Laura R. Graham University of Iowa Candidate for SALSA President 2023-2027 Laura R. Graham is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her research on Indigenous agency and politics of representation focuses on the A’uwẽ-Xavante of central Brazil, where she has worked since 1981, and also on Wayuu of...
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Laura Zanotti Purdue University Candidate for SALSA President 2023-2027 Laura Zanotti received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Washington in 2008 and joined Purdue in 2009. She is appointed in the Anthropology Department, is the Associate Director for the Center for the Environment and...
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Chris Jarrett University of Texas Member-at-large candidate 2020 Chris Jarrett is a sociocultural anthropologist with an MA and PhD from the University of Texas at San Antonio (2019). He has worked with Amazonian Kichwa communities since 2010 and wrote his dissertation on the guayusa industry in Amazonian...
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Jan David Hauck London School of Economics Member-at-large candidate 2020 Jan David Hauck is a linguistic anthropologist and British Academy Newton Fellow at the London School of Economics. He is excited to join the SALSA Board of Directors to contribute with his expertise on language and linguistics,...
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Manuel Lizarralde Connecticut College Member-at-large candidate 2020 Dr. Manuel Lizarralde is Venezuelan and an Associate Professor of Ethnobotany, teaching in the Botany Department and Environmental Studies Program at Connecticut College since 1998. Dr. Lizarralde’s principal research focus is the botanical and ecological knowledge of indigenous people of...
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Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen University of Helsinki Member-at-large candidate 2020 Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen received her doctorate in Latin American studies from the University of Helsinki in 2007. She has carried out fieldwork in southwestern Amazonia, especially with the Arawak-speaking Manchineri and Apurinã in the Purus River region, Brazil....
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