Laura Zanotti Purdue University SALSA President-Elect 2024-2027 (to be President 2027-2031) Laura Zanotti is a Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. In her work, she cultivates collaborative partnerships to support pathways in which Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Peoples, and Local Communities’ livelihoods and well-being can be sustained and shape...
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Silvia Hirsch Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina Member-at-large candidate 2023 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 FLACSO, Buenos Aires....
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Elliott Oakley Field Museum of Natural History Member-at-large candidate 2023 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 research examines the...
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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...
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Clarice Cohn Universidade Federal de São Carlos Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024 - 2027 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)....
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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...
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