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From, the Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter
Vol, 12, No. 3
REPORT FROM THE HO EDITOR
By Donald D. Stull
<stull@lark.cc.ukans.edu>
University of Kansas
Summer is our favorite season at Human Organization. We are anthropologists, after all, and summer is the season for anthropological gallivanting. Even for those of us who can’t be in the field, we can be rid of those pesky students—and those even peskier faculty. For us at HO, summer is the season for catching up, and this summer we even managed to get a little ahead. We not only put the fall issue to bed (look for it in your mailbox in September), but we completed most of the work on the winter issue (due out in December). The winter issue is nearly laid by (as we say on the farm) because we are finally getting some manuscript backlog, though we still publish manuscripts within one to two issues after receipt of acceptable revisions. But more than anything else, it is our hardworking editorial staff who earned us the breathing room we now briefly enjoy. Sadly, Human Organization will be saying goodbye to the editorial assistants you have come to know and love, and I have come to depend on: George Gotto, Li Jian, and Kristin Lundberg. Well, not so much goodbye as bon voyage. George will begin his doctoral fieldwork this fall, with a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship and funding from the Tinker Foundation. He will travel to Oaxaca City, Mexico, to study the cultural construction of disability. Li (“Lee”) Jian, who received his doctorate last year, has been named visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Northern Iowa University. Kristin recently received an Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institute for Nursing Research. This prestigious four-year award will provide full-time support for her doctoral studies on the social reproduction of health in Lao society. George, Li, and Kristin are taking the next steps in their professional careers, and we wish them all the best.
Since becoming editor of Human Organization in 1999, I have been blessed with an outstanding group of editorial assistants. While I have been saddened to see each one move on, students, the good ones at least, are by their nature transients. And it is my pleasure to welcome two new editorial assistants: Brian Garavalia and Shawn Maloney. Brian is a second-year doctoral student in cultural anthropology at the University of Kansas, whose research interests are applied and corporate anthropology. He holds a B.S. in marketing, an M.S. in occupational education, and a Ph.D. in education administration and higher education from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Before coming to KU, Brian was assistant professor of adult and vocational education at Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, where he also served as assistant director of the Office of International Programs. In addition to his duties at HO, Brian is a graduate teaching assistant for Varieties of Human Experience. Shawn is entering the doctoral program in cultural anthropology at the University of Kansas this fall. He holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Missouri, Columbia; a B.A. in anthropology and an M.A.A. in applied anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before coming to KU, Shawn served as associate researcher in the Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park. He was one of the lead researchers on a three-year examination of stakeholder views of environment and pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, funded by National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency. Shawn is interested in agricultural, environmental, and cognitive anthropology, as well as ethnographic methods and sustainable development. When he’s not making the coffee for HO, he will be a graduate teaching assistant for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Brian and Shawn are both accomplished researchers and scholars, with numerous professional publications to their credit. I am pleased to welcome them both to Human Organization. I know they will do everything they can to make me, as editor, and you, as contributors, look good. Please join me in thanking George, Lee, and Kristin for their many and lasting contributions to HO and in welcoming Brian and Shawn to the editorial staff of Human Organization. Oh, by the way, Brian tells me that he’s damn glad to be at KU—and it isn’t even basketball season—yet.
