Diversity

The Committee on Diversity began as an ad hoc committee in 2006 and was incorporated into the AABA bylaws as a standing committee in 2011. The committee’s mission is:

To assess student and faculty diversity in the AABA and U.S. programs of biological anthropology.
To serve as an umbrella organization within the AABA to develop programs that increase the recruitment, participation, and retention of diverse scholars within the field of biological anthropology.
To advocate for diversity within the membership, programs, committees, and leadership of the AABA.

The committee serves as the umbrella organization for several specific interest and activity groups. These groups are self-organizing and their constituents identify a member to act as part of the advisory committee of the Committee on Diversity. To date, these groups include those related to issues concerning: women scholars; LGBTQ scholars; international and indigenous scholars; underrepresented minority scholars; funding; membership surveys; undergraduate research symposium. Volunteers and ideas for new groups welcome!

In pursuit of our mission, the committee sponsors other workshops and mixers at the AABA annual meetings and holds its yearly organizational meeting during the AABA meetings as well. All AABA members are welcome at these events. For information, please see the yearly AABA program volume, email one of us and join the listserv (see below).

COD Anthropologists outside of Anthropology Departments, Contingent and Teaching focused faculty (COD-AACT)

COD Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences (COD-IDEAS)

COD International (COD-I)

COD Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and their Allies (COD-LGBTQQIAA)

COD Native American and Indigenous Biological Anthropologists (COD-NIBA)

COD South Asian Biological Anthropologists (COD-SABA)

COD Transforming Anthropological and Scientific Knowledge (COD-TASK)

COD Undergraduate Research Symposium (COD-URS)

COD Women’s Initiative (COD-WIN)

News and Announcements

Reports and Resources

People

Susan Antón, COD Chair
Agustín Fuentes, COD IDEAS Co-Chair and Steering Liaison
Ripan Malhi, COD IDEAS Co-Chair and Steering Liaison
Jada Benn-Torres, COD IDEAS Co-Chair and Steering Liaison
Graciela Cabana, COD IDEAS Workshop Co-Lead and Steering Liaison
Zaneta Thayer, COD IDEAS Workshop Co-Lead and Steering Liaison
Cara Wall-Scheffler, COD URS Chair and Steering Liaison
Marcie Myers, COD URS Program Committee and Steering Liaison
Stephanie Meredith, COD LGBTQQIAA Treasurer and Steering Liaison
Jessica Westin, COD AACT Co-Chair and Steering Committee Liaison
Rebecca Ackermann, COD INTERNATIONAL Chair and Steering Committee Liaison
Stephanie Poindexter, COD-WIN Co-Chair and Steering Committee Liaison
Megan Holmes, COD-WIN Co-Chair and Steering Committee Liaison
Rick Smith, COD TASK Chair and Steering Liaison
Katie Kinkopf, COD DISABILITY Chair and Steering Liaison
Justin Lund, COD NIBA (Native and Indigenous Biological Anthropologists) Chair and Steering Liaison
Sabrina Agarwal, COD SABA (South Asian Biological Anthropologists) Co-Chair and Steering Liaison
Sheela Athreya, COD SABA (South Asian Biological Anthropologists) Co-Chair and Steering Liaison