Article begins The following is an edited conversation between Ana Croegaert, president of Society for the Anthropology of North America, and section co-editors Tannya Islas and Liliana Ramirez. The discussion explores what it means to do North American Anthropology historically, today, and future directions for the discipline.  Introduction Can you tell us more about yourself and your work?  Yeah! I am an anthropologist and an ethnographer, and I would say my work lies at the intersection of migration, performance, and critical social theory to better understand twenty-first-century urban life. My fieldwork sites have included Chicago, the Herzegovina region in Western Bosnia of former Yugoslavia, and New Orleans. My current work looks at the role of visual and material culture in mediating understandings of environmental knowledge and archival practices. I was formerly a professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College and at University of New Orleans.…