By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Dr. Susan Andreatta.
Dr. Susan Andreatta, an anthropology professor at UNCG, has been elected president of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA).
Andreatta, who joined the UNCG faculty in 1997, assumes the office in March 2007 during the annual SfAA meetings to be held in Tampa, Fla. She will hold the office for two years.
Andreatta earned her PhD at Michigan State University in 1994. Her specialty areas include applied anthropology, medical anthropology, political ecology and ethnographic methods; and small-scale sustainable agriculture and fisheries in the Caribbean, Latin America and the southern United States.
SfAA, founded more than a half-century ago, aspires to promote the integration of anthropological perspectives and methods in solving human problems throughout the world, to advocate for fair and just public policy based upon sound research, to promote public recognition of anthropology as a profession and to support the continuing professionalization of the field.
