Meet Elizabeth Hanna Rubio, a member of the Society @SANA_Anthro and part of the new @JANA_Anthro Editorial Collective, which is currently accepting article submissions. Elizabeth is an incoming Assistant Professor Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. Elizabeth builds on her work as a community organizer to conduct research that responds to emergent questions and practices in leftist social justice spaces. She is currently completing her book manuscript entitled Dreams Beyond Recognition: Liberalism’s False Negotiations and the Search for Alternatives in Korean American Immigrant Justice Work. Based on six years of ethnographic research with undocumented Korean American organizers in Southern California, Washington D.C., and Chicago, Dreams Beyond Recognition examines the fraught politics of multiracial coalition-building in immigrant justice spaces and the complexities of enacting immigrant justice through an abolitionist lens.

Meet Denise Brennan, a member of the new @JANA_Anthro Editorial Collective at @SANA_Anthro! Denise is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University, where she is also Co-Director and Founder of the Gender+ Justice Initiative. She is author of Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States and What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic, both with Duke University Press. She currently is finishing a co-authored book with her JANA co-editor, Xitlalli Almendariz Alvarez, Policing Political Possibility: Borders, Classrooms, and Communities. She also is writing a book that builds on her research with undocumented workers and trafficking survivors that asks if working through and after climate disasters constitutes forced labor, Work through Disaster: Labor and Trafficking Amidst Climate Ruin. She is on the Advisory Board to the Best Practices Policy Project, and has been a board member of Different Avenues, and HIPS -- organizations that work to protect the rights of people who engage in the sex sector. She also founded the Trafficking Survivor Leadership Training Fund that provides support for trafficking survivor-advocates.

Lee received his B.S. from Portland State University and his doctorate in anthropology from Temple University. He has been a resident fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Johns Hopkins’s Institute for Global Studies, The University of Ghana-Legon, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Humanities Center. His books include From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (1998), Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience (2003), and Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture (2010).

Although he focuses on the history of anthropology, he has published numerous articles on a wide range of subjects from socio-linguistics to race and democracy. Baker also received the Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award and the American Anthropological Association’s award for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. From 2008-2016, he served as Duke’s Dean of Academic Affairs.

Carolyn Rouse earned an A.B. in anthropology and sociology from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Her work explores the use of evidence to make particular claims about race and social inequality. Rouse is the author of several books, including “Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam,” “Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment,” and “Uncertain Suffering: Racial Healthcare Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease.” Currently she is finishing a book and film based on her work studying low life expectancies in a white rural community in California. Rouse was Program Chair for the 2012 AAA Meetings and the 2017 AAA/ASA Meetings. She also served as chair of two ad hoc committees for the AAA. Rouse has taught at Princeton University since 2000.

"I became an American Anthropological Association member to connect with students that have the same passions. This has enhanced my professional development with networking and to share my discoveries with those in the field who are interested in such topics."