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Conferences & Networking

The SAS regularly sponsors conferences, workshops, and conference sessions. If you're planning an event on any topic relevant to the goals of the society, please get in touch with the VP of Intersociety Relations so that we can explore partnering with you and your organization. 

If you're a student SAS member interested in getting involved with the society and promoting professional fellowship among your peers, check out the Student Ambassador program and reach out to our VP for Membership Development to learn more.

SAS welcomes Jessica Giles as the newest Student Ambassador! Jessica Giles is a graduate student in the Master of Applied Anthropology program at Indiana University–Indianapolis. With a focus on bioarchaeology, her fieldwork includes excavations at Greenlawn Cemetery in Indianapolis and medieval funerary sites in Transylvania, Romania. She is currently working on her thesis which focuses on growth and health disparities of subadults in Indianapolis during the 19 th century, which earned her a prestigious fellowship from the Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Jessica brings over a decade of experience across museums, government agencies, and forensic units. She currently serves as an Archaeological Field Tech at Stantec and a Senior Laboratory Analyst at Indiana University–Indianapolis, where she conducts osteological analysis and advanced age-at-death estimation.

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