The SfAA Podcast Archive

2023 SfAA Awards Ceremony

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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.

Part Two: Multifaceted Water Insecurity: Local and Regional Concerns for Health, Equity, and Justice

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.

Part One: Multifaceted Water Insecurity: Local and Regional Concerns for Health, Equity, and Justice

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

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.