Dental Anthropology Association – Annual Report from Officers and Committees
April 2020
OFFICERS REPORTS
Report from Daniel Antoine, president of Dental Anthropology Association
Due to the he COVID-19 situation, our annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, was unfortunately cancelled and the officers of the Dental Anthropology Association hope that you are all safe and well. We aim to run our social and academic events next year in Baltimore, including our annual workshop, and would like to thank those who choose to donate their 2020 workshop fee to the organization. I would also like to congratulate Emma Ayres Kozitzky on winning the Dahlberg Prize.
Over the coming year, and with the help of Dr Loren Lease, Chair of our new Outreach Committee, we aim to further promote dental anthropology, improve the resources available on our website and broaden our membership and audiences. Loren will work closely with existing Officers and Chairs to continue to support students and researchers interested in dental anthropology.
Report from Marin Pilloud, president-elect of Dental Anthropology Association
· Nothing to report
Report from Amelia Hubbard, secretary-treasurer of Dental Anthropology Association
· We became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 2018 and since then have been developing more detailed and streamlined accounting, membership tracking, and communications processes.
· In 2019 we had 154 members, 17 new to the DAA
· Currently at 174 members, 11 new to DAA
· We added $5,149 in dues and donations in 2019 and spent $2,507 on 2019 DAA programming at the AAPAs, charges for maintaining our Dental Anthropology Journal space, and charges for our website and membership payment systems. We ended that year at $16,041 in our Business Checking account. Many thanks to Dr. Richard Scott for his donation of DAA pins, whose sales contributed more than $200 in donations that contribute to the Dahlberg prize!
Report from Katie Zejdlik, Executive Board Member of Dental Anthropology Association
· Due to COVID 19 the meeting and DAA workshop were canceled. It was confirmed with Lori Strong that the DAA had zero charges as a result of cancelation.
Report from Emma Lagan, Communications Officer of Dental Anthropology Association
· In the 2019-2020 year, I have had three wonderful assistants who have managed the #ToothTuesday posts on Facebook and Twitter. I want to thank them for their time. I have continued to update the website as necessary, although updates are minimal at this point. Our private Facebook group has 3,559 members. We have 785 follows on our public Facebook page. We have 958 followers on Twitter (as of 6/1/2020).
Report from Emily Moes, Student Member of Dental Anthropology Association
· Donovan Adams suggested doing an outreach activity with the hosting city of the conference. We will try again at next year’s conference and reach out to the student and general membership with some possible ideas to see about recruiting volunteers to help.
· Nothing to report regarding the luncheon or speed networking since the conference was cancelled.
Committee reports
Report from Marin Pilloud, editor of Dental Anthropology
· The new editorial board has been finalized, and Dan Temple continues to serve as the book review editor.
Editorial Board:
· Heather J.H. Edgar, Alistair R. Evans, Scott D. Haddow, Nicholas P. Herrmann, Jaime M. Ullinger, and Cathy M. Willermet
Publications:
· We are still on track to continue with two issues a year: winter and summer
· In 2019, two issues were published:
o 32 (1) – two articles
o 32 (2) – special issue on oral health with seven articles
· 2020:
o 33 (1) – three articles and a book review
o 33 (2) – on track to publish two articles and a book review in the summer volume will be published on 1 July
· Since the last meeting – we have had 17 submissions– all of which were accepted
· Working on the issue with emails going to spam – so, please check your spam
· If you are interested in serving as a reviewer for the journal, you can create an account on the website, which will make it easy for the editorial board to find you. The website is here: · http://journal.dentalanthropology.org/index.php/jda/user/register
· There are newly added guidelines for reviewers here: · http://journal.dentalanthropology.org/index.php/jda/about/reviewguide
· Also, if you have creative ideas for things to publish or ideas for review articles – let me know at mpilloud@unr.edu
Report from Cathy Willermet – chair student prize committee
2019-2020 Student Prize Committee report:
· Sadly, we had to cancel the Turner-CUP prize this cycle because the April 2020 DAA/AAPA meetings were cancelled. Travel restrictions and university closures occurring around mid-March made it difficult for students to access labs and computers, making the playing field potentially uneven for competition. The Dahlberg Prize deadline was extended to April 30 for paper submissions. We had two entries. Amy Hubbard and Chris Schmidt served as additional reviewers for the papers. The three of us unanimously voted to award the prize to Emma Ayres Kozitzky, NYU, for her paper “The Impact of hybridization on upper first molar shape in robust capuchins (Sapajus nigritus x S. libidinosus).” The announcement went out to Emma on May 25, 2020.
· I suggest that the Board consider moving future Turner/CUP prizes to virtual submissions, where the students are expected to submit a .pdf of their poster, and that is the only thing that is judged (not the student presentation at all). That would level the field in case there are future travel issues for the next few years. Just a thought. The Dahlberg Prize is unaffected by travel restrictions.
Report from James Watson, chair of workshop committee
· The workshop for 2020 “Biomolecular Approaches to Dental Anthropology” was canceled. We hope to present this same workshop next year at the 2021 annual meeting.
· If you have ideas for future workshops, please contact James Watson at watsonjt@arizona.edu
Report from Christine Lee, chair of elections committee
· The term of Amelia Hubbard as treasurer/secretary came to the end of her three-year term. Given the situation with COVID-19, it was decided to postpone the election to replace her until next year.
· As we voted on previously, her position will be turned into two separate positions: treasurer and secretary. We will hold elections for these two positions next year.