At the Northeastern Anthropological Association annual meeting, held at Ithaca College April 20-22, anthropology department students, faculty, and a graduate presented papers and chaired sessions on a variety of topics. The following is a list of the contributions.
Conference Organizers:
Jack Rossen
Brooke Hansen
Student papers or posters:
Cynthia Engle: "The Price for Paradise: A Look at the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement"
Derek Gabreski, R. Ross, and Lisa Paciulli: "Comparative Study of the Ecology and Human-Exploitable Resources at Two Pleistocene Mastodon Sites"
Kate Levinson: "Refugee Resettlement Issues in Ithaca"
Gabrielle Montanez, Ceren Kabukcu, and Bernis Ozses: "There Is No Such Thing as an Abandoned Vehicle: A Pilot Study of the Ethnoarchaeology of an Auto Salvage Yard"
Seth Weiner: "The Long Black Train: The Railroad in American Popular Culture"
Recent graduate paper:
Jessica Duncan: "America's Health Care Crisis: Challenges Facing Rural America"
Faculty papers:
Brooke Hansen: "Grassroots Health Democracy in Ithaca: Establishing Local Models of Nonprofit Health Care"
David Turkon: "Capacity Building and Fractured Community: The Case of the Lost Boys of Syracuse, New York"
Faculty Session Chairs:
Brooke Hansen, Representations and Reflections: Native Cultures, Voices, and Struggles
David Turkon, Refugees and Migrant Workers
Lisa Paciulli, Perspectives in Biological Anthropology
Lisa Paciulli, coordinator for the Ethnographic Films session
