Society for Medical Anthropology

A section of the American Anthropological Association

Special Interest Groups: MASA

  • Medical Anthropology Student Association

Podcast: For Love and Money: Employment Opportunities in Medical Anthropology - SfAA Meeting, Memphis 2008

  • This is a session organized by the Society for Medical Anthropology at the SfAA/SMA meeting in Memphis (2008). Below you’ll find the chairs of the session as well as the speakers in the order of their presentations.
  • Nationally and internationally recognized practitioners will offer personal reflections and guidance, focusing on careers in medical anthropology. Panelists will discuss their professional training, how they got their jobs, and activities they perform in their work. They will also outline some of the skills students need to be employable. The floor will then open for questions and discussion. A reception will follow, allowing students to meet one-on-one with the practitioners on the panel, to solicit personal career guidance.
  • Please click here to download the audio, or here to visit the SfAA podcast site
Chairs
  • Katherine Pritchard (U Memphis) & Amorita E. Valdez (U Michigan)
Panelists
  • Lenore Manderson (Monash U), Jamie Russell (TN State DOH), Douglas A. Feldman (SUNY-Brockport), Barbara Rylko-Bauer (Michigan St U), Merrill Singer (CHIP, U Connecticut), Christina Blanchard-Horan (Soc & Sci Systems Inc), Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts (DHHS)

SFAA/SMA meetings in Vancouver 2006

comments from the work vs. family in academia panel at the 2003 AAAs

  • Introductory Remarks -- Kari Olson, SMA Graduate Student Representative
  • The ‘Two Body Problem’ in Academia: Success, Failure, Ambivalence, and Collective Action -- Janelle Taylor, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington
  • Talking Points -- Mac Marshall, Professor of Anthropology and Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
  • Click here for all three

other activities

  • minutes from "How to Fund Your Dissertation Research: Crafting A Proposal That Succeeds"
  • minutes from "Career Options for Medical (and Cultural) Anthropologists: Exploring the Possibilities"
  • Members who choose to direct a Student Forum project (for example, web site assistance, special event coordination, graduate program update work, meeting coordination) or join an ongoing project become part of the Student Membership Committee and will be recognized for their work. Any member may propose and coordinate a new project or an ongoing project. Email a half-page project (about 250 words) proposal to the Student Representative. Include a brief outline and summarize the project's relevance to the Student Forum.