What Are Section Program Chairs?
Representatives from each section, known as the Section Program Chairs, will conduct the peer review of proposal submissions directed to their respective section. If you have questions about content to submit to a section and/or the award opportunities provided by a section, please feel free to contact the program chair(s) for the section in question.
Section Program Chairs are responsible for peer reviewing the following proposal submission types that are submitted to their section for primary (and sometimes, secondary) review:
- oral presentation sessions,
- roundtables,
- conversations or debates,
- interviews,
- podcasts,
- individually-volunteered papers,
- flash presentation sessions,
- posters (both in-person and virtual), and
- talks.
The American Anthropological Association thanks the 2020 Program Chairs who will enhance the AAA Annual Meeting through the volunteering of their time.
- Curious about what the peer review process entails? Learn more on the Peer Review Criteria and Process page!
List of Program Chairs
1. American Ethnological Society (AES)
Tomas Matza (tomas.matza@pitt.edu)
2. Anthropology & Environment Society (A&E)
Primary Chair: Susannah Chapman (susannah.chapman@UQ.EDU.AU)
Jamie Haverkamp (haverkja@JMU.EDU)
3. Archaeology Division (AD)
Amanda Logan (Amanda.logan@northwestern.edu)
4. Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA)
Primary Chair: Kristin Hedges (hedgeskr@gvsu.edu)
Omolade Adunbi (Oadunbi@umich.edu)
5. Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA)
Primary Chair: Alix Johnson (alix.johnson@ufl.edu)
Shanya Cordis (scordis@spelman.edu)
6. Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA)
Primary Chair: Andrew Gilbert (Andrew.Gilbert@pm.me)
Hayal Akarsu (hayalakarsu@gmail.com)
Pablo Seward Delaporte (pseward@stanford.edu)
7. Association for Queer Anthropology (Formerly Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists) (AQA)
Primary Chair: Alvaro Jarrin ( ajarrin@holycross.edu )
Tamar Shirinian ( tshirini@utk.edu )
8. Association for The Anthropology of Policy (Formerly The Interest Group On the Anthropology of Public Policy) (ASAP)
Christina Garsten ( christina.garsten@socant.su.se )
9. Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA)
Primary Chair: Karen G. Williams ( ABAProgramCommittee@gmail.com )
Mieka Polanco (ABAProgramCommittee@gmail.com)
10. Anthropology of Consciousness (Formerly the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness) (AC)
Primary Chair: Christina Callicott (christina.callicott@gmail.com)
Lewis Mehl-Madrona (mehlmadrona@gmail.com)
Dr. Katherine Lawson (katherine@dreamsheal.com)
11. Association of Indigenous Anthropologists (AIA)
Terry Scott Ketchum (tketchum@ecok.edu)
12. Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA)
Leo Chavez ( lchavez@uci.edu )
13. Association of Senior Anthropologists (ASA)
Maria Cattell (mgcattell@aol.com)
14. Biological Anthropology Section (BAS)
Rick W.A. Smith ( rickwasmith@gmail.com )
15. Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA)
W (Bill) Warner Wood (woodw@uwm.edu)
16. Council On Anthropology and Education (CAE)
Primary Chair: Mariela Nuñez-Janes (Mariela.Nunez-Janes@unt.edu)
Reva Jaffe-Walter ( rjaffew@gmail.com )
17. Culture and Agriculture (C&A)
Primary Chair: Jennifer Sweeney Tookes (jtookes@georgiasouthern.edu)
Maia Dedrick (maia.dedrick@gmail.com)
18. Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS)
Karen Kramer ( karen.kramer@anthro.utah.edu )
19. General Anthropology Division (GAD)
Primary Chair: Ira Bashkow (ib6n@virginia.edu)
Jennifer Carlson (jennycarlson@gmail.com)
Elizabeth Reddy (reddy@mines.edu)
20. Middle East Section (MES)
Narges Bajoghli (narges.bajoghli@jhu.edu)
21. National Association for The Practice of Anthropology (NAPA)
Ellen Puccia (ellenpuccia@gmail.com)
22. National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA)
Primary Chair: Amanda Francesca Santos ( francescavsantos@gmail.com )
Stephanie Mojica ( smojica@gmail.com )
Bridget Kelly ( bgkv@umich.edu )
23. Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS)
Stephen Chrisomalis (chrisomalis@wayne.edu)
24. Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC)
Primary Chair: Jenn Zovar ( jzovar@whatcom.edu )
Evin Rodkey ( evin.rodkey@muskegoncc.edu )
25. Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA)
Primary Chair: Andrea Muehlebach (Andrea.muehlebacj@utoronto.ca)
Andrea Ballestero (aballes@rice.edu)
26. Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA)
Primary Chair: Sonia Ryang (sonia.ryang@rice.edu)
Satsuki Kawano (skawano@uoguelph.ca)
Paul Christensen (paulc78@gmail.com)
27. Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA)
A.J. Faas (aj.faas@sjsu.edu)
28. Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA)
Primary Chair: Andrea Conger (andreacconger@gmail.com)
Erik Aasland (e_aasland@fuller.edu)
29. Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA)
Primary Chair: Timothy Smith (smithtj2@appstate.edu)
Beatriz Reyes-Foster ( beatriz.reyes-foster@ucf.edu )
Jordan Lynton (jylynton@iu.edu)
30. Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA)
Primary Chair: Sarah Shulist ( s.shulist@queensu.ca )
James Slotts ( jslotta@utexas.edu )
Juan Rodriguez Aponte ( Juan.Rodriguezaponte@qc.cuny.edu )
Daniel Suslak ( dsuslak@indiana.edu )
31. Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA)
Primary Chair: Erin Koch (erin.koch@uky.edu)
Sia Beasley ( siabeasley@uky.edu )
Duana Fullwiley ( duana@stanford.edu )
Beatriz Reyes-Foster ( beatriz.reyes-foster@ucf.edu )
32. Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA)
Primary Chair: Jo Weaver (ljweaver@uoregon.edu)
Bonnie Kaiser (bnkaiser@uscd.edu)
Kathy Trang (kathytrang.kt@gmail.com)
33. Society for The Anthropology of Europe (SAE)
Primary Chair: Kimberly Arkin (karkin@bu.edu)
Marek Mikuš (mikus@eth.mpg.de)
34. Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN)
Primary Chair: Christy Spackman (Christy.Spackman@asu.edu)
Jesse Dart (jesse.dart@gmail.com)
Susannah Barr (sbarr144@fiu.edu)
35. Society for The Anthropology of North America (SANA)
Primary Chair: Ruth Gomberg Munoz (rgombergmunoz@luc.edu)
Ana Croegaert (anacroegaert@gmail.com)
36. Society for The Anthropology of Religion (SAR)
Primary Chair: Roberta Ricucci (roberta.ricucci@unito.it)
Elaine Peña (eapena@gwu.edu)
37. Society for The Anthropology of Work (SAW)
Primary Chair: Jennifer Shaw (jeshaw@tru.ca)
Lauren Hayes ( lahayes@wayne.edu )
38. Society for Urban, National, And Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA)
Primary Chair: Susan Falls (sfalls@scad.edu)
Deborah Pellow (dpellow@maxwell.syr.edu)
Christina Schwenkel (christina.schwenkel@ucr.edu)
39. Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA)
Primary Chair: Ashley Stinnett (ashley.stinnett@wku.edu)
Michael Ennis-McMillan (mennis@skidmore.edu)
Alexander Fattal (afattal@ucsd.edu)
Lindsey Feldman (lrfldman@memphis.edu)