The SfAA Podcast Archive

Successes and Challenges in Recruitment of School-Based Health Centers for Research Supporting LGBTQ+ Health Equity

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. dshattuck@pire.org (T-62)

Food, Water, and Housing Insecurity

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. owuor@wayne.edu (F-78)

The Past and Future of Applied Anthropology

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.gardner@pugetsound.edu (F-62)

Mainstreaming Indigenous Ecological Knowledge: Considering Possibilities and Ethical Dilemmas

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.biesel@gmail.com (F-48)

The Anthropology of Polarization in US Higher Education: Lessons for a Rapidly Changing Landscape

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. beatriz.reyesfoster@ucf.edu (F-02)

Enchanted Futures: Transforming Museum Practice through Relational Curation

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.lsmcches@unm.edu (T-92)

Decolonizing Disaster

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. caela@email.unc.edu (TH-77)

SfAA Awards Ceremony 2024

Fostering Social and Environmental Justice Part II

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. Kathleen.Van-Vlack@nau.edu, hyealim.lim@gmail.com, Brent.Stoffle@noaa.gov (W-91, W-121)

Fostering Social and Environmental Justice Part I

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. Kathleen.Van-Vlack@nau.edu, hyealim.lim@gmail.com, Brent.Stoffle@noaa.gov (W-91, W-121)