Sydney Story
Sydney Story (Professor Emerita, CSU Fresno) is the inaugural winner of the
Daniel J. Crowley Award for Meritorious Service to SWAA.
A cultural anthropologist, Sydney earned a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1960.
Sydney’s contributions to SWAA include
serving multiple terms on the Executive Board (often hosting meetings in her
home),
authoring the oft-consulted “Student Abstract Guidelines,”
serving for more than a decade as a juror for SWAA’s annual Student Paper
Competition,
and reviewing papers submitted to the Proceedings.
Sydney now serves as a member of the Daniel J. Crowley Award Committee.
Welcome to SWAA
The Southwestern Anthropological Association (SWAA) is a regional association
of academic and applied anthropologists and students in the southwestern states
of California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Our members do research in all areas of the world and include social-cultural
anthropologists, linguistic anthropologists, archaeologists, biological
anthropologists, and applied anthropologists in all fields.
Our goals are to encourage innovative research and to promote public interest in
all varieties of anthropological inquiry.
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