The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is a professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

. With 11,000 members, the Arlington, Virginia based association includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, biological (or physical) anthropologists

Biological anthropology

Biological anthropology is that branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species. It plays an important part in paleoanthropology and in forensic anthropology...

, linguistic anthropologists

Linguistic anthropology

Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages, and has grown over the past 100 years to encompass almost any aspect of language structure and...

, linguists, medical anthropologists

Medical anthropology

Medical anthropology is an interdisciplinary field which studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation". It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives...

 and applied anthropologists in universities and colleges, research institutions, government agencies, museums, corporations and non-profits throughout the world. The AAA conducts the largest annual meeting of anthropologists and publishes over 20 peer-reviewed scholarly journals, available in print and online through AnthroSource. The AAA was founded in 1902.

History

According to its articles of incorporation, the AAA was formed to:

...promote the science of anthropology, to stimulate and coordinate the efforts of American anthropologists, to foster local and other societies devoted to anthropology, to serve as a bond among American anthropologists and anthropologic[al] organizations present and prospective, and to publish and encourage the publication of matter pertaining to anthropology.

At its incorporation, the association assumed responsibility for the journal American Anthropologist

American Anthropologist

American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association . It is known for publishing a wide range of work in anthropology, including articles on cultural, biological and linguistic anthropology and archeology...

, created in 1888 by the Anthropological Society of Washington (ASW). By 1905, the journal also served the American Ethnological Society

American Ethnological Society

The American Ethnological Society is the oldest professional anthropological association in the United States.- History of the American Ethnological Society :...

, in addition to the AAA and ASW.

From an initial membership of 175, the AAA grew slowly during the first half of the 20th century. Annual meetings were held primarily in the Northeast and accommodated all attendees in a single room. Since 1950, the AAA’s membership has increased dramatically, now averaging around 11,000. Annual meetings frequently draw over 5,000 individuals, who attend over 500 sessions organized into a five-day program.

The AAA has been a democratic organization since its beginning. Although Franz Boas

Franz Boas

Franz Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology." Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did...

 initially fought to restrict membership to an exclusive group of 40 "professional anthropologists," the AAA's first president, W. J. McGee, argued for a more inclusive membership embracing all those who expressed an interest in the discipline. McGee's vision still guides the association today. Business affairs are now conducted by a 41-member Section Assembly representing each of the association's constituent sections, and a 15-member Executive Board. This increase in representation reflects the growing diversity of the discipline, which is viewed by many as a source of strength for the association and for American anthropology as a whole. In Richard B. Woodbury's words, ". . .the AAA has remained the central society for the discipline, addressing with considerable success its increasingly varied interests and speaking for anthropology to other fields, the federal and state governments, and the public."

The AAA decided in 2010 to strip the word “science” from a statement of its long-range plan. The change was favored by members who study race, ethnicity and gender and see themselves as advocates for native peoples or human rights.

Sections

The AAA is composed of 38 sections, which are groups organized around identity affiliations or intellectual interests within the discipline of anthropology. Sections each have an elected president or chair and many publish journals and host meetings.http://www.aaanet.org/sections/

Publications

The AAA today publishes over 20 section publications including, among others, American Anthropologist

American Anthropologist

American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association . It is known for publishing a wide range of work in anthropology, including articles on cultural, biological and linguistic anthropology and archeology...

, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology & Education Quarterly and Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Medical Anthropology Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal published for the Society for Medical Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association. It addresses topics in human health and disease from anthropological perspectives....

.http://www.aaanet.org/publications/pubs/ The AAA’s official newspaper, Anthropology News, is published monthly September through May. It has a monthly circulation of 11,000-12,000, including members and individual and institutional subscribers. Since 1962 the association has published the AAA Guide, which lists anthropology departments, with staff and program information. It gradually expanded to include section and association membership directories, information on industry and research firms, government and non-profit agencies and museums, academic statistics and PhD

PHD

PHD may refer to:*Ph.D., a doctorate of philosophy*Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*PHD finger, a protein sequence*PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company*PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...

s granted in the discipline. AAA publications are available in print and online through AnthroSource.

Meetings

Since 1902, the AAA’s meetings have been important venues for the exchange of anthropological knowledge, conducting business and conversing with colleagues from all areas of anthropology. As the AAA has grown, its meetings have expanded. The 2007 annual meeting had an attendance of 5,500 people with 534 sessions. The ability to connect with colleagues remains a major reason for attending the annual meeting, whether those colleagues are other AAA members, members of related societies, publishers, policymakers, employers or media. In recent years, the AAA annual meeting location has alternated between Washington, DC and other U.S. cities. The 2008 annual meeting was held in San Francisco, CA; 2009 in Philadelphia, PA and 2010 in New Orleans, LA. The 2011 meeting will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Public issues involvement

From its earliest years, the AAA has given serious attention to public issues involving anthropology. For example, the AAA supported the passage of the Antiquities Act of 1906, protested the discontinuance of anthropological research in the Philippines (1915), urged the teaching of anthropology in high schools (1927), spoke out for the preservation of archaeological materials when dams were built by the Tennessee Valley Authority

Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected...

 (1935), passed a pre-WWII resolution against racism (1938), and expressed the need to “guard against the dangers, and utilize the promise, inherent in the use of atomic energy” (1945).

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the association examined the issues of government-sponsored classified research, use of anthropologists by the military in Vietnam, secret research in Thailand, and the general problem of a code of ethics for anthropological research, particularly for the protection of the rights of those studied. Other issues addressed from the 1970s through the 1980s include illegal antiquities trade

Antiquities trade

Antiquities trade is the exchange of antiquities and archaeological artifacts from around the world. This trade may be illicit or completely legal. The illicit antiquities trade involves non-scientific extraction that ignores the archaeological and anthropological context from which the artifacts...

, the insertion of religious beliefs into social science texts, the preservation of endangered nonhuman primates, and the religious significance of peyote

Peyote

Lophophora williamsii , better known by its common name Peyote , is a small, spineless cactus with psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline.It is native to southwestern Texas and Mexico...

 to Native Americans

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

. In the 1990s, in response to continued public confusion about the meaning of “race,” particularly public misconceptions about race and intelligence

Race and intelligence

The connection between race and intelligence has been a subject of debate in both popular science and academic research since the inception of intelligence testing in the early 20th century...

, the AAA Executive Board commissioned a position paper on race as a constructed social mechanism.

In 2004, in response to President George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

’s call for a constitutional amendment

Constitutional amendment

A constitutional amendment is a formal change to the text of the written constitution of a nation or state.Most constitutions require that amendments cannot be enacted unless they have passed a special procedure that is more stringent than that required of ordinary legislation...

 banning same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage is marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender. Supporters of legal recognition for same-sex marriage typically refer to such recognition as marriage equality....

, the AAA issued a statement on marriage and the family. It states:

The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.

The AAA also has adopted resolutions against the U.S. invasion of Iraq, against the use of anthropological knowledge as an element for physical or psychological torture, and against any covert or overt U.S. military action against Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

.

RACE: Are We So Different?

To help promote more complex and nuanced understandings of race and human variation, the AAA developed and currently manages a public education program titled “RACE Are We So Different?” The program includes a traveling museum exhibit, an interactive website http://www.understandingRACE.org, and educational materials. “RACE Are We So Different?” looks at race in the United States through history, science and lived experience. The program explains how human variation differs from race, when and why the idea of race was invented, and how race and racism affect everyday life.

Ethical and Academic debates

A number of ideologically polarized debates within the discipline of anthropology have prompted the AAA to conduct investigations. These include the dispute between Derek Freeman

Derek Freeman

John Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist best known for his criticism of Margaret Mead's work in Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa...

 and defenders of Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....

 and also the controversy over the book Darkness in El Dorado

Darkness in El Dorado

Darkness in El Dorado is a book written by investigative journalist Patrick Tierney in 2000 that accuses geneticist James Neel and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon of exacerbating a measles epidemic among the Yanomamo people and conducting human research without regard for their subjects' wellbeing...

.

Arizona

On May 22, 2010, the AAA Executive Board issued a resolution that declared Arizona's SB1070, a law which empowers state law enforcement to assist with the enforcement of federal law, to be "unconstitutional." The Board claims it will boycott Arizona, but will not boycott "Indian Reservations" within the state, until the law "is either repealed or struck down as constitutionally invalid." The Board did not state what it will do if the courts uphold SB1070 as constitutionally valid.

The Board stated that "The AAA has a long and rich history of supporting policies that prohibit discrimination based on...national origin..."

Vietnam War

In March 1967, during the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

, the Council of the AAA adopted a "Statement on Problems of Anthropological Research and Ethics" that stated: "Except in the event of a declaration of war by Congress, academic institutions should not undertake activities or accept contracts in anthropology that are not related to their normal functions of teaching, research, and public service. They should not lend themselves to clandestine activities. . . . The international reputation of anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

 has been damaged by the activities of unqualified individuals who have falsely claimed to be anthropologists, or who have pretended to be engaged in anthropological research while in fact pursuing other ends. There is also good reason to believe that some anthropologists have used their professional standing and the names of their academic institutions as cloaks for the collection of intelligence

Intelligence (information gathering)

Intelligence assessment is the development of forecasts of behaviour or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an organization, based on a wide range of available information sources both overt and covert. Assessments are developed in response to requirements declared by the leadership...

 information and for intelligence operations. Academic institutions and individual members of the academic community, including students, should scrupulously avoid both involvement in clandestine intelligence activities and the use of the name of anthropology, or the title of anthropologist, as a cover for intelligence activities." The US has not declared war since June 5, 1942, when it did so on Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

, Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

, and Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

.

A statement on "Principles of Professional Responsibility" adopted by the same Council in May 1971 stated: "In relation with their own government and with host governments, research anthropologists should be honest and candid. They should demand assurance that they will not be required to compromise their professional responsibilities and ethics as a condition of their permission to pursue research. Specifically, no secret research, no secret reports or debriefings of any kind should be agreed to or given.

Human Terrain System

Through 2007 and 2008, debates surrounding anthropologists and the military have resurfaced in response to the Pentagon

The Pentagon

The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.Designed by the American architect...

’s Human Terrain System

Human Terrain System

The Human Terrain System is a United States Army program utilizing experts from social science disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, political science, regional studies and lingustics to provide military commanders and staff with an understanding of the local population...

 (HTS) project.

Following a number of national news articles on HTS, anthropologists began to debate the project and related ethical issues. Proponents of the HTS program argued that anthropologists were providing much-needed cultural knowledge about local populations and helping to decrease violence in their areas of operation. Critics, however, argued that HTS anthropologists could not receive informed consent from their research subjects in a war zone

War Zone

A war zone is a location of military conflict, but the term may also refer to:* War Zone , a 1998 documentary about street harassment* The War Zone, a 1999 film starring Ray Winstone...

 and that information provided by anthropologists might put populations in danger.

To address these issues, the AAA’s Executive Board released a statement on the HTS project on 31 October 2007. The statement cites, “sufficiently troubling and urgent ethical issues” raised by the HTS project, including the difficulties for HTS anthropologists to receive informed consent without coercion from their research subjects and to uphold their ethical mandate to “do no harm” to those they study. The AAA urges members to adhere to its code of ethics, which outlines principles and guidelines for ethical behavior. However, the association does not adjudicate cases involving charges of unethical behavior or bar members from participating in the HTS program.

In addition, the AAA’s Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with US Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC) issued a final report in November 2007, based on over a year of work on this subject. The report neither endorsed nor condemned anthropological work with military, intelligence and security organizations, but instead outlined the opportunities and challenges of working in these sectors.http://www.aaanet.org/issues/CEAUSSIC-Final-Report.cfm. The report was released during the AAA's 2007 annual meeting and its contents were debated during several panel events.

Opposition to military cooperation was evident during the 2007 AAA annual meeting in Washington, DC. Some critics of the HTS program have suggested that scholars who perform classified work with the military be expelled from the organization. During an event organized by the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, a graduate student who had recently been expelled from the HTS program spoke out about her experiences with the program. She argued that the program was poorly run but was doing positive work in helping military officers with "nation-building

Nation-building

For nation-building in the sense of enhancing the capacity of state institutions, building state-society relations, and also external interventions see State-building....

" activities. She began crying when some scholars shouted criticisms about her finance for his continued participation in the HTS program. Another scholar came to her defense and urged the crowd to show her respect for sharing her views before a critical audience.

AnthroSource

AnthroSource is the online repository of the journals of the American Anthropological Association. Launched in 2004, AnthroSource contains current issues for fifteen of the AAA's peer-reviewed publications, as well as an archive of the journals, newsletters, and bulletins published by the American Anthropological Association and its member sections. Members of the AAA are given access to AnthroSource as a benefit of membership, and institutions may receive access via paid subscription.

Until August 2007, AnthroSource was a collaboration between the University of California Press

University of California Press

University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...

 and the American Anthropological Association. It, along with all AAA journals, has since been pulled from the University of California Press by the AAA Board and given to Wiley-Blackwell, the new publisher created when John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...

 purchased Blackwell Publishing

Blackwell Publishing

Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing, after Wiley took over Blackwell Publishing in...

 in February 2007. Commencing 2008, AnthroSource is to be hosted and managed by Wiley-Blackwell as part of the five-year publishing contract awarded.

Primary peer-reviewed journals

• American Anthropologist
  American Anthropologist
  American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association . It is known for publishing a wide range of work in anthropology, including articles on cultural, biological and linguistic anthropology and archeology...
  
  
• American Ethnologist
• Anthropology & Education Quarterly
• Anthropology & Humanism
• Anthropology of Consciousness
• Anthropology of Work Review
• Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
• Central Issues in Anthropology
• City & Society
• Cultural Anthropology
• Culture & Agriculture
• El Mensajero
• Ethos
• Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
• Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
• Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe
• Medical Anthropology Quarterly
• Museum Anthropology
• North American Dialogue
• Nutritional Anthropology
• PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
• SOLGANs
• Transforming Anthropology
• Visual Anthropology Review
• Voices

Past AAA Presidents

• William J McGee (1902–1904)
• F W Putnam (1905–1906)
• Franz Boas
  Franz Boas
  Franz Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology." Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did...
  
   (1907–1908)
• W H Holmes
  William Henry Holmes
  William Henry Holmes was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist and museum director.-Life:...
  
   (1909–1910)
• J Walter Fewkes
  J. Walter Fewkes
  Jesse Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, writer and naturalist. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and initially trained as a zoologist at Harvard University...
  
   (1911–1912)
• Roland B Dixon (1913–1914)
• F W Hodge (1915–1916)
• Alfred L Kroeber (1917–1918)
• Clark Wissler
  Clark Wissler
  Clark Wissler was an American anthropologist.Born near Hagerstown, Indiana, Wissler graduated from Indiana University in 1897. He received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University in 1901. After Columbia, Wissler left the field of psychology to focus on Anthropology...
  
   (1919–1920)
• W. C. Farabee (1921–1922)
• Walter Hough
  Walter Hough
  Walter Hough, Ph.D. was an American ethnologist, born at Morgantown, W. Va. He was educated at Monongalia Academy, West Virginia Agricultural College, and West Virginia University...
  
   (1923–1924)
• Ales Hrdlicka
  Aleš Hrdlicka
  Aleš Hrdlička or Ales Hrdlicka was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881...
  
   (1925–1926)
• Marshall H. Saville (1927–1928)
• Alfred M. Tozzer (1929–1930)
• George G. MacCurdy (1931)
• John R. Swanton
  John R. Swanton
  John Reed Swanton was an American anthropologist and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and ethnohistory...
  
   (1932)
• Fay-Cooper Cole
  Fay-Cooper Cole
  .Fay-Cooper Cole was a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and most famously was a witness for the defense for John Scopes at the Scopes Trial.-External links:...
  
   (1933–1934)
• Robert H. Lowie (1935)
• Herbert J. Spinden (1936)
• Nels C. Nelson (1937)
• Edward Sapir
  Edward Sapir
  Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist-linguist, widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics....
  
   (1938)
• Diamond Jenness
  Diamond Jenness
  Diamond Jenness, CC was one of Canada's greatest early scientists and a pioneer of Canadian anthropology.-Biography:...
  
   (1939)
• John M. Cooper
  John M. Cooper
  John M. Cooper is an American historian, author, and educator. His specialization is late 19th and early 20th century American Diplomatic History. Cooper is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
  
   (1940)
• Elsie Clews Parsons
  Elsie Clews Parsons
  Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Tewa and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. She helped found The New School...
  
   (1941)
• A.V. Kidder (1942)
• Leslie Spier
  Leslie Spier
  Leslie Spier was an American anthropologist best known for his ethnographic studies of American Indians. He spent a great deal of his professional life as a teacher; he retired in 1955 and died in 1961....
  
   (1943)
• Robert Redfield
  Robert Redfield
  Robert Redfield was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist. Redfield graduated from the University of Chicago, eventually with a J.D. from its law school and then a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, which he began to teach in 1927...
  
   (1944)
• Neil M Judd
  Neil Judd
  Neil Merton Judd was an American archaeologist who studied under the pioneering archaeologist of the American Southwest, Edgar Lee Hewett. He was curator of archaeology at the erstwhile United States National Museum, which later became part of the Smithsonian Institution...
  
   (1945)
• Ralph Linton
  Ralph Linton
  Ralph Linton was a respected American anthropologist of the mid-twentieth century, particularly remembered for his texts The Study of Man and The Tree of Culture...
  
   (1946)
• Ruth Benedict
  Ruth Benedict
  Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist, cultural relativist, and folklorist....
  
   (Jan-May 1947)
• Clyde Kluckhohn
  Clyde Kluckhohn
  Clyde Kluckhohn , was an American anthropologist and social theorist, best known for his long-term ethnographic work among the Navajo and his contributions to the development of theory of culture within American anthropology.-Early life and education:...
  
   (May-Dec 1947)
• Harry L. Shapiro
  Harry L. Shapiro
  Harry Lionel Shapiro was an American author, eugenicist, and Professor of Anthropology.-Biography:Shapiro was born in to a Jewish family and was educated in Boston, Massachusetts....
  
   (1948)
• A. Irving Hallowell (1949)
• Ralph L. Beals (1950)
• William W. Howells
  William W. Howells
  Dr William White Howells was a professor of anthropology at Harvard University. His most notable research concluded that modern humans are of one species....
  
   (1951)
• Wendell C. Bennett (1952)
• Fred R. Eggan (1953)
• John Otis Brew
  John Otis Brew
  John Otis Brew, born March 28, 1906, was an American Southwest archaeologist that not only conducted extensive archaeological research, but was also a director at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. Many of his publications are still used today by archaeologists that conduct their work in...
  
   (1954)
• George P. Murdock (1955)
• Emil W. Haury (1956)
• E. Adamson Hoebel
  E. Adamson Hoebel
  E. Adamson Hoebel was Regents Professor Emeritus of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He held a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, where he also attended the seminars of Karl N. Llewellyn, who taught at the Columbia Law School from 1925-1951...
  
   (1957)
• Harry Hoijer
  Harry Hoijer
  Harry Hoijer was a linguist and anthropologist who worked on primarily Athabaskan languages and culture.He additionally documented the Tonkawa language, which is now extinct...
  
   (1958)
• Sol Tax
  Sol Tax
  Sol Tax was an American anthropologist. He is best known for his studies of the Meskwaki, or Fox, Indians, for "action-anthropological" research titled the Fox Project, and for founding the academic journal Current Anthropology. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1935.Tax...
  
   (1959)
• Margaret Mead
  Margaret Mead
  Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....
  
   (1960)
• Gordon R Willey (1961)
• Sherwood L. Washburn (1962)
• Morris E. Opler (1963)
• Leslie A. White (1964)
• Alexander Spoehr (1965)
• John P. Gillin (1966)
• Frederica de Laguna
  Frederica de Laguna
  Frederica de Laguna was an American anthropologist. Her parents, Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna and Grace Mead Andrus, were, respectively, Spanish-American and, in Frederica's own words, "Connecticut Yankee". Both received doctorates from Cornell and would later teach philosophy at Bryn...
  
   (1967)
• Irving Rouse (1968)
• Cora DuBois
  Cora DuBois
  Cora Alice Du Bois, was an American cultural anthropologist and a key figure in culture and personality studies and in psychological anthropology more generally.-Biography:...
  
   (1969)
• George M. Foster, Jr. (1970)
• Charles Wagley
  Charles Wagley
  Charles Wagley was an American anthropologist and leading pioneer in the development of Brazilian anthropology. Wagley began graduate work in the 1930s at Columbia University, where he fell under the spell of Franz Boas and what later became known as the "historical particularist” mode of...
  
   (1971)
• Anthony F. C. Wallace
  Anthony F. C. Wallace
  Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace is a Canadian-American anthropologist who specializes in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expresses an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology...
  
   (1972)
• Joseph B. Casagrande (1973)
• Edward H. Spicer
  Edward H. Spicer
  Edward H. "Ned" Spicer was an American anthropologist who specialized in studying American Indian tribes of the American Southwest as a participant-observer...
  
   (1974)
• Ernestine Friedl (1975)
• Walter Goldschmidt (1976)
• Richard N. Adams (1977)
• Francis L. K. Hsu (1978)
• Paul J. Bohannan
  Paul J. Bohannan
  Paul James Bohannan was an American anthropologist known for his research on the Tiv of Nigeria, spheres of exchange and divorce in the United States.-Early life and education:...
  
   (1979)
• Conrad M. Arensberg (1980)
• William C Sturtevant (1981)
• M. Margaret Clark (1982)
• Dell Hathaway Hymes (1983)
• Nancy O. Lurie (1984–1985)
• June Helm (1986–1987)
• Roy Rappaport
  Roy Rappaport
  Roy A. Rappaport was a distinguished anthropologist known for his contributions to the anthropological study of ritual and to ecological anthropology.-Biography:...
  
   (1988–1989)
• Jane Buikstra (1989–1991)
• Annette Weiner (1991–1993)
• James Peacock (1993–1995)
• Yolanda T. Moses (1995–1997)
• Jane Hill
  Jane H. Hill
  Jane Hassler Hill is an American anthropologist and linguist who has worked extensively with Native American languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1966...
  
   (1997–1999)
• Louise Lamphere
  Louise Lamphere
  Louise Lamphere is an American anthropologist who has been distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico since 2001. She was a faculty member at UNM from 1976-1979 and again from 1986-2009, when she became a Professor Emeritus.Lamphere received her Ph.D. from Harvard in...
  
   (1999–2001)
• Don Brenneis (2001–2003)
• Elizabeth M. Brumfiel (2003–2005)
• Alan Goodman (2005–2007)
• Setha Low
  Setha Low
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   (2007–2009)
• Virginia Dominguez (2009–Present)

External links

• American Anthropological Association
• RACE: Are We So Different?
• Register to the Papers of American Anthropological Association, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution