Alisse Waterston

Alisse Waterston (* 1951 ) is an American anthropologist ( cultural anthropology ).

Life

Waterston studied at New York University , where he received a Bachelor of Arts . She then continued her studies at Columbia University , where she received a Master of Arts degree . The topic of her master's thesis was Puerto Rican Women in the US: Family, Religion and Political Economy . In 1990 she received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York with the dissertation Aspects of Street Addict Life and received a Ph.D.

From 1991 to 1992, Waterston was Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Sciences at the State University of New York in Purchase , New York . She was then Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Fordham University from 1992 to 1993 and Visiting Associate Professor in the Graduate Faculty in Sociology of the New School for Social Research from 1996 to 1998 . In 2003 she moved to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and taught at the Department of Anthropology there from 2003 to 2007 as an associate professor and since 2008 as a professor.

She was also a Research Fellow from 1986 to 1991, and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow from 1990 to 1991, at Narcotic and Drug Research, Inc. She was a Post-Doctoral at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at Columbia University from 1994 to 1996 Research Fellow and Research Associate from 1996 to 1999.

In 2002 she was co-editor and from 2003 to 2008 editor of the North American Dialogue , a journal published by the Society for the Anthropology of North America . From 2006 to 2009 she served on the editorial board of the American Anthropologist magazine . From 2012 to 2015 she was the editor of Open Anthropology , the bulletin of the American Anthropological Association . She has been on the editorial board of American Ethnologist since 2015 . From 2013 to 2015 she was President-elect and Vice President of the American Anthropological Association . Accordingly, Waterston has been president of the American Anthropological Association since 2015 .

In 2005 she received the President's Award from the American Anthropological Association .

Waterston is a member of the American Anthropological Association , the American Ethnological Society , the Association of Black Anthropologists , the Association for Feminist Anthropology , the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference , the European Association of Social Anthropologists , the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences , the Jewish Studies Association , the Latin American Jewish Studies Association , the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology , the National Women's Studies Association , the Society for the Anthropology of Europe , the Society for the Anthropology of North America , the Society for Applied Anthropology , the Society for Humanistic Anthropology , the Society for Medical Anthropology, and the Society for Urban, National & Transnational / Global Anthropology .

Publications (selection)

• Alisse Waterston: Street Addicts in the Political Economy. (1997, Temple University Press: Philadelphia, PA.)
• Alisse Waterston: Love, Sorrow and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence. (1999, Temple University Press: Philadelphia, PA.)
• Alisse Waterston: An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline. (2008, New York: Berghahn Books )
• Maria D. Vesperi, Alisse Waterston [Eds.]: Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing (2011, Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Publishing )
• Alisse Waterston: My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century. (2014, Series on Innovative Ethnographies, New York and London: Routledge )
• Maia Barkaia, Alisse Waterston: Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation and History in the South Caucasus. (2017, New York: Berghahn Books)

Web links

• Biography on the website of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winner of the American Anthropological Association President's Award, American Anthropological Association website