SALSA Presidents Tag

Laura Graham President-Elect

Laura R. Graham – President 2023-2027

Laura R. Graham University of Iowa President-Elect  2020-2023 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 Venezuela. Laura has...

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Conversations in the Lobby 2014

Beth Conklin: SALSA President 2011-2014

Beth Conklin Vanderbilt University SALSA President 2011-2014 Ex-Officio Member of the SALSA Board 2014-2020 Beth A. Conklin is a cultural and medical anthropologist specializing in the ethnography of indigenous peoples of lowland South America (Amazonia). Her research focuses on the anthropology of the body, religion and ritual, health and healing,death...

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Richard Reed

Richard Reed: SALSA President 2008-2011

Richard Reed Trinity University SALSA President 2008-2011 From Richard Reed's webpage: Most of my career has been devoted to identifying the factors that undermine small-scale, indigenous societies as they are integrated into national societies and international economies. To that end, I have been working since 1981 among a group...

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