DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR SANA+SUNTA 2019 CONFERENCE
The new deadline is March 15th! Visit this link for more details on registering and submitting an abstract: http://www.sananet.org/meetings/ .
Introducing “Communities”
Please be aware that the AAA will be phasing out the traditional list serves for each section next month (see announcement below). Beginning on March 1, 2019 the SUNTA list serve will no longer function and members will need to use the new AAA platform “Communities” to post announcements, inquiries, discussions, etc. relevant to our section members’ interests.
To help bring our members closer together, next week we will launch Communities, a new communications platform that will replace the AAA-hosted email list service and offer significant enhancements to help you communicate, connect, and share with fellow anthropologists.
In addition to a community where you will be able to connect with all fellow AAA members, each section, interest group, and committee will have their own community where they can interact in real time. Members will be able to post discussions directly through the platform, message each other individually, or reply to and start discussion threads via email. The platform also allows you to share files and offers improved search capabilities.
SANA will continue to maintain its own listserv to communicate in addition to participating in Communities.
[2/24/2019]
Important Updates Regarding Registration and Hotel Booking for SANA/SUNTA 2019 Conference
Navigate to meetings and click on SANA + SUNTA 2019 Conference for these updates!
Or click here: http://www.sananet.org/
Registration deadline is March 1st
SANA Call for Nominations
Be a part of SANA’s leadership! We are now accepting nominations for the following 2-year positions: President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, and Member-at-Large. Please send your nomination letter to Susan Falls at falls.susan@gmail.com by January 25th. Self-nominations welcome!
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SANA + SUNTA CONFERENCE 2019 IS NOW LIVE!
For detailed information regarding the call for papers, navigate to the menu bar, hover over Meetings and click on SANA + SUNTA Conference 2019. See you at the conference!
SANA + SUNTA Conference 2019 – MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
May 2nd-5th at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico
2018 SANA Book Prize EXTENDED!
The SANA Book Prize Committee has decided to extend the submission deadline to August 30, 2019 in order to grow the pool of nominations. Eligible books must have been published in 2017 or 2018. The award will be conferred at the 2019 AAA meeting.
Please navigate to the “Prizes” tab in the menu above or click here for further information regarding submission criteria and the selection process.
SANA Statement on U.S. Immigration Practices
The Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) condemns in the strongest possible terms recent actions taken against migrants by the current administration. In particular, we call for a permanent moratorium on the practice of separating children from parents on the U.S.-Mexico border, and we demand that children and their families be reunited and released from U.S. detention facilities into the U.S. interior. We further demand that the administration end criminalization of migrants, recognize asylum claims based on threats of gender-based and organized violence, and, in general, treat asylum seekers and all migrants with dignity, care, and respect. Moreover, we call on the administration to acknowledge and address long-standing U.S. policies that have contributed to the erosion of safety and stability in migrants’ home societies across Latin America and the world. As a society with members who have expertise on human mobility across the North American continent, as well as on state-sponsored violence against migrants and others who are socially and legally devalued, we emphatically reject the racist, xenophobic, and patriarchal ideologies and policies advanced by this administration and others before it.
JANA: Journal of the Anthropology of North America
The peer-reviewed Journal for the Anthropology of North America (JANA) has launched in the spring of 2018. The inaugural issue features research articles, a book review, and two new sections: Come to Terms and Snapshot.
Read more about the Journal for Anthropology of North America by clicking on the tab at the left side of the website navigation menu.
SANA in Anthropology News
Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America
There were many excellent nominations for the 2017 for the SANA Book award. The committee decided to share the award this year between two awardees.
- Jason De León for The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (UC Press)
- Aimee Meredith Cox for Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship. (Duke Univ. Press)
Honorable mention goes to to Sarah Horton for They Leave their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury and Illegality among US Workers (UC Press).
Yolanda Moses awarded 2017 SANA Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America
Yolanda Moses was awarded the 2017 SANA Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. Inaugurated in 1994, the SANA Prize for Distinguished Achievement recognizes scholars with a notable long-term program of research and publication, and also takes into account contributions in other areas, such as teaching and training, SANA/AAA service, and community, activist, or policy involvements outside academia.