SECTION NEWS October 2000 Anthropology News

This year’s surplus will keep us in good financial shape and we should be able to add to the Dillingham and White endowment accounts.

White and Dillingham Awards The Leslie A White and the Beth Wilder Dillingham awards are among CSAS trademarks. The Dillingham Award was established in 1989 to honor Beth Wilder Dilliiham for her contibu- tions to the CSAS and the discipline and her spe- cial interest in assisting undergraduate or gradu- ate students who are responsible for the care of one or more children. Leslie A White was presi- dent of CSAS in the 1938-39 term. The White award was established in 1983 to honor his con- tibutions to the CSAS and to anthropology by assisting undergraduate or graduate students in any subfield of anthropology. This year’s recipi- ents of the Leslie A White award are announced in the Rites of Passage column. Please see the Award Alerts section for more detaif on the 2001 competition for both awards.

CSASers in AAA Elections Nick Kardulias and Susan Kenyon are new AAA Executive Board members, Jim Dow has been elected to the Nominations Committee and Paul Durrenbwger is the new Second Vice President. Thanks to everyone who put his name on the ballot.

CSAS in California The CSAS Board extends its congratulations and good wishes to Kathleen Adam, who has accept- ed a challenging new position building a depart- ment in California. We are delighted that Adams will continue her membership in CSAS although even those of us who like to stretch the meaning of “Central States” do not count California among them. She will, however, vacate her posi- tion as 2nd vice-president. Her departure thus necessitates a special election that will be held this fall.

NAES Conference CSAS and the National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAFS) met jointly in 1994. Our past pres- ident, Harriet Ottenheimer, is the current presi- dent of NAES. She would like to encourage greater anthropological participation in the NAES conferences. Please refer to the Meeting Calendar in this issue for the 2001 NAES Conference dates and deadlines.

Editorial Help Sought As we are looking to expand the CSAS Bulletin, we will need a volunteer to help the current edi- tor Robert McKinley. Please contact him directly at m&nleS@pilot.msu.edu.

My term as the AN Column editor expires in 2001 and I am looking for a successor. Please let me know if you are interested. It is not a terribly demanding job and it provides the satisfaction of knowing that you are contributing to your p re fession. This could be an outlet for your editorial bravado, and if nothing else, you will have the pleasure of seeing your name in print every month.

I f you have anything dating to CSAS you want pub- lished in this column please contact me at zivk@mid- way.uchicago.edu, or U Chicago Anthmpology Dept, 1126 E 59th Street, Chicago IL. 60637; (office) 773/702-9230 (home) 773/761-7725.

Council on Anthropology and Education BRADLEY AU LEVINSON, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

CAE Program for San Francisco Jod Ma&, incoming CAE Resident and this year’s Program Chair, tells us what we can expect at the AAA meetings in San Francisco:

The CAE has organized a strong program for the 2000 AAA Meeting, comprised of numerous paper and poster sessions, several special events and committee meetings. In a year in which AAA received a record number of submissions, 143 CAE proposals were accepted. These are organ- ized into 24 paper or poster sessions. Program highlights include two invited paper sessions: “Historical, Empirical and Theoretical Reconsid- erations of the Ethnography of Communication in Education,” organized by Katherine Schultz and Ellen Skilton-Sylvester, and “The Uses of Culture in Anthropology and Education,” organ- ized by Herve Varenne and James Mullooly. Judith Preissle has once again organized an invit- ed poster session; this year’s session is entitled “Public Faces of Educational Anthropology: Research from Novice Scholars.” CAE members and others should take note of CAE sponsored special events, including a timely Policy Forum involving teachers and administrators, organized by Rosemary Heme; a Graduate Student Forum, organized by Ti Mahoney; and an informative discussion organized by Tem McCarty, incoming editor of Anthropology and Mucation Quarterly. The usual CAE organizational meetings have also been scheduled, including 12 committee meet- ings, two board meetings, and the general Busi- ness Meeting of the CAE. I congratulate and thank everyone who has contributed to what promises to be a thoughtful and stimulating pro- gram, as we prepare to explore and define the “Public Face of Anthropology” from a CAE per- spective at this year’s AAA Meeting in San Francisco.

Anthropology and Education Quartedy News If you haven’t heard already, the CAE Board is delighted to announce the appointment of Teresa M d a r t y (Arizona) as the new AEQ Editor. Teresa will take on her new duties in November 2000. Until that time, authors should continue to send manuscripts to Kathryn Anderson-Levitt (Michigan-Dearbom), although persons with queries about possible future manuscripts or theme issues might want to contact Terri.

Webmaster Lone Van Olst of AAA has now made all AEQ book reviews available under the book author‘s name, There need be no more searching issue by issue for older reviews.

Importantly, AEQ, AEQ book reviews, and CAE all have new web addresses. Adjust your bookmark, alert your col- leagues, and put the new addresses on your syllabi: 1) http://www.aaanet.org/cae/ aeq/index.htm for Tables of Contents, informa- tion for authors, contact information; 2) http://www.aaanet.org/cae/a~~/index.h~ for book reviews; 3) http://www.aaanet.org/cae/ index.htm for CAE and its many links.

Deciding AEQ‘s Future The annual meeting in San Francisco is not far off now, and the program is shaping up. Don’t forget to attend the special AEQ brown bag lunch ses- sion, to be held on Saturday, November 18. As the editorship switches from Katie Anderson- Lwitt to Tem McCarty, both editors would like to discuss possible future directions for Anthropology and-Education Quarterly. What is the journal’s pri- mary mission, its future direction(s), and its con- stituencies? Come join in this opportunity to shape the future of the journal and situate it in the field. The new editor, Teni McCarty’ hopes this conversation will be continued in the pages of the journal. She encourages her colleagues to submit their views in manuscript form for a reflective dialogue to be published in future issues of AEQ.

New CAE Listserv The CAE Board is pleased to announce that Jan Nespor (Virginia Tech) has agreed to take over management of the CAE member listserv. As Catherine Emihovich moves on to assume her new duties as Dean at California State University, and as President-Elect of CAE, we thank her for her valuable service. Jan Nespor informs us: There‘s a new listserv address for the CAE mem- bers’ list. The old address (CAEMEM-LIST@LIST- SERV.ACSU.BWFAL,O.EDrr) will close shortly. Everyone who was subscribed to this list as of July 28th 2000 is now subscribed at the new address. Anyone who’s subscribed since then wiU need to resubscribe by sending a message to listserv@list- serv.vt.edu, with the message [SUBSCRIBE

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Elections Again Already? It’s not too early to start thinking about next year’s vote for CAE member-at-large. Once again, we have two very worthy candidates, Bryan Brayboy McKinley and Martha Montero- Sieburth. Be on the lookout for their statements soon.

Please be in touch with news, statements, or an- nouncements. Contact me at: Bradley A Lrvinson; WW Wright Education Bidg, Rm. 4228; 201 N Rose

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