Kate Browne elected president of the SEA

In her role as President, Dr. Browne has initiated five major projects which she is actively pursuing with the help of the SEA Board of Directors:

1) developing resources and networks to build a more vital public presence in order to better position the work of economic anthropologists as relevant to contemporary concerns such as the financial collapse and the moral grounds of capitalism;

2) transforming the annual monograph of scholarship into a journal;

3) analyzing the potential benefits for integration of the SEA a society into the American Anthropological Association;

4) creating a living archive with oral histories of legendary members and their perspectives of the evolution of the study of economy and society; and

5) creating a new website to organize the collective wisdom and ongoing discussions of SEA members.

The annual meeting of the SEA will take place this year in San Antonio March 22-24, organized around the theme, “The Political Economy of Cities.” For questions about the SEA, please contact Kate Browne at kate.browne@colostate.edu