Scholars, Security, and Citizenship Part 2 (SAR Plenary)

CHAIR: MCNAMARA, Laura (Sandia Nat'l Labs)

ABSTRACT: Military organizations have discovered that cultural knowledge is useful knowledge. The resulting interest in anthropology is worrisome to many anthropologists. In
the United States, debates rage around initiatives such as HTS and Minerva, but anthropologists outside the US also grapple with the ethical, methodological, and political
implications of emergent intersections among scholars and soldiers. This panel brings a range of international, intellectual and institutional perspectives, past and present, to
bear on the engagement of anthropology with the military. In doing so, we explore what it means to fulfill one's scholarly and civil commitments in a time of war.

Session Participants:
MCNAMARA, Laura (Sandia Labs)
FERGUSON, R. Brian (U Rutgers-Newark)
RUBINSTEIN, Robert A. (Syracuse U)
IRWIN, Anne (U Calgary)
HOFFMAN, Danny (UW-Seattle)

Session took place in Santa Fe, NM at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2009.