American Anthropological Association
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| 2023 | Following a referendum, the Association endorsed a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, joining the BDS movement. |
| 2021 | Ramona Perez becomes the most recent president of the American Anthropological Association. |
| September 19 2016 | The U.S. District Court in Arizona entered a permanent injunction barring enforcement of the remaining provisions of SB1070, which subsequently lifted AAA's ban on considering conferences in Arizona. |
| January 2014 | Cultural Anthropology became the first major, established, high-impact anthropology journal to offer open access to all of its research, including a 10-year back catalog. |
| 2013 | The Association announced plans to make Cultural Anthropology an open-access journal, with President Brad Weiss committing to providing free worldwide access to journal content. |
| 2010 | The AAA Executive Board removed the word 'science' from a draft statement of its long-range plan, sparking a controversy about the definition of anthropology as a discipline. |
| May 22 2010 | The AAA Executive Board issued a resolution declaring Arizona's SB1070 law unconstitutional and announced a boycott of Arizona, with an exception for Indian Reservations, until the law was repealed or invalidated. |
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