Julie Shayne, Martha Groom, and Jade Power-Sotomayor present at the 76th Annual Society for Applied Anthropology Conference

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session on Making Activism Matter: Research, Teaching, and Promotion at the Annual Society for Applied Anthropology . Shayne’s contribution to the session was University Presses and Activist Scholarship/. Jade Power-Sotomayor presented a paper Turning Bodies Into Words: The Politics of Legibility and Community Dance/ing with Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba,” while Martha Groom concluded the session with Framing Activist Research in Promotion and Career Advancement. In addition to these three IAS faculty members, Kara Adams, Interim Director of 56勛圖厙Bs Office of Community-Based Research and Learning, discussed Community-Based Learning and Research as a Pedagogy to Expose Students to Activism. Rachel Luft, an associate professor at Seattle University, was also part of the session with her paper The Politics of Activist Research: Stories of Un/Accountability.