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:  Several of these links are to LPO discussion groups that have not had new postings in several years, but have not been deactivated.  They have been left on the list for archival purposes.

Washington Area Anthropology Resources

• Anthropology Collection - 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 Applied Sociology
• 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