Resources for Programs
Visiting Fellows Program
The COPAA Visiting Fellows Program provides the opportunity for applied and practicing anthropologists to share their skills and knowledge in partnership with anthropology departments. The goal of the program is to sponsor visits by either practitioners or applied faculty to COPAA member departments in order to educate students and faculty on topics that build on, enhance, or supplement the department’s existing curriculum. The structure and length of the visit should be determined by the needs of 1) the specific academic program, 2) the expertise of the faculty and 3) the skills and knowledge of the practitioner/applied visiting fellow. The application deadline for the 2012-2013 award is Feb. 15, 2012. Awards will be announced at the 2012 SfAA meeting.
- Visiting Fellows Program 2012-2013
- Visiting Fellows Program Application Form 2012-2013
- Visiting Fellows Program Letter of Commitment
Tenure and Promotion Recommendations for Applied Anthropology Programs
COPAA has developed a set of recommendations on (1) how to develop meaningful ways of defining, documenting, evaluating, and promoting diverse forms of applied scholarship; and (2) how to raise awareness and recognition for applied work among department chairs, deans, and members of tenure and promotion committees.
Yahoo Group
Faculty in COPAA member programs may join the Yahoo Group “copaa-members.” If you would like to join, ask Lisa Henry to subscribe you by sending a message to lisa.henry@unt.edu. The Yahoo Group includes an email list and an archive of documents. Members of the group can post messages to the email list at copaa-members@yahoogroups.com. They can view the archive and other information at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/copaa-members.
Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Here are documents that provide models and suggestions for applied anthropology programs. They are a way for COPAA member programs to learn from each others’ experiences. Most are summaries of sessions organized by COPAA for various anthropology conferences.
- Putting the “Best Foot Forward”: Promoting Applied Anthropology for Tenure and Promotion (Society for Applied Anthropology session, 2011)
- Strategies in Developing Successful Graduate Programs in Applied Anthropology (Society for Applied Anthropology session, 2011)
- Becoming an Applied Anthropologist: Diverse Training Models With a Common Goal (Society for Applied Anthropology session, 2011)
- Pushing Anthropology into the Real World: An Exhibition of UNT Applied Anthropology Client Projects (Society for Applied Anthropology session, 2011)
- New Visions of Community Engagement: Charting New Roles for Anthropologists and Universities (Society for Applied Anthropology session, 2010)
- Educating for Action: The Past and Future of Creating Critically Engaged Anthropologists (Society for Applied Anthropology session, 2010)
- Promoting Applied Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (Society for Applied Anthropology session, 2010)
- PhDs Study the World but MAs Run It: Masters-Only Training in Applied Anthropology (Society for Applied Anthropology session, 2010)
- Special Issue of Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences (2009)
- The Engaged University (Society for Applied Anthropology, 2009)
- Best Practices in Developing and Assessing an MA Program in Applied Anthropology (Society for Applied Anthropology, 2009)
- Preparing Applied Anthropologists for the 21st Century (COPAA Session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2008)
- Preparation for Public Policy Research and Work: Current Practice and Future Directions in Applied Anthropology Education (COPAA Session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2008)
- Preparing Applied Anthropologists for the 21st Century (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
- Skills Education and Training for Applied Anthropologists (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
- Tenure and Promotion for Applied Anthropologists: Deans’ and Chairs’ Perspectives (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
- Institutional Review Boards and Applied Research (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
- Applied Anthropology Skills Education and Training: Perspectives from the Field and the Workplace (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
Allies on the Front Line: Perspective from our Community Partners (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2006) - Tenure and Promotion in Applied Anthropology: Preparation for Documentation of Scholarship (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2006)
- Tenure and Promotion in Applied Anthropology (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2005)
- Practitioner and Academic Collaborations in the Training of Students: Opportunities and Challenges (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2005)
- Structural Trends in Anthropology Departments and Programs: Expansion and Contraction (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2004)
Guidelines for Training Practicing Anthropologists
This document, developed in 1995, provides guidelines for the design and administration of degree-granting graduate training programs for practicing anthropologists.
Alumni Survey
In 2009, the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology (CoPAPIA) undertook an MA alumni survey. This survey examined where anthropology MAs had gone in their careers and how they benefited from their master’s programs. It provides information to anthropology departments on alignments between their curricula and their students’ future careers. Results from the survey are available here.
In 2000, NAPA sponsored an earlier survey of alumni of master's level applied anthropology training programs. The purpose of the survey was to determine what specific skills practicing anthropologists, with master's degrees, are using in the workplace. Robert Harman, Jim Hess, and Amir Shafe prepared the report on this survey; it can be downloaded here.
