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Loyola Faculty Present at AAA 2016

Loyola Anthropology was well represented at this year's Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, held in Minneapolis in mid-November.

Dr. Kathleen Adams spoke as a Discussant for a session on "Tourism in a Time of Terror: Accidents, Affect, and Insecurity."

Dr. Philip Arnold also served as a Discussant, contributing to a session titled "Ceramic Ecology XXX: Current Advances in Ceramic Research."

Dr. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz presented original research in a paper titled "Good Moral Character and the Legalization Process: Bureaucratic Whitening in a Postracial United States," which was part of a session on "Paper Trails: Migrants, Bureaucratic Evidence, and Legal Recognition in the Global North." She also acted as a Discussant for a session focused on "The Dialectics of Power and Points of Escape: Refugees, Undocumented Migrants, and Survivors."

Dr. Thea Strand presented original research in a paper titled "Tradition as Innovation: Dialect Revitalization in Rural Norwegian Youth Culture," as part of a session on "Re-Imagining Language Revitalization in Contemporary Europe."