Student Groups
Groups of interest to students who are pursuing anthropological and qualitative studies.

• National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA): The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA), the student section of the American Anthropological Association, provides a network of students across the subfields of anthropology and directly addresses issues that are of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students, including finding jobs, attending graduate school, fieldwork programs, networking, and more.

• Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA): The Society for Applied Anthropology aspires to promote the integration of anthropological perspectives and methods in solving human problems throughout the world; to advocate for fair and just public policy based upon sound research; to promote public recognition of anthropology as a profession; and to support the continuing professionalization of the field.

• Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR): The CBPR e-mail community was created through a partnership between Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the Wellesley Institute to serve the growing network of people involved and interested in CBPR and other types of community-academic research partnerships. People from community organizations, colleges and universities, public and private funding agencies, decision makers and policy makers, and others are all encouraged to subscribe. We hope this listserv provides a resource for sharing knowledge and experience and contribute to strengthening the field of CBPR and ultimately improving the health of communities.

• Qualitative Research Interest Group (QRIG): The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland's QRIG is a working group of faculty and graduate students who use qualitative methods in their work. Central to the work of this group is a focus on intersectional dimensions of difference and their relation to social justice and raising the profile of qualitative methodologies at the University of Maryland as a core component of a research design.

• Research Methods Knowledge Database: Qualitative Measures - Brief overview of qualitative methods, including participant observation and interviewing.

• National Science Foundation: User-Friendly Handbook for Mixed Method Evaluations - Provides practical advice about evaluation methodology.

• Creating Evaluation Anthropology: Introducing an Emerging Subfield by Mary Odell Butler and Jacqueline Copeland-Carson (eds.) - Many anthropologists build rewarding careers in the evaluation of programs, policies and products. Creating Evaluation Anthropology explores a synthesis of evaluation and anthropology that is emerging from a dialogue of anthropologists and their colleagues in evaluation. Evaluation anthropology brings together the concern of evaluation with the value of human activities and the anthropological understanding of these activities as processes embedded in and defined by culture. The contributors to this volume, all practicing evaluation anthropologists, discuss the theoretical and methodological foundations of evaluation anthropology and illustrate its practice in environment, health, education, community development and product evaluation contexts. This volume also offers concrete guidance and resources to anthropologists seeking to enter this exciting new field at any stage of their careers.

• ATLAS.ti: ATLAS.ti, the Knowledge Workbench, is a computer software used mostly, but not exclusively, in qualitative data research and analysis.

• NVivo 7: Formerly called NUD*IST, NVivo is a project management software that can be used in qualitative data research and analysis.

• University of Maryland: The Department of Anthropology offers a Master of Applied Anthropology and Ph.D. in Anthropology.

• University of South Florida

• University of North Texas