Candidates for SAS/SASci elections
SASci Elections 2012 - Candidates for Treasurer and Board
Treasurer
DOUGLAS W. HUME (PhD, University of Connecticut, 2005) Positions Held: Vice-President (2010-2011) Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky; Web and Listserv Manager (2007-date) Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky; Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2007-Pres) Northern Kentucky University; Interests and/or Activities: culture and cognition, ethnoecology, agriculture; Significant Publications: "Malagasy Swidden Agriculture: The Influence of Conservation Organizations on Indigenous Knowledge" Kentucky Journal of Anthropology and Sociology, in press; "A Short History of Human-Environmental Relations in Madagascar" Taloha, in press; "Vary Gasy: Meanings of Rice and Implications for Agricultural Development in Eastern Madagascar" Etudes Océan Indien, 2009.
MARIANNE M. SARKIS (Ph.D., Florida State University, 2010) Positions Held: Assistant Professor (2010-present) Clark University; Visiting Assistant Professor (2009-2010) Clark University; Lecturer (2008-2010) College of the Holy Cross; Analyst and Software Engineer (2006-2007) Fidelity Investments; Assistant in Research/Evaluation Manager (2002-2004) University of South Florida; Interests and/or Activities: Social networks analysis of African refugee/immigrant populations, demographic anthropology, reproductive decision-making and experiences; Significant Publications: “Somali Womanhood: A Re-Visioning”. In Empathy and Rage: FGM in Creative Writing. Tobe Levin and Augustine Asaah, (Eds.) Lynn Reiner Press, 2009. “Review of Hernlund, Y., and B. Shell-Duncan. 2007. Transcultural bodies: female genital cutting in global context.” Studies in Family Planning 39(3). 2008. “Female Cutting and Anthropology: What took us so long to come around?” In Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society. G.C. Denniston, F.M. Hodges, and M.F. Milos (Eds.) New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004.
Senior Board Member
STEPHEN M. LYON (PhD, University of Kent, 2002) Positions Held: Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, (2002-Pres), Deputy Director, Durham Global Securities Institute (2011-Pres), Contributing Editor for SAS section news in AN (2007-Pres), General Editor, History and Anthropology (2009-Pres), Managing Editor, Structure and Dynamics (2010-Pres), Honorary Editor, Anthropological Index Online (2011-Pres), Treasurer, Pakistan Studies Group (2002-Pres); Interests and/or Activities: culture and systems, kinship, politics, Islam, Pakistan, Japan; Significant Publications: Dunbar’s Number: Group Size and Brain Physiology in Humans Re-Examined. (with Jan de Ruiter, PhD and Gavin Weston PhD) American Anthropologist 2011; Pakistan and its Diaspora: Multidisciplinary Approaches. (edited with Marta Bolognani, PhD) Palgrave-Macmillan 2011; An anthropological analysis of local politics and patronage in a Pakistani village. Edwin Mellen Press. 2004.
LEILA RODRIGUEZ (PhD, Anthropology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University, 2009) Positions Held: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 2009 – present, University of Cincinnati; Instructor, Pennsylvania State University, four semesters in 2006, 2008 and 2009; Social Science Analyst, Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, DBSB, National Institutes of Health. Interests and/or Activities: economic and political integration of immigrants; development, labor markets and emigration; research methods Significant Publications A Note on Social Obligations, Accumulation and the Anti-Cyclical Property of Immigrant Remittances. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2010. Migration Streams and Contexts of Reception: Guatemalans in Four Destinations. Central American Social Science Journal, 2008 (in Spanish); Generations and Motivations: Russian and Other Former Soviet Immigrants in Costa Rica (with Jeffrey H. Cohen). International Migration, 2005.
Student Board Member
THEODOR P. GORDON (MA, University of California, Riverside, 2007) Positions Held: PhD Candidate (2009-Pres) University of California, Riverside; Associate Instructor in Anthropology (2008-2011) University of California, Riverside; Consulting Anthropologist (2011), Joshua Tree National Park; Visiting Research Fellow (2010) University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Teaching Assistant (2007-2009) University of California, Riverside. Interests and/or Activities: Ethnohistory, Indigeneity, “Unsettling Perspectives of American Indians: Cultural Knowledge of Tribal Sovereignty in Southern California,” Paper presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Significant Publications: “Ada Deer” Manuscript accepted for publication In Gordon Morris Bakken (Ed.) Women Minority Activists of the West, Texas Tech University Press, to be released 2012. “Nation, Corporation, or Family? Tribal Casino Employment and the Transformation of Tribes” Occasional Paper Series 5. Las Vegas: Center for Gaming Research, University Libraries, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2010.
ANDREW TARTER (MA, University of Florida, 2010) Positions Held: Student Representative, Culture and Agriculture section of American Anthropological Association (AAA) (2011-2013); Graduate Student Representative, Research and Scholarship Council of University of Florida Faculty Senate (2011-2012); Vice President/President, Student Committee of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) (2012-2013); Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2010-2013); Interests and/or Activities: farmers, GIS, social network analysis; Significant Publications: Tarter, Andrew. “The Last Tree in the Yard.” In E. Mendenhall & A.D. Koon (Eds.), Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press (in press); Tarter, Andrew (Editorial Assistant). In “Vodou Songs and Texts in Haitian Creole and English” (Author: Hebblethwaite, Benjamin). Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2011; Tarter, Andrew (Book Review). Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village, Environment and Society, (in progress).