Spring 2018
GOOD NEWS
Summer Courses ANTH221: Introduction to Forensic Sciences Erin Guthrie ANTH222: Introduction to Ecological and Evolutionary Anthropology Erin Guthrie & Miguel Vilar ANTH240: Introduction to Archaeology Joshua Samuels ANTH260: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology and Linguistics Stanley Herman ANTH263: Sexuality and Culture Charneka Lane ANTH265: Anthropology of Global Health Laura Jung ANTH266: Changing Climate, Changing Cultures Jana Kopelentova Rehak & Jared Schultz ANTH473: Native American Languages and Cultures Jacqueline Messing ANTH474: Language, Racism & Identity Jacqueline Messing
Message from Chair This year we performed a faculty search and in the fall semester we are welcoming two new faculty members to the Department. Dr. Daniel Contreras is an Environmental Archaeologist with strong computational analytical skills. He works in interdisciplinary teams and his modeling work can be applied in a variety of cultural contexts. He does fieldwork in Andean South America and Mesoamerica as well as the Mediterranean. Dr. Yancey Orr explores indigenous environmental knowledge as well as how the sustainability movement emerges out of heterogeneous actors and communities. He mostly works in an international context - Southeast Asia, and he has a strong background in anthropological theory. Also - Good News - is the promotion of Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy to Associate Professor. Over the past few years she has developed a variety of research programs that varied from fracking in western Maryland to studying migrant health issues on Maryland’s eastern shore. This issue of “Good News” provides an overview of the excellent research, scholarship, and teaching that our students, staff and faculty perform in service to local, state, and national communities. This work is quite broad and varied and you will find that their work is truly good news. Congratulations to all, and wishing you all the best for a great summer. 1 Paul
Awards, Honors, and Grants Students
Professional Track Faculty
Sarah Grady was awarded the Council for Maryland Archaeology student stipend award to attend the Middle Atlantic Archaeology Conference.
Siv B. Lie was awarded the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar Fellowship.
Valarie Hall received the Gloria S. King Research Fellowship in Archaeology through the Maryland Archaeological Conservation (MAC) Laboratory. Nipun Kottage received the BSOS Summer Scholars Award for the proposal, An Impact Assessment of Engineers Without Borders Projects in Western Ghana. Hope Loiselle received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program to study past human interaction with marine ecosystems. Adriane Michaelis received the Exploration and Research Grant from the Explorers Club Washington Group to support her dissertation research entitled, "Describing Cultural Ecosystem Services Associated with Oyster Aquaculture." Stefan Woehlke was awarded the Wylie Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2018.
Hope Loiselle working on zooarchaeological bones
Siv B. Lie received the New York University Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities. Siv B. Lie was awarded University of Maryland Division of Research Faculty Incentive Program Conference Grant. Marilyn London was awarded the Provost's Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty. Faculty Christina Getrich was awarded the 2018 Excellence in Mentorship Award from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Alison Heller was selected for an award in the Tier 1 Winter 2018 Competition by the Division of Research at University of Maryland. Judith Freidenberg was selected to receive the St. George’s Day Award by the Prince George’s County Historical Society.
Dr. Christina Getrich with Associate Dean Wayne McIntosh at the BSOS Awards Ceremony
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Marilyn London with Associate Dean Wayne McIntosh at the TLTC Awards Ceremony
Scholarship and Service Students
Faculty
Samantha Lee, John Hyche, Sarah Grady, and Katie Boyle, were elected to the Middle Atlantic Archaeology Conference (MAAC) Student Committee.
L. Jen Shaffer attended a SESYNC workshop related to her ongoing research with the "Saving Africa's Vultures Pursuit".
Kevin McDonald has accepted a position in the Emerging Professionals Program at the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD.
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman was invited to give a lecture in the Anthropology Department at the University of Virginia, titled "Ranching, Rendering, Hunting and Hides: Zooarchaeology of Colonialism".
Andrew Webster co-developed the "Graduate Peer Outreach Workshop: Effective and Efficient Teaching for Graduate Students" and delivered it to graduate students in various UMD departments.
Thurka Sangaramoorthy was named Faculty Advisor of the UMD Engineers without Borders.
Andrew Webster co-authored with the TLTC's Graduate Teaching Fellows paper, "Developing Peer Outreach Programs for Graduate Student Instructors,” to be presented at the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning, in Bethesda, MD in June. Professional Track Faculty Shirley Fiske gave the keynote talk, "Anthropology in the current political environment. Galvanizing resistance," at the 2018 student-led AnthroPlus conference. Shirley Fiske gave an invited talk “Using rural and forest lands to slow climate change: how a ‘good thing’ in global policy terms interacts with local rights and livelihoods” at New Mexico Highlands University’s second annual Climate Awareness Day. Christy Miller Hesed is serving as a project manager and post-doctoral researcher for the NOAA Coastal and Ocean Climate Applications Award for "Linking Rural Decision-Makers with Local Churches to Build Coastal Resilience to a Changing Climate." Rob Winthrop was appointed to the External Advisory Board of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland.
Thurka Sangaramoorthy is serving on the Members Programmatic Advisory and Advocacy Committee (MPAAC) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Paul Shackel gave an invited presentation “Exploring Industrial Pennsylvania through Fowler’s Bird’s Eye Views” at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, PA. Faculty & Students Janet Chernela and Emily Colon hosted the CRACIA event, “Indigenous Amazonian Cinema: An Evening with Mebengokre Filmmakers Bpunu Mebengokre and Pat-i Kayapo.” The Archaeology in Annapolis field school, directed by Mark P. Leone and run by Tracy Jenkins, Samantha Lee, and Madeline Laub, will run for six weeks during this summer in Easton, Maryland. Students in L. Jen Shaffer’s ANTH67/667: Researching Environment & Culture have created a new Wikipedia entry documenting their semester-long research project on the African Vulture Trade. 3
Publications Students Megan Bailey wrote the report, “An Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Study of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park” under the direction of Principle Investigators, Drs. Erve Chambers and Paul Shackel. Katie Boyle and Kyla Cools co-authored an article for Practicing Anthropology, called "The Great Divide: Teaching Collaborative Methodologies in Academia." Professional Track Faculty Nejm Benessaiah contributed the chapter titled “Anomie and the Post-Colonial State: Local Justice in the M’zab” in a recently published book, Law and Property in Algeria: Anthropological Perspectives. Shirley Fiske and Judith N. Freidenberg coauthored, “Introduction: Where is Practice in Practicing Anthropology?” published in Practicing Anthropology. Laurie Frederik published "Poetic Imaginings of the Real Guantánamo (No, Not the Base)" as a chapter in the edited volume, Guantánamo and the Empire of Freedom: the Humanities Respond. Rob Winthrop contributed a chapter entitled, "Culturally Reflexive Stewardship: Conserving Ways of Life” to The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice. Faculty Janet Chernela published “Language in an Ontological Register: Embodied Speech in the Northwest Amazon of Brazil and Colombia” in Language & Communication.
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels published a book, titled Mobilizing Heritage: Anthropological Practice and Transnational Prospects, with University Press of Florida. Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman with Kelly Jenks contributed a book chapter titled “Early Colonial Period” to the Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology, Oxford University Press. Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman published, with co-authors, an article titled "'Horned Cattle and Packhorses': Zooarchaeological Legacy Collections from the Unauthorized (and Unscreened) Spanish Fort" in the journal Southeastern Archaeology. Thurka Sangaramoorthy published “Chronicity, crisis and the End of AIDS” in Global Public Health. Thurka Sangaramoorthy published “Pathways to congenital syphilis prevention: A rapid qualitative assessment of barriers, and the public health response, in Caddo Parish, Louisiana” in Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy along with Krisjon published “Advocating for Health Care Access” in the January issue of Anthropology News. Paul Shackel along with co-authors, Barbara Little, et al. published “Thinking through ‘Community’ in Archaeological Practice” in Practicing Archaeology. Paul Shackel published “Immigration Heritage in the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania” in the Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage. Paul Shackel published “Transgenerational Impact of Structural Violence: Epigenetics and the Legacy of Anthracite Coal” in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology. L. Jen Shaffer published "Rain Rituals as a Barometer 4 of Vulnerability in an Uncertain Climate" in the Journal of Ecological Anthropology.
Publications Continued Faculty and Students Janet Chernela with former student, Ester Pereira, published “An End to Difference: Imagining Amazonian Modernity at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century” in the Journal of Anthropological Research. Christina Getrich and Ana OrtezRivera co-authored, “ICE was like an urban legend here in Maryland,” in Cultural Anthropology’s blog series.
Hannah Dale at Undergraduate Research Day
George Hambrecht and Kevin Gibbons co-authored a concept paper, "Archaeological sites as distributed long-term observing networks of the past (DONOP)," published in Quaternary International. George Hambrecht and Kevin Gibbons co-authored a paper, "Whale bone as fuel at an inland farm in early modern Iceland," published in Arctic Anthropology.
Michael Paolisso and ANTH601 Applied Anthropology Class
Michael Paolisso, Ellen Platts, Valerie Hall, Samantha Primiano, Brian Crawford, Josette Graham, Samantha Lee, Alexander Sahi, Tiffany Grew, Barbara Vasco, Tamara Schlossenberg, Kathleen Jockel, and Jessica Gough published the article titled “Applied Anthropology and Its Practice: Insights from the Classroom,” in Practicing Anthropology.
5 Victoria Tully and Zena Dhatt with Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy at Undergraduate Research Day
Conferences & Presentations Katie Boyle presented a paper at the MiddleAtlantic Archaeology Conference entitled "Combined Methodologies: Findings from the Summer 2017 Field Season at Eckley Miners' Village." Katie Boyle, with Ty Ginter (HISP) and Emma Schrantz (ARHP), contributed to the poster "The Gaston Office Building: Strategies for Preservation and Reuse," which was presented at the UMD School of Architecture's Research and Creative Practice Symposium. Katie Boyle co-authored a paper with John Hyche and Shelley Albee (of George Washington University) titled "Frederick Douglass was Here: The Archeology of Cedar Hill and the Growlery" for the National Park Service's Spotlight conference. Hannah Dale presented a poster at UMD's Undergraduate Research Day based on her undergraduate honor's thesis work with Dr. Jen Shaffer entitled, "Paths of Knowledge Transmission in Southern Mozambique.” Zena Dhatt presented the poster titled “What Factors Affect the Mental Health of Latino Students at UMD?” at UMD’s Undergraduate Research Day. Sarah Grady presented “The Ralph J. Bunche/Mill Swamp Community Center Restoration Project” at the Middle Atlantic Archaeology, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's Winter Lecture Series, and at the Galesville Historic Society quarterly meeting. Hope Loiselle presented the poster titled “Zooarchaeological Analysis of Dolphins and Porpoises from Seaside, Oregon” at UMD’s Undergraduate Research Day. Adriane Michaelis presented “Watermen and Farmers: the place of traditional fishermen in Maryland Oyster aquaculture” at the Aquaculture America 2018 meeting.
Adriane Michaelis presented “Livelihood Diversification and Extension Implications” at the National Shellfisheries Association. Helen Mittmann presented a poster on her work with Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Devon PayneSturges, entitled “Social Life of Policy: Cumulative Impact Legislation in Maryland” at the Consortium for Universities for Global Health Annual Meeting in New York City. Victoria Tully presented the poster titled “Body Image in College Students at the University of Maryland” at UMD’s Undergraduate Research Day. Nejm Benessaiah presented a talk called ‘Microsocial Movements and the Everyday Politics of Change in Saharan Algeria.’ Middle East Dialogue: A New Collective Vision, in Washington D.C. Nejm Benessaiah presented a paper called ‘Informal Politics and access to natural resources in the Middle East’ at a workshop hosted by Georgetown University Qatar. Siv B. Lie delivered a paper, “The Stakes of Secrecy: Manouche Language Ideologies and the Politics of Betrayal,” at the Society for Linguistic Anthropology Inaugural Meeting in Philadelphia. Siv B. Lie presented a paper, “La Création d’une ethnie: Entre le développement du jazz manouche et les discours du caractère ethnique” at a conference at the University of Rouen, France. Janet Chernela was a discussant at the talk, “The Poetics of Being: The Anthropology of Indigenous” organized by the University of Virginia. L. Jen Shaffer presented a paper with co-authors Jess Breitfeller, Alison Theime, and Reggie Harrell at the Society for Ethnobiology meetings entitled, "Safe Passage: Conservation and the Role of Culture 6 in the African Vulture Trade”.
Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) Conference Katie Boyle and Kyla Cools presented their coauthored paper entitled "Above and Below Ground: Teaching Combined Methodologies for a Holistic Understanding of the Built Environment.”
John Hyche presented at the poster session: "Coppers, Peddlers, and Bricklayers: Stories of a Working-Class Property through Public Archaeology in Washington D.C.”
Lorin Brace co-organized and co-chaired the session, "'You Can Feel It All Over': Places of Popular Music in Historical and Contemporary Archaeology."
Tracy H. Jenkins presented a paper entitled, "What Do All These Broken Things Mean? Collectively Interpreting the Archaeology of The Hill Neighborhood in Easton, Maryland.”
Lorin Brace presented the paper "Streets of Royalty: African American Music and Memorialization in West Baltimore." Stephen Brighton gave a paper on "Rebellion, Civil War, and Transformation: the Archaeology of Modern Ireland Before and During Europe's Interest Period.”
Matt Palus presented "An Archaeology of Segregation after the Unification of Methodism in Washington D.C.” Paul Shackel presented “A Heritage of Health Disparities in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania.”
Carol Ellick presented: “The Heritage Education Network: From Individual Efforts to Professional Action.”
Lyle Torp presented a paper titled: "Developing Long-Term Research Goals at Gloucester Point through Problem-Oriented Research.”
Sarah Grady presented “The Ralph J. Bunche/Mill Swamp Community Center Restoration Project.”
V. Camille Westmont gave a paper entitled "Blue Willow Vessels and Life's Other Mysteries.”
Valerie M. J. Hall presented the paper "Neither Fish nor Fowl: the Environmental Impacts of Dietary Preferences at two 17th-century Maryland Households.” John Hyche chaired and presented a "Shanties on the Mountainside: A Look at Labor on the Blue Ridge Railroad.”
Undergraduate Nipun Kottage’s summer research proposal, “After the Partnership: An Impact Assessment of Engineers Without Borders Projects in Western Ghana” was recently awarded a BSOS Summer Scholars Grant through the Dean's Research Initiative. Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy will provide mentorship throughout the research process.
Stefan Woehlke co-authored a paper with Beth Pruitt and presented on museum archaeology exhibitions titled, “'We Can Do Better, We Have to Do Better': Reevaluating and Remounting a Traveling Exhibit"
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Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Conference BAILEY, Megan (panelist) Session: Between History and Heritage: Narrating the Past in Present Times Paper presentation: BAILEY, Megan (UMD), - The Town as Palimpsest: What Was Lost and What Remains in Harpers Ferry, WV CHAMBERS, Erve (discussant) Session: Michael H. Agar: Remembering a Master Craftsman, Part II (SMA) COLÓN, Emily (panelist) Session: Compelling Conservation: Cultural Benefits and Value of Ecosystems, Part II Paper presentation: COLÓN, Emily (UMD), - Ki Ni Bê: The Fire-making Processes of the Mẽbêngôkre-Kayapó in the Brazilian Cerrado DANGERFIELD, Nadine (representative) Training Program Exhibit: Anthropology of Higher Education (TIG) Roundtable: University of Maryland, College Park, Master of Applied Anthropology FISKE, Shirley (chair and panelist) Session: Environmental Justice in the Post-Trump Era: An Unsustainable Future? (Extraction TIG) Paper presentation: SHIRLEY FISKE (UMD), “Dismantling the Environmental Safety Net” FREIDENBERG, Judith (discussant) Roundtable: Immigrant Issues in the Trump Era: Threats, Security and Representation FREIDENBERG, Judith (chair); BUSH, Leah; COOLS, Kyla; DOWNARD, Sara; and MCALISTER, Johanna; and VITERI, Maria (panelists) Session: Expatriation as Human Mobility: Being a US Citizen Abroad
GETRICH, Christina, BURDETTE, Alaska, ORTEZRIVERA, Ana, and UMANZOR, Delmis Session: Moving Social Justice: Engaging Students and Communities to Build Capacity in Uncertain Times Paper presentation: Conducting Research with DACA Recipients and Students During a Time of Heightened Immigration-Related Insecurity GETRICH, Christina (chair and discussant); SMITH, Rachel; BURDETTE, Alaska; UMANZOR, Delmis; and ORTEZ-RIVERA, Ana (panelists) Session: Researching Immigration in an Increasingly Anti-Immigrant Sociopolitical Climate Paper presentation: SMITH, Rachel (UMD), Exploring Conditions of Violence Against AsylumSeeking Families in U.S. Detention Paper presentation: BURDETTE, Alaska (UMD), ‘You Can’t Save Everybody’: Medical Repatriation and Immigrant Labor Paper presentation: UMANZOR, Delmis (UMD), “I’m Still the Same Me, With or Without My Status”: Changes to DACA Recipients’ Health and Well-Being During Increasingly Anti-Immigrant Times Paper presentation: ORTEZ-RIVERA, Ana (UMD), “Embrace Who You Are, Don’t Let Papers Define You”: Experiences of Central American DACA Recipients in Maryland Navigating Identity and Belonging HALL, Casey (panelist) Session: Gender, Sexuality, and Power Paper presentation: HALL, Casey (UMD), Mothering After Incarceration: Navigating Reentry and Renegotiating Motherhood MICHAELIS, Adriane (UMD), WEBSTER, Don (UMD Ext), and SHAFFER, L. Jen (UMD) (panelists) Session: Compelling Conservation: Cultural Benefits and Value of Ecosystems, Part I (Extraction TIG) Paper presentation: MICHAELIS, Adriane (UMD), WEBSTER, Don (UMD Ext), WALTON, William (Auburn U), and SHAFFER, L. Jen (UMD), - The 8 Beneficent Bivalve: The Oyster in Ecosystem Services in Maryland
MITTMANN, Helen (presenter) and SANGARAMOORTHY, Thurka Poster Presentation: MITTMANN, Helen and SANGARAMOORTHY, Thurka (UMD), PAYNESTURGES, Devon (UMD SPH), - Social Life of Policy: Cumulative Impact Legislation in Maryland KOPELENTOVA-REHAK, Jana (panelist) Session: Gendered Waterscapes and Fishing in the Margins Paper presentation: KOPELENTOVA-REHAK, Jana (UMBC), - Smith Island Women: Work, Kinship and “The Yarns” SHAFFER, L. Jen (chair); MITTMANN, Helen; DALE, Hannah; MCDONALD, Kevin (panelists) Session: Knowledge for Environmental Sustainability: Ownership, Control, and Transmission (Extraction TIG) Paper presentation: MITTMANN, Helen, SANGARAMOORTHY, Thurka, and PAYNE-STURGES, Devon (UMD) - Social Network Analysis of Cumulative Impact Legislation in Maryland Paper presentation: DALE, Hannah (UMD) - The Transfer of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Rural Mozambican Community Paper presentation: MCDONALD, Kevin (UMD) Pine Nuts and Good Dreams: Using Museum Collections to Apply Anthropology Paper presentation: SHAFFER, L. Jen (UMD) Building Conservation Capacity to Save Africa’s Vultures
TIER, Catherine (panelist) Session: Reproductive Decision-Making (SMA) Paper presentation: Postpartum Contraceptive Counseling and Initiation at a CommunityBased Clinic in College Park, Maryland TROMBLEY, Jeremy (panelist) Session: Ethnographies of Water Paper presentation: TROMBLEY, Jeremy (UMD), - Watershed Ethnography VAN DOLAH, Elizabeth; JOHNSON, Katherine J.; PAOLISSO, Michael; and MILLER HESED, Christine (panelists) Session: Sustainable Futures of Chesapeake Communities Facing Relative Sea-level Rise (Risk & Disaster TIG) Paper presentation: VAN DOLAH, Elizabeth and JOHNSON, Katherine J. (UMD), - Informing Collaborative Adaptation Planning through Ethnographies of Heritage and Resilience Paper presentation: PAOLISSO, Michael and MILLER HESED, Christine (UMD), Anthropology, Collaboration and Climate Change WHITEHEAD, T.L. (chair and roundtable participant) Roundtable: Enhancing the Presence of African Americans in Anthropology (Higher Ed TIG)
Picture from the SfAA Anthropology dinner to the right. 9 To the left, Christina Getrich and her team of DACA researchers at their SfAA session.
Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Conference ELLICK, Carol (moderator) Open Meeting: The Heritage Education Network Business Meeting Description: This is an open meeting for everyone interested in public outreach and education across the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, interpretation, museum studies, and public history. ELLICK, Carol (chair, moderator) Forum: Enough Talking Already: Time to Define Public Education for the Next 25 Years (Sponsored by SAA Public Archaeology Interest Group [PAIG]) ELLICK, Carol (discussant) Symposium: Now that I have my Degree, What do I do? Going from the Classroom to the Profession GIBBONS, Kevin (chair, presenter); LOISELLE, Hope (co-author) Symposium: Ecological Justice and the Longue Durée: Expanding Activism, Advocacy, and the Historical Ecological Approach (sponsored by the New International Community for Historical Ecology [NICHE]) Presentation: Kevin Gibbons – Pervasive Landscapes of Inequality: Want and Abundance within a Hyperobject Presentation: Erina Perez, Thomas Banghart, Hope Loiselle, Kevin Gibbons – At the Intersection of Academia and Activism: Using the Historical Ecology Framework Toward the Conservation and Restoration of Natural and Cultural Heritage LEONE, Mark P. (presenter) Symposium: The Archaeology of “Proletarian Drug Foods” in the Caribbean Presentation: Mark P. Leone – Shoes, Boots, and Souls/Soles
LEONE, Mark P. (chair, discussant); LEE, Samantha (presenter) Symposium: The Archaeology of Comparative Slavery Presentation: Samantha Lee – Trading in Children WEBSTER, Andrew (chair, presenter); RIVERA, Patrick (presenter); BRIGHTON, Stephen (presenter) HYCHE, John (presenter) Symposium: “Irishness” Worldwide: Confronting the Visibility of Material Identity in the Past and Present Presentation: Andrew Webster – Intersectional Irish Identity and the Rise of Globalization Presentation: Stephen Brighton – The Materiality of Cultural Resilience: The Archaeology of Struggle and Transformation in Post-famine Ireland Presentation: Patrick Rivera – When Is an Artifact an ‘Ethnic’ Artifact? Case Studies from Ireland and Mexico Presentation: John Hyche – Shanties on the Mountainside: A Look at Labor on the Blue Ridge Railroad WINTHROP, Rob (co-author); RICK, TORBEN (coauthor) Symposium: The Climate Realities of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Presentation: Carrie Hritz, Marcy Rockman, Robert Winthrop and Torben Rick – Archaeology as Actionable Science on Climate Change: Lessons from Interdisciplinary Collaboration WOEHLKE, Stefan (co-author) Symposium: We Dig National Parks: The Past, Present, and Future of Archaeology in the National Capital Region Presentation: Robert Sonderman and Stefan Woehlke – Our Sites at Risk: Climate Related 10 Threats to NPS Administered Archeological Sites
Graduating Class of 2018 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ANTHROPOLOGY Mohammad Takbeer Ahsan Katherine Melissa Calvert (Departmental Honors) Hannah Rachael Correlli Nicholas Edward Galloway John Carlos Garcia-Tobar Hannah Taylor Grimes (Double Major: Communication) Moriah Olivia James Jennifer Ann Kerr (Double Major: Communication) Adam Gray Ketchum (Double Major: Biological Sciences) Madeline Elizabeth Laub Jasmine Nicole Mathis Johanna Emory McAlister Kara Christine McClure Lena Elizabeth Muldoon Erin Oakes Tiara Proctor Kendra Nicole Pryor Noelle Alexandra Thompson-Worthington (Double Major: History) Tiffany Wang (Double Major: Biological Sciences) BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGY Sarah Heather Eppley Alyssa Elizabeth Jordan Hope Genevieve Loiselle (Departmental Honors) Ana Elizabeth Ortez-Rivera Sharon Nicole Ridge Victoria Frances Tully (Double Degree: Individual Studies) Brandt Matthew Wootan BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLICY Andrea Miralles-Barboz
Autumn Thompson, who has been working with Department of Anthropology since 2014, will be graduating this year with a Bachelor Degree in American Studies. She was selected as a Senior Marshal for the 2018 graduating class. A medallion will be awarded to her at Commencement for her commitment to academics and leadership. Autumn is aspiring to attend law school and will be working as a Legal Assistant with DC Legal Counsel for the Elderly. Congratulations, Autumn! 11
MASTER OF APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY Blaze Buck “Sharing is Believing: Can the Gravity of ‘Genocide’ be Conveyed with Social Media?” Sara Downard “Situating Montfort Castle in the Ecology of the Crusades” Sarah Grady “Mill Swamp/Ralph J. Bunche School and Community Center Restoration Project” John Hyche “Class Distinction on the Blue Ridge Railroad” Kevin McDonald “What’s in a Bag of Seeds? The Potential of Museum-Based Ethnobotany” Helen Mittmann “Social Life of Policy: Cumulative Impact Legislation in Maryland” Siobhan Summers “A Methodological Review of Forensic Aviation Archaeology: Addressing International Multi-organizational Collaboration in Practice” Catherine Tier “Postpartum Contraceptive Counseling and Initiation at a Community-Based Clinic in College Park, Maryland”
MAA Students Presenting at the Colloquium
Christina Getrich’s Baby Shower
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ANTHROPOLOGY Megan Bailey “Landscapes of Tension: Exploring Nervousness and Anxiety on a Maryland Plantation” Hooded by: Dr. Paul Shackel
Have a Wonderful Summer!
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