CSC

Committee on Scientific Communication

Committee Description

Objectives:
This committee is responsible for reviewing matters concerning intradisciplinary communications, focusing on our two major vehicles, publications and the AAA Annual Meeting. The committee receives the report of the Annual Meeting Program Chair and reviews manuscripts submitted for the Special Publication series.

Duration of Committee:
Permanent

Committee Reports to:
The Executive Board

Responsibilities:

  • Review matters concerning intradisciplinary communications
  • Receive the report of the Annual Meeting Program Chair
  • Review manuscripts submitted for the Special Publication series

Membership and Appointment:
7 members
Appointed by the AAA President from the Executive Board

Product:
Written reports to the Executive Board

Staff Liaison and contact information:
Oona Schmid American Anthropological Association, 2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22201; 703/528-1902; fax 703/528-3546.


Committee on Scientific Communication Members

CHAIR
Sally Engle Merry (E 05-08)
Professor of Anthropology and Law and Society
New York University
25 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003
212-998 8564 (o)
sally.merry@nyu.edu

Charles L Briggs (E 07-10)
Department of Anthropology
University of California Berkeley
(o)  510/ 642-3391
clbriggs@berkeley.edu

T J Ferguson (E 07-10)
6655 W Sweetwater Drive
Tucson, AZ  85745
tjf@wildblue.net

Monica S. Heller (E 05-08)
Centre Franco-Ontarian Studies
252 Bloor St W
6th Flr OISE
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6
CANADA
mheller@oise.utoronto.ca

Ellen Lewin (E 06-09)
Department of Women’s Studies
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Ellen-lewin@uiowa.edu

Edward Liebow (E 06-09)
Center for Public Health and Education
1100 Dexter Ave North
Suite 400
Battelle Seattle Research
Seattle, WA 98109-3598
liebowe@battelle.org

Gwendolyn Mikell (E 07-10)
Dept of Sociology & Anthropology
591 Intercultural Center
Georgetown University
Washington, DC  20057
(o) 202/ 687-4306
mikellg@georgetown.edu

EX OFFICIO

Setha M Low, AAA President
Public Space Reserch Group
The Graduate Center of the
University of New York
365 Fifth Ave.
New York,NY 10016
(o) 212/ 817-8725
slow@gc.cuny.edu

Virginia Dominguez, AAA President-Elect
Department of Anthropology
607 S. Mathews Avenue
109 Davenport Hall
Urbana
, IL  61801
(o)
(319) 335-1866
vdomingu@uiuc.edu


STAFF

Bill Davis
Executive Director, AAA
703/528-1902 ext 3011
bdavis@aaanet.org

Dion P. Dears
Asst. to Director of Pubs
703/528-1902 ext 3040
ddears@aaanet.org

Oona Schmid
Director of Publications
703/528-1902 ext 3013
oschmid@aaanet.org