The SfAA Podcast Archive

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),...

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 explores how...

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 gene...

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 N...

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

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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 Planning Across the...

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

DISCUSSANT: GARDNER, An...

Invisible Battles: Disability, Power, and  Powerlessness (Disability TIG)

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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” Mothers: Stories of Disability Advocacy in  Iowa ...

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 around guns whereby citizens  may ...

MARKS, Alejandra (NMSU) Transformations in the Reproductive  Domain: Abortion, Birth, and Advocacy in the Post-Roe Era. In  recent years, the legal landscape for abortion has been rapidly  changing. While some countries like Mexico, Argentina, and  Ireland are liberalizing their policies, others, like the U.S. and  Poland, are moving toward greater restriction. To understand  the future of reproductive rights in these times, it is ...

MCMULLIN, Juliet (UCI) The Meaning of Data Is “to Give”: Health  Equity in an Era of Community Engagement. My paper engages  the call for increased inclusion of community in research as  critical to health equity and a question of data - a question of how we give. I consider the application of community engagement and data gathering within the framework of health equity, then turn to the implications of the call to expand the possi...

DURBIN, Trevor (KSU) “I know it’s not ethnography!”:  Reimagining Ethnographic Research and Training beyond  Writing Culture. While critiques of ethnographic methods  abound, the primacy of scholarly norms for ethnography  have persisted. Many professionals who use ethnographic  methods, however, may never write ethnography but instead  use ethnographic research for other purposes. As a result, the  practice of ethnographic researc...

OTAÑEZ, Marty and BURGES, Nikketa (CU Denver) A Graphic  Novel about Overdose Prevention: A Vision for an Arts-Based  Project Co-Created by Medical Anthropologists and People  Who Use Drugs. We share a draft graphic novel co-created  by anthropologists and people who use drugs (PWUDs). This  work derives from 76 participants who completed interviews  in Colorado in 2021. Participants used some kind of mixture  of heroin, methamphet...