Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Since Joan Gero’s (1985) pioneering article “Sociopolitics and the Woman-at-Home Ideology,” feminist archaeologists have been gathering data on the gendered dynamics of archaeological publication and funding. After a lull in the early 2000s, this literature has been undergoing a renaissance. Recent publications have shown that NSF-funded senior grants (Goldstein et al. 2018), and articles in *American Antiquity (Gamble 2020; Rautman 2014) and *Journal of Field Archaeology (Heath-Stout 2020), are male-dominated due to differential submission rates rather than bias in the review process. Others have demonstrated that there is a “peer review gap,” where women are more likely to publish in non-refereed venues (Fulkerson and Tushingham 2019; Tushingham et al. 2017) or present at conferences (Bardolph 2018; Bardolph and Vanderwarker 2016) rather than publishing in peer-reviewed journals, including regional journals (Bardolph 2014). This session highlights recent data-driven approaches to the issues of diversity and equity in archaeology publications and grants. Suggested topics for this session include demonstrated or recommended approaches to promoting diversity in submission rates; analyses or self-studies of submission demographics for grants or regional, national, or international journals (peer-reviewed or non-peer-reviewed); methodological complexities; and historical perspectives on inequities in the discipline.
Other Keywords
Ethics •
Communities of Practice •
publishing •
Paleoindian and Paleoamerican •
Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology •
Power Relations and Inequality •
equity, multivocality, knowledge dissemination, publication, gender, academia, CRM •
Topic Modeling
Geographic Keywords
North America •
United States of America (Country) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Department of Martinique (Country) •
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Department of Guadeloupe (Country) •
Cayman Islands (Country) •
Antigua and Barbuda (Country) •
Turks and Caicos Islands (Country) •
Bermuda (Country)
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Assessing Diversity in the Society for American Archaeology Journals (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The three peer-reviewed journals of the Society for American Archaeology—*American Antiquity, *Latin American Antiquity, and *Advances in Archaeological Practice—are available to all members of the SAA electronically, but have different readerships, distinct submission bases, and individual cultures of practice and...
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Correlations between Gender and Research Topics at Three Major Archaeology Conferences (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Disproportionate representation of genders has long existed in many academic fields. Rising interest in gender equality in society generally has resulted in greater scrutiny on gender inequality in academic communities. Analysis of authorship of peer-reviewed publications shows that archaeology is similar to other...
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Making the Data Count: Analyzing Inequities and Challenging Epistemic Injustice in Archaeological Discourse (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recent resurgence of interest in diversity and equity issues in archaeological practice highlights persistent disparities in the demographic composition of practitioners in various aspects of the discipline. Drawing from a database that we generated on the gender and occupational affiliation of 5,010 authors of 2,445...
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A Study of Methods and Demographics in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants, 2013–2020 (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since Gero’s (1985) germinal article on gender inequities in archaeology, feminist archaeologists have theorized that different research processes in the discipline are gendered: fieldwork is masculine-coded and lab and museum work is feminine-coded. Based on research conducted by the SAA Task Force on Gender Disparities...
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Voices in Conversation: Assessing 36 Years of Demographics in a Professional Archaeology Newsletter (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Academic research is comparable to a conversation. As in all conversations, certain voices are amplified while others are underrepresented. Much of this academic conversation happens in peer-reviewed journals and academic books, but informal conversations outside of these arenas are often overlooked. We are studying the...
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Women in Antiquity: An Analysis of Submissions, Peer Review, Editorial Decisions, and COVID-19 (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recently, some academic archaeology journals have evaluated the gender distribution of authors, often finding female contributors underrepresented. *Antiquity is a journal of world archaeology with submissions from authors of many nationalities; however, we lacked data on the gender of our authors. We therefore analyzed...