{"id":4668,"date":"2021-07-13T13:02:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/?page_id=4668"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:00:23","slug":"what-are-anthropology-professional-organizations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/what-are-anthropology-professional-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Anthropology Professional Organizations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"scrollspy623324\" class=\"navbar navbar-toggleable-md navbar-light bg-primary sections-menu\">\n<div class=\"container\"><button class=\"navbar-toggler collapsed ml-auto\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#sections-menu\" aria-controls=\"#sections-menu\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/button><button class=\"navbar-toggler collapsed ml-auto\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#sections-menu\" aria-controls=\"#sections-menu\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"navbar-toggler-text\">Skip to Section<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<div id=\"sections-menu\" class=\"navbar-collapse collapse\">\n<ul class=\"nav navbar-nav\">\n<li class=\"nav-item\"><a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/undergraduate\/undergraduate-anthropology\/\">EXPLORE YOUR PATH<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-item\"><a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/undergraduate\/advising-information\/\">Anthropology Advising Information<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-item\"><a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/undergraduate\/faq\/\">Anthropology Program FAQs<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-item\"><a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/undergraduate\/career-center\/\">CAREERS &amp; HONORS THESES<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"text-justify\">Anthropology has several recognized subdisciplines and each have their own professional association. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americananthro.org\/\">American Anthropological Association<\/a> (AAA) is the primary professional association of academic anthropologists and students, and members work in the public, private, and non-governmental sectors. These professional organizations host annual meetings for anthropologists to present their research; they also publish peer-reviewed academic\u00a0 journals. All of these organizations offer <strong>student memberships<\/strong> at discounted rates. Please note these are just a few professional organizations listed:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"text-justify\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaanet.org\/\">American Anthropological Association (AAA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aafs.org\/\">American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physanth.org\/\">American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.food-culture.org\/\">Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeological.org\/\">Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aba.americananthro.org\/\">Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alla.americananthro.org\/\">Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicinganthropology.org\/\">National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paleopathology.org\/\">Paleopathology Association (PPA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saa.org\/\">Society for American Archaeology (SAA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.econanthro.org\/\">Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfaa.net\/\">Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slaca.americananthro.org\/\">The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">There are also many local\/regional organizations and associations that may be of interest, these are just a few:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"text-justify\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fasweb.org\/cfas\/\">Central Florida Anthropological Society (CFAS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fpan.us\/workshops\/CRPT.php\">Cemetery Resource Protection Training (CRPT through FPAN)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fasweb.org\/\">Florida Anthropological Society (FAS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/myfloridahistory.org\/default\">Florida Historical Society (FHS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flpublicarchaeology.org\/\">Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/undergraduate\/faq\/\">Back to FAQs Page<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skip to Section EXPLORE YOUR PATH Anthropology Advising Information Anthropology Program FAQs CAREERS &amp; HONORS THESES &nbsp;","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullscreen.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4668","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4668\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}