Association's "Understanding Race and Human Variability” initiative. She served two terms as an Executive Committee Member for the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (2003-2013). She also chaired the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences' Commission on the Anthropology of Women from 1993 to 2009. From 2013 to 2018, Harrison was the President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. She was the first African American and second woman to hold the presidency of the IUAES. Harrison has also held editorial board member roles including her editorial board membership to Fire!!! The Multi-Media Journal on Black Studies (2011), an advisory editorial board membership to Anthropological Theory (2014-2020), as well as an editorial board membership to American Anthropologist (2000-2005, 2016-2020). Major Publications Harrison, F. V. (Ed.) (1991). Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation. American Anthropological Association. Decolonizing Anthropology is part of a bigger project aimed at transforming and reconstructing the area in addition to creating a study which concentrates upon this diversity and similarity of people. The essayists in this book write about why they think anthropologists should consider and critique power structures and criticize the culture and politics of academia. This work shows the benefits and potential of decolonized anthropology, that should be further investigated and enhanced. Decolonizing focuses on the use of "data, social and cultural analysis, conceptualizing, and knowledge application methodologies" in ethnographic research to help us curate a clearer understanding of intercultural and international harmony, as well as "global transformation." The essayists in this edited work argue that power and privilege in societies, including industrial societies, is what anthropologists should be investigating. Harrison, F. V. (1995). The Persistent Power of "Race" in the Cultural and Political Economy of Racism. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24(1), 47-74. This work illustrates how anthropology has played a major part throughout the formation and reconstruction of race, mostly as a cognitive instrument and a social reality. With facing the challenges of the biological idea of race, several anthropologists have taken a "no-race" approach as well as an intergroup variation approach which stresses ethnicity-based classification as well as organization methods. On the other hand, the high reliance upon ethnicity has largely overlooked racism's persistence and terrible impacts on local communities, nation-states, and the global system. For much of the last decade, anthropologists increasingly revived a curiosity within subtle but sometimes concealed causes as well as practices