Kuppinger elected
She is new president of Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology
Monmouth College professor Petra Kuppinger (right) is the new president of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA). Here, she receives the presidential gavel at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., last December.
Petra Kuppinger, professor of sociology and anthropology at Monmouth College, recently assumed the office of president of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA), a subsection of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), as part of a six-year commitment to the organization’s executive committee.
Joining other Monmouth faculty in leadership positions of national organizations, Kuppinger was elected president-elect in 2012 and began her presidency last fall. She will transition into the role of past-president from 2016 to 2018.
One of the larger sections of the AAA and with 700 members worldwide, SUNTA publishes City and Society, an important urban anthropology/urban studies journal. SUNTA sponsors several invited panels at the annual anthropology meetings and several dozen regular panels. The organization awards the Anthony Leeds Award book prize for the best new book in urban, national and transnational anthropology, as well as an annual prize for the best graduate student paper in the field.
Kuppinger joined Monmouth’s faculty in 2000 after earning her Ph.D. earlier that year from the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Kuppinger’s new leadership role puts her on a growing list of MC faculty in leadership positions with national organizations, including Tom Sienkewicz, who serves as chief executive and financial officer of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and Stacy Cordery, who is bibliographer of the National First Ladies Library.
Joining other Monmouth faculty in leadership positions of national organizations, Kuppinger was elected president-elect in 2012 and began her presidency last fall. She will transition into the role of past-president from 2016 to 2018.
One of the larger sections of the AAA and with 700 members worldwide, SUNTA publishes City and Society, an important urban anthropology/urban studies journal. SUNTA sponsors several invited panels at the annual anthropology meetings and several dozen regular panels. The organization awards the Anthony Leeds Award book prize for the best new book in urban, national and transnational anthropology, as well as an annual prize for the best graduate student paper in the field.
Kuppinger joined Monmouth’s faculty in 2000 after earning her Ph.D. earlier that year from the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Kuppinger’s new leadership role puts her on a growing list of MC faculty in leadership positions with national organizations, including Tom Sienkewicz, who serves as chief executive and financial officer of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and Stacy Cordery, who is bibliographer of the National First Ladies Library.
