaluation contract with the Federal Office of Women’s Health to look at the uptake and utilization of breastfeeding supports.

Judith Lynne Hanna has been invited to be part of the Arts and the Brain lecture series at the Mansion, Strathmore Performing Arts Center, Rockville, Maryland. Her presentation on “Dance and Movement for a Healthy Brain” (drawing upon her book Dancing to Learn: The Brain’s Cognition, Emotion, and Movement) is on April 7, 2016.

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Marilyn London was contacted in June by Aaron Tyler of the Prince George's County Fire/EMS, Office of the Fire Marshal, Fire Investigations Division. The team had responded to a fire in Annapolis in late 2014 where six individuals had lost their lives and their house had burned nearly to the ground. The team felt that they needed some education about identifying human remains in a situation like this. Ms. London gave a presentation/workshop to the group in July, using cremated materials borrowed from the Smithsonian Institution. As a result, Mr. Tyler kindly gave presentations to the Summer and Fall classes of ANTH 221, Introduction to Forensic Sciences, on the topics of arson investigation and Accelerant Detecting Canines. He brought along his ADC “Jetson” to give a demonstration about how sensitive dogs are to scents.

Mary Butler oversaw The Baseball Project in Anthropology 606, Qualitative Methods. The class worked on a joint project for the UMD School of Architecture on an Ethnographic project to determine how students, student athletes, and UMD athletic staff express their needs in a baseball facility, how students relate to sports at UMD and how these are affected by facilities. The School of Architecture will use the results of this study to design an updated baseball stadium. The anthropology graduate students who worked on the project have been invited to present their findings to the School of Architecture early next semester.

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Robert Winthrop served on the panel that prepared the report, Ecosystem-Service Assessment: Research Needs for Coastal Green Infrastructure, which recommends areas for prioritized federal research to support the integration of green infrastructure into plans and projects for coastal risk reduction and resilience.

Robert Winthrop gave an invited presentation in July titled, "Valuing Conservation: Social and Institutional Challenges," at a workshop on "Economic Valuation of Conservation-Based Ecosystem Services." The workshop was sponsored by the Council on Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics and USDA's Office of Environmental Markets. The presentation emphasized the need to account for the social and cultural dimensions of resource use in assessing environmental conservation strategies.

The dedication of Frederick Douglass Square was accompanied by an exhibit in the foyer of Hornbake Library which featured the work of Amanda Tang, Elizabeth Pruitt, and Benjamin A. Skolnik, done at Wye House where Frederick Douglass was a child and where he discovered he was a slave. Mark Leone was a member of the Northstar Group which organized the design and dedication of Frederick Douglass Square.

Kevin Gibbons has been invited to serve on the SAA's Committee on Climate Change Strategies and Archaeological Resources and, the Steering Committee for the New International Community for Historical Ecology.

Magda Mankel was featured on Arizona Public Media for her research on Hispanic Heritage.

Nadine Dangerfield and Amelia Jamison contributed to the NAPA Podcast Series 2015 that briefly explored the experiences of Masters of Arts degree recipients shortly after graduation. Eight MA anthropologists who received their degrees in the last two years (2013-14) discussed what happened immediately after graduate school, including their first post-graduation steps, what decisions they

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made and why, and what they are doing now. The breadth of their experiences demonstrates that an MA in anthropology can lead new anthropologists in many different directions.

Sarah Buchanan cleaned, photographed, and catalogued artifacts belonging to a spiritual deposit excavated by Elizabeth Pruitt and Benjamin Skolnik at Wye House in the summer of 2014 in Mark Leone’s Archaeology in Annapolis lab. The artifacts were laid out in the arrangement in which they were found in the deposit, with the architectural fill omitted. This arrangement represented the way the artifacts were initially deposited, which allowed us to look for patterns and identify artifacts that were related to the deposit.

Stefan Woehlke has designed a course on technology in archaeology that will be taught in the spring of 2016.

Stefan Woehlke has worked with the FARO terrestrial LiDAR equipment to scan multiple structural features excavated at Montpelier, in Orange Virginia. This is done prior to the design and reconstruction of the south yard slave quarters. The digital point clouds that are produced from the scan data are a way of recording the site that will be accessible for research, even after the original archaeological deposits have been covered by new buildings. Once the south yard is complete, a more engaging interpretation of the enslaved community will be presented to visitors for the Montpelier Foundation.

Tracy Jenkins completed a grant from the Maryland Heritage Area Authority, working with Historic Easton, Inc., the Talbot County Office of Tourism, and Assemble, Inc. to produce a walking tour of archaeology in Easton, Maryland. The tour covers four sites where Archaeology in Annapolis has been involved in researching and publicizing the history of Easton's early free African-American community for the past four years. The team produced interpretive signs and a self-guided tour brochure and expect to have the tour available for the public by the beginning of 2016.

Scholarship and Service Continued

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Christina Getrich

Dr. Getrich in collaboration with Sussman, A.L., Helitzer, D.L, Bennett, A.M., Solares, A., LaNoue, M., Kong, A., wrote the article “Catching Up With the HPV Vaccine: Challenges and Opportunities in Primary Care”. Published in Annals of Family Medicine

Dr. Getrich in collaboration with Hoffman, R.M., Sussman, A.L.,et al. wrote the article “Attitudes and Beliefs of Primary Care Providers in New Mexico About Lung Cancer Screening Using Low-Dose Computed Tomography”. Published in Preventing Chronic Disease

Janet Chernela

Chernela, Janet (2015) Kotiria Bhahuariro: A Origin do Kotiria/ The Origin of the Kotiria. CONCULTURA: Editora REGGO.

Chernela, Janet (2015) Numia Parena Numia: Mulheres do Inicio/Women of the Beginning. CONCULTURA: Editora REGGO.

Judith Freidenberg

“What we talk about when we talk about migration? Voices from the US and Mexico”, Practicing Anthropology, 38:1, December 2015.

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Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico edited Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage, which discusses cultural heritage as a transformative tool for social change.

Book Chapters:

Lafrenz Samuels, K. 2015. “Introduction: Heritage as Persuasion,” in Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage (K. Lafrenz Samuels and T. Rico, eds.), pp. 3–28. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.

Lafrenz Samuels, K. 2015.“Heritage Rights and the Rhetoric of Reality in Pre-Revolution Tunisia,” in Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage (K. Lafrenz Samuels and T. Rico, eds.), pp. 243–258. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.

Lafrenz Samuels, K., and Lilley, I. 2015. “Transnationalism and Heritage Development,” in Global Heritage: A Reader (L. Meskell, ed.), pp. 217-239. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

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Mark P. Leone and Jocelyn E. Knauf

Mark P. Leone and Jocelyn E. Knauf edited Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, second edition. Springer published the volume in June 2015.The book contains essays by University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology faculty members who are historical archaeologists and by a number of our new PhDs.

Michael Paolisso

Book Chapters:

2015 Understanding Culture and Environmental Dynamics using Cultural Consensus Analysis. In Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Environmental Studies. Matthias Ruth ed., pages 81-101. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2015 Cultural Dynamics of Adaptation to Climate Change: An Example from the East Coast of the US. Grit Martinez and Michael Paolisso. In Sommer, Bernd, ed. Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America. Climate and Culture vol. 3, edited by Carmen Meinert and Claus Leggewie. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

Paul Shackel

Published a forward in Slavery Behind the Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation, by Theresa Singleton, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

Sean Downey

Article, “Q'eqchi' Maya Swidden Agriculture, Settlement History, and Colonial Enterprise in Modern Belize” was published in the journal Ethnohistory.

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In collaboration with Stephen Shennan, Adrian Timpson, Kevan Edinborough, Sue Colledge, Tim Kerig, Katie Manning, and Mark G. Thomas, Sean Downey published the article “A radiocarbon chronology of European flint mines suggests a link to population patterns” in Nature Communications.

Randy Haas

Haas, Randy, Cynthia J. Klink, Greg J. Maggard, and Mark S. Aldenderfer Settlement-Size Scaling among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems in the New World. PLoS ONE

Haas, Randy, and Carlos Viviano Llave Hunter-Gatherers on the Eve of Agriculture: Investigations at Soro Mik’aya Patjxa, Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru, 8000–6700 BP. Antiquity

Mary Butler

Mary Butler published her new book titled “Evaluation: A Cultural Systems Approach”.

Adriane Michaelis

Adriane Michaelis, et al., published the article “Factors driving the density of derelict crab pots and their associated by catch in North Carolina waters” in Fishery Bulletin.

Christy Miller Hesed and Michael Paolisso

Christy Miller Hesed and Michael Paolisso’s article, “Cultural knowledge and local vulnerability in African American communities”, was published in Nature Climate Change.

Courtney Hofman

Courtney Hofman published “Conservation Archaeogenomics: Ancient DNA and Biodiversity in the Anthropocene Journal” in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

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Elizabeth Van Dolah and Michael Paolisso

Elizabeth Van Dolah and Michael Paolisso with two ecosystem science colleagues wrote an article titled Employing a Socio-Ecological Systems Approach to Engage Harmful Algal Bloom Stakeholders. This article has been accepted for publication in Aquatic Ecology's special issue on cyanobacterial blooms: ecology, prevention, mitigation, control.

Fabio Correa

Fabio Correa, et al., published Human Social Behavior and Demography Drive Patterns of Fine-Scale Dengue Transmission in Endemic Areas of Colombia in PLoS ONE.

Katherine Johnson and Michael Paolisso

Katherine Johnson, K., Needelman, B., & Paolisso, M. Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change in a Rural Coastal Community. Under consideration for Michele Companion and Miriam Chaiken, eds. Responses to Disasters and Climate Change: Understanding Vulnerability and Fostering Resilience. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

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Katherine Johnson and Michael Paolisso

Katherine Johnson, K., Needelman, B., & Paolisso, M. Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change in a Rural Coastal Community. Under consideration for Michele Companion and Miriam Chaiken, eds. Responses to Disasters and Climate Change: Understanding Vulnerability and Fostering Resilience. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Megan E. Springate

Affiliate Session: Rainbow Heritage Network: Strategies and Directions for National LGBTQ Preservation. PastForward National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC, Nov.

Learning Lab: A Working Session on Heritage and Historic Initiatives. Panelist, PastForward National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC, Nov.

Megan Springate coedited the article Queer Archaeologies with Chelsea Blackmore. A book is under contract with Left Coast Press as of this semester with a publication date in 2017.

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Conferences and Presentations

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Christina Getrich presented her paper “‘Half of Who I am is There’: Ongoing Forms of Transborder Life Among Second-Generation Mexicans.” at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

Christina Getrich chaired the session “Immigrants and Migrants in the New America.” at the Remaking America: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and Its Impact Conference. Center for the History of the New America, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Judith Freidenberg was a panelist at AAA Museum Careers, Career Center, Cultures of Publication, McKeldin Libraries. She organized museum excursions and a symposium for the Certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture.

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels presented a conference paper titled, "Redescribing Archaeological Heritage in Transnational Sociopolitical Contexts," for the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) annual meeting, held September 2-5, 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Barbara Little co-organized a series of seven learning labs for PastForward, and annual conference of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, held November 2015 in Washington, DC. The session was Recognizing our shared history; Expanding interpretation at historic sites; Relevance, Racial Healing, and Reconciliation by connecting past to present (parts 1&2); Revitalization and Economic Development as Environmental Justice (parts 1&2); A Working Session on Heritage and Historic Initiatives.

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Cathleen Crain participated in a roundtable sponsored by CoPAPIA at the AAA entitled: Responding to Student Concerns (Part 2): Strategies for Preparing Anthropology Students for the Real Job Market.

Amber Cohen presented at the Public Anthropology Conference at American University: "Fishing on Urban Waterways: Testing the Assumptions" with Dr. Shirley Fiske and Jeremy Trombley.

Amber Cohen presented "One Love, One Community: Cyber-memorialization and "offline" community building" at the "Community and Perceptions" panel in the Death in American Culture section of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference.

Andrew J. Webster and Diana Bowen presented their paper, Establishing Mathematical Caring Relationships with Underrepresented Students in a Collegiate Student Support Services Program at the Psychology of Mathematics Education North American Chapter in East Lansing, MI.

Elizabeth Van Dolah presented at the Dupont Summit on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy with Michael Paolisso, Shirley Fiske, Jo Johnson, and Katie Clendaniel in a session on Coastal Community Resilience. Presentation title: Cultural Heritage and Coastal Community Resilience.

Katie Geddes presented "Conflict on the Chesapeake: Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Watermen Environmentalism" at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation on December 3 and at Salisbury University on November 19th.

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UMD Anthropology Attendance at the AAA Annual Meeting

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Katherine Johnson presented at the Dupont Summit December 2015 in Washington, DC. Paper title: “Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Change.”

Kevin Gibbons presented a paper at the 2nd meeting of the New International Community for Historical Ecology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Paper title: Archaeological Sites as Endangered Environmental Archives: News from the North Atlantic.

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Butler, Mary Odell Roundtable Presenter Session: Evaluation and Anthropology: Mediating the Strange and the Familiar in Theory and Practice

Crain, Cathleen Chair Niel Tashima and Carol Ellick Committee Shirley Fiske, Mary Odell Butler, Suzanne Heurtin Roberts, Niel Tashima, Joe Watkins, and Carol Ellick Participants/Exhibitors Session: 10th Annual AAA/NAPA Careers Expo: Exploring Professional Career

Downey, Sean Chair & Presenter Session: Session II. Environmental Anthropology Presentation Title: Swidden Agriculture, Do We Really Know You?

Frederik, Laurie Co-organizer & Paper Presenter Session: The Labor of Rehearsal Presentation Title: End of Story: Artistry and Authorship in the Theatricalization of Cuba

Freidenberg, Judith Discussant Session: Migration and Changing Age-Scripts (Part II)

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Getrich, Christina Chair & Paper Presenter Session: Sociopolitical Dimensions of Globalization In The 21st Century Presentation Title: “Half of Who I Am Is There”: Ongoing Forms of Transnational Life Among Second-Generation Mexicans

Guevara, Emilia and Thurka Sangaramoorthy Presenters Session: Defamiliarizing "Choice" In Health Care Presentation Title: “Bastardized” Forms of Care: Negotiating an Underground Economy of Health Care on Maryland’s Eastern Shore

Johnson, Katherine J. Presenter Session: Familiar Adaptations: Addressing Global Environmental Change Through Social Innovation Presentation Title: “Designing for Climate Change Resilience”

Lynn Bolles, Augusta Roundtable Presenter Session: "Contributing to the Scholarly Conversation: Gender, Citation , and Authorship in Anthropology Journals"

Discussant Session: Transatlantic Feminisms: The Familiarity of Multiple Oppressive Forces and Multiple Forms of Resistance in Black Women's Lives

Sangaramoorthy, Thurka Presenter Session: Public Health Contending With Public Sentiments: Collaborative Responses To The Real Risks Of "Crisis" And Alarmist Representations Presentation Title: Maryland Is Not for Shale: Scientific and Popular Anxieties of Predicting Health Impacts of Fracking.

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