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  • Career Spotlight: Gabriela Lingren

    Career Spotlight: Gabriela Lingren

    • Jan 10, 2024
    • Gabriela Lingren

    Meet Gabriela Lingren - certified Project Management Professional and Program Officer, currently managing research grants and projects in the Gulf Research Program (GRP) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).

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    Career options: Biomedical anthropology offers a pathway to public health

    • Dec 13, 2023
    • Jennifer Micale

    Read how Sarah Walker applies her masters degrees in biological and biomedical anthropology to her career as the Director of the Broome County Health Department's HUD Lead Hazard Reduction Program.

  • Career Spotlight: Nicole Torres

    Career Spotlight: Nicole Torres

    • Sep 25, 2023
    • Nicole Torres

    Meet Nicole Torres - cultural anthropologist, trained ecotherapist, life-long dreamworker, and licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW).

  • Career Spotlight: Matt Artz

    Career Spotlight: Matt Artz

    • Jun 30, 2023
    • Matt Artz

    Meet Matt Artz - an innovative anthropologist, designer, strategist, product manager, and entrepreneur, specializing in user experience, product development, and consumer insights.

  • Business (Anthropology) is Booming!

    • Apr 12, 2023
    • Ashley Bruckner

    Did you know that Fortune 500 companies hire anthropologists? Anthropologists provide unique insights into organizational and customer needs in order for high profile businesses to thrive.

  • Career Spotlight: Erica Walters

    Career Spotlight: Erica Walters

    • Mar 16, 2023
    • Erica Walters

    Meet Erica Walters - an ethnographer working to make tangible improvements to the rights Indigenous peoples have to lands, food, worldview, and objects.

  • Anthropologists in Action: Explore Exciting Creative Career Options

    • Mar 7, 2023
    • Ashley Bruckner

    Get out there and explore some exciting creative career options on our ACE Job Board!

  • Exploring User Experience Research at the NAPA/AAA Careers Expo

    • Dec 22, 2022
    • Anneliese Long, Rosalie Gunawan, and Daniel Ginsberg

    At the 2022 meeting in Seattle, we asked two graduate students, Anneliese Long of the University of North Carolina and Rosalie Gunawan of the University of British Columbia, to attend the Expo and share their experiences as they navigated the event for themselves.

  • Career Spotlight: Jill Kushner Bishop

    • Nov 30, 2022
    • Jill Kushner Bishop

    Meet Jill Kushner Bishop - Founder & CEO of Multilingual Connections.

  • Career Spotlight: Melissa Cefkin

    • Sep 28, 2022
    • Melissa Cefkin

    Meet Melissa Cefkin - a practicing anthropologist working at the crossroads of technology, business and mobility.

  • Implementation Science, Context, and Anthropologic

    Implementation Science, Context, and Anthropological Explorations

    • Sep 13, 2022
    • Megan McCullough

    Are you considering a career in Health Services Research? Megan McCullough, Ph.D., Research Health Scientist and Investigator at Center for Healthcare Organization, recently spoke with AAA about how she came to Health Services Research and how anthropology can be inserted and incorporated into improving Veterans health care within the structure of the VA.

  • Positions in the VA for anthropologists

    Positions in the VA for Anthropologists

    • Sep 13, 2022
    • Megan McCullough

    Interested in working for the Department of Veterans Affairs? Megan McCullough, Ph.D., Research Health Scientist and Investigator at Center for Healthcare Organization, looks at the different positions in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that anthropologists work in, how they are funded, and then next steps for those interested in working in the VA. 

  • Career Spotlight

    Career Spotlight: Katharine Pope

    • Jul 26, 2022
    • Katharine Pope

    Career Spotlight is a series of interviews with anthropologists connected to the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to share insights, knowledge and expertise about career opportunities, growth and development.