The American Ethnological Society is delighted to announce the appointment of Gina Athena Ulysse as the section’s first Artist-In-Residence. Professor Ulysse is a Haitian American feminist artist-anthropologist and self-described PostZoraInterventionist who earned her Ph.D. from the [...]
What is the point of social-cultural anthropology? Why create ethnography? How is it a meaningful part of contemporary social and political life? In 2024 American Ethnologist will be celebrating its [...]
The AES small grants competition, now in its fifth year, received many excellent proposals, and the committee was challenged to select 13 grant recipients from a pool of worthy projects. [...]
The American Ethnological Society invites you to apply for the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize. Please click here for more details and guidelines for submission. Applications are due Friday, October 14th, 2022 at 5pm [...]
In honor of American Ethnologist’s 50th volume in 2023, the incoming editors would like to announce a new special running feature on the production of ethnographic knowledge. We anticipate authors [...]
Recent accusations of sexual harassment against prominent anthropologists have forced the discipline to reckon with the structures of academia, including prestige economies and pyramid structures, networks of reciprocity and exchange, [...]
AES invites nominations for its Senior Book Prize, awarded every other year for a book by a senior scholar. The deadline is May 21, 2022. The prize goes to a [...]
by Gabriela Manley Does COVID-19 need an introduction? Perhaps – for the future generations, and those still hiding in their Y2K bunkers First detected late 2019 in the Wuhan province of [...]
The incoming editorial team of American Ethnologist (Susanna Trnka, editor-in-chief, and Jesse Hession Grayman and Lisa L. Wynn, associate editors) seeks expressions of interest for the role of book reviews editor at [...]
AES is delighted to announce this year's Elsie Clews Parson Prize winner, China Sajadian, doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center-CUNY, for her essay "A person with a full stomach doesn't [...]
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