Faculty Presentations at AAA 2015

Several of Loyola's cultural and linguistic anthropology faculty took part in the American Anthropological Association's 114th Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado in late November.

Dr. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz presented an original research paper titled "Intimate Indifference: Mixed Status Families and U.S. Immigration Processing," part of a panel on Suspended Animation: Waiting, Uncertainty, and the Politics of Immigration Relief.

Dr. Catherine Nichols presented an original research paper titled "A Master Negotiator: Enrico Giglioli’s Interventions in Museum Collections Exchange at the Smithsonian Institution," part of a panel she organized on Afterlives: Interventions in Museum Collections and Ethnographic Contexts. 

Dr. Ben Penglase offered discussant comments as part of a panel on The Unexamined Everyday.

Dr. Thea Strand presented an original research paper titled "Commodifying Rurality in the Norwegian Linguistic Landscape," part of a panel she organized on Interpreting Linguistic Landscapes: Familiar and Strange(r) Perspectives.