Professor Carla Jones' co-authored article: “Revising the AAA’s Guidelines on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault” published in Anthropology News.
Five years after the Association produced its first guidelines, a working group is developing a series of transformative improvements for our discipline.
Good policies deserve good updates. In 2018, a group of dedicated colleagues crafted the first iteration of the American Anthropological Association’s policy on sexual harassment and sexual assault. These guidelines have been instrumental for anthropologists and inspirational to scholars in other disciplines. Framed as an intervention rooted in feminist theory, the 2018 guidelines acknowledge that while professional associations may not be adjudicating bodies, they do have the ability to define professional misconduct. As Gabriela Torres and Dianna Shandy, two members of the collaborative team of expert authors, describe, creating clear paths for accountability can compel “long-term cultural and institutional change.”
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