Setha Low, president of AAA
Claude Levi-Strauss refugee who became France's most revered anthropologists, dead at 100
Associated Press
November 4, 2009
Commenting on the passing of the beloved French anthropologist, Setha Low states Levi-Strauss as one of the most "innovative and creative theorists that anthropology has ever produced."

Yolanda Moses (UC Riverside)
Los Angeles Exhibit focusing on Race Opens Saturday
Ventura County Star
October 2, 2009
Moses is interviewed about the RACE Project.

Yolanda Moses (UC Riverside)
Can Racism Be Unlearned
The Wave
October 1, 2009
Moses is interviewed about the RACE Project, and whether or not racism can be unlearned.

Joseph Jones (AAA RACE Project Manager), Yolanda Moses (UC Riverside)
RACE exhibit hits LA
Our Weekly
September 24, 2009
The importance of the RACE exhibit is discussed.

Robin Nagle (NYC Department of Sanitation, NYU)
How to Love a Landfill
WasteAge
July 1, 2009
Nagle explains why landfills  are necessary and significant in recording and understanding history.

William Beeman (U Minnesota)
Iran Test Long-Range Missiles
MPR News Q
September 28, 2009
Beeman is interviewed about Iran, it's nuclear program, and prospects for the future.

David Vine (American U), Catherine Lutz (Brown)
Engaging the Military
Inside Higher Education
September 21, 2009
David Vine's piece on HTS covers the considerable controversies surrounding the program.

Arthur Kleinman (Harvard), Allessandro Durranti (UCLA)
Swine Flu Upsets Rituals of Greeting
NY York Times
September 3, 2009
Kleiman and Durranti help explain how universal greetings have changed in response to the H1N1 virus.

Mark Turin (Cambridge U)
Dying Languages archived for future generations
Telegraph UK
August 24, 2009
Turin talks about his work as project leader of the World Oral literature Project, aimed to protect and safeguard the world's 6000 spoken languages.

Yolanda Moses (UC Riverside), Alan Goodman (Hampshire College), John Jackson Jr. (U Penn)
Gray Area
Philadelphia Inquirer
August 19, 2009
Racial discrimination in America and the possibility of color blindness
as a reality are discussed.

Roger Sanjek (Queens, CUNY)
Gray Panthers
Z Magazine
July 2009
Sanjek discusses the history and the mission of the Gray Panthers.

Micheal Dove (Yale)
Dreams From His Mother
NY Times
August 10, 2009
Dove remembers Ann Dunham Soetoro, as a friend, a collegue, and a forward thinking and perceptive anthropologist.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, (Berkeley)
Nobody Cares About Organ Trafficking
Newsweek
July 24, 2009
Scheper Hughes' work uncovering the involvement and the eventual FBI arrest of rabbis trafficking organs  is discussed.

Karen Ho (U Minnesota)
An Anthropologist on What's Wrong with Wall Street
Time
July 22, 2009
Ho explains the nature of Wall Street before and after the financial meltdown.

Arthur Kleinman (Harvard)
Bridging the Culture Gap
NY Times
July 16, 2009
Kleinman discusses how much a patient's cultural background can influence healthcare.

Anna Agbe-Davies (Depaul U), Christopher Fennell (U of illinois), Joe Watkins (U Oklahoma)
Time Team America
PBS
July 22nd premiere
This episode of Time Team America focuses on the first town planned and founded by an African American in the US.

Gregory Buttom (U Tenn Knoxville)
The Search for Environmental Justice in Perry County, Alabama
Counterpunch
July 16, 2009
Button's op ed pieces explores TVA's controversial coal ash waste shipment to Perry Co, Alabama.

Eben Kirksey (U C Santa Cruz)
Indonesia's bleak record
St. Petersburg Times
July 6, 2009
Kirksey discusses new evidence implicating Indonesian president Yudhoyono in the coverup of a 2002 ambush that killed two US school teachers in West Papua.

Yolanda Moses (U C Riverside), Janice Hutchinson (U Houston)
RACE: Are WE So Different? An exhibition to help unlearn racism
June
Intermix UK
Moses and Hutchinson are both quoted encouraging the public to challenge popular misconceptions about race.

Alex Hinton (Rutgers U)
Legal Strategy Fails to Hide Torturer's Pride
The New York Times
June 20, 2009
Hinton, comments on Duch's mass torture , as it raises questions about how human beings become part of a project of mass murder

Philippe Bourgois (U Penn)
An Anthropologist Bridges Two Worlds
The Chronicle of Higher Education
June 12, 2009
Bourgois' study of urban poor- "gives a life and a voice" to homeless drug addicts in Philadelphia and San Francisco

Leland Searles (Air Quality Program Director, Iowa Environmental Council)
Get to Know....Leland (Lee) Searles
The Des Moines Register
June 15, 2009
Lee Searle's job coordinating air quality awareness in Iowa is profiled.

Yolanda Moses (U C Riverside), Janis Hutchinson (U  Houston)
On the subject of race: Exhibit opens at the Franklin
Philadelphia Daily News
May 31, 2009
Moses and Hutchinson were both interviewed about the Race Project, and race in America.

Alan Goodman (Hampshire College)
Professor Alan Goodman Appointed Interim Dean of Faculty
Hampshire News
May, 2009
Goodman, past president of AAA, and co-chair of RACE project, has been appointed interim vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty of Hampshire College.

Lynn Stephen, (U of Oregon)
UO Professors and Students Launch Digital Ethnography website about the Oaxaca Social Movement in Mexico
Salem News
May 16, 2009
Stephen explains the conception of her digital ethnography project that allows views to hear the voices of those who participated and observed the Oaxaca social movement.

David Price (St. Martins U)
Anthropological Intelligence supports Military Occupation: Engineering "Trust of the Indigenous Population"
Global Research Centre
May 16th, 2009
Price discusses how HTS presents real ethical problems for anthropologists.

Gregory Anderson (Living Tongues Instite for Endangered Languages)
Salem linguist preserves endangered tongues
Statesman Journal
April 19, 2009
Anderson discussed his work- preserving endangered languages from disappearing.  This happens, on average, once every two weeks.

Brian Ferguson (Rutgers U)
Jewish legacy inscribed in Genes?
Los Angeles Times
April 20, 2009
Ferguson comments on collegues' excitement over the idea that genetics could explain behavioral differences among people, and warns this as a dangerous idea, and one that could not be proven.

Emilie Hitch (Olsen Marketing Agency)
Olsen's anthropologists bring meaning to marketing
Minneapolis Post
April 13, 2008
Forward-thinking marketing agency Olsen,  hiring Emilie Hitch as their first anthropologist, has gone on to successfully hire many more anthropologists to probe consumer thoughts and behavior.

Alex Hinton (Rutgers U)
From Khmer Rouge torturer to born-again Christian
Christian Science Monitor
April 6, 2009
Hinton discusses Khymer Rouge leader's conversion to christianity, and admission to guilt, and request for forgiveness.

Elizabeth Cashdan (U of Utah)
Is your career making you infertile?
Times London
April 12, 2009
Cashdan's research suggests that a modern lifestyles can affect hormones and body shape, damaging a woman's chance of conceiving.

Michael L. Wesch (Kansas State U)
10 High Fliers on Twitter
The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 10, 2009
Wesch, best know for his creative YouTube videos, was chosen by  The Chronicle to be among the top 10 higher-education twitterer's worth following.

Micheal Gurven (U California, Santa Barbara)
Chimpanzees exchange meat for sex
BBC News
April 7, 2009
Gurven, who studies hunter-gathers in South America, thinks there may be a direct link between hunting and reproduction highlighted by the study done on chimpanzees.

Alex Hinton (Rutgers U)
Khmer Rouge defendant: US policy benefited regime
The Associated Press
April 7, 2009
Hinton discusses the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders, and reflects on US bearing some responsibility for the rise of the Khmer Rouge.

Shannen Lee Dawdy (U of Chicago)
Pirate Class at University of Chicago amongst most popular courses for spring
Chicago Tribune
March 18, 2009
Dawdy's "Intensive Study of Culture: Pirates" proves to be the most popular course for undergraduates this spring sememster, further validating the mainstreans obsession with pirates.

Hugh Gusterson (George Mason University)
Closing Military Bases
The Washington Post
March 22, 2009
Gusterson states that closing military foreign bases could save billions of dollars (in places these bases are no longer needed)

Mark Goodale (George Mason University)
Inter-American Relations Roiled
The Washington Post
March 13, 2009
Goodale creates a framework for understanding how the mistrust, opposition and strife taking place in Bolivia between the US Embassy and the the Bolivian government has been building for years.

Genevieve Bell (Intel), Jeanette Blomberg (Big Blue)
What Margaret Mead could teach techs
CNN Money
February 25, 2009
Bell and Blomberg discuss their roles as anthropologists working for tech firms.

Karen Ho (University of Minnesota)
Pay Dirt: Watching Wall Street
Minnepolis Star Tribune
March 8, 2009
Ho discusses her ehtnographic study of wallstreet culture  which turned into the research used for her upcoming book: Liquidating: An Ethnography of Wallstreet out this summer.

Catherine Lutz  (Brown U), Robert Rubenstein (Syracuse)
1 man's odyssey from campus to combat
The Houston Chronicle
March 7, 2009
Lutz and Rubenstein discuss government's attempt to make scholars part of the military's campaign.

Mark Goodale (George Mason U)
Radio New Zealand  Interview (Bolivian indigenous constitution)
March 8, 2009
Goodale discusses the meaning and implications of Bolivia's new indigenous constitution.

Cissy Fowler (Wofford College)
Colleges, Inglis' link up on environment
Spartanburg Herald Journal
February 5, 2009
Fowler speaks out about global warming and Inglis proposed carbon tax.

Nina Jablonski (Penn State U)
Footprints offer clue on path to modern man
Philadelphia Enquirer
Feb 27, 2009
Jablonski briefly explains the significance of the earliest known footprints of "modern" walkers.

Helen Fisher (Rutgers U)
Colbert Report Interview
The Colbert Report
February 23, 2009
Fisher discusses her new theory on matchmaking compatibility.

John L. Jackson Jr. (U Penn)
Much Empty Talk About Race- Op Ed
Philadelphia Enquirer
Feb 24, 2009
Jackson writes about American cowardice when it comes to discussing racial issues.

Alex Hinton (Rutgers U)
Is justice possible for Cambodia? I
Is justice possible for Cambodia? II
CNN (France)
February 18, 2009
Hinton discusses the trail of former Khymer Rouge leaders, and debates whether the Cambodian government may still have ties to former Khymer Rouge members.

Holly M. Barker (U of Washington)
The Inequities of Climate Change and the Small Island Experience
CounterPunch
Nov. 4, 2008
As the next installment of the "Pulse of the Planet Series," Barker highlights the vulnerabilities of small island developing states and the impact of developed nations upon their environment and people.

Gregory Button (U of Tennessee, Knoxville)
What the Next President Must Do to Save FEMA
CounterPunch
October 28, 2008
Button continues the "Pulse of the Planet" series with a look at the circumstances that crippled FEMA's disaster response mission and the steps needed to improve it.

Barbara Rose Johnston (UCSC - Center for Political Ecology)
The Clean, Green Nuclear Machine?
CounterPunch
October 27, 2008
As part of the "Pulse of the Planet" series, Johnston provides insight into whether or not nuclear energy is as clean as the Nuclear Energy Institute makes it out to be.

Mark P. Leone (U of Maryland)
Under Maryland Street, Ties to African Past
New York Times
October 22, 2008
Archaeologist Mark P. Leone discovered in Annapolis, earliest examples of traditional African religious artifacts in North America.

Louise Lamphere (U New Mexico)
Professor Who Sued Brown U Gives It a $1-Million Gift
Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog
October 20, 2008
Lamphere’s gift will establish the Louise Lamphere Visiting Professorship for young faculty to teach in women’s studies and another department. The Brown anthropology department will honor her later this month.

Michael Galaty (Millsaps College)
In Remote Albania, a Centuries-Old Code of Honor Survives
LA Times
September 29, 2008
Local communities struggle to maintain their way of life in the remote Shala Valley of Albania.

Charles Briggs (UC-Berkeley)
Death and Distress on the Orinoco
BBC News
September 29, 2008
The Warao of Venezuela turn to anthropologist Charles Briggs to help identify and tackle an unknown disease that is devastating small communities.

Bill Maurer (UC-Irvine)
UCI Launches New Institute to Study How Poor Use Money
Southern California Public Radio
September 18, 2008
Bill Maurer will act as director of the newly established Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion to explore how the world's most disadvantaged populations are affected by the mobile banking industry.

Marcia Inhorn (Yale)
What it Means to Be a Woman
Newsweek
September 15, 2008
Marcia Inhorn details both the physical and social consequences that infertility can have for women across the globe.  Treating infertility is difficult in and of itself, but is further complicated when certain cultural hurdles are added to the mix.

Tom Boellstorff (UC-Irvine)
Acclaim and Kudos for Coming of Age in Second Life
Nature
September 4, 2008
Tom Boellstorff's volume is the first book within anthropology to examine the thriving virtual world of Second Life.  His application of ethnographic research methods to understanding the relationships and motivations behind this phemonena has garnered significant praise from Scientific American, Times Higher Education, and Guardian UK.

Melissa Checker (CUNY-Queens C)
Carbon Offsets: More Harm Than Good?
CounterPunch
August 27, 2008
Melissa Checker's article is the most recent installment of Counterpunch's "Pulse of the Planet" op-ed series. Checker highlights the flaws of the carbon offset industry and suggests alternative ways to reduce greenhouse emissions.

John Jackson Jr. (U Pennsylvania)
The Peril of Racial Paranoia
The Philadelphia Inquirer
August 21, 2008
John L Jackson Jr. appeared in the news again, this time highlighting the release of his first non-academic book, Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness. He describes present-day race relations and how racial fears have come to underlie many of our everyday interactions. Jackson and fellow U Penn anthropologist Deborah A Thomas are also co-chairs of the 2009 annual meeting program.

John Jackson Jr. (U Pennsylvania)
Anthropology: The Softest Social Science?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 29, 2008
While economists may dazzle with quantitative calculations, John Jackson defends the value of social anthropology, and qualitative research in general, in shedding light on contemporary issues.

Theresa MacPhail (U California-Berkeley)
Courage Comes with Practice
NPR
July 28, 2008
Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail tells a powerful personal story about overcoming fear and learning to practice courage.

Roberto Gonzalez (San Jose State U)
Social Scientists in War Zones
WGBH
July 28, 2008
In the wake of the deaths of two Human Terrain System (HTS) social scientists, Roberto Gonzalez spoke with Boston’s WGBH about his many concerns with the HTS program.

Lisa Knauer (U Mass-Dartmouth)
UMass Dartmouth Professor Plans Study of Mayan Immigrants
SouthCoastToday.com
July 27, 2008
A new study by anthropology professor Lisa Knauer will explore the community of Central Americans living in New Bedford.

Setha Mallios (San Diego State U)
SDSU Archaeology Team Unearthing Long-Buried Whaley House Artifacts
Imperial Valley News
July 27, 2008
The Whaley House in San Diego has been called the most haunted house in the US. This summer, SDSU professor Seth Mallios is excavating the house with a team of students.

William Beeman (U Minnesota)
Success in US Iranian Negotiations Depends on Cultural Knowledge
New American Media
July 24, 2008
A recent watershed meeting between US and Iranian officials revealed a deep cultural divide in negotiation styles. William Beeman offers insight into the cultural context of the talks.

Jane Baxter (DePaul U)
Students Search for 'Old Chicago' in Pullman Neighborhood
Chicago Tribune
July 13, 2008
Digging up remnants of a former Chicago shopping arcade unearths evidence of the glitzy past of the city's Far South Side.

James Adovasio (Mercyhurst C), Robert Kelly (U Wyoming)
Texas Archaeological Dig Challenges Assumptions About First Americans
Scientific American
July 3, 2008
Excavations of the Gault Valley in Central Texas raise questions about the theory that the Americas' first inhabitants, the Clovis people, were highly nomadic and did not settle in communities. Web article includes slideshow photographs of the dig.

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