Alisse Waterston
Alisse Waterston is Professor, Department of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She is author of numerous books and articles and author most recently of the award winning My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century (Routledge: 2014).
Professor Waterston is founding editor of Open Anthropology, and has been an International Scholar of the Open Society Institute affiliated with Tbilisi State University (2012-2015). She is currently President of the American Anthropological Association. Her next book project is titled Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation and History in the South Caucasus (Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2017).
Professor Waterston is founding editor of Open Anthropology, and has been an International Scholar of the Open Society Institute affiliated with Tbilisi State University (2012-2015). She is currently President of the American Anthropological Association. Her next book project is titled Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation and History in the South Caucasus (Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2017).