The SfAA Podcast Archive
The SfAA Podcast Project is a student-led initiative to provide audio records of sessions from the Annual Meetings to the public, free of charge. We strive to include a broad range of interests from diverse perspectives with the intent of extending conversations throughout the years. Our ultimate goal is to make these dialogues accessible to a global audience. This is the podcast feed dedicated to the archive of the SfAA Podcast, from years 2007 to 2024.
Episodes
UNT anthropology students Ricardo Carrera del Valle and Natalie White sat down with 2026 Margaret Mead Award recipient Amelia Fiske to discuss her new book, Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia. Recorded on March 20 at SfAA in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
UNT anthropology students Eva Perez Zepeda and Radhika Lade spoke with Michael Paolisso, recipient of the 2025 Sol Tax Award for Distinguished Service, about his career in natural resource management and applied anthropology. Recorded on March 19, 2026 at SfAA in Albuquerque, NM.
UNT anthropology students Natalie White and Radhika Lade sat down with Robert Rubinstein, recipient of the 2026 Sol Tax Award for Distinguished Service, about his work bringing an anthropological lens to the field of international peacekeeping. Recorded on March 19, 2026 at SfAA in Albuquerque, NM.
UNT anthropology students Eva Perez Zepeda and Ricardo Carrera del Valle sat down with 2026 Malinowski Award recipient Roberto Alvarez to discuss his life, his work on the border, and the future of anthropology. Recorded on March 19, 2026 at SfAA in Albuquerque, NM.
CHAIR: MORRIS, Richard W. (MGI)
SINGH PUNI, Tirath and MILLER, Christine (SCAD) Breaking Barriers: Applying Ethnographic Tools and Service Design to Integrate Community-Based Research in Medical Education
HERMANNS, Kwela (SCAD) and GAGE, Marty (Lextant) What Industry and Education Really Want: Lextant & SCAD Partnership on User-Centered Design Research Training
MORRIS, Richard W. (MGI) Towards a Method for Scaling Ethnography b...
CHAIR: MORRIS, Richard W. (MGI)
BRUNA, Sean (WWU) An Ethnographic Look Inside a Federal Initiative
MILLER, Christine Z. and SIGHN PUNI, Tirath (SCAD) Scaling Up: From Small Starts to Big Impacts
TELLIEL, Yunus Doğan (WPI) Translational Anthropology: Scaling Ethnographic Inquiry in Human-Computer Interaction
MORRIS, J.S.K. (UWisc), LOUIS, C.N. (CNL), a...
CHAIR: PAZ LEMUS, L. Tatiana (Vanderbilt U)
PAZ LEMUS, L. Tatiana (Vanderbilt U) Rethinking Childhoods and Childhood Obesity Through a Cultural Contexts of Health Approach
CUJ, Miguel (Vanderbilt U) Feasting on Knowledge: Exploring Guatemala’s Maya Food Groups in a Global Approach
KOSS, Sophia (Vanderbilt U) The Cultural Context of Heat: Addressing Heat in the U.S.
DISCUSSANT: HARVEY, T.S. (Vanderbilt U)
This session explore...
CHAIRS: ROBERTSON, William (U Memphis) and FLEURIET, K. Jill (UTSA)
ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: FLEURIET, K. Jill (UTSA), LAMBERT-PENNINGTON, Katherine and ROBERTSON, William (U Memphis)
Many students gain hands-on experience and training in applied anthropology through the dozens of field schools offered around the world. Field schools are incredibly helpful for revitalizing applied anthropology because they present the next generat...
CHAIR: ILAHIANE, Hsain (U Arizona)
JUNG, Yuson (Wayne State U), BATTS, Dawn (Milestone Capital Growth Inst), THOMAS, Frankee, REIMUELLER, Kayleigh, UNDERWOOD, Ricky, EDMOND, Nakim, and WALTER, Morgan (Wayne State U), GONZALEZ, Yoel (Independent) Beyond Hustling and the Individual Entrepreneur: Building a Black Tech Ecosystem in Detroit
MINGEE, Jess (UIUC) Compatibility of the Entrepreneurial Mindset With Development Projects in Non...
CHAIR: PODRABSKY, Dylan (U Oregon)
ISLAM, Afsana (TX State U) Vitiligo and the Gender-Based Socio-Cultural Stigma: Contemporary Health Seeking Behaviour and Treatment Practices in Bangladesh
NEHUSHTAN, Hilla (U Pitt) Body Size Perceptions Among American Jewish Women
PODRABSKY, Dylan, HERBERT, Claire, SNODGRASS, Josh, and WEAVER, Lesley Jo (U Oregon) Symbolic Violence, Embodied Consequences: Stigma, Houselessness, and Health
GANLEY,...
CHAIRS: CHARNLEY, Susan and CERVENY, Lee (USFS PNRS)
MCLAIN, Rebecca (Independent) Possibilities and Uncertainties in the Emerging Bigleaf Maple Sugaring Industry
CHARNLEY, Susan (USFS PNRS) Community Forestry in the Pacific Northwest: Addressing the “Leftovers” Problem
SIZEK, Julia, COUGHLAN, Michael, and HUBER-STEARNS, Heidi (U Oregon) Planning Under Fire: How Changing Fire Regimes Reshape Forest and Community Plannin...
MODERATORS: WIES, Jennifer (EKU)
HÀ, Tiên-Dung (Stanford U) Power of Identification: Transnational Science and Sacred Obligations in Identifying Vietnamese War Dead
GILLARD, Sharon (UNCC) Mental Health Stigma Disparities: Cultural Identities and Cultural Values Among Black Women
THOMPSON-CAMPITOR, Carly (NAU) “You’re One of Us”: A Reflexive Account of Conducting Insider Research With Lyme Disease Advocates
DISCUSS...
Invisible Battles: Disability, Power, and Powerlessness (Disability TIG)
Speakers:
CHAIR: KLEIN, Wendy (CSULB) LILLY, Samantha (U Michigan) A Case Study on the Efficacy of Argentina’s National Mental Healthcare Law ‘Ley Nº 26.657’ MCILRATH, Grace (Luther Coll) Invisible Battles of “Ordinary”...
PRIBILSKY, Jason (Whitman Coll) Towards a Cultural Ballistics of Guns. This panel brings together new research into gun culture and the aftereffects of gun violence in the contemporary US. In the spaces between the protracted gun debate between unfettered access to firearms and calls for gun control, we highlight ways ethnographic attention can serve to reveal emerging structures of feelings arou...
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