American Anthropological Association

Name

American Anthropological Association

Legal name

The American Anthropological Association

Website

https://americananthro.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1902

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Arlington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Annual membership fees provide access to AAA benefits including journals, communities, career resources, and discounted event registration.
2. Publishing Revenue: Revenue from AnthroSource subscriptions through partnership with Wiley, plus journal publishing program with 32 periodical publications.
3. Event Registration: Revenue from annual meetings, section conferences, and webinars including registration fees and sponsorship.
4. Webinar Fees: Some webinars have paid registration: Non-Member $25, Members FREE.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit scholarly association that provides paid individual membership, publishes and distributes anthropological research through AnthroSource (a 300,000+ article digital library hosted in partnership with Wiley), operates the Anthropology Careers & Employment job board, hosts the Annual Meeting (the world's largest anthropology conference), and runs the AAA Communities communications platform spanning 35+ specialized sections.

Product overview

The American Anthropological Association operates as a membership-based professional organization offering a unified portfolio of scholarly and career resources. The core offerings include AnthroSource (a digital research database with 300,000+ articles hosted on Wiley), Anthropology News (the award-winning member magazine), Anthropology Careers & Employment (ACE job board), and Communities (member communications platform). AAA supports over 35 specialized Sections with access to 20+ journals, plus Open Anthropology (open access initiative), the Open Anthropology Research Repository (OARR), AnthroGuide (resource directory), and Podcast Library. The Annual Meeting represents the flagship conference event. AAA's publishing program spans scholarly journals, monographs, and bimonthly member magazines distributed through AnthroSource, with AAA owning journal names, copyrights, and trademarks while partnering with Wiley for distribution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AnthroSource: Digital searchable database containing more than 300,000 full-text articles from AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs. A service of the American Anthropological Association offered through partnership with Wiley.
• Anthropology News
• AnthroGuide
• Anthropology Careers & Employment (ACE)

Products and services

• AAA Individual Membership Annual individual membership providing anthropologists with access to 20+ journals, AnthroSource, the Communities platform, career resources, event discounts, and section participation.
• AnthroSource Subscription-based digital research database delivering full-text access to more than 300,000 anthropological articles for individual members and institutional subscribers through the Wiley Online Library partnership.
• AAA Annual Meeting Annual scholarly conference offered with in-person and virtual registration tiers, featuring sessions, workshops, poster presentations, and networking for the global anthropology community.
• Anthropology Careers & Employment (ACE) Job board and career services platform offering anthropology-specific employment listings and internship postings to job seekers and employers in the discipline.
• Anthropology News Award-winning bimonthly member magazine offering news, opinion, and feature content on anthropological research and the discipline for individual and institutional subscribers.
• AnthroGuide Directory of anthropology resources covering academic programs, practice settings, fellowships, grants, and K-12/higher education materials.
• Open Anthropology Research Repository (OARR) Open-access repository providing free hosting and discovery of anthropological research publications for authors and readers.
• AAA Communities Members-only communications and networking platform enabling participation in 35+ specialized sections and topical interest groups.
• Department Services Program Institutional offering for university and college anthropology departments that bundles membership benefits, advocacy support, and program resources at the department level.

Quantifiable outcome

• Access to 300,000+ full-text anthropology articles
• +2 more outcomes

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Technology focussed No

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Scale indicators6 records

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Direct peers

• American Sociological Association: The ASA is a scholarly professional association for sociologists with a near-identical operating model: membership dues, peer-reviewed journals, an annual meeting, and 50+ sections. ASA is the closest direct peer given its comparable scale, structure, and academic social science focus.
• Modern Language Association: The MLA serves humanities scholars with a membership-publishing-conference model highly analogous to AAA's, including a flagship annual convention and numerous journals. It is directly comparable as a humanities-focused scholarly association facing similar enrollment headwinds.
• American Political Science Association: APSA operates a scholarly membership-publishing-conference model for political scientists with multiple peer-reviewed journals and an annual meeting. It is directly comparable to AAA as a social science professional association of similar scale and structure.
• American Historical Association: The AHA is a scholarly membership organization for historians publishing multiple journals and hosting an annual meeting, structurally identical to AAA. It is directly comparable as a humanities-focused professional association with similar member and publishing economics.
• Society for Applied Anthropology: SfAA is a smaller professional association specifically for applied/practicing anthropologists, directly competing with AAA for the practice-based anthropology segment. It is the closest sub-discipline peer, particularly for AAA's 'Practicing Anthropologists' customer segment.

Others

• Wiley (John Wiley & Sons): Wiley is AAA's publishing partner and the host of AnthroSource on Wiley Online Library. While not a direct competitor, Wiley is a critical infrastructure/ecosystem participant whose commercial terms and platform strategy materially shape AAA's publishing economics.

Broad incumbents

• American Economic Association: The AEA operates a membership-publishing-conference model for economists, including the American Economic Review and multiple journals. It is broadly comparable as a social science scholarly association with a similar publishing and annual meeting structure, though serving a larger discipline.
• American Psychological Association: The APA is the largest professional association of psychologists in the United States, operating a similar membership, publishing, and conference model with a much larger scale. It is directly comparable as a scholarly professional association serving an academic behavioral science discipline.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science: AAAS publishes Science magazine and operates as a broad scientific professional association with a membership-publishing-conference model at significantly greater scale than AAA. It is comparable as an umbrella scientific scholarly organization, though much larger and multidisciplinary.

Regional players

• Royal Anthropological Institute: RAI is the UK's premier anthropological association and a major international counterpart to AAA, publishing the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. It is regionally comparable as the leading anthropology professional body outside North America.

Market position

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Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/AmericanAnthropologicalAssociation

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Funding overview

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