Anthropology Organizations

Please send suggestions for organizations and report broken links to WAPA.

Local Practitioner Organizations (LPOs)*

• Alaska Anthropological Association (AAA)
  
• Bay Area Association of Practicing Anthropologists (BAAPA)
• Central Valley Applied Anthropology Network (CVAAN)
• Chicago Association for the Practice of Anthropology (CAPA)
• High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology (HPSAA)
• Mid-South Association of Practicing Anthropologists (MSAPA)
• Network of Cascadia Applied Anthropology Professionals (NCAAP)
  
• Southern California Applied Anthropology Network (SCAAN)
• Sun Coast Organization of Practicing Anthropologist (SCOPA)

* NOTE:  Some links are to discussion groups or Facebook pages that have not been active in several years; organizations without links do not have a web presence.  They have been left on the list for archival purposes.

Washington Area Anthropology Resources

• Anthropology Collections - Library of Congress
• American Folklife Center - Library of Congress
• National Archeological Database (US NPS)
• National Museum of Health and Medicine
• National Park Service (US)
• National Science Foundation (US)
• Smithsonian Institution
• Department of Anthropology
• John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology
• National Anthropological Archives

Professional Associations & Societies

• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• Section Links and Websites
• American Association of Physical Anthropologists
• American Cultural Resources Association
• American Board of Forensic Anthropologists
• American Society of Primatologists
• Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
• The International Society for Human Ethology
• National Association of State Archaeologists
• Royal Anthropological Institute
• Society for American Archaeology
• Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
• Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS)
• Society for Economic Anthropology
• Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA)

Washington Area Anthropology Departments & Programs

• American University
• Catholic University
• College of William and Mary
• Dundalk Community College (Anthropology in the Liberal Arts Division)
• George Mason University
• George Washington University
• Georgetown (Anthropology in the Sociology Department)
• Howard University
• Johns Hopkins
• Maryland Historical Trust Office of Archaeology
• Morgan State University
• St. Marys College of Maryland
• Sweet Briar College (Anthropology in the Social Sciences Department)
• Towson University
• University of Delaware
• University of District of Columbia (Anthropology in the Humanities Department)
• University of Maryland -Baltimore County (combined Sociology and Anthropology Department)
  
• University of Maryland - College Park
• University of Mary Washington
• University of Richmond
• University of Virginia - Charlottesville
• West Virginia University - Morgantown
• Virginia Commonwealth University