Conference Papers: The Future of Field Work: The Promise and Perils of Research in the Twenty-First Century
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Models for Communities
Mutaka, Ngessimo, PhD, independent scholar, Giving Back to the Speakers of a Language: Linguistics Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wuesthoff, Eric, ABD, Rice University, Research Reflections: Fieldwork for Community-Managed Ecological Restoration in Madagascar
Huayhua, Margarita, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Doing Fieldwork While Speaking the Language of “Your Own People” in the Southern Andes
Models for the Future
Schmidt, Danielle, MS, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Cowboy Ethnography: Challenges of and Strategies for Collaborative Spatial Data Collection and Community-Engaged Methods in the Twenty-First Century
Fitzgerald, Jacqueline, PhD, Williams College, The Near Future of Field Notes
Yaman, Asil, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Innovating Fieldwork Practices: Sustainable Archaeology and Environmental
Responsibility at the Phoenix Archaeological Site
Keynote
Scott Edwards, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and Curator of Ornithology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, A Bird in the Hand: The Highs and Lows of Collections-Based Ornithological Fieldwork
Models for Collection and Preservation
Skelly, David, PhD, Peabody Museum, The Future of Collections
Barker, Alex, PhD, Arkansas Archaeological Survey, University of Arkansas, Useful Knowledge and Its Perils: Open Data, Sovereignty, and the Problem of “Cui Bono”
Schurr, Theodore, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, The Challenges of Managing Diverse Data Sets Obtained Through Field Work in Biological Anthropology Projects
Models for Inclusivity
Culbertson, Katherine, BA, University of California, Berkeley, Integrating Ecology With Traditional Botanical Knowledge to Empower Effective Conservation and a Deeper Understanding of Tropical Ecosystems
Barber, Paul, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, The Diversity Project (TDP) to Address Inequities in Marine Science Field Work
Veyrie, Thierry, PhD, Fort McDermitt Piaute-Shoshone Tribe, From Field Work to Holistic Community Engagement: Linguistic Anthropology in Native Communities in the Twenty-First Century
Models for Innovation
Abdalian, Andrew, PhD, Tunica Language Working Group, Technology and Community-Engaged Language Revitalization: Building Accessible Solutions in Awakening the Tunica Language
Dobrin, Lise, PhD, University of Virginia, Communication at a Distance and the Diminishing Possibility of Disorientation in Immersive Cross-Cultural Field Work
Varillas, Rosa Maria, MA, University of Illinois at Chicago, Drones and the Future of Archaeological Research Field Work, Data Collection, and Community Engagement
Models for Sustainability
Simmons, Nancy, PhD, American Museum of Natural History, Large-Team Multidisciplinary Collaborative Research on Bats in Belize
Pruetz, Jill, PhD, Texas State University, Sustaining Long-Term Field Projects: The Case of the Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project
Gee, Jennifer, PhD, Independent scholar, The Organization of Biological Field Stations and the Future of Field Work