Committee Description Objectives: The AAA Committee on the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing is established:
1) To recommend policies to AAA’s Committee on Scientific Communication and Finance Committee,
2) To mutually advise and consult with the AAA staff, and
3) To advise and represent the AAA sections and AAA members
With regard to:
1) Broadening the dissemination of anthropological knowledge,
2) The future development of AAA’s electronic portal to anthropological materials and
3) AAA’s current/ future print & electronic publishing program and related information service programs and initiatives.
Duration of Committee: Permanent. The AAA Association Operations Committee would review the committee at least once every five years, including its scope and charge as part of this process.
Committee Reports to: The Committee on Scientific Communication
Size, Structure & Modalities
The Committee of nine presidentially appointed members includes members knowledgeable in five key functional areas in publishing, two key stakeholder groups and one general seat for publishing content. The objective is for 1/3rd of the initial members to come from ASSC, 1/3rd from AWG and 1/3rd to be new appointments.
The chair is appointed for a two-year term. The “Membership Liaison” member, the “Section Liaison” member, the “Content & Partners” member and the “Finance” member are appointed for three-year terms. All other members are appointed for two-year terms. The president is authorized to extend terms and/ or reappoint members for a second term.
Staff Liaison and contact information:
Oona Schmid, American Anthropological Association, 2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22201, (o) 703/528-1902, (f) 703/528-3546.
Committee on the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing
| Chair
Alisse Waterston
Department of Anthropology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
8 Forest Place
New Rochelle, NY 10804
awaterston@jjay.cuny.edu Content and Partners
Andrea Wiley
Department of Anthropology
701 East Kirkwood Ave
Student Bldg.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7100
wileya@indiana.edu Section Liaison Seat
Carol Greenhouse
Dept of Anthropology
Princeton University
Aaron Burr 116
Princeton NJ 08544
cgreenho@princeton.edu Membership Liaison Seat
Melissa Cefkin
Research Staff Member
People and Practices Services Systems
Almaden Services Research
IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose, CA 95125
mcefkin@yahoo.com Business Models Seat
Lee Baker
Department of Anthropology
Duke University, Box 90091
Durham, NC 27708
ldbaker@duke.edu Functionality Seat
Hugh Jarvis
Marketing & Creative Services
330 Crofts Hall - University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY USA 14260-7015
hjarvis@buffalo.edu IT/Infrastructure Seat
Michael Fischer
Department of Anthropology
University of Kent at Canterbury
Canterbury, Kent, UK CT2 7NR
m.d.fischer@kent.ac.uk Finance and Administration
Robert Leopold
Department of Anthropology
Smithsonian Institution
4210 Silver Hill Rd
Suitland, MD 20746
leopold@si.edu
| Ex Officio: Setha Low, AAA President
Graduate Center, CUNY
Departments of Anthropology & Psychology
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
slow@gc.cuny.edu Virginia Dominguez, AAA President-Elect
Department of Anthropology
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148
607 South Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
vdomingu@illinois.edu
Sally Merry, Chair, CSC
Department of Anthropology
Rufus D. Smith Hall
25 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003
sally.merry@nyu.edu Ed Liebow, AAA Treasurer
Health Research Leader & Associate Director
Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation
1100 Dexter Avenue North, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98109
LiebowE@BATTELLE.ORG AAA Staff Bill Davis
Executive Director
2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201
bdavis@aaanet.org Dion P. Dears
Product Manager, Digital Publishing
2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201
ddears@aaanet.org Elaine Lynch
Deputy Executive Director/CFO
2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201
elynch@aaanet.org Oona Schmid
Director of Publishing
2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201
oschmid@aaanet.org |
The American Anthropological Association is a proud member of
WCAA
