On January 1, 2019, this category closed to new members, but more than 350 existing lifetime members were able to maintain their lifetime membership. The lifetime membership category is currently closed to new members with the exception of an honorary lifetime membership given by the AAA Executive Director or being admitted as an American Indian and Alaska Native Nation Enrolled Tribal Citizen.
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- Sylvia Abonyi, 1999
- Roger D. Abrahams*, 1982
- Gregory L. Acciaioli, 1996
- William Y. Adams, 1950*
- William H. Adams, 1983
- Jean S. Aigner, 1983
- Susan J. Aitel, 1967
- Cheryl Ajirotutu, 1990
- Patricia Akers, 1997
- Lucy H. Allen*, 1983
- Lalaie Ameeriar, 2017
- Nikhil Anand, 2005
- Eugene N. Anderson, 1986
- Wanni W. Anderson, 1987
- Dr. Christopher M. Annear, 2001
- Myron J. Aronoff, 1988
- George H. Ashley, 1986
- Steven L. Austin, 1986
- Carol E. Ballingall*, 1983
- Joan C. Barker*, 1996
- David R. Barnes*, 1975
- Ruth C. Barnes, 1986
- Robert Baron*, 1975 (obit)
- Lesley Bartlett, 2017
- Clifford R. Barnett*, 1960 (obit)
- Louise A. Basa, 1986
- Mary C. Bateson*, 1984
- Allen O. Battle*, 1983
- Ruth E. Baum*, 1968
- Thomas W. Beale, 1987
- Marshall J. Becker, 1959
- C. David Beers, 1974
- Harumi Befu*, 1961
- Niko Besnier, 1983
- Kenneth Bilby, 1988
- George A. Binney, 1966
- Charles A. Bishop, 1963
- Margaret B. Blackman, 1968
- Michael Blakey, 1982
- Robert H. Brandstetter, 1983
- Alexandra A. Brewis, 1996
- Charles L. Briggs, 1974
- Paul E. Brodwin, 1988
- Antoinette B. Brown, 1972
- Ellen C. Brown*, 1983
- Jennifer S.H. Brown, 1978
- Judith E. Brown, 1983
- Vicki A. Brown, 1989
- M. M. Bryant*, 1975
- Margaret L. Buckner, 1997
- Jane E. Buikstra, 1969
- Michael L. Burton, 1964
- Lorna Michael Butler, 1972
- Bruce Byland*, 1973
- Juna Byun, 1993
- Robey Callahan, 1991
- Ena K. Campbell, 1970
- Frank A. Cancian*, 1960 (obit)
- Helen S. Carr, 1977
- Gerald Cashion*, 1985 (obit)
- Richard L. Castner*, 1959 (obit)
- John K. Chance, 1986
- Ray Chesterfield, 1978
- S. Chevalier-Skolnikoff, 1971
- Alexander F. Christensen, 1995
- Lee-beng Chua, 2002
- Richard O. Clemmer-Smith, 1987
- Lucy M. Cohen*, 1962
- Andrew H. Cohn, 1971
- Carol J. Colfer, 1987
- George A. Collier, 1983
- Ginger Collier, 1978
- Jane F. Collier, 1970
- William A. Collins, 1976
- Lambros Comitas*, 1955 (obit)
- George L. Cowgill*, 1955
- William H. Crocker, 1993
- William J. Cronon, 1986
- Gary Kenneth Cummings, 2016
- Frances Dahlberg, 1970
- Flemming Daugaard-Hansen, 2000
- Richard S. Davis, 1970
- William E. Davis, 2014
- Emilie de Brigard, 1979
- Frank de Caro*, 1975
- Susan A. Damask*, 1993
- Eric Delson, 1967
- Constance DeRoche, 1972
- James Deutsch, 1987
- René Devisch*, 1983
- Mary E. Didier, 1964
- Keith A. Dixon*, 1956
- Henry F. Dobyns*, 1953
- Michele D. Dominy, 1975
- Paul L. Doughty, 1957
- Don E. Dumond*, 1959
- Jean-Paul Dumont, 1966
- Janet S. Dunn, 1992
- William H. Durham, 1976
- E. Paul Durrenberger, 1993
- Robert Edwards, 1986
- Dale F. Eickelman, 1964
- Faith H. Eikaas, 1983
- Crystal Elledge, 1970
- Marlene D. Elwell, 2011
- Susan M. Ervin-Tripp*, 1987
- AlessandrFalassi*, 1975 (Obit)
- Lawrence Feldman, 1983
- David M. Fetterman, 1979
- Lawrence E. Fisher, 1969
- K. V. Flannery, 1984
- Howard Thomas Foster, 1998
- Michael K. Foster, 1983
- Susan T. Freeman, 1958
- Donna Garaventa, 1983
- Edward R. Garrison, 1993
- Linda Garro, 1983
- Ilana Gershon, 2016
- Lew Girdler*, 1975
- Rochelle J. Goldstein, 1975
- Vida Goldstein, 1972
- Nancie L Gonzalez*, 1953 (obit)
- Alan Goodman, 1982
- D. L. Goyvaerts, 1975
- Edward C. Green, 1968
- L. Shane Greene, 2001
- Lauren Miller Griffith, 2005
- Abraham Gruber, 1983
- Ellen Gruenbaum, 1979
- Ruth Gruhn, 1983
- George J. Gumerman, 1983
- Akhil Gupta, 1986
- Edward T. Hall*, 1958
- Edwin S. Hall Jr.*, 1960 (obit)
- W. Penn Handwerker, 1965
- James P. Hardy, 1975
- Lee Haring, 1953
- William Harp, 1979
- Anthony Kwame Harrison, 2000
- Shirley A. Hauck, 1981
- John P. Hawkins, 1979
- Simon Hawkins, 1997
- Dwight B. Heath, 1959
- Jeffrey G. Heath, 1975
- C. Adrian Heidenreich, 1972
- Karl G. Heider, 1980
- Michael Heinrich, 1983
- Carol Henderson, 2011
- Mark Scott Henderson, 1978
- Carol Hendrickson, 1981
- Edward O. Henry*, 1969
- Maria Herrera-Sobek, 1987
- Ellen Hertz, 1992
- Michael Herzfeld, 1979
- Joseph Hickerson, 1975
- Jane H. Hill*, 1962
- Kenneth Hill, 1978
- Paul Hockings, 1965
- Frank A. Hoffmann*, 1951
- Janet C. Holley*, 1987
- David H. Holmberg, 1978
- Robert L. Hoover, 1983
- Robert D. Hoppa, 2004
- Lynn N. Hughes, 1989
- Margo-Lea Hurwicz, 1976
- Sally A. Hutchinson, 1978
- Yoshiharu Iijima, 1979
- Jasper C. Ingersoll, 1958
- Dominique Irvine, 1978
- Judith Temkin Irvine, 1969
- Allison Jablonko, 1984
- Stephen W. Jackson, 1999
- Michelle Marie Jacob, 2017
- Doranne Jacobson, 1971
- Gladys M. Johnson*, 1975
- Thomas W. Johnson, 1991
- Leigh Jones, 1983
- Michael O. Jones, 1975
- David K. Jordan, 1965
- Rosan A. Jordan, 1975
- Paul M. Kabler, 1983
- Adrienne Kaeppler*, 1963
- Paul Nick Kardulias, 1989
- Paul Kay, 1956
- William W. Kelly, 1972
- Sharon F. Kemp, 1976
- Laurel Kendall, 1976
- Myungmi Kim, 2007
- Linda Kimball, 1993
- Diane E. King, 1990
- Robert E. King, 1972
- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 1996
- Mikame Kiyotomo, 1980
- Harriet E. Klein*, 1971 (obit)
- Martha Knack, 1969
- Ruthann Knudson*, 1962
- Dolores B. Koenig, 1973
- Timothy A. Kohler, 1983
- Jill Korbin, 1971
- Michel S. Laguerre, 1983
- Michael Lambek, 1976
- J. Shawn Landres, 1997
- Aminta Lara-Peters, 1983
- Victor Lateef, 1975
- Kwang-Kyu Lee, 1985
- Sang-Hee Lee, 2014
- Veerendra Lele, 1994
- John V. Lewis, 1983
- Edward Liebow, 1977
- Walter E. Little, 1991
- Mario A. Longoni, 2002
- James P. Loucky, 1975
- Marion Lundy Underhill*, 1969 (obit)
- Nancy Lurie*, 1952
- David L. Lybarger, 1992
- David C. Lyne, 1975
- Michael Maccoby, 1969
- Patricia D. Mail, 1967
- Joyce Marcus, 1968
- Lindy L. Mark, 1983
- McKim Marriott, 1989
- John F. Marshall, 1983
- Koichi Maruyama, 1972
- Robert F. Maslowski, 1979
- Joan Mathews, 1982
- William B. McCarthy*, 1983
- Kent McCaman, 2018
- Roger McConochie, 1970
- Judith McCulloh*, 1986
- Chad McDaniel, 1973
- Roberta L. McGonagle, 1971
- George McKale, 2000
- Bohdan Medwidsky*, 1990
- Saira Akhtar Mehmood, 2009
- Samuel P. Menefee, 1977
- Don Messerschmidt, 1969
- Susan F. Messinger*, 1950
- Albert Meyers, 1988
- Karen L. Michaelson, 1983
- Wolfgang Mieder, 1975
- Gwendolyn Mikell, 2012
- Jay Miller, 1972
- Sheryl F. Miller, 1986
- Margaret Mills, 1975
- Jan W. Minnick*, 1983
- Roy Mitchell, 1977
- William E. Mitchell*, 2011
- Jacqueline S. Mithun, 1983
- SindisMnisi Weeks, 2016
- Kathryn T. Molohon, 1964
- Leila Monaghan*, 1986
- Eric L. Montenyohl, 1980
- Linda Morley*, 1981 (obit)
- Steve Mosher, 1977
- Thomas Myers*, 1962 (obit)
- Paul R. Nagel, 1978
- Karen Nakamura, 1995
- Michael Nathan, 2018
- Mary S. Neumann, 1975
- Venetia Newall*, 1983 (obit)
- Eugene Ogan*, 1959 (obit)
- Morten S. Olesen, 2000
- Dennis H. O’Neil, 1964
- Martin Orans, 1983
- Elliott Oring, 1975
- Mary M. Overbey, 1978
- Ulf Palmenfelt, 1989
- David H. Parsons, 1970
- Eric Partee, 1975
- Kerry J. Pataki-Schweizer, 1972
- Nathan W. Pearson, 1977
- Francesco Pellizzi, 1967
- Charles (Chuck) L. Perdue*, 1968 (obit)
- Nancy Peterson Walter*, 1966 (obit)
- A.K.B. Pillai, 1983
- Eve C. Pinsker, 1987
- Hugh S. Plunkett, 1967
- Jo Radner, 1975
- J. R. Reaver, Jr.*, 1975
- Charles L. Redman, 1983
- Peter Reiss, 1978
- David K. Reynolds, 1983
- Paul J. Rich, 1989
- Annelise Riles, 1993
- William L. Rittenberg, 1968
- Peggy O. Roberts, 1958
- Danielle Roemer*, 1975
- Matthew Rogers, 1999
- Michael J. Rogers, 2000
- Thomas P. Rohlen, 1991
- Ronald P. Rohner, 1961
- Roy E. Roper, 1975
- Helen C. Rountree, 1983
- Charles Rozaire*, 1983
- Robert A. Rubinstein, 1987
- Frederick Ruffner*, 1989 (obit)
- Louise Russell*, 1986
- Jeremy A. Sabloff, 2011
- Noel B. Salazar, 2016
- Matt T. Salo, 1983
- Todd Sanders, 1997
- Gillian E. Sankoff, 1968
- Judith Schachter, 1975
- Gertrud Schanne-Raab, 1971
- Leonard A Scheele, 1971
- Seth Schermerhorn, 2012
- Dr. Marianne Schmink, 1975
- Nancy Schmitz, 1975
- Brooke G. Schoepf, 1980
- Molly Schuchat*, 1963
- Ernest L. Schusky*, 1956 (obit)
- Barbara J. Schwartz, 1986
- Catherine Schwoeffermann, 1989
- Thayer Scudder, 1955
- Daniel W. Sellen, 1995
- Richard J. Senghas, 1989
- R. Daniel Shaw, 1968
- Joe Shead*, 1998
- Payson D. Sheets, 1983
- Richard A. Shweder, 1968
- Carol Silverman, 1975
- Sydel Silverman*, 1959
- Henning Siverts*, 1983
- Dr. Susan Skomal, 1984
- Lori A. Slicton, 1995
- Valene Smith, 1983
- Gail E. Solomon, 1976
- Joseph Jay Sosa, 2013
- Bernard W. Southgate, IV*, 1975
- David H. Spain, 1993
- Suzanne Marie Spencer-Wood, 1983
- Louisa C. Spottswood, 1975
- Ermitte St. Jacques, 2000
- Ellen J. Stekert, 1967
- Rick Stepp, 1995
- Richard O. Stern, 1972
- Charles Stewart, 1986
- Richard Stoffle, 1968
- Doris Stone*, 1977
- Kay F. Stone*, 1975
- Jeanne Marie Stumpf, 1974
- Takashi Takahara, 1988
- MichikTakaki*, 1961
- Morgan J. Tamplin, 1983
- Bahram M. Tavakolian, 1967
- Janel Teo, 2017
- Gerald Thomas*, 1975 (Obit)
- Wesley K. Thomas, 1992
- Robert Tonkinson, 1983
- Nancy P. Troike*, 1961
- Maria L. Urdaneta, 1983
- William L. Ury*, 1989
- Roland Vazquez, 1991
- Katherine M. Verdery, 1987
- Nicolas Vernicos, 1985
- Jean-Christophe Verstraete, 2011
- Helga Viertel*, 1971
- Judith Vollbrecht, 1983
- Siri von Reis*, 1983
- Drea Webb*, 1983
- Janine R. Wedel, 1989
- G. G. Weix, 1988
- Miriam J. Wells, 1974
- Roger Welsch*, 1975
- Jerome Wenker, 1975
- Darrell L. Whiteman, 1983
- Margaret P. Wilder, 2003
- Patrick Ryan Williams, 2002
- Tamar Diana Wilson, 1986
- Wendy Wilson, 1991
- Guven P. Witteveen, 1993
- Alvin W. Wolfe, 1955
- Ann L. Wood, 1967
- Jacqueline Woodruff, 2000
- Stanton E.F. Wortham, 1995
- Yoshik(Miko) Yamamoto*, 2011 (obit)
- Li Yang, 1988
- Kenneth Yaw, 1999
- Andre Yefremian, 2015
- Patricia Zavella, 1980
- Barbara Marie Zaveruha, 1974
Honorary Lifetime Members
- George W. Lucas, Jr., 2018
- (2018 Annual Meeting Guest Speaker)
- Thabo M. Mbeki, 2018
(2018 AAA Africa Meeting Keynote Speaker)
*Deceased