ACYIG ADVISORY BOARD UPDATE

Ida Fadzillah Leggett, PhD (Middle Tennessee State University)
Ida.Leggett@mtsu.edu

NEOS Readers,

ACYIG has been steadily plodding along but has been stymied by the need for more Board Membership: we are looking for a new Convener (my term is ending soon), a new Convener-Elect (a new position mandated by the AAA for Interest Groups), a new graduate student representative (our last one has become a professor!), and a webpage manager. Membership on the ACYIG Board is not strenuous and is a great way to demonstrate national– and international– service, which is often required for successful tenure and promotion consideration. Email me at Ida.Leggett@mtsu.edu if interested.

In other news, the ACYIG Board is organizing a childhood/youth conference, we are investigating the process required to transform ACYIG from AAA Interest Group into a Section, and we will be sending out a call for our ACYIG Book Prize at the end of the year.

If you are attending the 2025 AAA Conference in New Orleans in November, we will have some events for you:

  • Our Zoom ACYIG Business Meeting will be held the week before the Conference to avoid scheduling around travel plans and presentations
  • The ACYIG Board has organized a Roundtable on Methods in Childhood and Youth Studies
  • We will be holding an ACYIG Reception at the AAA Conference, at which we also invite you to bring flyers of your research monographs for display and promotion

If you have recently published research on children or youth, please consider participating in the Spotlight on Scholarship feature on the ACYIG website created by Julie Spray. Take a look at the latest feature at https://acyig.americananthro.org/spotlight-on-scholarship/, and if you would like to showcase your research, please visit the author guidelines page to submit your work. For more information, you may contact Julie at julie.spray@universityofgalway.ie.

One final question for NEOS readers: Are you part of a 2025 AAA Conference panel, workshop, or roundtable on childhood or youth? Please let me know if your session has been accepted for presentation at the Conference, and ACYIG will publicize it to our community. Again, my email address is Ida.Leggett@mtsu.edu.

Ida Fadzillah Leggett

Convenor – ACYIG Advisory Board