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UPCOMING EVENTS May 21, 2015 Campus-Wide Commencement Ceremony May 22, 2015 Departmental Commencement & Reception June 1, 2015 First Day of Summer Term 2015 Courses August 21, 2015 Last Day of Summer Term 2015 Cources August 31, 2015 First Day of Fall Semester 2015 Courses
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As we come to the end of another academic year, we have much to reflect upon and celebrate. Our department continues to grow and excel on all fronts. Many of our faculty receive student teaching evaluations that are above the college average and they continue to publish books and articles in top tier outlets. This fall we were fortunate to hire Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, one of the leading zooarcheologists in the United States. With our growing faculty we have added several new courses to our undergraduate curriculum, including one in heritage studies, and another in migration studies. We are proud of the many accomplishments of our students. Undergraduates are working in internships at the Smithsonian, international NGO's and the National Park Service. Our graduate students are publishing articles in top tier journals. This spring we witnessed 8 successful PhD defenses. We have come a long way. Following is an overview of some of our student and faculty accomplishments. Hope you have a great summer and please feel free to stop by and see some of the new renovations in Woods Hall. Paul A. Shackel
COMMENCEMENT The Department of Anthropology congratulates the 8 graduating PhD candidates Amy Carattini, David Colon-Cabrera, Kathryn Deely, Courtney Hoffman, Rebecka Lundgren, Mary Furlong Minkoff, Beth Pruitt, and Michael Roller. There are also 14 MAA graduates this Spring, Rebecca Alberda, Victoria Danner, Yana Demireva, Amelia Hood, Maya Kearney, Patricia Markert, David McMichael, Sarah Mosher, Janna Napoli, Alyssa Nutter, Dirk Parham, Madhyatu Taylor, Jordan Tompkins, and Camille Westmont.
Congratulations to the 32 undergraduates graduating: Amna Adbelgader, Christopher Balsam, Matthew Berlin, Emily Bokelman, Danielle Buffa, Nicholas Chmielewski, Kathleen Dacruz, Drew Doherty, Emily Dooley, Malaika Elias, Jordan Freeman, Clio Grillakis, Joseph Harden, Sarah Huston, Angelina Johny, Megan LeBlanc, Samuel Likier, Hayatt Mohamed, Andrea Monaghan, Bellami Nelson, Sarah Norris, Natalii Pitts, Ryan Pumphrey, Nicole Punzi, Rachel Ridley, Rachel Roman, Audrey Schaefer, Iris Schauerman, Kasey Schumacher, Maria Sharova, Catherine Luna, Sarah Strada, Elliot Weil, Masooda Young.
AWARDS, HONORS, AND GRANTS FACULTY Brooke Bocast was awarded a scholarship to the NSF's Faculty Short Course in Research Methods this summer. Brooke Bocast was also awarded finalist status for the American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellowship. Christina Getrich was awarded a grant by the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, Qualitative Research Interest Group for her project “American by Birth, Mexican By Blood: Identity and Cultural Citizenship among SecondGeneration Mexicans.”
SUMMER TERM OFFERINGS ANTH 222: Ecological and Evolutionary Anthropology Nawa Sugiyama ANTH 240: Intorduction to Archaeology Anne Garland ANTH 260: Intro to Sociocultural Anthropology and Linguistics Michael Buonanno ANTH 263: Sexuality and Culture Elijah Edelman ANTH 266: Changing Climate, Changing Cultures Jo Johnson ANTH 428: Primate Social Behavior Mark Zajac ANTH468: Anthropology, War and Security Katherine Izsak ANTH 469: Language and Culture Jacqueline Messing
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In December of 2014, Mark P. Leone was awarded an Elevate Fellows Grant to redesign his version of ANTH 240 Introduction to Archaeology, which he has been teaching for several decades. Through course redesign, Elevate Fellows improve student learning and success.
ADJUNCTS, RESEARCHERS, AND AFFILIATES Shirley Fiske was one of two honorees to receive a AAA Presidential Award for serving as the chair of the Global Climate Change Task Force, 2011-2014. Her work resulted in a final report “Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and Climate Change,” and a AAA Statement on Humanity and Climate Change. A team of researchers headed by Shirley Fiske received a 3-year cooperative agreement from the National Park Service for a study titled “Ethnographic Resource Study: Subsistence Fishing in the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers. Jeremy Trombley and Michael Paolisso will provide expertise to the team.
GRADUATE STUDENTS David Colon Cabrera received the Carolina Rojas-Bahr Outstanding Latina/o Graduate Award. The award is given on the criteria of an outstanding academic record, contributions to the quality of campus life, exceptional community service involvement and contributions as a student employee. Emilia Guevera received the SfAA Del Jones Memorial Award. Christine Miller Hesed and Jo Johnson were awarded the Anthropology Chair's Fellowship for 2015-2016. David McMichael received the 2015 SfAA Tourism and Heritage Topical Interest Group Student Paper Award. Adriane Michaelis was awarded the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to study what factors contribute to effective, and ineffective, community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) of Mozambique's artisanal fisheries. Mary Furlong Minkoff received BSOS George M. Phillips Award for Graduate Student Research in the Public Interest. Camille Westmont was awarded the Student Paper Competition for the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA).
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SCHOLARSHIP AND SERVICE FACULTY On 24 February 2015, Sulheil Bushrui was featured on “Arabian Candles,” a radio program which is broadcasted internationally. Professor Bushrui spoke about Mikhail Naimy, and his pioneering work on introducing modern criticism into Arabic literature. Bushrui was featured again on “Arabian Candles” in April to talk about the establishment of ar-Rabitatu’l Qalamyiah, or “Pen Bond” (Arrabitah) in April 1920 in New York City. The Pen Bond symbolized a new literary era for the Arab world, and three of its most famous members (Kahlil Gibran, Mikahil Naimy, and Ameen Rihani) went on to create the most renovating and revolutionary movement that Arabic literature had known in modern times. Paul Shackel Invited Lectures: WCRM Distinguished Historical Archaeologist Visiting Lecturer, University of Denver, Denver, CO. Paper entitled, 2015 An Archaeology of Public Memory and the Lattimer Massacre.
ADJUNCTS, RESEARCHERS, AND AFFILIATES Barbara Little presented “What does it mean for the National Park Service to launch an LGBT Heritage Initiative?” at the annual meeting of the National Council for Public History in April. Rob Winthrop recently served on a federal taskforce to identify science gaps impeding the effective use of green infrastructure in building coastal resilience to climate change. This effort, organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, implements a recommendation of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force.
GRADUATE STUDENTS Two documentary videos were produced on Archaeology in Annapolis’ archaeological work at Wye House, both featuring Ben Skolnik and Beth Pruitt.
PUBLICATIONS FACULTY Suheil Bushrui compliled and edited Desert Songs of the Night: An Anthology of Arabic Literature from pre-Islamic to Modern Times with James M Malarkey by London: Saqi Books, 2015. This unique anthology of Arabic literature offers a wide-ranging selection across virtually all genres of poetry and prose to appeal to the student of culture and history who seeks acquaintance with gems of Arab thought and expression from classical times to the present. Bushrui contributed a paper to the “International Seminar on Religion, Ethnicity & Resistance: Why We Cannot”, which was organized by the Department of History at Vinoba Bhave University (Hazaribag, Jharkhand) in India. Dr. Bushrui’s contribution to this event was entitled “Towards a Peaceful Global Civil Society,” which was read by Professor Miles Bradbury (Department of History, University of Maryland). Janet Chernela published an article titled Directions of Existence: Indigenous Women Domestics in the Paris of the Tropics in The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. Janet Chernela also published the Review of Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon, by Robin M.Wright in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. Christina Getrich co-authored three publications that came out this spring: 2015 Getrich, C.M., Bennett, A.M., Sussman, A.L., Solares, A., and D.L. Helitzer. Viewing Focus Groups through a Critical Incident Lens. Qualitative Health Research. pii: 1049732315579178. [Epub ahead of print] 2015 Williams, R.L., Romney, C., Kano, M. Wright, R., Skipper, B., Getrich, C.M., Sussman, A.L., and S. Zyzanski. Racial, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status Bias in Medical Student Clinical Decision-making? Journal of General Internal Medicine. DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-3168-3. [Epub ahead of print] 2015 Bradley, P., Getrich, C.M., and G.G. Hannigan. New Mexico Practitioners’ Access to and Satisfaction with Online Clinical Information Resources: an Interview Study Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software. Journal of the Medical Library Association 103(1):355-359.
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PUBLICATIONS cont. Mark Leone along with Jocelyn Knauf have edited Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, Second Edition. It was published by Springer in April 2015. The volume features Maryland archaeologists Michael Roller, Stephen Brighton, Adam Fracchia, George Hambrecht, and Beth Pruitt. This volume highlights historical archaeology in the Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland. Paul Shackel published a forward in a book titled: Resisting the New Museology. In Ancestors of Worthy Life: Revealing Black History at Mount Clare, by Teresa Moyer, pp. xi-xiii. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
ADJUNCTS, RESEARCHERS, AND AFFILIATES Judith Lynne Hanna was interviewed about Dancing to Learn: The Brain’s Cognition, Emotion, and Movement for the Faculty Voice, May 15, Vol. 30, No. 1, p. 5. She published, “Neo-Burlesque: Artistic Creativity and Comedic Novelty,” Dance Critics News, Fall/Winter, pp. 1, 8-10, 2014 (see www.judithhanna.com). Rob Winthrop’s article, “The Strange Case of Cultural Services: Limits of the Ecosystem Services Paradigm,” was published in the December 2014 issue of Ecological Economics.
GRADUATE STUDENTS Kathryn Deeley has completed a site report on the archaeological investigations at the John Brice II House in Annapolis, Maryland. This report has been published on DRUM and is available to the public. Courtney Hofman’s article, “Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest Rapid Evolution of Dwarf California Channel Islands Foxes (Urocyon littoralis)," was published in PLoS ONE. Tracy Jenkins has completed a site report on the archaeological investigations at the Talbot County Women’s Club, which has also been published on DRUM where it is available to the public. Janna Napoli has completed a site report for the 2001-2004 archaeological investigations in Eastport, Maryland. This site report will be published on DRUM by the end of the Spring semester and will be available to the public. Michael Roller and Adam Fracchia produced a theme study on Labor Archeology of the Industrial Era through the National Park Service.
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Spring Conferences
Society for Historical Archaeology January 2015 Seattle, Washington
Society for Applied Anthropology March 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
UMD REPRESENTATION AT SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE FACULTY Stephen Brighton Presenter, Paper: Bringing It All Back Home: The Archaeology of Diasporic Homelands Randy Hass Presenter, Paper: Forager Mobility in Constructed Environments Mark Leone Panelist, Panel: Rethinking the Archaeology of Capitalism: Coercion, Violence, and Accumulation Matthew Palus Presenter, Paper: Washington’s Board of Public Works and the Burial of Herring Hill in Geogeton, District of Columbia (An Archaeology of Municipal Infrastructure) Paul Shackel Presenter, Paper: An Archeology of Labor in Practice in Session: Approaching Labor Through Archaeology in the 21st Century
GRADUATE STUDENTS Society for American Archaeology April 2015 San Fransisco, California
Kate Deeley Presenter, Paper: Consumerism as a Strategy for Negotiating Racism: A Comparative Study of African Americans in Jim Crow Era Annapolis, MD Adam Fracchia Presenter, Paper: Assessing the Value and Potential of Labor Archaeology: A Description of the Labor Archaeology of the Industrial Era National Historic Landmark Theme Study Mary Furlong Presenter, Paper: Domestic Labor in Black and Green: Deciphering the Shared Experiences of African American and Irish Domestics Working in the Same Northern Virginia Households and Communities 5
SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE cont.. Kevin Gibbons Session Organizer, Presenter, Paper: Icelandic Livestock Improvement on a Millennial Scale: Biometrical Analyses of Caprine Morphology (with George Hambrecht) Magda Mankel Presenter, Paper: Understanding the Material and Spatial Strategies of Border Crossers Through Water Bottles and Beverage Containers Patricia Markert Presenter, Paper: Objects and Voices: Conversations about Artifacts, Memory, and Meaning with the Former Residents of Timbuctoo, NJ. Elizabeth Pruitt Presenter, Paper: This Gave Me Great Influence Over Them: The Voice of Frederick Douglass at Wye House Michael Roller Presenter, Paper: Who is ‘Free’ Today?: Negotiating the Documentary Record of Labor History for Archaeology Panelist, Panel: Rethinking the Archaeology of Capitalism: Coercion, Violence, and Accumulation Co-Author, Paper: Investigations at Amisfield: A Late Medieval Scottish Tower House” Session: Boundaries and Defenses: Current Archaeological Perspectives on Areas of Conflict Megan Springate Presenter, Paper: Making Women: Gender, Sexuality, and Class at an Early Twentieth Century Women’s Retreat Drew Webster Presenter, Paper: Class, Ethnicity, and Ceramic Consumption in a Boston Tenement Camille Westmont Presenter, Paper: ’People In This Town Had A Hard Life. We Had A Hard Life’: Creating and Re-Creating ‘Patchtown’ History in the Anthracite Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania Stefan Woehlke Presenter, Paper: Navigating Freedom: Examining the Impact of Emancipation on the African American Community in Orange County, Virginia
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UMD REPRESENTATION AT THE SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY CONFERENCE FACULTY Erve Chambers Discussant, Session: Broadening the Scope of Applied Anthropology in Central America (in honor of Nancie Gonzalez) Erve Chambers and Megan Bailey Roundtable Discussion, Roundtable: Applied Anthropology in National Parks – A Roundtable of Works-in-Progress in the National Capital Region Christina Getrich Presenter, Paper: Buffering the Uneven Impact of Obamacare: Immigrant-Serving Providers in New Mexico Thurka Sangaramoorthy Chair (with Sarah Raskin, U Arizona) Presenter, Paper: Social Insecurity and Health: Community Perceptions of the Potential Impacts of Fracking in Maryland Jen Shaffer Presenter (with Domingos Cuna (U. Eduardo Mondlane) and Rachel Ridley) Paper: Bad Communication and Amplification of Wildlife Conflict in a Savanna SES Tony Whitehead Chair (with Mary Odell Butler) Presenter, Paper: The Cultural Ecology of Health and Change: Codifying the Culture Concept as Interpretive Human Science Session: Applied Ethnography and CuSAG at 25! Part 1.
ADJUNCTS, RESEARCHERS, AFFILIATES, LECTURERS, AND STAFF Mary Odell Butler Presenter, Paper: Ethnography in Program Evaluation: Demonstrating Values in Multiple Contexts Session: Applied Ethnography and CuSAG at 25! Part II Nadine Dangerfield Panelist, “I Visited Some Place and All I Got Was This Souvenir: A 3-Minute Material Culture Session” Carol Ellick Leader, Workshop: Get Hired! Shirley Fiske Roundtable Discussion, Roundtable: Applied Anthropology in National Parks – A Roundtable of Works-in-Progress in the National Capital Region Shirley Fiske Chair, Changing Climate and Community Resliencies in the Chesapeake Bay Region Melissa Stevens Chair: New Scholars Changing the Field: The Winning Papers of the 2015 SfAA Tourism and Heritage Topical Interst Group Student Paper Competition Presenter, Paper: The Empowerment Paradox: Hope and Helplessness in a Tanzanian Community-Based Cultural Tourism Initiative
GRADUATE STUDENTS David Colon Cabrera Panelist, I Visited Some Place and All I Got Was This Souvenir: A 3-Minute Material Culture Session Co-chair and Participant, Reality Workshop: Experiments in the Practice and Performance of Anthropology Presenter, Paper: Male Circumcision in Maryland Community Clinics: Perspectives from Latina Mothers and Health Professional”
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SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY CONFERENCE cont. Diane Gardsbane Presenter, Paper: Promoting Social Justice within the Context of Power and Inequality Emilia Guevara Presenter, Paper: Health-related Deservingness and Illegality on Maryland’s Eastern Shore Christy Miller Hesed Presenter, Paper: Balancing Environmental Conservation and Human Adaptation on Maryland’s Eastern Shore Casey Hall Presenter, Paper: Prison-to-Community Reentry and Mothering: A Cultural Systems Approach Session: Applied Ethnography and CuSAG at 25! Part 1. Katherine (Jo) Johnson Chair, Session: Coming to Terms with Climate Change: Ways of Knowing, Feeling, and Practice Katherine (Jo) Johnson Presenter, Paper: Producing Resilience to Climate Change within a Social-Ecological System Session: Coming to Terms with Climate Change: Ways of Knowing, Feeling, and Practice Maya Kearney Presenter, Paper: Ethnographic Assessment of a Human Service Organization: The Office on Returning Citizens Affairs Kerry Lessard Panelist: I Visited Some Place and All I Got Was This Souvenir: A 3-Minute Material Culture Session Rebecka Lundgren Presenter, Paper: Learning Gender: The Human Ecology of Adolesence in Nothern Uganda Session: Applied Ethnography and CuSAG at 25! Part II Trish Markert Panelist: I Visited Some Place and All I Got Was This Souvenir: A 3-Minute Material Culture Anthropology David McMichael Presenter, Paper: Volunteer Tourism at Hannah’s Hope: Negotiated Roles and Moral Claims Adriane Michaelis Presenter (with Tarika Sankar, Sarah Strada, Jen Shaffer, and Jordan Tompkins) Paper: Experiences of Individual and Group Agency in an African Savanna Social-Ecological System Session: Using Local Social-Ecological Systems Models to Live Sustainably in a Changing Sara Mosher Presenter, Paper: One Size Fits All? Using Ethnographic Methods to Tailor Solutions for Refugees Alyssa Nutter Chair, with Bill Roberts (St. Mary’s College) Roundtable: PEACE (Promoting Educational and Cultural Exchange in The Gambia) 1996-2014, Continuity and Change Dirk Parham Presenter, Poster: A Cognitive Anthropological Study of Open Defecation in the India’s Delhi Region
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SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY CONFERENCE cont. GRADUATE STUDENTS Soren Peterson Presenter, Paper: Brokering the Disconnect between Government Policy and Undocumented Immigrants Panelist: My Experience in Grad School: A Round-Table Discussion on Learning Applied Anthropology Kristin Sullivan Chair and Panelist: I Visited Some Place and All I Got Was This Souvenir: A 3-Minute Material Culture Session Co-chair and Participant Reality Workshop: Experiments in the Practice and Performance of Anthropology Jordan Tompkins Presenter (with Bryan Gerard, Hyatt Mohamed, and Jen Shaffer) Paper: Local Models of the Health-environment Connection in an African Savanna SES Jeremy Trombley Roundtable Discussion: Applied Anthropology in National Parks – A Roundtable of Works-in-Progress in the National Capital Region
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Rachel Sweren Panelist: I Visited Some Place and All I Got Was This Souvenir: A 3-Minute Material Culture Session Catherine Soriano Luna Presenter (with Donald Warner and Jen Shaffer) Paper: Change in a Complex Savanna Social-Ecological System
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UMD REPRESENTATION AT THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE FACULTY Randy Haas Presenter, Paper: Forager Mobility in Constructed Environments George Hambrecht Chair, Session: IHOPE (Integrated History and Future of People on Earth) – International and Interdisciplinary Projects Working to Make the Past Better Serve the Future Discussant, Session: Islands and Invasives: The Archaeology of Plant and Animal Translocations Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels Presenter, Paper: Parsing ‘Public’ for Heritage Management in the Transnational Sphere Mark Leone Presenter, Paper: The Spirit of Wye House Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman Presenter (with Trica Oshant Hawkins) Paper: Linking Hispanic Heritage Through Archaeology (LHHTA): Engaging Latino Youth With Our National Parks
ADJUNCTS, RESEARCHERS, AND AFFILIATES Carol Ellick Developed and presented the first ever “Orientation” for first time attendees at the 2015. The orientation provided information on how to get the most out of the meetings. Based on the session’s success, it will be offered again at the 2016 SAA meeting in Orlando.
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UMD REPRESENTATION AT THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE GRADUATE STUDENTS Kevin Gibbons Presenter, Paper: Icelandic Livestock Improvement and an Emerging National Identity: Biometrical and Genetic Markers of a New Landscape Courtney Hofman Chair, Session: Islands and Invasives: The Archaeology of Plant and Animal Translocations Presenter, Paper: Tracking Translocations: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Animal Translocations on the California Channel Islands Presenter, Paper: Invasive or Endemic? Management Implications of Archaeological Data in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Mary Furlong Minkoff Presenter (with Teresa Moyer) Paper: The Urban Archaeology Corps 2014: Rethinking Youth Employment in the National Park Service Megan Springate Co-Chair (with Chelsea Blackmore, U California, Santa Cruz) Session: Queering the Field: Archaeologies of Sexuality, Gender, and Beyond Presenter, Paper: Criterion Q: Archaeology, Context, and the National Park Service’s LGBTQ Heritage Initiative Drew Webster Presenter, Paper: Irish Immigration and Urban Transformation in Boston City Neighborhood
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