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 2022 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 2022 Program Chairs
1. American Ethnological Society (AES)
Erica James (ejames@mit.edu)
2. Anthropology & Environment Society (A&E)
Primary Chair: Jamie Haverkamp
(haverkja@jmu.edu)
Secondary Chair: Camille Frazier (cfrazier@clarkson.edu)
3. Archaeology Division (AD)
Amanda Logan (Amanda.logan@northwestern.edu)
4. Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA)
Primary Chair: Omolade Adunbi (Oadunbi@umich.edu)
Secondary Chair: Kristin Hedges (hedgeskr@gvsu.edu)
5. Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA)
Shanya Cordis (scordis@spelman.edu)
6. Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA)
Primary Chair: Hayal Akarsu (hayalakarsu@gmail.com)
Secondary Chair: Sahana Ghosh (sahana.ghosh@nus.edu.sg)
7. Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA)
Primary Chair: Tamar Shirinian (tshirini@utk.edu)
Secondary Chair: Jason Alley (alleyj@beloit.edu)
8. Association for The Anthropology of Policy (ASAP)
Primary Chair: Renita Thedvall (renita.thedvall@score.su.se)
Secondary Chair: Rebecca Peters (rebecca.peters@oswego.edu)
9. Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA)
Mieka Polanco (profmpolanco@gmail.com)
10. Anthropology of Consciousness (Formerly the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness) (AC)
Primary Chair: Nicole Torres (torres.ni@gmail.com)
Secondary Chair: Christopher Santiago (humcolored@gmail.com)
11. Association of Indigenous Anthropologists (AIA)
Valerie Lambert (vlambert@email.unc.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)
Holly Dunsworth (holly_dunsworth@uri.edu)
15. Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA)
Bill Wood (woodw@uwm.edu)
16. Council On Anthropology and Education (CAE)
Angelina Castagno (angelina.castagno@nau.edu)
17. Critical Urban Anthropology Association (CUAA) (Formerly the
Society for Urban, National, And Transnational/Global Anthropology)
Susan Falls (sfalls@scad.edu)
18. Culture and Agriculture (C&A)
Seth Murray (dsmurray@ncsu.edu)
19. Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS)
Karen Kramer ( karen.kramer@anthro.utah.edu )
20. General Anthropology Division (GAD)
Beth Reddy (reddy@mines.edu)
21. Middle East Section (MES)
Nell Gabiam (ngabiam@iastate.edu)
22. National Association for The Practice of Anthropology (NAPA)
Primary Chair: Cathleen Crain (ccrain@ltgassociates.com)
Secondary Chair: Erica Hawvermale (e.hawvermale@live.com)
23. National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA)
Bridget Kelly-Vincz (bgkv@umich.edu)
24. Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS)
Toni Copeland (tonicopeland@gmail.com)
25. Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC)
Jenn Zovar (jzovar@whatcom.edu)
26. Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA)
Andrea Ballestero (aballes@usc.edu)
27. Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA)
Ellen Oxfeld (oxfeld@middlebury.edu)
28. Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA)
Primary Chair: A.J. Faas (aj.faas@sjsu.edu)
Secondary Chair: Brienne Berry (brieanne.berry@maine.edu)
29. Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA)
Primary Chair: Helena Wulff (helena.wulff@socant.su.se)
Secondary Chair: Petra Rethmann (rethman@mcmaster.ca)
30. Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA)
Carwil Bjork-James (c.bjork-james@vanderbilt.edu)
31. Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA)
Sandhya Narayanan (snarayanan@unr.edu)
32. Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA)
Erin Koch (erin.koch@uky.edu)
33. Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA)
Jo Weaver (ljweaver@uoregon.edu)
34. Society for The Anthropology of Europe (SAE)
Marek Mikuš (mikus@eth.mpg.de)
35. Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN)
Christy Spackman (Christy.Spackman@asu.edu)
36. Society for The Anthropology of North America (SANA)
Juli Grigsby (jgrigsby@haverford.edu)
37. Society for The Anthropology of Religion (SAR)
Elaine Peña (eapena@gwu.edu)
38. Society for The Anthropology of Work (SAW)
Lauren Hayes (lahayes@wayne.edu)
39. Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA)
Lindsey Feldman (lrfldman@memphis.edu)