ANTHROPOLOGISTS STATEMENT ON THE HUMAN TERRAIN …...Talal Asad Distinguished Professor of Anthropology ... Nancy Scheper-Hughes Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology Head, Doctoral

ANTHROPOLOGISTS’ STATEMENT

ON THE HUMAN TERRAIN SYSTEM PROGRAM

March 2, 2010

1

To the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and the

Chairs and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Armed Services and Appropriations

Committees:

We, the undersigned anthropologists, want to express to Congress our profound opposition to the

Human Terrain System (HTS) program and its proposed expansion. We are heartened and encouraged

by the Pentagon’s interest in expanding its cultural knowledge, and we believe that anthropologists

have an important role to play in shaping military and foreign policy. However, we believe that the

HTS program is an inappropriate and ineffective use of anthropological and other social science

expertise for the following reasons:

1) There is no evidence that HTS is effective. There is no evidence, as some supporters have claimed,

that the program saves lives. In fact, a special commission of the American Anthropological

Association (AAA)—the largest professional anthropology society in the US—concluded in December

2009 that "there exist no publicly available independent evaluations of the effects of HTS's activities,

either positive or negative. Whether, or how, HTS might reduce conflict, in short, has yet to be

evaluated."

2) HTS is a dangerous and reckless. To date, three embedded social scientists assigned to Human

Terrain Teams have been killed in theaters of war. According to the journal Nature, "some scientists

who have joined the program have complained about inadequate training," while some military

personnel reportedly complain that protecting Human Terrain Team members puts the lives of their

soldiers at risk.

3) HTS wastes taxpayer money. In addition to its human costs, HTS has been costly. According to

one report, approximately $250 million has been allocated to HTS since its creation in 2006.

4) HTS is unethical for anthropologists and other social scientists. In 2007, the Executive Board of the

AAA determined HTS to be ―an unacceptable application of anthropological expertise.‖ In December,

the AAA commission found that HTS ―can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise

of anthropology‖ given the incompatibility of HTS with disciplinary ethics and practice. Like medical

doctors, anthropologists are ethically bound to do no harm. Supporting counterinsurgency operations

clearly violates this code. Moreover, the HTS program violates scientific and federal research

standards mandating informed consent by research subjects.

For these reasons, we ask Congress to halt further appropriations to the HTS program, to cancel plans

for expansion of the program, and to carefully consider alternative courses of action for securing peace

in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.

Signed,

AAA Presidents

Yolanda T. Moses, AAA President (1995-1997)

Past President, City College of New York

Professor

University of California – Riverside

Jane Hill, AAA President (1997-1999)

Regents Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics

University of Arizona



March 2, 2010

2

Louise Lamphere, AAA President (1999-2001)

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

University of New Mexico

Donald Brenneis, AAA President (2001-2003)

Professor

University of California - Santa Cruz

Alan Goodman, AAA President (2005-7)

Dean of Faculty

Hampshire College

Setha M. Low, AAA president (2007-2009)

Professor

Director of Public Space Group/Center for Human

Environments

City University of New York – Graduate Center

Institutional Endorsements

American Anthropological Association

AAA Committee for Human Rights

Distinguished Professors

Lila Abu-Lughod

Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science and

Gender Studies

Columbia University

George Armelegos Goodrich C. White Professor

Department Chair

Emory University

AAA Executive Board member

Talal Asad Distinguished Professor of Anthropology


Kevin Avruch

Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Resolution

George Mason University

Richard Bauman

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Indiana University – Bloomington

Past President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Caroline Bledsoe

Melville J. Herskovits Professor of African Studies and

Anthropology

Northwestern University

Phillipe Bourgois

Richard Perry Professor of Anthropology and Family and

Community Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Jane Collins

Evjue-Bascom Professor of Women’s Studies and Rural

Sociology

Chair, Women’s Studies Program

University of Wisconsin

Jean Comaroff Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service

Professor

University of Chicago

John L. Comaroff

Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of

Anthropology


Vincent Crapanzano

Distinguished Professor


Past President, Society for Psychological Anthropology

Raymond Duvall

Morse-Alumni Professor

Department Chair, Political Science

University of Minnesota

Gillian Feeley-Harnik

Kathleen Gough Collegiate Professor of Anthropology

University of Michigan

Susan Gal

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology


Past President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Deborah Gewertz G. Henry Whitcomb Professor of Anthropology

Department Chair

Amherst College



March 2, 2010

3

Laurie Hart

Edmund and Margiana Stinnes Professorship in Global

Studies

Professor of Anthropology

Haverford College

Barbara J. King

Chancellor Professor of Anthropology

College of William and Mary

Catherine Lutz Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology

and International Studies

Department Chair, Anthropology

Brown University

Former President American Ethnological Society

Mahmood Mamdani

Herbert Lehman Professor

Director, Institute for African Studies, Columbia [don’t

list Columbia twice]University

Columbia University

Emily Martin

Professor

New York University

Former Department Chair, Johns Hopkins

Former Department Chair, Princeton University

Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor of Arts and Sciences,

Johns Hopkins University (1981-1994)

Former President, American Ethnological Society

Bonnie J. McCay Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor

Department Chair (Department of Human Ecology)

Rutgers University

Lynn Morgan

Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology

Mount Holyoke College

Leith Mullings



Fred Myers Silver Professor and Department Chair

New York University

Former Editor, Cultural Anthropology

Former President, American Ethnological Society

June Nash

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita


Sherry Ortner

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology

University of California – Los Angeles

Thomas C. Patterson Distinguished Professor

Department Chair


Marshall Sahlins

Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor

Emeritus


Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology

Head, Doctoral Program in Medical Anthropology, UC

Berkeley

University of California - Berkeley

Bambi B. Schieffelin

Collegiate Professor

New York University

Anthony Seeger


University of California - Los Angeles

Department Chairs and Senior Administrators

Kelly Askew

Director African Studies Program

Associate Professor


Pamela Ballinger

Associate Professor

Department Chair

Bowdoin College

Daniel Segal

Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology

Former Department Chair

Pitzer College

Former Editor, Cultural Anthropology

AAA Secretary, 2006-9

Neil Smith



Susan Silbey

Leon and Ann Goldberg Professor of Sociology and

Anthropology

Department Chair

MIT



March 2, 2010

4

Ann Laura Stoler

Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of

Anthropology and Historical Studies

The New School

Kay Warren

Tillinghast Professor of International Studies and

Professor of Anthropology

Brown University

Richard A. Wilson

Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights

Director, Human Rights Institute

University of Connecticut

Bill Beeman

Professor

Department Chair

President, AAA Middle East Section


Ted Bestor

Department Chair

Harvard University

AAA Executive Board member (2006-9)

Samuel Collins

Professor

Department Chair

Towson University

Don Conway-Long

Associate Professor

Department Chair

Webster University

Susan Bibler Coutin

Professor

Director, Center in Law, Society and Culture

University of California, Irvine

Elizabeth Anne Eames

Professor

Department Chair

Bates College

Marc Edelman

Professor

Department Chair

Hunter College - CUNY

James Ferguson

Professor

Department Chair

Stanford University

Aaron A. Fox

Associate Professor

Department Chair

Columbia University

Tom Fricke

Professor

Department Chair


Benjamin Feinberg

Professor

Department Chair

Warren Wilson College

Lesley Gill

Professor

Department Chair

Vanderbilt University

Matthew Gutmann

Professor

Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean

Studies

Brown University

Mary Howard

Professor

Department Chair

Ohio Wesleyan University

Josiah McC. Heyman

Professor

Department Chair

University of Texas – El Paso

Suad Joseph

Professor

Founding Director Middle East/South Asia Studies

Program (UC Davis)

University of California - Davis

Elizabeth Kennedy

Professor

Director of Women’s Studies


Laurel Kendall

Curator and Chair (Division of Anthropology)

American Museum of Natural History

C. Richard King

Professor

Department Chair

Washington State University



March 2, 2010

5

Roger Lancaster

Professor

Director of Cultural Studies


Debra Martin

Professor

Department Chair/AAA Secretary

University of Nevada

Fran Mascia-Lees

Professor

Department Chair

Rutgers University

Bill Maurer

Professor

Department Chair

University of California - Irvine

Former Editor, Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Sally McBrearty

Professor

Department Chair


Sally Merry

Professor

Director, Program on Law and Society

President-Elect, American Ethnological Society

New York University

Barbara Miller

Associate Dean

Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs,

Elliott School of International Affairs

The George Washington University

Mary Beth Mills

Professor

Department Chair

Colby College

Sandra Morgen

Associate Dean

Professor

University of Oregon

Donald Pollock

Associate Professor

Department Chair

State University of New York - Buffalo

Joanne Rappaport

Professor

Department Chair

Georgetown University

Sylvia Rodriguez

Professor

Director - Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies


Journal Editors

Tom Boellstorff

Editor, American Anthropologist

Professor


Kim Fortun

Co-Editor, Cultural Anthropology

Associate Professor

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Lisa Rofel

Professor

Department Chair


Frances Rothstein

Professor

Department Chair

Montclair State University

Susan Slyomovics

Professor

Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies

University of California – Los Angeles

Former Chair, Department of Anthropology –MIT

Elizabeth Traube

Professor

Department Chair

Wesleyan University

Stefano Varese

Professor

Department Chair


Lucia Volk

Associate Professor

Co-Director, Middle East and Islamic Studies Program

San Francisco State University

Geoffrey White

Professor

Department Chair

University of Hawai’i – Manoa

Past President, Society for Psychological Anthropology



March 2, 2010

6

Michael Fortun

Co-Editor, Cultural Anthropology

Associate Professor


Jonathan Hill

Editor, Identities

Professor

Southern Illinois University

Gustaaf Houtman

Editor, Anthropology Today

Christopher N. Matthews

Associate Editor, Historical Archaeology

Associate Professor

Executive Director, Center for Public Archaeology

Hofstra University

Katherine T. McCaffrey

Editor, Anthropology Now

Associate Professor


Elected AAA Officers

T.J. Ferguson

AAA Executive Board

Professor


Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

President of the Sudan Studies Association

Former Chair, AAA Committee on Ethics

Professor

Rhode Island College

Laura Graham

AAA Executive Board

Associate Professor

University of Iowa

Mary L. Gray

AAA Executive Board

Assistant Professor

Indiana University - Bloomington

Linda Green

Treasurer, American Ethnological Society

Associate Professor


Hugh Gusterson

AAA Executive Board Member

Professor


Barbara Rose Johnston

Co-Chair AAA Committee on Ethics

Senior Research Fellow

Center for Political Ecology

Stephen Nugent

Editor, Critique of Anthropology

Professor

Goldsmith’s College (US citizen)

Alisse Waterston

Editor, North American Dialogue

Professor

John Jay College - City University of New York

Neil Whitehead

Editor, Ethnohistory

Professor

University of Wisconsin

Ellen Lewin

AAA Executive Board Member (outgoing)

Professor

University of Iowa

Donald M. Nonini

President-Elect, Society for Urban, National and

Transnational Anthropology

Professor

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Deborah Poole

Professor

Johns Hopkins University

Chair, AAA Committee for Human Rights

Peter Redfield

Board Member, Society for Cultural Anthropology

Associate Professor

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Nan Rothschild


Research Professor

Barnard College

Director of Museum Studies, Columbia University

Danilyn Rutherford

President, Society for Cultural Anthropology

Associate Professor


Jean J. Schensul


Senior Scientist and Founding Director

Institute for Community Research



March 2, 2010

7

R Timothy Sieber

Board member, Society for Anthropology of North

America

Professor

University of Massachusetts - Boston

Katherine A. Spielmann

AAA Executive Board

Professor

Arizona State University

Katherine Verdery

President, American Association for the Advancement of

Slavic Studies

Professor


Former Member AAA Executive Board

Former Eric Wolf Collegiate Professor of Anthropology


Kath Weston

Board Member, Society for Cultural Anthropology

Professor

University of Virginia

Brett Williams

Board Member, Society for Anthropology of North

America

Professor

American University

PhD Anthropologists in the US

Nadia Abu El-Haj

Associate Professor

Columbia University

Ananthakrishnan Aiyer

Associate Professor

University of Michigan - Flint

Peter Allen

Professor

Rhode Island College

Ana Maria Alonso

Associate Professor


Diana Allan

Junior Fellow

Harvard Society of Fellows

Lori Allen

Lecturer

University of Cambridge

Harvard University

J. Hope Amason

Visiting Lecturer

University of Arkansas

Scott Antes

Lecturer

Northern Arizona University

Laura Appell-Warren

Anthropology and History Teacher

St. Mark’s School

Frederique Apffel-Marglin

Professor Emerita

Smith College

Founder/Director,

Sachamama Center

Barbara Aswad

Professor Emeritus

Wayne State University

Beth Baker-Cristales

Associate Professor

California State University -

Los Angeles

Holly Barker

Lecturer

University of Washington

Ira Bashkow

Associate Professor

University of Virginia

Debbora Battaglia

Professor

Mount Holyoke College

Sam Beck Senior Lecturer

Cornell University

Carolyn Behrman

Associate Professor

University of Akron

Monica L. Bellas

Associate Professor

Cerritos College

Victoria Bernal

Associate Professor


Catherine Besteman

Professor


Colby College

Chandra Bhimull

Assistant Professor

Colby College

Andrew Bickford

Assistant Professor


Brenda Biddle

Resource Faculty

Evergreen State College

Michelle Bigenho Associate Professor

Hampshire College

Jack Bilmes

Professor

University of Hawai’i - Manoa

William Bissell

Associate Professor

Lafayette College

Eunice Blavascunas

Teaching Fellow


Pamela Block

Associate Professor

Stony Brook University



March 2, 2010

8

Natalie J. Bourdon

Assistant Professor

Mercer University

Erika Bourguignon

Professor Emerita


The Ohio State University

Dominic Boyer

Associate Professor

Rice University

Ann L. Bragdon

Faculty

Northwest Houston Community

College

Julian Brash

Assistant Professor

University of Toledo

Tamara L. Bray

Associate Professor

Wayne State University

Karen Brodkin

Professor Emerita

University of California – Los

Angeles

Curtis Brown

Instructor

Stonehill College

James A. Brown

Professor


Carole H. Browner

Professor


Angeles

Kimberly Graham Burgess

Independent Scholar

Jennifer Burrell

Assistant Professor

State University of New York -

Albany

Megan Callaghan

Visiting Assistant Professor

Bard College

Eric Canin

Lecturer

California State University –

Fullerton

Fracoise Caro

Ariana Designs (Private

citizen)

Conerly Casey

Associate Professor

Rochester Institute of

Technology

Quetzil E. Castañeda

Visiting Lecturer

Indiana University

Steve Caton

Professor

Harvard University

Melissa Cefkin

Research Staff Member

IBM Research

Rachel Chapman

Assistant Professor


Douglas Charles

Associate Professor

Wesleyan University

Piya Chatterjee

Associate Professor

University of California -

Riverside

Melissa Checker

Assistant Professor

Queens College - CUNY

Gracia Clark

Associate Professor

Indiana University

Lawrence Cohen Professor


Berkeley

Jennifer Cole

Associate Professor


Kathleen Coll

Lecturer

Stanford University

John Collins

Associate Professor

Queens College - CUNY

Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld

Associate Professor

University of North Carolina –

Chapel Hill

Ian Condry

Associate Professor

MIT

Nick Copeland



Kate Crehan

Professor

City University of New York –

Graduate Center

Louis Cristillo

Lecturer

Columbia University

Zoe Crossland

Assistant Professor

Columbia University

Sarah K. Croucher

Assistant Professor

Wesleyan University

JoAnn D'Alisera

Associate Professor


Pamela DaGrossa

Instructor

University of Hawai’i – Windward

Community College

Timothy P. Daniels

Assistant Professor

Hofstra University

Coralynn V. Davis

Associate Professor

Bucknell University

Elizabeth Ann Davis

Assistant Professor

Princeton University



March 2, 2010

9

Rochelle Davis

Assistant Professor


Lara Deeb

Associate Professor

Scripps College

Carol L. Delaney

Professor Emerita

Stanford University

Amy E. DenOuden

Associate Professor

University of Massachusetts – Boston

Bill Derman

Professor Emeritus

Michigan State University

Molly Doane

Assistant Professor

University of Illinois - Chicago

Christopher Dole

Professor

Amherst College

Dimitra Doukas

Independent Scholar

Kirk Dombrowski

Associate Professor

John Jay College - CUNY

Osama A. Doumani

PhD, Retired

Michael Duke

Research Scientist

Prevention Research Center

Joseph Dumit

Associate Professor


David Dwyer

Professor Emeritus


Barbara Erickson

Associate Professor

California State University -

Fullerton

Susan Falls

Professor

Savannah College of Art and Design

James Faris

Professor Emeritus


Greg Feldman

Assistant Professor

University of British

Columbia

R. Brian Ferguson

Professor

Rutgers University

Mariana Ferreira

Associate Professor

San Francisco State

University

Ann Feuerbach

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Hofstra University

Les Field

Professor


James D. Faubion

Professor

Rice University

Melissa Fisher

Assistant Professor


William H. Fisher

Associate Professor


Stephen M. Fjellman

Professor Emeritus

Florida International

University

Rochelle Tuitagava’a

Fonoti

Visiting Instructor

South Seattle Community

College

Severin Fowles

Assistant Professor

Barnard College

Nancy Fried Foster

Director of Anthropological

Research

University of Rochester

Richard Franke

Emeritus Professor


Brigitine French

Assistant Professor

Grinnell College

P. Kerim Friedman

Assistant Professor

National Dong Hwa University

(U.S. citizen)

John L. Geffroy

Instructor

United World College

Nicholas De Genova

Visiting Professor

University of Bern (US citizen)

Kenneth M. George

Professor

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department Chair (2004-7)

Editor, Journal of Asian Studies

(2005-8)

Susan Di Giacomo

Adjunct Professor

University of Massachusetts -

Amherst

Erica Gibson

Assistant Professor

University of South Carolina

Jonathan Glasser



Daniel Goldstein

Associate Professor

Rutgers University

Donna Goldstein

Associate Professor

University of Colorado

Roberto Gonzalez

Associate Professor

San Jose State University

Alisa Alison Gonzales

Project Assistant

University of Southern California

(private citizen)



March 2, 2010

10

Byron Good

Professor

Harvard University

Former Chair, Department of Social

Medicine

Former Co-Editor, Culture, Medicine,

Psychiatry

Marcia Good

Visiting Professor

DePaul University

MaryJo DelVecchio Good

Professor

Harvard University

Former Co-Editor, Culture, Medicine,

Psychiatry

Judith Goode

Professor

Temple University

Robert J. Gordon

Professor

University of Vermont

David Graeber

Reader

Goldsmiths – University of London

(US citizen)

Liza Grandia

Assistant Professor

Clark University

Bruce Grant

Associate Professor

New York University

Grey Gundaker

Professor


Akhil Gupta

Professor

UCLA

Former Treasurer, American

Ethnological Society

Shahla Haeri

Associate Professor

Boston University

Sondra Hale

Professor


Angeles

Kaaren Haldeman

Medical Anthropologist

University of North Carolina-

Chapel Hill

David Hakken

Professor

Indiana University

Sherine Hamdy

Assistant Professor

Brown University

Patricia Jean Hammer

Director

Center for Social Well Being

Joseph Hankins

Assistant Professor

University of California –

San Diego

M. Jamil Hanifi

Independent Scholar

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Associate Professor

James Madison University

Krista Harper

Assistant Professor


Amherst

Alan Harwood

Professor Emeritus


Boston

Rosina Hassoun

Adjunct Professor


Angelique Haugerud

Associate Professor

Rutgers University

Elizabeth Hegeman

Professor

John Jay College - CUNY

Stefan Helmreich

Associate Professor

MIT

Kari B. Henquinet


Michigan Technological University

David Hertzler

Associate Professor

Eastern Mennonite University

David Hess

Professor


Former Chair of Science and

Technology Studies,

Former Head, AAA Committee on

the Anthropology of Science,

Technology and Computing

Susan Hirsch

Professor


G. Derrick Hodge

Visiting Professor

University of Missouri

Dorothy Hodgson

Professor

Rutgers University

Daniel J. Hoffman

PhD. UC Berkeley

Independent Scholar

Claudia Holland

Sociology/Anthropology Liaison

Librarian Head


John Hoopes

Associate Professor

University of Kansas

James Hopgood

Former President Central States

Anthropological Society

Professor Emeritus

Northern Kentucky University

John Hotchkiss

Professor Emeritus

Universidad de las Americas

(US citizen)

Cymene Howe

Assistant Professor

Rice University



March 2, 2010

11

David M. Hughes

Associate Professor

Former Director, Center for African

Studies

Rutgers University

Cherry Hunsaker-Clark

Analyst

International Business and Technical

Consultants, Inc.

Frank Hutchins

Associate Professor

Bellarmine University

Emilienne Ireland

President

Nash Interactive, Inc.

Nicole Ives

Adjunct Professor

Prince George's Community College

Marilyn Ivy

Associate Professor

Columbia University

Jean Jackson

Professor


MIT

Annu Jalais

Postdoctoral Dellow

Yale University

Zahra N. Jamal

Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral

Fellow


Jason James

Assistant Professor

University of Mary Washington

Sara Jamieson

Lecturer

University of Colorado - Boulder

Beatrice Jauregui

Visiting Fellow

University of Pennsylvania

Janis H. Jenkins

Professor

University of California - San Diego

Carla Jones

Assistant Professor

University of Colorado –

Boulder

Galen Joseph

Assistant Professor


San Francisco

Karen Judd

Analyst

United Nations Development

Fund for Women

Raymond June

Senior Researcher

Global Integrity

Ann M. Kakaliouras

Assistant Professor

Whittier College

Ahmed Kanna

Assistant Professor

University of the Pacific

Jonathan Karpf

Lecturer


Sharryn M. Kasmir

Professor

Hofstra University

J. Kehaulani Kauanui

Associate Professor

Wesleyan University

Webb Keane

Professor


Arthur S. Keene

Professor

University of Massachusetts

– Amherst

John Kelly

Professor



Roshanak Kheshti

Assistant Professor

University of California, San

Diego

Laurie King

Adjunct Faculty



Alan Klima

Associate Professor

University of California, Davis

Kristin Koptiuch

Associate Professor


Lynn Kwiatkowski

Associate Professor

Colorado State University

Jong Bum Kwon

Postdoctoral Fellow

Williamette University

Nadia Latif


Bard College

Rena Lederman

Professor


Jennifer Leehey

PhD, Seattle University

Mara Leichtman

Assistant Professor


Jessaca Leinaweaver

Assistant Professor

Brown University

Micaela di Leonardo

Professor


Mark LeVine

Professor


Olga Linares

Senior Scientist Emeritus

Smithsonian Tropical Research

Institute

Shirley Lindenbaum

Professor Emerita

City University of New York



March 2, 2010

12

Julie Livingston

Associate Professor (History)

Rutgers University

Renee Llanusa-Cestero

Proprietor

La Cesta Consultants

Scott MacEachern

Professor

Bowdoin College

Ann Magennis

Associate Professor


Daniel Mains

Faculty Fellow

Colby College

Sunaina Maira

Associate Professor


Bruce Mannheim

Professor


Maxine Margolis

Professor Emerita

University of Florida

Vera Mark

Assistant Professor (French Studies)

Pennsylvania State University

Mac Marshall

Professor Emeritus

University of Iowa

Former Secretary, AAA

Former Editor, Medical Anthropology

Quarterly

Susan R. Martin

Associate Professor

Michigan Technological University

Leda Martins

Assistant Professor

Pitzer College

Samuel Martinez

Associate Professor


José E. Martínez-Reyes

Assistant Professor

University of Massachusetts - Boston

Joseph Masco

Associate Professor


Gregory Maskarinec

Associate Professor

University of Hawai’i

Jeff Maskovsky

Associate Professor

Former President, Society for

the Anthropology of North

America


– Graduate Center

Adeline Masquelier

Associate Professor

Tulane University

Andrew Matthews

Assistant Professor


Santa Cruz

Meredith McGuire

Past President of Society for

Scientific Study of Religion

Professor

Trinity University

Hugh Mehan

Professor

University of California, San

Diego

Former President, AAA

Council of Anthropology and

Education

Antonia Mills

Professor

University of Northern

British Columbia (US citizen)

Carol Shepherd McClain

Independent Scholar

Catherine Hodge McCoid

Professor Emerita

University of Central

Missouri

David McDonald

Assistant Professor

Indiana University

Brian McKenna

Assistant Professor


David McMurray

Associate Professor

Oregon State University

Laura McNamara

Adjunct Professor


Laurie Kroshus Medina

Associate Professor


Marcia Mikulak

Associate Professor

University of North Dakota

Sean T. Mitchell


Vanderbilt University

Jerry A. Moles

Director

New River LandCare

John Moore

Research Professor


Carla Guerron Montero

Associate Professor

University of Delaware

Mary Moran

Professor

Colgate University

Former Member AAA Executive

Board

Erik Mueggler

Associate Professor


Martha Mundy

Professor

London School of Economics

(US Citizen)

Amy Myers

The Chicago Lighthouse

Laura Nader

Professor




March 2, 2010

13

Carole Nagengast

Professor Emerita


Diane M. Nelson

Associate Professor

Duke University

David Nugent

Professor

Emory University

Former President, American

Ethnological Society

Patricia Omidian

Director, International programs

Focusing Institute

Sylvia W. Onder



Julian E. Orr

Consultant Anthropologist

Oona Paredes

Research Associate

University of Missouri

Heather Paxson

Associate Professor

MIT

John Pemberton

Associate Professor

Columbia University

Neni Panourgia Associate Professor

Columbia University

Kristin Peterson

Assistant Professor


Oriol Pi-Sunyer

Professor Emeritus


Amherst

Aaron Pina

Middle East Analyst

US Department of State

Adrienne Pine

Assistant Professor

American University

Luis F.B. Plascencia

Assistant Professor


Donald Pollack

Senior Consultant

ALS consulting

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Professor

Columbia University

Sabiyha Prince

Assistant Professor

American University

Guy Prouty

Instructor

Eastern Oregon University

Laura Putsche

Assistant Professor

University of Idaho

David Price

Professor

St. Martin’s College

James Quesada Associate Professor

San Francisco State

University

E. Moore Quinn

Associate Professor

College of Charleston

Gloria Goodwin Raheja

Professor


Rayna Rapp

Professor

New York University

Maple Razsa

Assistant Professor

Colby College

Ann Reed

Assistant Professor

University of Akron

Daniel Renfrew

Assistant Professor

West Virginia University

Lorna A. Rhodes

Professor


Carol Richards

PhD

Santa Monica, CA

Nancy Ries

Associate Professor

Colgate University

Mieka Ritsema

Faculty

International Honors Program

Janet Roitman

Associate Professor of Anthropology

and International Affairs

The New School Eric B. Ross

Visiting Professor of Anthropology

and of International Development

Studies


Mary Russell

Professor

Pierce College

Barbara Rylko-Bauer

Adjunct Associate Professor


Victoria Sanford

Associate Professor

City University of New York -

Graduate Center

Former Chair, AAA Committee for

Human Rights

Roger Sanjek

Professor Emeritus

Queens College – CUNY

Suzana Sawyer

Associate Professor


Gretchen Schafft

Professor

American University

Nina Shapiro-Perl

Filmmaker-in-residence

American University



March 2, 2010

14

Kirsten Scheid

Assistant Professor

American University of Beirut

Emile Schepers

Retired Anthropologist

Jane Schneider

Professor Emerita


Peter Schneider

Professor Emeritus

Fordham University

Barbara Schroder

Senior Research Associate


Helen B. Schwartzman

Professor


Christina Schwenkel

Assistant Professor


Karl H. Schwerin

Professor Emeritus


Edwin Segal

Professor Emeritus

University of Louisville

Linda Seligmann

Professor


Aradhana Sharma

Associate Professor

Wesleyan University

Susan Shepler

Assistant Professor

American University

Joel Sherzer

Professor Emeritus

University of Texas

Gerald M. Sider

Professor Emeritus

City University of New York –

Graduate Center

Research Associate - American

Museum of Natural History

Irene Silverblatt

Professor

Duke University

Merrill Singer

Professor


Janet Siskind

Professor Emerita

Rutgers University

Kathryn A. Sloan

Associate Professor


Carol Smith

Professor Emerita


Davis


Genese Marie Sodikoff

Assistant Professor

Rutgers University

John-Ben Soileau

Tulane University

Hoon Song

Assistant Professor

University of Minnesota –

Twin Cities

Leslie E. Sponsel

Professor


Meg Stalcup

Postdoctoral Fellow

Fred Hutchinson Cancer

Research Center

Miriam Stark

Professor

University of Hawai’i -

Manoa

Rebecca L. Stein

Assistant Professor

Duke University

Judith Stevenson

Assistant Professor

California State University-

Long Beach

Lawrence M. Stroup

Private Citizen

Ajantha Subramanian

Associate Professor

Harvard University

Lucy Suchman

Professor

Director, Center for Science Studies

University of Lancaster

(US citizen)

Roger Sullivan

Associate Professor

California State University –

Sacramento

Shoshanna Sumka

Coordinator, Global and Community-

Based Learning

American University

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Associate Professor


Constance R. Sutton

Professor Emerita

New York University

Ted Swedenburg

Professor


Patricia V. Symonds

Visiting Scholar

Brown University

Martha Tappen

Associate Professor


Bahram Tavakolian

Professor Emeritus

Denison University

Janelle Taylor

Associate Professor


E. Joanne Taylor

Adjunct Associate Professor

Hofstra University

Mary Taylor


Hunter College-CUNY



March 2, 2010

15

Ty Tengan

Associate Professor


Robert Textor

Professor Emeritus

Stanford University

Anna Jessica Theissen

Lecturer


Geraldine Tierney

Professor

Webster University

Sharon Traweek

Associate Professor

University of California - Los

Angeles

Margaret Trawick

Professor

Massey University (US citizen)

Sheila Tully

Lecturer

San Francisco State University

Terence Turner

Professor

Cornell University

Ragnhild Utheim

Adjunct Professor

Marymount Manhattan College

David Valentine

Assistant Professor


Mary Van Buren

Associate Professor


Krista E. Van Vleet

Associate Professor

Bowdoin College

Margaret Brown Vega

Postdoctoral Researcher

Pennsylvania State University

David Vine

Assistant Professor

American University

Kamala Viswesweran

Associate Professor

University of Texas

Maria-Amelia Viteri

Assistant Professor

Catholic University of

America

Gregory C. Vouros

Professor

Greenfield Community

College

Michael Madison Walker

Assistant Professor

Dowling College

Jeremy Walton

Assistant Professor

New York University

Sabra Webber

Associate Professor

The Ohio State University

Terrance Weik

Associate Professor

University of South Carolina

Margot Weiss

Assistant Professor

Wesleyan University

Sasha Welland

Assistant Professor


Jerry Wever

Assistant Professor

Spelman College

Jenny White Associate Professor

Former President, Middle

East Section

Boston University

Norman E. Whitten Jr.

Professor Emeritus

University of Illinois

Livia Wick

Assistant Professor

American University of

Beirut

Katharine Wiegele


Northern Illinois University

James Wilce

Professor

Northern Arizona University

Patrick C. Wilson

Associate Professor

University of Lethbridge (US citizen)

Jessica Winegar

Assistant Professor


Rosita Worl

Director

Sealaska Heritage Institute

Robin Wright

Professor


Lisa Yoneyama

Associate Professor

University of California - San Diego

Kathleen Zaretsky

Lecturer


Rebecca Zarger

Assistant Professor

University of South Florida

Graduate Students

Mysara Abu-hashem

American University

Jo Ann Aiton

Robertson Allen


Donald Anderson


Ryan Anderson

University of Kentucky

Julie Armin


Yalda Asmatey




March 2, 2010

16

Claudia Astorino


Graduate Center

Miranda Bailey

New College of Florida

Rebekah Callard Barry Brown University

Daniel Birchok


Betsey Behr Brada


Brian J. Burke


Ella Butler


Sam Byrd


Graduate Center

Juana Camacho

University of Georgia

Alejandro Ceron


Priya Chandrasekaran


Graduate Center

Federico Cintron-Moscoso


Joshua Reid Coene


Emily Curtin


Graduate Center

Molly DesBaillets

University of Kansas

Susie DiVietro

Adjunct Instructor


Miriam E. Domínguez

State University of New York

Binghamton

Alireza Doostdar

Harvard University

Georgina Drew

University of North Carolina

- Chapel Hill

Mark Drury


Graduate Center

Roxanna Duntley-Matos


Brian Estes


Misty Fields

University of Nevada – Las

Vegas

Elizabeth Frantz


Karin Friederic


Joshua Friedman


Stacey Fritz

University of Alaska

Alisha Susan Clompus

Gaskins

Humboldt State University

Jusin D. Geer

Columbia University

Harjant S. Gill

American University

Rebecca Golden

Tulane University

Cameron Gokee


Edward Gonzalez-Tennant


Andrew Graan


Mara Green


Berkeley

Bascom Guffin


Ryan Harrod

University of Nevada

Sami Hermez


Margarita Huayhua


Salman Hussein City University of New York

Geoffrey Hughes


Naomi Jagers

American University

Carwil James


Graduate Center

Simon Robert Jo-Keeling


Faith Kares


Christina Michelle Kleisath


Madeline Konz

American University

Mehmet Baris Kuymulu


Graduate Center

Lori Labotka


Ilsa Lam


Graduate Center

John M. Lambert


Michelle Lelievre


Darryl Li

Harvard University

Kanhong Lin




March 2, 2010

17

Martha Lincoln


Graduate Center

Kristina Lyons


Stephanie Maher


Callie Maidhof


Julie Maldonado

American University

Jackson Malle

State University of New York -

Binghamton

Kerriann Marden

Tulane University

Teresa Mares


Mariana Markova


Michelle A. Marzullo

American University

Melanie Angel Medeiros


Jessica Meissner


Nathan E. Meyer


Adjunct Instructor - Hamline College

Maire Ni Mhordha

University of St. Andrews

Melissa Minor


Elham Mireshghi


Shanti Morell-Hart


Jesse Mumm


Vandana Nagaraj

University of California at Davis

Regev Nathanson


Julienne Obadia

The New School

Susan Pietrzyk

State University of New York

- Binghamton

Matthew Preston


Davis

Benjamin Grant Purzycki


Mariya Radeva


Graduate Center

Nicholas Rattray


Bruno Renero-Hannan


Stephen Reyna Senior Research Fellow

University of Manchester

Tasha Rijke-Epstein


Tracey Rosen


Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar


Preeti Sampat


Graduate Center

Jeff Schonberg


San Francisco


Berkeley

Caroline Schuster


Ellen Sharp


Los Angeles

Shannyn Snyder


John-Ben Soileau

Tulane University

Ian Emmett Steele


Angela Storey


Matilda Stubbs Northwestern University

Denice Szafran

Adjunct Lecturer

State University of New York –

Buffalo

Amanda Terry


John Thiels

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Matthew Thomann

American University

Saul Thomas


Jack Ume Tocco


Anwen Tormey


Jeremy Trombley

University of Maryland

Hsun-Hui Tseng


Sarah Van Hoy


Tony N. VanWinkle

University of Tennessee

Elaine Waldman

California State University - Los

Angeles

Matthew C. Watson


Anna Weichselbraun




March 2, 2010

18

Lauren Whitmer

Ohio University

Nathan D. Woods


Graduate Center

Melissa Zavala


Graduate Center

Randi Zung

American University

Signatories at Foreign Institutions

Dima Abdulrahim

Senior Researcher

National Treatment Agency for

Substance Misuse – UK

Sadaf Ahmad

Assistant Professor

Lahore University of Management

Sciences

Nadje Al-Ali

Chair, Centre for Gender Studies

University of London

Catherine Allerton

Lecturer


Jill Allison

Sessional Lecturer

Memorial University of

Newfoundland

Umberto Albarella

University of Sheffield

Ayse Gul Altinay

Assistant Professor

Sabanci University

Juan Javier Rivera Andia

Professor

Universidad Catolica

Luis Fernando Angosto

Professor

Universidad Bolivariana de

Venezuela

Nicolas Argenti

Lecturer

Brunel University

Indira Arumugam

Graduate Student


Rania Astrinaki

Lecturer

Panteion University

Alexandra Bakalaki

Assistant Professor

Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki

Lara Band

Graduate Student

University of Leicester

Bart Barendregt

Lecturer

Leiden University

Stefanie Belharte

Institute of Social and

Cultural Anthropology

Ludwig-Maximilian’s

University, Munich

Vero Benei



Joshua Berson

Research Fellow

Institut für die

Wissenschaften vom

Menschen

Sukaina Bharwani

Stockholm Environment

Institute

Marnie Bjornson

Graduate Student

University of Toronto

Ann Both

National Center for Scientific

Research (CNRS), France

Judith Bovensiepen

Graduate Student


Ellen Brennan

BA, National University of Ireland

Maynooth

NGO Development Assistant

Malcolm Brown

University of Southern Queensland

Wil Burghoorn

Lecturer

University of Gothenburg

John Campbell

Senior Lecturer

School of Oriental and African

Studies – University of London

Alanna Cant

Graduate Student


Pat Caplan

Professor

Goldsmiths College

August Carbonella

Associate Professor

Memorial University

Alexandra A. Choby

Postdoctoral fellow

University of Alberta

Christopher Condin

Graduate Student

University of British Columbia

Jeanne Feaux de la Croix

Graduate Student


Eliza Jane Darline

Lecturer

Goldsmiths College

Sonia Das

Postdoctoral Fellow


Reade Davis

Assistant Professor

Memorial University

Dimitrios Dalakoglou

Lecturer

University of Sussex



March 2, 2010

19

Jane Derges

Fellow

University College London

Emma Martin Diaz

Professor

University of Seville

Leonidas Economou

Assistant Professor

Panteion University

Judith Ennew


University of Malaya

Richard Fardon

Professor and Chair



Francisco Ferrandiz

Tenured Associate Scientist

Spanish National Research Council

Sverker Finnstrom

Associate Professor

Uppsala University

Anthony Fisher

Professor Emeritus


Madalina Florescu

Graduate Student



Jean La Fontaine

Professor Emerita


Joost Fontein

Lecturer

University of Edinburgh

Maximilian Forte

Associate Professor

Concordia University

Miriam Geerse

Graduate Student

Utrecht University

Fabiola Jara Gomez

Utrecht University

Purificacion Heras

Gonzalez

Professor

Universidad Miguel

Hernández de Elche

Peter Gose

Department Chair

Carleton University

Gautam Ghosh

Lecturer

University of Otago

Andree Grau

Professor

Roehampton University

Elizabeth Guerrier

Contract Faculty

York University

Tyrell Caroline Haberkorn

Research Fellow

The Australian National

University

Sam Hardy

Graduate Student


Jane Helleiner

Professor

Brock University

Alexander Herrera

Associate Professor

Universidad de los Andes

Kregg Hetherington

Assistant Professor

Dalhousie University

Livia Holden

Assistant Professor

Lahore University of

Management Services

Brian Hole

Graduate Student


Christian Horst Associate Professor

Aarhus University (Denmark)

Elizabeth Hull

Research Fellow


Doreen Indra

Professor Emeriti

University of Lethbridge

Rubina Jasani

Research Fellow

University of Warwick

Alberto Corsin Jimenez

Senior Scientist

Spanish National Research Council

Edwin Jones

Graduate Student


Bruce Kapferer

Professor

University of Bergen

Nikoleta Katsakiori

Honorary Fellow


Eva Keller

PhD, University of Zurich

Laleh Khalili

Senior Lecturer



Katherine Kingfisher

Professor

University of Lethbridge

Sara V. Komarnisky

Graduate Student


Nikola Kosmatopoulos

Graduate Student

University of Zurich

Inga Britt Krause

Fellow

Royal Anthropological Institute

Jacob Krause-Jensen Associate Professor




March 2, 2010

20

Mark Lamont

Lecturer

Goldsmiths College

Richard Lee

University Professor Emeritus


Staffan Lofving

Senior Lecturer

Uppsala University

Mary Elisabeth Louw

Assistant Professor

Aarhus University

Ángeles Castaño Madroñal

Professor

Universidad de Sevilla

Marianne Maeckelbergh

Lecturer

Leiden University

Paul Manning

Assistant Professor

Trent University

Mahnaz Marashi

Senior Teaching Fellow

School of African and Oriental


Ingrid Marais

Graduate Student

University of Johannesburg

David Marsden

Research Associate



Paloma Masso M.D.

Graduate Student

University of Rovira i Virgili

Louella Matsunaga

Senior Teaching Fellow



Christine McCourt

Professor of Anthropology and

Health

Thames Valley University

Nandagopal R. Menon

Graduate Student

Utrecht University

Francesca Mezzenzana

Graduate Student


Anne Meneley

Associate Professor

Trent University

Nandagopal R. Menon

Graduate Student

Utrecht University

Nayanika Mookherjee

Lecturer

Lancaster University

Isidoro Moreno

Professor

Universidad de Sevilla

Judith Okely

Professor Emerita

University of Hull

Jan Ovesen

Associate Professor

Uppsala University

Anthony Pickles

Graduate Student


Johan Pottier

Professor of African

Anthropology

School of Oriental and

African Studies – University

of London

Natasha Pravaz

Assistant Professor

Wilfrid Laurier University

Annika Rabo

Professor

Stockholm University

David Racine

Katrina Richter

Graduate Student

Roehampton University

Diane Riskedahl

Lecturer


Laura Rival

University Lecturer

Oxford University

A.C.G.M. Robben

Professor

Utrecht University

Eva van Roekel

Graduate Student

Utrecht University

Steve Roskams

Senior Lecturer

University of York

Andrew Sanchez

Fellow


Kathryn Scott

Researcher

Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

Julie Shackelford

Graduate Student


Amar Shah

Graduate Student

Queen’s University Belfast

Ursula Sharma

Professor Emerita

University of Derby

Isabel Shaw

Research Associate

Imperial College, London

Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner

Reader


Jeffrey Sluka

Massey University

Gavin Smith

Professor


Katherine Smith

Research Fellow

University of Surrey



March 2, 2010

21

Alyson Stone

Graduate Student


Carlos Enrique Tapia

Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo

del Estado de Michoacán

Richard Tapper

Emeritus Professor

University of London

Fouzieyha Towghi

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Zurich

Eugenia Tsao

Graduate Student


Fotini Tsibiridou

Associate Professor

Macedonia University

Angels Trias i Valls

Lecturer

Regents College London

Elizabeth Tysoe

Macquarie University

Karen Valentin Associate Professor


Felix Talego Vazquez

Profesor Titular de Antropología

Política


Sita Venkateswar

Senior Lecturer

Massey University

Shelagh Weir

Research Associate



Richard Werbner

Professor Emeritus


Robin Whitaker

Associate Professor

Memorial University of

Newfoundland

Caroline White

Visiting Scholar

University of Capetown

Johanna Whiteley

Graduate Student


Raymond E. Wiest

Professor Emeritus

University of Manitoba

Rachel Wilde

Graduate Student


Zoe Wool

Graduate Student


Susan Wright Professor

Aarhus University, Denmark

David E. Young

Professor Emeritus


Elias Zamora Acosta

Professor


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