GOOD NEWS
SPRING 2020
Another Fine Finish
Photo Submitted by Katie Boyle
Message from Chair Greetings! While this is my last message for the Good News letter as chair of the department I want to thank so many people for their trust and support in me and the department as we faced several obstacles over the past decade, first the Great Recession in 2008 and 2009, and most recent the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nevertheless, because of the strong efforts of the collective we have been able to develop a stronger program in the areas of health, heritage and environment, and grow our faculty from 8 FTE to 15 FTE. Because of this modest growth we strengthened our undergraduate program by developing a BS in Anthropology, built a new focus in medical anthropology, created an Environmental Science and Policy (ENSP) concentration, and most recently constructed a new 5-year BA/MAA. Our MAA program continues to recruit the most outstanding graduate students. After graduating they find employment in prestigious local, national and international organizations. Our newly developed graduate programs, the dual degree program - Masters in Applied Anthropology/ Masters in Historic Preservation (MAA/MHP), and the Masters in Professional Studies in Cultural Heritage and Resource Management (CHRM) - are off to great starts. The certificates in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture, and Historic Preservation continue to be strong. Our PhD program, which recruited its first class in 2008, has had some outstanding success stories.
While an average 3-4 PhD students enter our program each year, we have graduated 23 students with doctoral degrees. Many have earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships and/or NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants along the way. They are now employed in academic and applied programs throughout the United States. Our programs have changed for the better over the past decade and this change is due to the hard work and dedication of the faculty with input from our students. Our professional track faculty (adjuncts, lecturers, and affiliates) have made significant contributions to our program in so many ways. However, our transition to developing a 21st-century Department of Anthropology, is only possible with a dedicated staff. They have been committed to operating a well-functioning program. Thank you Sybil, Nadine, Erik and Umai for all that you do for the department. It has been an honor serving as chair of the Department of Anthropology and I am pleased and encouraged seeing the next generation of faculty selflessly wanting to take on leadership roles in our program. While the department is facing new financial challenges, I am optimistic about our future because of who we are as a collective. With best wishes, Paul Shackel
Faculty
Awards, Honors, and Grants
George Hambrecht received a National Geographic Explorers Grant for a new project titled, The Outer Hebrides Archaeology Project, on the Western Isles of Scotland. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels was awarded the Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Award (ISRCA) from the Offices of the Provost and Vice President for Research for her book project Anthropogenic: The Cultural Heritage of Climate Change. Emeritus Faculty Fatimah Jackson was awarded the 2020 Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor given by the American Association of Physical Anthropology (AAPA). Professional Track Faculty Siv Lie was awarded the Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Award from Award (ISRCA) from the Offices of the Provost and Vice President for Research to complete revisions on her current book manuscript. Marlaina Martin accepted a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Anthropology Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. Faculty, Professional Track Faculty, & Alumni Christine Miller Hesed, Katherine Johnson, Michael Paolisso, and Elizabeth Van Dolah were selected as the winners of the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists’ Praxis Award for their work with the Deal Island Peninsula Project.
Students Jess Breitfeller was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant to support her dissertation research in Costa Rica on indigenous knowledge exchange and REDD+ consultation. Emilia Guevara was awarded the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate School. Valerie Hall received the Gloria S. King Research Fellowship in Archaeology, funding five weeks of research using Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory collections. Audrey Krimm received the James H. Kehoe and Ethel Kesler Award for outstanding student leadership. Samantha Lee was awarded the Graduate Summer Research Fellowship from the Graduate School. Samantha Lee received a Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS- NEH) Fellowship at Monticello. Magda Mankel was awarded the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate School. Elizabeth McCague was selected for the Graduate School’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the AY 2019-20. Samantha Primiano was awarded the Graduate Summer Research Fellowship from the Graduate School.
Alumni Katie Boyle was awarded First Place and People’s Choice in the SHA/ACUA Photo Festival - Category C: Archaeological Lab Work in Progress - for her photograph “The Best Puzzle.” Katie Boyle was awarded First Place and People’s Choice in the SHA/ACUA Photo Festival - Category D: Color Artifact - for her photograph “Life Finds a Way.” Katie Boyle was awarded Second Place in the SHA/ACUA Photo Festival – Category E: Black and White Artifact – for her photograph “Another Fine Finish.” Patricia Markert was awarded a Mellon/ACLS, Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2020-2021 to complete her dissertation, Making Alsatian Texas: An Archaeological and Linguistic Study of Place and Historic Migration. Megan Springate’s book won University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize. The book, co-edited with Katherine CrawfordLackey, looks at LGBTQ history and historic preservation across the United States.
Life Finds a Way Submitted by Katie Boyle
Staff Umai Habibah was awarded the 2020 Outstanding Staff Award by the College of Behavioral & Social Sciences.
The Best Puzzle Submitted by Katie Boyle
Scholarship & Service
Frank Walter Exhibition in Frankfurt Submitted by Barbara Paca
Faculty Michael Paolisso has been elected as the new President of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman was quoted in an article in the Washington Post titled “To Salvage the Semester, College Professors Make a Rapid Pivot to Teaching Online.” Thurka Sangaramoorthy has been appointed as Associate Editor of Public Health Reports, the official journal of the U.S. Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service. Thurka Sangaramoorthy participated in a webinar on COVID-19 and Anthropology hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences.
Thurka Sangaramoorthy was interviewed for an article titled “‘We hold our breath every day’: Maryland crab industry counts on Mexican workers, but how will they stay safe” in the Baltimore Sun. Thurka Sangaramoorthy was quoted in an article in Maryland Matters titled, "Md. Crabbing Industry Fears Long-Term Impacts of 2020 Visa Shortages.” Thurka Sangaramoorthy was interviewed by The Kojo Nnamdi Show in a segment titled “What Visa Shortages And The Coronavirus Mean For Maryland’s Crab Industry.” Paul Shackel was interviewed by Union City Radio on Labor History Today and the coal mining immigrant history in Lattimer in November. Paul Shackel was quoted in an article titled “Parallels drawn from King Coal to COVID-19 crisis” in the Standard Speaker.
Professional Track Faculty
Students
Jacqueline Messing contributed her virtual teaching tips in the Fulbright symposium “Teaching at a Distance.”
Emilia Guevara is serving as a COVID-19 Volunteer Medical Interpreter for Interpret to Save a Life.
Jacqueline Messing is a keynote speaker at the Language of Racism Symposium in tribute to Jane H. Hill at Colorado College.
Madeline Laub and Archaeology in Annapolis added long missing digital information on important archaeology sites in Annapolis, particularly the William Paca House and Garden, to the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM).
Barbara Paca helped to organize the Frankfurt Museum of Contemporary Art’s celebration of Antiguan artist Frank Walter in her role as Consulting Curator and Catalogue Contributor. Julie Schablitsky collaborated on a new digital series titled, “A Maryland Mystery Lady” in her role as Chief Archaeologist at the Maryland Department of Transportation High Administration.
Publications Faculty Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman published a book chapter titled, “Bears, Bear-Grounds, and Bovines in the Lower Southeast” in the University Press of Florida edited volume, Bears: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native Eastern North America. Thurka Sangaramoorthy published a new book titled, Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Community Research with Routledge. Paul Shackel published a new book titled, An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism: From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World with Berghahn Books.
Students & Alumni Katie Boyle (Chair), Sean Jones (Graduate Student Representative), and Samantha Lee (Event Organizer) will continue to hold positions on the Middle Atlantic Archaeology Conference Student Committee until 2021.
Thurka Sangaramoorthy wrote an op-ed titled “Unintended Impacts of COVID-19 Social Distancing” that has been published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Medical Humanities Journal online blog. Thurka Sangaramoorthy’s article “’Putting BandAids on Things That Need Stitches’: Immigration and the Landscape of Care in Rural America” is in the top 10% of the most downloaded papers from American Anthropologist. Thurka Sangaramoorthy published “From HIV to COVID19: Anthropology, urgency, and the politics of engagement” in Somatosphere. L. Jen Shaffer co-authored “A Conservation Criminology-based Desk Assessment of Vulture Poisoning in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area” that was published in Global Ecology and Conservation. Faculty & Students Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Ellen Platts coauthored “An Ecolabel for the World Heritage Brand? Developing a Climate Communication Recognition Scheme for Heritage Sites” in CLIMATE. Adriane Michaelis and L. Jen Shaffer co-authored an article titled “The practice of everyday oystering: aquaculture as resistance?” in the Journal of Political Ecology Joseph Richardson and William Wical co-authored the article “A Credible Messenger: The Role of the Violence Intervention Specialist in the Lives of Young Black Male Survivors of Violence” in Violence and Gender.
Faculty, Professional Track Faculty, & Alumni Christine Miller Hesed, Michael Paolisso, and Elizabeth Van Dolah published “Engaging FaithBased Communities for Rural Coastal Resilience: Lessons from Collaborative Learning on the Chesapeake Bay” in Climatic Change. Professional Track Faculty Robert Bienvenu published an article titled “Translation of Digital Health Technologies to Advance Precision Medicine: Informing Regulatory Science” in the journal Digital BIomarkers. Barbara J. Little published a forthcoming book review of "Engaging Archaeology: 25 Case Studies in Research Practice.” Linda Rabben published a review of “Refuge Beyond Reach” and “Detain and Deport” in Anthropology in Action. Maria Amelia Viteri published the article "Antigender Policies in Latin America: The Case of Ecuador" as part of the current Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Forum dossier titled “Las ofensivas antigénero en América Latina.” Alumni Kerry Dhakal published an article titled “The Scholarship Circle: An Introduction to Writing for Publication for Nursing Faculty” in the Journal of the Medical Library Association.
Faculty
Conferences & Presentations
Janet Chernela will present "Rethinking Multilingualism in the Northwest Amazon," In the Session, "Imperfect Futures of ‘Language,’” at the now postponed Annual Meeting of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology in Boulder. Christina Getrich presented “’The Immigration Officers are Always Around’: U.S. Immigration Enforcement and Ethnoracial Profiling” at the Structural Racism and the Root Causes of Prejudice Lecture Series, Baha’i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland. Thurka Sangaramoorthy served as a panelist on “COVID19 and Anthropology: Disease, Social Justice, and Well-Being” in the Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Division.
Janet Chernela with Gaudencio Moreno, Southeastern Colombia, February 2020 Submitted by Janet Chernela
Thurka Sangaramoorthy presented her new book Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Community Research in a STEAM Salon hosted by UMD Libraries at the University of Maryland. Thurka Sangaramoorthy presented her new book Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Community Research to the NSF Global STEWARDS at the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland. Paul Shackel presented “Remembering Lattimer. Telling and Understanding Anthracite’s Story” for Anthracite Mining Heritage Month at Penn State, Scranton. Emeritus Faculty
Christina Getrich discusses immigration enforcement in California and Maryland Submitted by Christina Getrich
Tony Whitehead was invited to present “The Big Man/Little Man Complex in Two Plantation America Societies: From Bog Walk to Donald J. Trump” at the now cancelled University of West Indies Inaugural Barry Chevannes Conference.
Professional Track Faculty Robert Bienvenu presented a paper titled "Regulatory Education: University of Maryland and AstraZeneca" at the AstraZeneca Think Tank: Impacting our Community Through Outreach meeting that was sponsored by AstraZeneca, African Heritage Business Resource Group (AHBRG). Adam Fracchia and Marilyn London were accepted to present a poster titled “University of Maryland Forensic Aviation Archaeology” at the now canceled 85th Annual Meeting for the Society for American Archaeology. Jacqueline Messing is co-organizer and discussant of the panel "Past Tensions, Present Progressions, or How linguistic anthropology can transform the world”, and presenting in the roundtable "Teaching Linguistic Anthropology in a Time of Rapidly Emerging Technologies and Shifting Communicative Strategies” at the now postponed Annual Meeting of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology in Boulder.
PASA Board: William Wical, Abigail Johnson, Julieta Ferrera, Yi-En Tzeng, and Elizabeth McCague at 2020 AnthroPlus Conference (From left to right)
Linda Rabben presented “The Changing Meaning of the Statue of Liberty” for the Silver Spring Rotary Club. Students Emilia Guevara presented a paper titled “Violence in a Peaceful Place: Rurality and Resistance” at the 3rd Annual International Conference for the Society of Medical Anthropology in Havana, Cuba. Samantha Primiano presented a paper titled “Caring for the Self: Fitness, Morality, and Responsibility in the Neoliberal Age” at the 3rd Annual International Conference for the Society of Medical Anthropology in Havana, Cuba.
Rebecca Quick, Beth Pruitt, Kevin McDonald, Katherine Boyle, and Katie Geddes at the 2020 AnthroPlus Alumni Panel (From left to right)
Alumni Katie Boyle’s poster “Addressing Deferred Maintenance: An Orientation to Historic Leasing in the National Park Service” was accepted to the 2020 Spotlight on National Park Resources conference in Shepherdstown, WV which was postponed. Katie Boyle’s paper “Looking Out Back: Outbuildings and Space Use in Eckley Miners’ Village” was accepted as part of an organized session by Kyla Cools and Paula Nasta for the now cancelled Society for Industrial Archeology conference in Bethlehem, PA. Kerry Dhakal will present “Grey Literature Inclusion in Nursing Systematic Reviews: A Bibliometric Analysis” at the Medical Library Association Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Photos from around Takoma Park during COVID-19
Submitted by Paul Shackel
Society for Applied Anthropology 80th Annual Meeting March 17-21 2020 Albuquerque, NM [Canceled due to COVID-19] Janet Chernela Chair & Presenter Oral Presentation Session: The Art of Leveraging: Collaboration in Anthropological Practice Presentation Title: Yanomami Land Struggles and the Rise of Worldwide Indigenous Advocacy Networks
Christina Getrich Presenter Roundtable Session: Constructing Cultural Citizenship and Belonging: Immigration Politics in the US on National and Local Levels (Immigration TIG)
Julieta Ferrera and Andrea Lopez Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Migrant Health Care Access and Health Promotion (Immigration TIG) Presentation Title: Compounded Vulnerability of Latinx Who Use Drugs: Legal Violence and Frontline Provider’s Activism
Christine Miller Hesed, Katherine Johnson, Michael Paolisso, and Liz Van Dolah Award Winners Award Ceremony: WAPA Praxis Award Ceremony and Reception for the Deal Island Peninsula Project
Shirley Fiske Chair & Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Climate Change in the Coastal and Marine Environment: Impacts and Adaptation, Part I (Fisheries TIG) Presentation Title: Coastal Communities and Climate Change: A Slow-Onset Disaster Shirley Fiske Chair Oral Presentation Session: Climate Change in the Coastal and Marine Environment: Impacts and Adaptation, Part II (Fisheries TIG) Judith Freidenberg Chair & Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Constructing Citizenship in Migration (Immigration TIG) Presentation Title: Middle Class Relocations: From Migration to Mobility Paradigms Judith Freidenberg Speaker Lecture: Pelto International Travel Award Lecture/ Wine & Cheese Social
Michael Paolisso Presenter Roundtable Session: Fly Over Anthropology Yi-En Tzeng Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Health Citizenship, Health Access in Global Contexts (SMA) Presentation Title: Navigating Oral Health Care Access: Dental Underinsurance at a Mobile Dental Clinic in Maryland Tony Whitehead Chair Roundtable Session: Enhancing Color/Blackness in Anthropological White Public Space, Part I/II Robert Winthrop Chair & Panelist Panel Session: Occasional Victories: Are There Successful Interventions over Energy and Resources? (ExtraACTION & Environment TIG) Robert Winthrop Chair 2019 International Praxis Award Competition
Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference 50th Annual Meeting March 19-22 2020 Ocean City, Maryland [Canceled due to COVID-19] Katherine B. Boyle Organizer and Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Archaeology on the Horizon: Looking at the Past, Present, and Future of Archaeology in Baltimore Presentation Title: The Future is Now: Preserving Underrepresented Narratives in Baltimore City Kyla Cools Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Shattering Expectations: Analyzing Glass from Archaeological Collections Presentation Title: Inheriting Vices: An Archaeological Exploration of Multigenerational Punishment in Northeastern Pennsylvania Adam Fracchia Organizer and Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Archaeology on the Horizon: Looking at the Past, Present, and Future of Archaeology in Baltimore Presentation title: An Archaeological Exploration of the Northampton Iron Furnace Tracy H. Jenkins Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Historical Archaeology of the 19th Century Presentation Title: Comparative Faunal Analysis of Four African American Sites in Easton, Maryland Sean Jones Poster Presentation Poster Title: Bridging the Gap: Constructing and Idealized Lab Space at Germanna Samantha Lee Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Historical Archaeology of the 19th Century Presentation Title: Life on the Long Green: The Role of Enslaved Children at Wye House Plantation Drew Webster Presenter Oral Presentation Session: New Contributions to the Archaeology of Jug Bay Presentation Title: Increasing the Impact of Archaeological Research and Programming through Multi-Organizational Partnerships
The Society for Historical Archaeology 2020 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology January 8 - 11, 2020 Boston, Massachusetts
Niki J. Bavar, Scott Oliver, and Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman Presenters Oral Presentation Session: Plantation Archaeology as Slow Archaeology Presentation Title: African American- Foodways at Early American Plantations: A Comparative Zooarchaeology of Monticello and Montpelier Michael Betsinger Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Roads, Rivers, Rails, and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties Presentation Title: Bridges and Booze: Understanding the Development of the “Saloon Row� Along the Red River Katie Boyle and Adam Fracchia Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Slow Archaeology + Fast Capitalism: Hard Lessons and Future Strategies from Urban Archaeology Presentation Title: Of Capitalism and Crabs: Understanding and Challenging the Dynamics of Preservation in Charm City Katie Boyle, Adam Fracchia, Sarah Grady, Marilyn London, and Claudia Theune Presenters Oral Presentation Session: Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology Presentation Title: Building Collaboration and Sustaining Partnership for the Recovery of Missing American Airmen from the Second World War in Austria Stephen Brighton and Andrew Webster Presenters Oral Presentation Session: Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland: New Perspectives Presentation Title: Life Continues as the Hearth Fire is Eternal: The McCarthy Family and Life in Post-Famine Ireland
Tree Bark Submitted by Paul Shackel
Kyla Cools Presenter Oral Presentation Session: The Archaeology of Health and Foodways Presentation Title: Coal Mining and Multigenerational Punishment: Exploring Long-term Health Impacts in Coal Mining Communities Valerie Hall Presenter Oral Presentation Session: The Archaeology of Health and Foodways Presentation Title: Chasing Rabbits: Investigating Domesticated Leporids at Jefferson’s Monticello Tracy H. Jenkins Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Community Archaeology in 2020: Conventional or Revolutionary? Presentation Title: To What End? Assessing the Impact of Public Archaeology in a Campaign Against Gentrification Cheryl LaRoche Presenter Oral Presentations Session: Bridging Connections and Communities: 19thCentury Black Settlement in North America Presentation Title: Where and How Does the Underground Railroad Fit in African American Archaeology? Cheryl LaRoche Panelist Panel Session: Archaeological Synthesis: Building Arguments for Contemporary Relevance Madeline Laub and Adam Fracchia Presenters Oral Presentation Session: Innovations in Archaeological Method and Technology Presentation Title: Conserving, Expanding, and Sustaining Critical Archaeology in the Digital Age: Moving the Archaeology in Annapolis Program Forward
Sarah Noe Session Chair and Presenter Oral Presentation Session: On the Edge: the Archaeology of Frontiers, Missions, and Rural Places Presentation Title: Change, Continuity and Foodways: The Persistence of Indigenous Identity at Mission Santa Clara Michael Roller Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Archaeology and Analysis of the Belvoir Quarter Presentation title: A Subfloor Pit from Stone Slave Quarters at Belvoir, Maryland: A panoply of objects within a succession of functions Megan Springate Panelist Panel Session: Pedagogy in the Age of Unreason- Part II Cameron Walker Presenter Oral Presentation Session: On the Edge: the Archaeology of Frontiers, Missions, and Rural Places Presentation Title: Looking Beyond the Mission: Investigating the Nineteenth Century Occupations at the San Luis De Talimali Mission Site (8LE4) Andrew Webster Presenter Session: Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections Paper Presentation: Home Space: Mobility and Movement in the Creation of a Working-class Urban Landscape Andrew Webster Volunteer Director Conference Organizing Committee for the 2020 Society for Historical Archaeology Meeting Camille Westmont Session Chair and Presenter Oral Presentation Session: Community Archaeology in 2020: Conventional or Revolutionary? Presentation Title: Critical Public Archaeology as Social Change: Five Years of Public Outreach at the Anthracite Heritage Program
Graduating Class of 2020 Bachelors of Arts
Bachelors of Science
Brianna Joi Aaron Gelilah Assefa Christopher George Brown Cameryn Leigh Cole Cameron Darnell Daisey Devon Rae Dicomo Zoey Allison Downs Kira Nicole Facey Ismael Jose Gonzalez-Prieto Homa Hajarian Sophia Joaquin Harrison Oliver B Hull Dianna Nicole Jimenez Erin Colleen Moore Abigail Kindred Pytlewski Emma Caroline Riley Elece Madison Smith Quinn McDermott Smith Katherine Mary Sullivan Serena My-Lien Weinberg
Brett Richard Albee Michelle Sirigunya Bloyd Alix Geneva Brooks Luca Elizabeth Dimambro Caitlin Nicole Documet Edgard Lionel Etoundi Ngono Shani Leah Gelles Kayla Marie Hunt Audrey Burnett Krimm Alexandra Grace Lyons Tanesha Mondestin Nehali Patel Madina Armanovna Smagulova
Bachelors of Science-
Environmental Science and Policy – Culture & Environment Ekram Nasser Ahmed James Archie Cady Dylan Gregory Fishbein Emma Elizabeth Grier Briley Sutphin Hebner Morgan Sheree Jackson Nawal Hyat Khan Amanda Beatrice Lopez Brandon Calvin McIntyre Anna Tracy Powell
Graduating Class of 2020 Master of Applied Anthropology
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology
Kaleigh Blair “Strengthening Ecological Research through Anthropology: Insights from my Time with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center”
Tracy H. Jenkins “’To Dwell, I'm Determined, on That Happy Ground’: An Archaeology of Community in Easton, Maryland, 1787–Present”
Maeve Bassett “Ethnobotany at the San Antonio Botanical Garden”
Adriane Michaelis “Shellfisheries and Cultural Ecosystem Services: Understanding the Benefits Enabled Through Work in Farmed and Wild Shellfisheries”
Abigail Johnson “The Collins Site: Ceramics Assemblage of Ireland’s Early Modern Period” Sean Jones “Cultural Management, Public Outreach, and Research: The Enrichment of Germanna Archaeology” Madeline Laub “Curation Conundrum- The Early Stages of the Archaeology in Annapolis Curation Project” Elizabeth McCague “‘The whole equestrian department, in a useful state, but by no means elegant’: An Exploration of the Equestrian Landscape at James Madison’s Montpelier” Yi-En Tzeng “Navigating Oral Health Care Access: Dental Underinsurance at a Mobile Dental Clinic in Maryland” Hian Yong Yeo “International Students: Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Trump Era”
Congratulations!
Anna Powell Bachelors of Science in Environmental Science and Policy Culture & Environment
Kaleigh Blair Master of Applied Anthropology
Yi-En Tzeng Master of Applied Anthropology
Audrey Krimm Bachelors of Science in Anthropology
Adriane Michaelis Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology
Brianna Aaron Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology
Asmaa Abbassi Bachelors of Arts in Criminal Justice
Tracy H. Jenkins Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology
Madeline Laub Master of Applied Anthropology
Featured Alumni Profiles
Zena Dhatt, BS '18
Zena graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Anthropology with concentrations in Medical Anthropology and Global Health, as well as a Certificate in Latin American Studies. Her research primarily focused on immigrant health, health disparities among minority populations, mental health, and substance use and addiction. She was always passionate about examining how the lives and livelihoods of marginalized communities can be improved through advocacy, research, and innovative evidence-based policies and practices. Upon graduating, she began working with Dr. Andrea López on a multi-sited ethnographic study on drug use, services, and the potential expansion for harm reduction programming in five counties in Maryland—the Statewide Ethnographic Assessment of Drug Use and Services (SEADS) project, funded by the Maryland Department of Health through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Crisis Response Funds. In addition, she recently started a full-time position at JBS International as a Technical Assistance Coordinator on a multiyear initiative to address barriers to access in rural communities related to substance use disorder—the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP), supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Rodolfo is an applied anthropologist with extensive experience in the field of international development. After working for several years, he became a Fulbright scholar and in 2007 earned his Master's in Applied Anthropology. While in the MAA program, his research focus was on natural resource management, working with Dr. Janet Chernela as his academic advisor. Shortly after graduating with a PhD from American University, Rodolfo started working as a social specialist for the Inter-American Development Bank, implementing its social safeguard policies across several countries in Latin America. Later, he went on to work as a senior social development specialist at the World Bank. His work as a social specialist involved managing the social risks and impacts of investment projects in areas such as involuntary displacement and resettlement, social assessments, livelihoods restoration, indigenous peoples, social inclusion, stakeholder engagement, grievance mechanisms, gender equity, universal access, labor conditions, community health and safety, socioeconomic development, inclusive finance, international relations, policy analysis, and project management.
Rodolfo Tello, MAA '07
Virtual happy hour with graduate students during COVID-19 Submitted by Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman
Big Player is sad and just wants to take a nap. Submitted by Samantha Lee
LucĂa definitely changed the vibe in the apartment instantly during the pandemic. Submitted by Andrea Lopez
Gigi thinking about life before COVID-19.
Submitted by Nadine Dangerfield
Sam is very good at answering emails and giving his opinion on cultural resources. Submitted by Katie Boyle
HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER AND STAY SAFE!
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