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WAPA-Sponsored Sessions at SfAA 2026

WAPA Communications — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:00:00 GMT

WAPA is a co-sponsor of the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings in Albuquerque, NM. Click here for a preliminary list of sessions, workshops, and events being presented by WAPA members, which includes all information available as of the date of this post.

For events for which there are additional documents (e.g., flyers, banners, abstracts), click on the links following each listing below.

The list below as well as the attached document containt preliminary information and will be updated as additional details are received.

(W-12) WEDNESDAY 9:00-10:45

Fireplace

Sharing And Scaling Ethnographic Findings For Leadership, Part I (WAPA)

CHAIRS: MORRIS, Richard (MGI) and BRUNA, Sean (MUSC)

(W-42) WEDNESDAY 11:15-1:00

Fireplace

Sharing And Scaling Ethnographic Findings For Leadership, Part II (WAPA)

CHAIRS: MORRIS, Richard (MGI) and BRUNA, Sean (MUSC)

(W-73) WEDNESDAY 1:30-3:15

Potters

Everyday Entanglements: Practicing Anthropology In An AI World (WAPA)

CHAIR: PIERCE, Todd (Isla Mujeres Ethnographic Field Sch)

Flyer, Banner, Abstract

(W-103) WEDNESDAY 3:45-5:30

Potters

Intimate Strangers: Finding A Past and Charting A Future For Artificial Intelligence and Linguistic

Anthropology (WAPA)

CHAIRS: MORRIS, Richard (MGI) and TELLIEL, Yunus Doğan (WPI)

(TH-49) THURSDAY 11:15-1:15

Gathering B (Chaco Hotel)

Using MS Word And Excel In Mixed Methods Program Evaluation (WAPA Workshop, Fee $30)

ORGANIZERS: REDDING, Terry and RAO, Pamela (WAPA)

Flyer

(TH-128) THURSDAY 5:45-7:30

Alvarado H

The Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA) 2025 Praxis Award Ceremony and Reception

CHAIRS: ROBERTS, Bill (2025 Praxis Chair) and EDBERG, Mark (WAPA President )

(F-41) FRIDAY 11:15-1:00

Franciscan

President’s Invited Session: Crisis For Public Sector Anthropology (WAPA)

CHAIRS: FISKE, Shirley and WINTHROP, Robert (UMD)

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: FISKE, Shirley and WINTHROP, Robert (UMD)

Flyer, Abstract

(F-73) FRIDAY 1:30-3:15

Potters

Using Ethnographic And Related Qualitative Data To Develop Community-Collaborative Public Health Interventions And Evaluation Tools (WAPA)

CHAIR: EDBERG, Mark (GWU)

LTG at SfAA

WAPA Communications — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:53:23 GMT

(T-65) TUESDAY 1:30-3:15

Alvarado E

Inhabiting History Through Readers Theater: The Japanese American Experience (NAPA)

CHAIR: TASHIMA, Niel (LTG Assoc)

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: YAMADA, Victor and LOUIS, Nikki (JACL) (W-101)

(T-95) TUESDAY 3:45-5:30

Alvarado E

The Amache Community Archaeology Project: WWII Japanese American Incarceration (NAPA)

CHAIR: TASHIMA, Niel (LTG Assoc)

PANELISTS: YOSHIRA MURPHY, Anne (Descendant), Bonnie Clark (U Denver), CLARK, Bonnie (U Denver), KAMP-WHITTAKER, April (CSUC)

(TH-07) THURSDAY 9:00-10:45

Alvarado G

Echoes of Concentration Camps Through the Generations, Part I: Object Biographies (HRSJ)

CHAIR: NICHOLSON, Erin (SJSU)

PANELISTS: NICHOLSON, Erin, FAAS, A.J., and COMAS, Stefani (SJSU), TASHIMA, Niel (LTG Assoc)

(TH-37) THURSDAY 11:15-1:00

Alvarado G

Echoes Of Concentration Camps Through the Generations, Part II: Anthropology Supporting The

Remembrance And Resilience of Japanese Americans (HRSJ)

CHAIRS: TASHIMA, Niel and CRAIN, Cathleen (LTG Assoc)

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: CLARK, Bonnie (U Denver), KAMP-WHITTAKER, April (CSUC), FAAS, A. J. (SJSU), LOUIS, Nikki and YAMADA, Victor (JACL), LAU-OZAWA, Koji (UCLA)

(TH-73) THURSDAY 1:30-3:15

Potters

Exploring Credentialing in Applied Anthropology, Part I: History, Rationale, And Pros and Cons (NAPA)

CHAIRS: CRAIN, Cathleen (LTG Assoc) and FAAS, A.J. (SJSU)

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: FAAS, A.J. (SJSU), CRAIN, Cathleen (LTG Assoc), CROWLEY, Suanna Selby (SWCA Env Consultants), EDBERG, Mark (GWU), FAIRWEATHER, Deneia (John Jay Coll CUNY & ESE Consulting), HENRY, Lisa (UNT

(F-43) FRIDAY 11:15-1:00

Potters

Exploring Credentialing In Applied Anthropology, Part II: Listening Session (BiNG TIG)

CHAIRS: JAYARAM, Kiran (USF) and CRAIN, Cathleen (LTG Assoc)

Open Discussion

Using MS Word And Excel In Mixed Methods Program Evaluation

Pamela Rao — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:31:56 GMT

(TH-49) THURSDAY 11:15-1:15

Gathering B (Chaco Hotel)

Using MS Word And Excel In Mixed Methods Program Evaluation (WAPA Workshop, Fee $30)

ORGANIZERS: REDDING, Terry and RAO, Pamela (WAPA)

For those performing mixed-methods program evaluations with fewer than 100 respondents, investing in specialized but expensive computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) may be unnecessary. Microsoft Word and Excel can be sufficient for many evaluation analysis needs. This workshop will review how both programs can help to organize and analyze qualitative and quantitative data, including creating code books, setting up and sorting data analysis tables, and preparing and using survey data analysis tables. Participants should be familiar with both programs and bring a computer to the workshop.

Remembrance & Resilience: The Japanese American Incarceration Experience incarceration and current relevance

WAPA Communications — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:31:26 GMT

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to Remembrance & Resilience, a special series dedicated to the Japanese American incarceration experience. This four-part program will explore the power of narrative, material culture, and historical memory in fostering community healing.

The sessions will take place over two days this March (March 17 and 19) at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hotel Albuquerque. See the PDF at the bottom of the post for more information.

Please join us for this two-day exploration into the lived experiences, material culture, and enduring legacy of the Japanese American incarceration. The four sessions will begin with a personal and emotional experience of the incarceration, continues with an archaeological exploration of the Amache Concentration Camp, followed by reflections of Japanese Americans about exhibits in the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (CA) and concludes with a multi-generational Japanese American response to the three sessions and a multi-disciplinary response from community members, archaeologists and cultural anthropologists.

The attachments provide you with an overview slide and a Title Slide and then four slides, one for each of the sessions.

We hope that you will distribute this information through your networks.

Especially in our current political climate, it is important to highlight the resilience of the Japanese American community and the role of anthropology at the start of the experience and the continuation of that presence with the Japanese American community.

Nathaniel (Niel) Tashima

Managing Partner,

LTG Associates, Inc.

www.ltgassociates.com

Japanese American Sessions Overview.pdf