harassment in archaeology and interventions to improve the field (please circulate)

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Miriam Stark

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Mar 30, 2021, 6:25:53 PM3/30/21
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Colleagues:


Harassment is endemic in Southeast Asian archaeology and creates a "leaky pipeline" in which many women and underrepresented groups leave the field.  Barbara Voss has just published two articles about harassment in archaeology that seek to change the situation and asked us to circulate information (below).


All the best,

Miriam


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Miriam T. Stark, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies 

cseashawaii.org

Professor, Department of Anthropology

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Phone (808) 956-7552 (w) 

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From: Barbara Voss <bv...@stanford.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 6:24 AM
Subject: New articles about harassment in archaeology

 

Dear friends,

 

This morning, American Antiquity published two essays I’ve written about harassment in archaeology. All are available Open Access (free download) at these links:

 ·       Documenting Cultures of Harassment in Archaeology: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.118

·       Disrupting Cultures of Harassment in Archaeology: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.19

I would be grateful if you could help raise awareness about this important issue – and the proven solutions to preventing harassment – by sharing this announcement with other archaeologists who might not receive these articles otherwise, such as current students, early career archaeologists, cultural resource management archaeologists, and archaeologists outside the United States.

 

Essay titles, links for download, and a brief summary of each article are provided below.

 

Warmly,

--Barb

bv...@stanford.edu

https://bvoss.people.stanford.edu/

 

 

DOCUMENTING CULTURES OF HARASSMENT IN ARCHAEOLOGY: A REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH STUDIES American Antiquity 86(2).

Current research shows that harassment occurs in archaeology at epidemic rates. Harassment especially impacts women, early-career archaeologists, archaeologists of color, queer archaeologists, and archaeologists with disabilities. While harassment most directly affects individuals who are targeted, the impact ripples across our discipline, shaping who practices archaeology, what research topics are investigated, and how archaeological data is interpreted and published.


DISRUPTING CULTURES OF HARASSMENT IN ARCHAEOLOGY: SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL AND TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACHES TO DISCIPLINARY TRANSFORMATION. American Antiquity 86(3).

Drawing on public health models, this article outlines evidence-based approaches that can prevent harassment before it happens, support survivors when it does, and hold confirmed perpetrators accountable. These proven interventions leverage existing organizational capacities and build on shared core values of collaboration and collegiality in archaeology.


 

USING PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT HARASSMENT IN ARCHAEOLOGY. Cambridge Core blog, March 30, 2021. This blog post provides a short and accessible summary of the key points of both American Antiquity articles, including list of six core interventions that can be adapted for any archaeological organization.

 


Support is available for survivors of harassment and those who care about them. The Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN) provides 24/7 free and confidential support: call +1-800-656-4673, or chat with a trained staff member at https://www.rainn.org/. En español, llame al (800-656-4673) o comuniìquese a través de la opción “Chat Ahora”: https://www.rainn.org/es.

 

 

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Barbara L. Voss (she/they)

2020-2021 ACLS Yvette and William Kirby Centennial Fellow in Chinese Studies

Associate Professor (on sabbatical 2020-2021)

Department of Anthropology

450 Jane Stanford Way, Bldg. 50, Main Quad

Stanford University

Stanford CA 94305-2034

 

Stanford University sits on the stolen and occupied land of the Ohlone and Muwekma Ohlone people. Its founding endowment originated in profit extracted from the labor of Chinese railroad workers. I acknowledge my ongoing responsibility to address these and other historical and present-day injustices in my research and teaching.

 




Voss 2021 Documenting-cultures-of-harassment-in-archaeology.pdf
Voss 2021 Disrupting-cultures-of-harassment-in-archaeology.pdf
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