Election statement 2017: I am Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, editor-in-chief of American Ethnologist, and PI of an ERC project entitled “Globalisation, Sport and the Precarity of Masculinity”. During my 2015–17 term on the Executive Committee, I took an active role in revising the constitution to better reflect the membership’s needs and be more inclusive of graduate students, efforts that I will continue to foster. At EASA 2016 and on various other occasions, I organized very well-attended workshops on publishing and grant writing, designed in particular to increase success rates in under-represented regions, and I will continue to work with members of the executive Committee to increase funding for the social sciences. As a transnational citizen, I see as a priority fostering communication and mutual support amongst different anthropological practices across national and linguistic boundaries within and outside Europe, endeavours that EASA is strategically placed to pursue.
Nominating member: Jeanette Edwards (University of Manchester). Supporting member: Andre Gingrich (University of Vienna).
Election statement 2015: I am Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. My work has broached a wide variety of topics, such as, at present, gender and sexuality, mobility, and economic relations in times of crisis. I am currently directing an ERC Advanced Grant project entitled “Globalisation, Sport and the Precarity of Masculinity” (2012–17). I have considerable experience in the governance of learned societies, including the American Anthropological Association Executive Board, where I served in particular as liaison to the Committee on World Anthropologies. I am concerned to foster communication between different anthropological practices across national and linguistic boundaries, endeavours that EASA is strategically placed to pursue. I consider the need to continue cooperating closely with other associations (ABA, IUAES, AAA) to be a priority. I am currently taking an active role in thinking through the possible serious effects of the current reconfiguration of European funding on our discipline.
Nominated and supported by Sarah Green (University of Helsinki) and Andre Gingrich (University of Vienna)