Present | Assistant Professor, San Jose State University ‐ Department of Anthropology | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2019 | Church Administration of Cooperative Labor in the Ecuadorian Highlands |
San José State University | |
Undergraduate Research Grant | |
$990 | |
2019 | Women's Roles in the Wake of Disaster |
San José State University | |
Undergraduate Research Grant | |
$990 | |
2018 | Cascading Impacts, Community, and Recovery: Resettlement in Ecuador After Ten Years |
San José State University | |
College of Social Sciences Summer Salary Award | |
$5,000 | |
2018 | Cascading Impacts, Community, and Recovery: Resettlement in Ecuador After Ten Years |
San José State University | |
Central RSCA Award | |
$2,484 | |
2018 | Wake of the Flood: Impacts of the 2017 Coyote Creek Disaster |
San José State University | |
Undergraduate Research Grant | |
$990 | |
2011 | Dissertation Fellowship in Hazards, Risk, and Disasters |
The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado and the Public Entity Risk Institute | |
$10,000 | |
2011 | National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant |
National Science Foundation | |
$12,000 | |
2005 | Wallerstein Foundation grant for intergenerational learning projects |
Center for Community-Based Learning and a network of senior-care facilities | |
$30,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2013 - Present | Chair, Risk and Disaster Topical Interest Group (TIG) at the Society for Applied Anthropology | 2021 | Panelist, American Geological Union, Resilience Position Statement Panel | 2021 | Present Affiliated Faculty, Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center, San José State University | 2020 | Present Sustaining Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology | 2020 | Present Committee Member, Society for Applied Anthropology Risk and Disasters Topical Interest Group Anti-Racism Committee | 2019 | Present Program Section Editor, Society for Economic Anthropology | 2019 | Present Consejo de Revisores (Reviewers Council), Íconos – Revista de Ciencias Sociales; FLACSO Ecuador | 2017 | Present Panelist, National Science Foundation – Cultural Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant | 2013 | Founding Member, Risk and Disaster Topical Interest Group (TIG) at the Society for Applied Anthropology | 2005 | Member, working group for anthropology graduate and undergraduate curriculum, Montclair State University | 2002 - 2005 | Member, Community Service Advisory Board, Montclair State University |
2012 | PhD, University of South Florida ‐ Applied Anthropology | |
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2003 | M.A., Montclair State University | |
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2002 | B.A., Montclair State University ‐ Anthropology | |
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Contact Information
aj.faas@sjsu.edu
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