AAA Executive Board Actions

Actions at 2012 AAA Annual Meeting

• Hired Ed Liebow as the new AAA executive director


• Adopted the 2013 AAA and Section operating budget


• Adopted the slate of candidates for the 2013 AAA Spring Ballot


• Created two ad hoc committees, one on UN-AAA NGO procedures and the other on anthropological consulting for security institutions


• Received reports from the Section Assembly, Association Operations Committee (AOC), Anthropology and Communications Committee (ACC), American Anthropologist (AA), the new journal Open Anthropology (OA), and the Subcommittee on Interdisciplinary Communication of the ACC


• Received the Committee on the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing (CFPEP) five-year report and added the AA editor as ex-officio member to the committee for as long as the AA remains the flagship journal of the association


• Revised Audit Committee charge to have terms of office of its members who sit on this committee by virtue of holding a seat on another body, correspond with the other committee’s term of office


• Selected Washington DC as the site for the 2017 AAA Annual Meeting


• Committed to hold an early consultation with professional associations of a host country before deciding to stage a meeting in that country in the interest of strengthening international collaboration


• Agreed to have the Rapid Response Task Force investigate reports of military intelligence agencies and their contractors approaching anthropologists and asking them to provide information of interest to the US national security agencies

Actions Taken between June and November 2012

• Adopted a process for considering third party content to AnthroSource

• Established a strategic fund for the future of publishing by allocating 10% (5% from AAA’s portion and 5% from the publishing sections’ portion) of the guaranteed revenues from Wiley-Blackwell each year through the life of the contract (2017). This fund will be used to support anticipatory strategies and activities for addressing the fast-changing publication field that may include but not be limited to staff time, financial impact modeling, technical assistance, collaborative workshops, and platform investments.

• Appointed Alisse Waterston as editor of the pilot open access journal, effective August 1, 2012. The editor’s term will continue through July 1, 2016.

• Approved the job description for the AAA executive director

• Accepted the 2012 AAA/SfAA Margaret Mead Award Committee report and approved the unanimous recommendation of the committee to award the 2012 AAA/SfAA Margaret Mead award to Erin P Finley

• Adopted changes proposed by the Biological Anthropology Section to the WW Howells Book Prize Guidelines

• Authorized the AAA president to undertake all negotiations with the candidate for executive director selected by the executive board, and execute the contract, to complete the hiring process

• Received the publication program analysis report by Raym Crow, including the CFPEP survey and results. Released these documents to the Section Assembly for distribution to section officers and editors for review and discussion, and made available to the general membership a week later.

• Agreed to submit to the AAA membership a recommendation that AAA approve a merger of the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) into the American Anthropological Association.

• Approved a request from the Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) to establish an endowment to provide funding that supports international scholars who are early in their professional careers to travel to the US to participate in conferences affiliated with the SPA

via Anthropology-News http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/03/01/aaa-executive-board-actions/