Making History at the Frontier Christina Wasson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 1–19.
Random Walk Mary Odell Butler National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 20–31.
Pursuing International Development through a Gender LensReflections on a Nonlinear Career Path in Applied Anthropology Mari H. Clarke National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 32–54.
Seeing Double: An Anthropologist's Vision Quest Jacqueline Copeland-Carson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 55–81.
Anthropology in Pursuit of Public Policy and Practical Knowledge Shirley J. Fiske National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 82–107.
An Interim Story of a Career as an Applied Anthropologist Madelyn Iris National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 108–122.
Putting On AirsFinding a Path to a Career in Applied Anthropology Susan Racine Passmore National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 123–134.
Theory and PracticeImprovising a Life as a Practicing Anthropologist Eve C. Pinsker National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 135–151.
Bushwhacking a Career Patricia Sachs National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 152–162.
Life at the Crossroads Jean J. Schensul National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 163–190.
Solving Puzzles Susan Squires National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 191–208.
The Spiral PathToward an Integrated Life Alaka Wali National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 209–222.
Histories and Futures at the FrontierSome Final Thoughts Christina Wasson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 223–226.
Biosketches of Authors National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 227–231.
Volume Editor: Christina Wasson
General Editor: Tim Wallace
Christina Wasson is an assistant professor in the
Department of Anthropology at the University of North Texas. She is
a linguistic anthropologist whose work explores the intersections
of communication, organizations, and technology. In addition, she
is interested in self-reflexively exploring the practices of the
discipline of anthropology, in both academic and applied/practicing
contexts, with a particular focus on gender issues. In 2002 she was
elected to the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology of
the American Anthropological Association (COSWA). She led COSWA’s
effort to conduct a national survey on academic climate issues and
helped build bridges between COSWA and the National Association for
the Practice of Anthropology. Christina Wasson received her Ph.D.
from Yale University. She has published articles and book chapters
in the fields of anthropology, organization studies, and discourse
studies on topics such as language use in organizations, team
decision making, and virtual groupwork. She has also worked as a
project manager in several consulting firms.
cwasson@unt.edu
Tim Wallace is Associate Professor and Applied Anthropologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. His primary interests lie within the subfield of the anthropology of tourism. His most recent research has taken him to the communities around Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan Highlands. He has carried out applied research work on tourism in Costa Rica, Hungary, and Madagascar. In addition, he has done applied work in Mozambique studying maize marketing; Ecuador for a potato marketing project; Togo, West Africa, to study economic development policy; Peru to research community development strategies in Peru; and, Hiroshima, Japan to study international education policy. He has also done research in North Carolina on farmers markets in Raleigh, North Carolina, and on socioeconomic responses to pest management practices among tomato and cabbage farmers in North Carolina. He has been President of the Southern Anthropological Association and the Association of North Carolina Anthropologists, was a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and is coeditor of the NAPA Bulletin. He recently edited NAPA Bulletin 23 on "Tourism and Applied Anthropologists." (tmwallace@mindspring.com)
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