Simone Athayde Florida International University Secretary-Treasurer 2022-2023 Simone Athayde joined Florida International University in August of 2020, as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center. Dr. Athayde is an environmental anthropologist...
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Laura Zanotti Purdue University Secretary-Treasurer 2017-2022 Laura Zanotti is an environmental anthropologist and interdisciplinary social scientist who partners with communities to support how Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Peoples, and Local Communities’ livelihoods and well-being can be sustained and to identify the pathways that shape just futures. Zanotti prioritizes decolonial...
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Jeremy M. Campbell Roger Williams University Secretary-Treasurer 2012-2017 Dr. Jeremy M. Campbell is an associate professor of anthropology and Director of the Honors Program at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. Trained at the University of California, Sant Cruz, Campbell has conducted research on land conflicts, indigenous territoriality, and...
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Laura Bathurst University of the Pacific Secretary-Treasurer 2011-2012 From Laura Bathurst's webpage: My aim is to foster in my students a habit of curiosity coupled with rigorous analytical thinking and a driving thirst for wide-ranging knowledge, and then to arm them with multiple frameworks that help them understand our...
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Michael Cepek University of Texas at San Antonio Secretary-Treasurer 2008-2011 From Michael Cepek's webpage: My research explores the relationship between environmental change, cultural difference, and political power at the margins of global orders. In my studies with indigenous Cofán people in the Amazonian forests, Andean foothills, and capital city...
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Loretta Cormier University of Alabama at Birmingham Secretary-Treasurer 2005-2008 From Loretta Cormier's webpage: I have done research in a wide variety of areas, but all relate to historical ecology, a multidisciplinary field that explores human-ecological relationships over time. As a Fulbright scholar, I worked with the Awá-Guajá, a group...
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