President-Elect (term: AAA2011 - AAA2013) 

NORBERT ROSS (Habilitation 2002; University of Freiburg, Anthropology. PhD 1998; University of Freiburg, Anthropology.) Positions Held (Associate Professor of Anthropology (2007 – present), (Associate Professor of Anthropology (2007 – present) Vanderbilt University; Assistant Prof., Anthropology (2003-2007), Vanderbilt University; Research Assistant Professor, Psychology Northwestern University (2000-2003); Postdoctoral researcher, Psychology, Northwestern University (1998-2000). Interests and/or Activities: Culture and Cognition; Folk biology (environmental Anthropology; Folk medicine Significant Publications: Ross, N.; Medin, D. & Cox, D. Epistemological Models and Culture Conflict: Menominee and Euro-American Hunters in Wisconsin. Ethos, 35(4):478-515, 2007. Medin, D., Ross, N.  & Cox, D. Culture and Resource Conflict: Why Meanings Mater, Sage, 2007.  Culture and Cognition: Implications for Theory and Method, Sage, 2004.

BENJAMIN G. BLOUNT (PhD, University of California, Berkeley 1969) Positions Held Owner and Consultant SocioEcological Informatics (2008-2011); Professor (2004-2008) University of Texas San Antonio; Professor (1979-2004) University of Georgia; Associate Professor (1974-1979) University of Texas Austin; Assistant Professor (1969-1974) University of Texas Austin; Interests and/or Activities  cognition (ecological; cultural; linguistic); informatics; ecosystem-based management; Chief Associate Editor, MAST [Maritime Studies] (2008-pres); Significant Publications Exploring Fishing Dependence in Gulf Coast Communities (with Steve Jacob, PhD, Priscilla Weeks, PhD, and Michael Jepson, PhD), Marine Policy 34: 1307-1314, 2010. Culture and Resilience among Shrimpers on the Georgia Coast (USA): Responses to Globalization, MAST, 5(2): 5-26, 2007; An Anthropological Research Protocol for Marine Protected Areas: Creating a Niche in a Multi-Disciplinary Cultural Hierarchy (with Ariana Pitchon, Ph.D.), Human Organization 66(2): 103-111, 2007.

Secretary (term: AAA2011-AAA2013) 

STEPHEN A. CHRISOMALIS (PhD, McGill, 2003) Positions Held: Assistant Professor (2008-Pres) Wayne State University; Faculty Lecturer (2006-2008) McGill University; Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-2006) University of Toronto; Interests and/or Activities: numerals and numeration; writing systems and literacy; cognitive anthropology of mathematics; Significant Publications: Numerical Notation: A Comparative History, Cambridge University Press, 2010; “Comparing cultures and comparing processes: diachronic comparison in anthropology and archaeology”, Cross-Cultural Research, 2006; “A cognitive typology for numerical notation”, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2004

Senior Board Member (term: AAA2011 - AAA2014) 

FREDERIC K LEHMAN (F. K. L. CHIT HLAING) (Ph.D, Columbia University, 1959) Positions Held: Asst/Assoc/Full/Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, & Cognitive Science, (1959-Pres) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Interests and/or Activities: Cultural and social structure, mathematical theories of human conceptual (cognitive) systems, formal syntax and semantics, linguistics of Tibeto-Burman and Tai languages. Significant Publications: “The central position of the Shan/Tai Buddhism for the sociopolitical development of Wa and Kayah peoples,” Journal of Contemporary Buddhism, 2009, “Formalism and empiricism: On the value of thinking mathematically about social grouping and corporateness,” Structure & Dynamics, 2008, “Introduction: Notes on Edmund Leach’s analysis of Kachin society and its further applications,” In M. Sadan and F. Robinnne (Eds.) Reconsidering Leach’s Political Systems in Highland Burma, 2007.

GIOVANNI BENNARDO (PhD, University of Illinois at UC, 1996); Positions Held: Asst/Associate Professor (2000-Pres) Northern Illinois University; Cognitive Studies Initiative (2000-Pres) Northern Illinois University; Assistant Professor (1999-2000) College of Charleston; Visiting Assistant Professor (1998-99) University of Missouri; Visiting Assistant Professor (1997) UCLA; Interests and/or Activities: language, culture, and space; culture and cognition; cultural models; Significant Publications: Language, Space, and Social Relationships: A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 (refereed); Metaphors in Tongan Linguistic Production about Social Relationships: ‘Ofa “Love” is Giving.” Anthropological Linguistics, 50, 2: 174-204, 2008 (refereed); Representing Space in Oceania: Culture in Language and Mind. Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2002 (editor, refereed).

Student Board Member (term: AAA2011 - AAA2013) 

MATTHEW T. BOULANGER (M.A., University of Missouri, 2009) Positions Held (limit 5 -most recent first): Research Specialist, (2005–Present) University of Missouri Archaeometry Laboratory; Project Archaeologist (2000–2005) Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc.; Interests and/or Activities: (Evolutionary Archaeology, Geographic Information Science, Materials Sourcing); Significant Publications (limit 3 – most recent first): “Assessment of the Grip-Ability of Textured Ceramic Surfaces” (with Corey Hudson), American Antiquity, In Press (expected October 2011); . Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megaliths, Mounds, and Enclosures(Session C68, Part II); Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (with David Calado and Maximilian Baldia [eds.]),  Archaeopress, 2010; “Woodland Period Ceramic Provenance and the Exchange of Swift Creek Complicated Stamped Vessels in the Southeastern United States” (with Neill J. Wallis, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, and Michael D. Glascock), Journal of Archaeological Science, 2010.