Silvia Hirsch
Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina
Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2025-2028
Silvia Hirsch has a Master’s and PhD in Anthropology (University of California, Los Angeles, 1991), she has taught at Princeton University, NYU program in Buenos Aires, and in the Master’s in Anthropology at...
Elliott Oakley
Field Museum of Natural History
Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2025-2028
Elliott Oakley is a cultural anthropologist at the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, USA), where he works on an interdisciplinary team focused on conservation and community well-being in the Andes-Amazon region. Elliott’s...
Claudia Augustat
Weltmuseum Wien, Austria
Member-at-large candidate 2023
As a cultural anthropologist I spent my professional life at ethnographic museums. Material culture is a focal point of societies. An object can tell as much about history as it can connect past, present and future. I have worked in...
Clarice Cohn
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024 - 2026
Clarice Cohn is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. For three decades, she has carried out research among the Xikrin of Terra Indígena Trincheira-Bacajá (Pará, Brazilian Amazon)....
Courtney Stafford-Walter
University of Edinburgh
Member-at-large candidate 2023
Courtney Stafford-Walter received her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2018. Her fieldwork was conducted in Region 9, Guyana, in a Wapishana community, and focused primarily on indigenous education, boarding schools, and the impact of this educational...