2026 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association (NEAA)
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
April 17-18, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am - 5:45pm Live Now |
Registration Location: BH First Floor Main Lobby Conference registration will be open all day —stop by to check in, pay your registration fee, and get all the materials you need! |
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| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Film Screening and Discussion: The Little Beggars of Allah – The Wandering Children of Senegal Location: BH 103 Chair: Louise Badiane Film Screening and Discussion: The Little Beggars of Allah – The Wandering Children of Senegal |
Bodies in Context: Gendered Practices, Pressures, and Physical Manifestation Location: BH 121 Chair: Alan Hersker Lived Experiences of Sorority Life: Navigating Hierarchies Toward Meaningful Connections Bones, Hormones, and Identity: Rethinking Sex Estimation and Gender Diversity in Archaeological and Forensic Contexts Embodied Tensions: Understanding Eating Disturbances And Practices Amongst Latina Women The Story Behind the Plate :Understanding the Dynamics of Preferences and Aesthetics of the College Diet & Community Absorbed Histories: Lipid Analysis and the Dating of Early Agricultural Diets |
Pedagogies of Responsibility: Race, Ethics, Leadership, and Community Location: BH 221 Chair: Michael Zimmerman Summer Camps as Sites of Leadership Development Community-Based Archaeology in Scholarship and Research: Advancing Discipline-specific, Active Civic Learning and Exploration in Archaeology Understanding Race As A Social Function Systems and the Treatment of PTSD: A Case Study of Effectiveness |
Community Efforts to Preserve Culture amidst Erasure Location: BH 225 Chair: Devin Heyward Community Efforts to Preserve Culture amidst Erasure Indigenous Language Preservation and Access in the Garden State Preserving Culture in a time of Gentrification, Anti-Immigrant Sentiments, and Culture Wars: A Statistical Portrait of Latine Foodscapes in Hudson County. Sabores de Mi Gente: Exploring Latine Foodways in Hudson County |
Echoes, Embodiments, and Digital Lives: Anthropology in Online Spaces Location: BH 227 Chair: Peter Little Listening for Danger: True Crime, Gendered Trust, and the Rituals of Digital Storytelling Girls in Scouting America: Representation and Community in Digital Spaces Digital Echo Chambers as Moral Communities A Case Study of “Flat Earth Friends” MARU: Now In 3D! |
| 10:15am - 11:00am |
Poster Session Part 1 Location: BH 303 An Ongoing Investigation Into The Winding History Of Black People In Japan Creating Co-Narratives: Linguistic Intersubjectivity of Memories and Places in a Tight-Knit Immigrant Community The Water’s Been Muddy: Examining the Medical-Social Impacts of Water Contamination in Tucson, Arizona Community, Relationality And Local Development Through Tourism In The Independent State of Sāmoa Results of Collaborative Research of Grandmother’s Cabin More Than Money: Conceptualizing “Success” in Working Class West Virginia Visualizing Archaeology: Seeing An Old World Through New Eyes Anthropology Partnerships Through Summer Programs for Undergraduates and Younger Scholars in Pennsylvania. Harmony and Hierarchy: A Timeline of Music, Class, and Cultural Power Absorbed Histories: Lipid Analysis and the Dating of Early Agricultural Diets Agrarian Land and Labor in the Eighteenth Century: An Archaeological Case Study of the Waterhouse Farm (1733–1817) in Southern New England Inventing Ireland: Cultural Memory Across the Atlantic Conservation Of Ancient Human Remains At The Museo Arqueológico De La Serena, Chile. Forms of Motherhood: Adoption, Childcare, and Kinship Dining with a Twist: Community, Identity, and History at The Dizzy Chicken |
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| 10:15am - 11:45am |
Community Disruption and Community Building: How the Current Political Context Creates and Disrupts Solidarity Building Location: BH 121 Chair: Devin Heyward Community Disruption and Community Building: How the Current Political Context Creates and Disrupts Solidarity Building Community and Solidarity Building amongst LGBTQ+ Youth on Online Platforms The Impact of Enforcement on Commerce and Community Family Impact of the Reign of Terror |
Loving Our Country: A Listening and Documentation project Location: BH 103 Chair: Anika Brown Loving Our Country: A Listening and Documentation project |
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| 11:00am - 11:45am |
Poster Session Part 2 Location: BH 303 Forensic Identification, Conservation, and Ethical Practices at the Museum of Anthropology - Rowan University (MARU) Structural Violence or Healthcare? An Analysis of Infant Mortality in the 20th and 21st Centuries Iron Bonds: The Generations of Mohawk Ironworkers Who Built the Northeast Skyline Utilization of Charismatic Species: Animal Rehabilitation and Commodification in Malaysia and Indonesia Aknowledging the Presence of "Transgender" People in Archaeology Assessing Late Quaternary Extinction causes through Comparisons from the Cenozoic Comparing The Queer Experience: Taiwan and China Locality And Handmade: How The Beekman Atelier Designs Community Connection Bones, Hormones, and Identity: Rethinking Sex Estimation and Gender Diversity in Archaeological and Forensic Contexts Organizando Arte y Memoria: A Repository of Shared Revolutionary Artistic Mobilization through International Solidarity in Nicaragua The Puerto Rico Predicament: Statehood or Separation Seguimos Aquí: Enforcement of the Mexico-U.S. Border, Symbolic Power, and Resistance. Glass Analysis Methods and Connections to Culture Bringing the Wild into Life: Rewilding of the Modern Homo Sapien Man Enough: Masculinity, PED Use, and Body Image in Digital Fitness Culture Facial Reconstruction of Human Skeletal Remains |
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Break Take a moment to recharge and connect with fellow attendees during our midday lunch break. Need a recommendation? Ask the Student Volunteers at Registration |
Anthropology in the Wild: A Career Panel Discussion with Anthropology Alumni Location: BH 104 Chair: Rae Mulroy Curious about where a degree in anthropology can take you? Join us for a lively careers panel featuring alumni and professionals working in the field today. Panelists will share their paths, offer practical advice, and reflect on how anthropological training shapes their work in the world. This event is designed especially for current students exploring career possibilities, and we’re providing a free pizza lunch for student attendees to make it easy to come, listen, and connect. Faculty and staff are welcome to attend as well, though lunch quantities are planned with students in mind. |
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| 1:45pm - 3:15pm Live Now |
Fieldwork in Focus: Undergraduate Research from Montserrat, West Indies Location: BH 221 Chair: Kathryn Boswell Fieldwork in Focus: Undergraduate Research from Montserrat, West Indies Worship and Wellbeing on Montserrat: The Varied Function of Faith and Religious Communities Following the Eruption of the Soufriere Hills Volcano The Simon’s Rock Field Station: Building Stronger Pathways to Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research |
Intersections, Connections, and Anthropological Explorations Location: BH 225 Chair: Nariman Moustafa Governed Bodies, Unruly Senses: An Intersectional Autoethnography of Disability in China Discursive Sovereignty and Multimodal Collaboration in the an Alliance for Re-imagining Ways of Being and Knowing Intersecting Mobilities: Legality, Access, and the Infrastructures of Migration Negotiating Care at the Margins: Intersectionality and Medical Pluralism among Ethnic Minorities in Ratanakiri, Cambodia Anthropology’s Intersection of Blackness, Queerness, and Wellbeing Health In Haiti And The Haitian Diaspora Through An Intersectional Lens Intersections, Connections, and Anthropological Explorations |
Practice with Care: Archaeology, Community Partnerships, and Innovation in the Discipline Location: BH 227 Chair: Michael Zimmerman Best Left in the Ground: A Collaborative Approach to ‘No Collections Archaeology’ Collaborative Practices in the Collection and Curation of Native American Cultural Objects and History: The Case of the Indigenous Resources Collaborative (IRC) The Merit in Metal Detecting: The Role of the Avocational Archaeologist in the Lives of Artifacts Ethics in the Teaching of Bioarchaeology |
What Makes a Good Undergraduate Class? Location: BH 131 Chair: Joyce Bennett Chair: Jessica Skolnikoff What Makes a Good Undergraduate Class? |
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| 3:30pm - 5:30pm |
Divided Labors, Material Worlds: Perspectives on Work, Creativity, and Everyday Technologies Location: BH 103 Chair: Joyce Bennett The Problem of Sex Work: A Feminist Impasse Intellectual Property Rights in Feminist Perspective: A Case Study from Indigenous Women Weavers in Guatemala Who Invented the Fufu Machine? Technopolitics of Ghanaian Food Systems Threads That Bind: Kogin-zashi and Hishi-zashi in Aomori Prefecture Conceiving Under Factory Demand, State Surveillance, and Social Expectations: A Case of Female Garment Factory Workers in Rural Bangladesh Envisioning Care as an Anthropological Research Methodology Message in a Bottle: Using Glass to Reconstruct the Life of a 19th Century Shepherd |
Contested Identities: Race, Kinship, Territory, and Community in the United States Location: BH 227 Chair: Louise Badiane Dolls In American History: The Effects of Colonization and Commercialization on Indigenous Identities and Artistic Expressions Living in Between: Identity, Education, and Everyday Life Among First- and Second-Generation Immigrants Lived Realities in the US: A Review of Loneliness Coastal Territorialization: Shorebird Conservation as a Mechanism for Coastal Grabbing in Rockaway, NYC Choreographing Gospel and Nations: An Analysis of a Messianic Jewish Congregation in Schenectady, NY Impact of COVID-19 on Filipino-American Healthcare Workers in New York City LGBTQ Youth and Marriage: Investigating LGBTQ Youth Attitudes Towards Marriage Across Generations |
Across Tongues and Terrains: Communication, Community, and Cultural Resilience Location: BH 235 Chair: Kathryn Boswell How Vocal Learning and Storytelling Forged Human Language How to Mourn and Wed Glaciers in the Hindu-Kush Himalayas Lingering in the Courtyard: Language, Space, and Social Networks in Guilin, China Live, Love, Laugh, Liminoid: Performer–Audience Bonds as an Institutional Practice in Southern Vietnamese Contemporary Spoken Drama (Kịch Nói) IFKA means the place where we are: Space, Place, and Embodiment in a Cultural Resource Center Breton Education and Revitalization The Way You Said It "Give us that vibe": Radio and Remembrance on Montserrat, West Indies |
Ceremonial Stone Landscapes In Eastern North America; A Symposium Location: BH 121 Chair: Curtiss Hoffman Ceremonial Stone Landscapes In Eastern North America; A Symposium |
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| 5:45pm - 7:00pm |
Keynote: What Can Anthropology Do? by Dr. Hanna Garth, PhD Location: BH 104 Chair: Hanna Garth Chair: Peter Little Join Dr. Hanna Garth as she reflects on her journey through anthropology and how an anthropological lens can meaningfully shape scholarship, teaching, and the world we hope to build. |
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| 7:00pm - 8:30pm |
NEAA Banquet Location: BH 104 Chair: Peter Little We warmly invite you to join us for the NEAA Banquet —a wonderful evening of great food, camaraderie, and celebration. Please note that prior registration and ticket purchase are required to attend. We look forward to sharing this special occasion with you! |
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