Sandy Smith-Nonini, assistant professor of anthropology, delivered a paper on the history of the U.S. movement for health rights in Central America at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Chicago earlier this month. Dr. Smith-Nonini was a founding member of the National Central America Health Rights Network, which, during the civil wars of the 1980s, sent medical aid to rural clinics and investigated attacks on humanitarian work — a form of terror used in counter-insurgency warfare. Smith-Nonini, a journalist at the time, accompanied 4 medical task forces investigating such attacks in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and wrote about their findings in U.S. papers.