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1. 1. AAAS - AAAS News Release

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   Published on: 1/4/2008   Last Visited: 6/8/2008

   [PHOTOGRAPH] Robert Albro
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   Robert Albro
   
   Robert Albro, a member of American Anthropological Association (AAA) Ad Hoc Commission for Anthropology's Engagement with the Security and Intelligence Communities, discussed the commission's recently released report and the ethical and human rights debates within the anthropology profession.
   
   "For the last year and a half at least, the most prominent debate in the discipline of anthropology has been about what, if any, working relationship it should have with the military, security, and intelligence communities," explained Albro, an assistant professor of International Communication in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. "At times, it has been an acrimonious debate."
   
   The debate stems from the U.S. military's Human Terrain System Project, which has involved placing anthropologists as contractors with military teams in Iraq and Afghanistan for the purpose of collecting social and cultural data for use by military field commanders.Albro reported that the ad hoc commission opted not to condemn engagement with the military per se.

2. 2. About Us: Fellow: Robert Albro

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   Published on: 6/3/2006   Last Visited: 6/3/2006

   Robert Albro on "Heresies and Heritage in International Cultural Rights Debates" (9:00-10:30 A.M.)
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   Robert Albro Visiting Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University
   
   Carnegie Council Fellow 2004-2005
   
   Robert Albro has worked in the Andean region since 1991, receiving support as a Fulbright Scholar and from the National Science Foundation to carry out ethnographic research on the new forms of popular politics in Bolivia after the sweeping structural reforms in 1985.
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   Albro has since extended his research efforts to encompass the question of popular coalition building and anti-globalization efforts in Bolivia, specifically alternative discourses and practices of citizenship, sovereignty, and democracy. With the support of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation, he was a Fellow in International Studies at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in 2003-2004, where he finished a book manuscript on the problem of stigma and popular recognition in Bolivia: A Humble Politics: Problems of Recognition in Peri-Urban Bolivia.
   
   On July 15, 2004, Albro was a guest speaker on the Leonard Lopate show [click here for summary and audio link] on National Public Radio, talking about current civil tensions and the history of indigenous movements in Bolivia.
   
   Albro has been awarded a residential Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship on "Theorizing Cultural Heritage" to work at the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage for 2004-2005. He is currently working on a project comparing indigenous activism in Ecuador and Bolivia, and the use of cultural rights as a strategy of international legitimation, while teaching courses on anthropology and international affairs at George Washington University.
   
   Selected publications by Robert Albro:

3. 3. WNYC - The Leonard Lopate Show: The Present Tense (July 15, 2004)

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   Published on: 7/15/2004   Last Visited: 12/10/2004

   Waskar Ari and Robert Albro Aymara activist and indigenous scholar Waskar Ari calls in from La Paz to share his thoughts on the civil unrest and to discuss the history of indigenous movements in Bolivia. He is joined by Robert Albro, Fellow, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University.