Monday, January 30, 2017

Reminder - 2017 Call for Board Member Nominations: Council for Museum Anthropology


2017 Call for Nominations:
  • Three Board Members
  • One Student Board Member

Deadline Feb. 13, 2017

The Council for Museum Anthropology invites candidate applications and nominations for people to serve on the CMA Board. Four CMA positions will be open in the upcoming AAA elections:  3 Board Members and 1 Student Board Member.

If you are interested in serving in one of these positions, or would like to nominate someone else as a candidate, please email the CMA Nominations committee soon through Robert Leopold at  LEOPOLD@si.edu.  Questions can be sent to the same address. Candidates must submit a biographical sketch, a brief platform statement, and a photo before February 13, 2017.

Candidate Material Instructions
1.      Biographical sketch
Format biographical sketches  exactly as follows:  include bold headings where appropriate (CV's will not be accepted):
                  Full Name (First & Last) Education (highest degree earned, institution where degree was earned, year degree was earned)  Positions Held: (Limit 5 -most recent first): Title, (dates from-to) Name of Institution;  Interests and/or Activities:(Limit 3);  Significant Publications: (Limit 3 – most recent first): Title, co-authors/editors if applicable, where published, year published.

Example
Wanna Wyn (PhD, University of Whereiwannabe, 1985)  Positions Held:Grand Inquisitor (1999-Pres) Search the World Over, Inc.; Leader of the Pack (1988-1998) Wearethebest University; Asst Leader of the Pack (1980-1988) Whimsy College;  Interests and/or Activities: ritual, migration, presented paper at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Presenting Papers;  Significant Publications: I Didn't Really Know What I Was Talking About, but Now I Do (with Yule Shirley Wyn, PhD), The Perfect Press, Inc, 2010; "Trust Me, I know what I am talking about" (with Imrunin Aginstya, PhD) Journal of Ultimate Knowledge, 1998.

2.      Platform statement (you do not need to include this title in your submission)
The platform statement should be approximately 200 words in length. Statements significantly over 200 words will be cut down to 200 words before publishing.

3.      Photo

Please submit a photo electronically with your candidate material. Full material should be sent by email to Robert Leopold, CMA Nomination Committee, Email: LEOPOLD@si.edu
Photos will not be returned.

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