Department of Anthropology 2018 Newsletter

NEWS FROM OHIO STATE’S DEPARTMENT OF

ANTHROPOLOGY AUTUMN 2018

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WELCOME

A message from the chair

As I complete my first year in the chair’s office, I have a new appreciation for the department I’ve been a part of for over 25 years.

Our faculty continue to excel in research and in scholarship, as you’ll read in this issue of the newsletter. Our most recent hire, Sean Downey, is doing exciting work using drone-captured imagery to study land use by Mayan farmers in Belize.

Other projects underway by faculty include fieldwork across the globe — Hungary, Ivory Coast, British Columbia, Fiji, Nicaragua, Oman, Cameroon, the U.S. and more.

According to the Center for World University Rankings in 2017, Ohio State ranked eighth among departments of anthropology worldwide, based on rate of faculty publication in high-impact journals.

We’re very proud of our undergraduate and graduate researchers, who have won an impressive array of awards and recognitions for their scholarly work.

We’ve been thinking more about how to better communicate with the public about topics that anthropologists are well-versed in, such as race and ethnicity, human evolution and how to interpret the archaeological record. Doing so seems especially urgent now, as unscientific notions about racial difference become more evident in public discourse. APOP (Anthropology Public Outreach Program) is bringing undergraduates, graduates and faculty together to make sure those views don’t go unchallenged. Read on to learn more about APOP’s plans to introduce lessons on anthropology to teachers and students in Ohio’s public schools.

Our speaker series is thriving. Thanks to the generous support of alumna Elizabeth Salt, we were able to host the 2018 Bourguignon Lecture in Art and Anthropology. Dr. Joanne Pillsbury of the Metropolitan Museum of Art shared her insights on luxury and cultural notions of value in the ancient Americas. The Undergraduate Anthropology Club invited Dr. Lee Hoffer to talk about the opioid crisis, and the Graduate Student Anthropology Association brought in Dr. Agustín Fuentes to talk about race and racism from an anthropological perspective.

We are pleased to offer for the first time a new scholarship for undergraduate travel, thanks to the generosity of anthropology alumnus Douglas LeVasseur and his wife, Ethel-Marie D’Luzansky LeVasseur (a graduate of the Department of Psychology).

The purpose of the scholarship is to send a student off to experience human diversity through travel abroad — what a gift for a budding anthropologist!

It’s gratifying to know that our alumni think of us from time to time and continue to value their experience as a student here. Perhaps, like me, you believe anthropology offers a uniquely valuable perspective on human diversity. Whatever your anthropological passion, you should find something of interest in our newsletter. I hope you enjoy it.

Kristen Gremillion, Chair Department of Anthropology

Cover Image: Taken by graduate student Melissa Clark, who was a teacher on the May study abroad trip titled “The History and Archaeology of Medieval Ireland: Trim and the Blackfriary.”

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IN THIS ISSUE 2 A message from the chair

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This Year in the Department 4 The Anthropology Public Outreach Program 6 International Workshop in Anthropology and Soil Science Melissa Clark: All That Glitters is Not Gold

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Our Students 7 Catherine Mendel: A love of nature and history fuels research in environmental archaeology

8 Luke Fannin: Searching for answers in the Amazon 9 Colleen Cheverko: Looking to the future – and to the past 10 Pursuing a passion for anthropology through the Summer Research Opportunities Program

12 Megan Hardie: Finding the human element in field work 13 Student Awards

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Our Faculty 14 Sean Downey: Slash-and-burn agriculture in Belize 16 Jules Angel: Gaining hands-on experience in field schools

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Our Alumni

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Faculty News, Awards and Publications

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Giving to the Department of Anthropology

18 Larissa Boiwka: Bringing art and history to life

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The Anthropology Public Outreach Program It’s called APOP, and its gaining support not just at Ohio State, but also in the greater Columbus community.

APOP stands for the Anthropology Public Outreach Program.

Initially devised in November 2016, APOP began rolling out projects in January 2018 with the objective of increasing understanding of humanity, promoting cultural awareness and exploring what makes humans — well — human.

“The goal is to make sure we are allowing people to make their conclusions by building perspective,” said APOP program director and associate professor of anthropology Mark Hubbe. “So every single activity we do — it doesn’t matter what the topic is about — you have an enlarged perspective of what humanity is.”

In November 2016, several white nationalist, anti-diversity propaganda fliers were posted around the Ohio State campus. This caught the attention of a number of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in the Department of Anthropology.

“Within the university, you still have people with very extreme ideas,” Hubbe said. “So we had a meeting organized by the graduate students to see what we could do as a department, to do our part, to change the current situation. There was a lack of information, a lack of education, about human diversity and about social inequality.”

Thus, APOP was born. But it would take some time before the program really got off the ground.

“We decided to take it slowly,” Hubbe said. “We didn’t want to have a program fueled by the anger of the moment. It wasn’t enough to create a little bit of noise just to prove we were discontent with the situation. We wanted to have something that would be long lasting.”

So the APOP team spent the better part of a year deciding what kind of projects they wanted to pursue and how best to create a sustainable program. They also collaboratively designed three pilot programs to kick things off.

“That’s when we started inviting the undergrads to help us,” said Emma Lagan, an anthropology graduate student entering the third year of her PhD. “We really wanted to give them some experience in designing and writing. Each one of them wrote a proposal saying, ‘This is what the point of it’s going to be; this is how we’re going to teach; this is how’s it’s going to be interactive.’”

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The first project to go public consisted of a resource database aimed at helping K-12 teachers integrate anthropology into their classrooms. The second program was geared more toward Ohio State undergraduates, who were encouraged to participate in small workshops in their residence halls. These interactive sessions use football fandom to illustrate points about diversity and human behavior.

The last pilot was designed to reach the broader community through the use of six interactive COSI carts. These carts are essentially interactive mini-exhibits, designed and run by anthropology students. The hands-on displays include two archaeology carts, three physical anthropology carts and one biocultural cart, scattered throughout the science museum’s hallways.

Since January 2018, APOP volunteers have run events every other Saturday to provide educational opportunities that would otherwise be inaccessible. All three of these programs are ongoing, and, along the way, APOP also designed and ran an archaeology-themed trial event for the 2018 Ohio Science Olympiad State Tournament.

APOP’s projects give its volunteers an opportunity to teach the material they are learning.

“It’s nice to feel like you’re actually familiar with the material because you can teach it back,” said Kimberly Whitman, who graduated with her bachelor’s degree in anthropology May 2018 and currently works in the Department of Anthropology.

“Half of all learning is being able to tell other people about what you’ve been learning.”

In light of these recent successes, APOP is looking forward to expanding during the next academic year. Starting fall 2018, APOP will curate a “Fossil of the Month” display on the fourth floor of Smith Laboratory. This will showcase fossils related to human evolution. It will also implement a K-12 outreach program. So far, 16 schools in the Columbus area have contacted APOP asking them to bring a variation of the carts into their classrooms. As part of this program, APOP will be distributing free educational evolution kits to winners of a video contest. In addition, APOP will be working with COSI to create a long-term interactive evolution exhibit at the museum and will help manage a podcast produced by anthropology graduate students called “A Story of Us.” While APOP has done a lot of outreach in a short amount of time, the impact of the program is also felt within the department.

“It’s really helped people collaborate a lot more and know each other,” said graduate student Leigh Oldershaw. “Before APOP started, there really wasn’t that much opportunity to really get to know faculty members you didn’t work really closely with or undergrads you hadn’t had in your class.”

“I’ve made some really good friends just from being in APOP that I don’t think I might’ve had otherwise,” added undergraduate student Cody Shelley.

CONNECT WITH APOP For those interested in joining or supporting APOP, visit their webpage at u.osu.edu/apop/.

You can also follow them on Facebook and Instagram. Just search for “Ohio State APOP.”

APOP is always looking for more volunteers, and the program is a great way for students, faculty and staff to get plugged into the world they’re a part of — to make a difference.

“It’s been a learning and rewarding experience for every one of us involved,” Hubbe said. “APOP and its different activities is helping change our view of the world.”

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International Workshop in Anthropology and Soil Science

From June 22-27, 2018, an international interdisciplinary workshop in anthropology, archaeology and soil science took place at Ohio State on the topic “Soil and Human Culture Dynamics During the Holocene Epoch.” This collaboration, led

by Sean Downey of Ohio State, Peter Kühn of the University of Tübingen (UT) and Bruce James of the University of Maryland (UMD), was initiated within the framework of the SFB1070 and the exchange program of UT and UMD. This is the third meeting of German and American scientists on the topic of resource cultures. The cooperation is financed by the institutional strategy of UT, UMD, Ohio State and the Ohio State Sustainable and Resilient Economies Discovery Theme.

The topics of this year’s meeting were “Managing World Soils for Food, Climate and Peace” and “Favor - Disfavor?

Development of Resources in Marginal Areas.” The workshop included an intensive two-day writing workshop, a field trip to local archaeological sites and a networking event including research talks lightning presentations by Ohio State, UT and UMD faculty and students.

There was a day-long outing to Hopewell Culture National Historical Park where National Park Service archaeology staff provided explanation and interpretation of the sites ancient burial mounds. The workshop ended with a day-long discussion of future collaborative research and graduate student training activities.

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All That Glitters is Not Gold Bourguignon Lecture reflection by graduate student Melissa Clark In the opening of the Spring 2018 Bourguignon Lecture in Art and Anthropology, which was held in the Ohio Union, Dr. Joanne Pillsbury, curator of Ancient American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, directed the audience to “Imagine a world where feathers were more valuable than gold.” To a room full of Midwesterners, this instruction at first seemed laughable. In Ohio, you might come across a feather from a hissing Canadian demon goose guarding the Olentangy Trail with its devil teeth. Or, on a really good day, you might find a feather from a wild turkey with a scream like a toddler undergoing an exorcism. Surely the molting keratinous skin shields of the dinosaurs’ most disappointing offspring cannot be worth more than gold.

After giving us a moment to contemplate the untapped value of shed bird tissue, Dr. Pillsbury shows a painting of the Andes.

It presented this mountain range from the point of view of a European conquistador. She then asked us to think about what the mountains would have looked like from the point of view of the Aztecs. This was the purpose of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, “Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas.”

As is the case for most of human existence, the conquerors write the narrative of history. Most of what we know about the Aztecs comes from European sources, and the European conquistadors loved gold. And although it is hard for graduate students and anthropology faculty to understand the concept of gold as a tangible substance, most of us are quite confident gold is not made of feathers.

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Imagine the conquistadors’ confusion when confronted with an empire dazzling in a shroud of precious metals under the South American sun, only to learn that the most treasured materials in the Andes were, what would have appeared to them, glorified bird dandruff. How surprised they must have been to learn that women wore gold and jade, jewelry that elevated them above the status of fetus houses with missing body parts and weak dispositions! Equally, we should imagine the confusion of the Aztecs when confronted with pale, violent soldiers, dressed head to toe in metal armor and singing the praises of gold.

Feminist archaeology lets us see beyond the perspective of the winners. It lets us see into the everyday of people whose lives were not recorded in written records. It lets us see feathers as prized, jade and shell as treasure, and women and indigenous peoples as royalty. By studying material culture through a feminist theoretical lens, we can learn what these people valued, where they worked, lived and traveled, and with whom they shared their lives. In the case of the Aztecs, we learned that the careful process of weaving and knotting brightly colored feathers into ornate layered textiles was valued more highly than Europe’s most treasured metal. Dr. Pillsbury highlighted how feminist anthropology, whether studied through art, archaeology or ethnography, reveals the perspectives of history’s hidden peoples and challenges our assumption of static human values.

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A love of nature and history fuels research in environmental archaeology

When fourth-year anthropology student Catherine Mendel was young, she would flip through her parents’ encyclopedia collection to the sections on world archaeology. She would read the pages over and over, dreaming of one day becoming an archaeologist herself. Years later, after getting her start at Columbus State, Mendel is achieving her dream at Ohio State in the Department of Anthropology.

Mendel’s area of study is environmental archaeology, which examines how ancient civilizations interacted with their environments. She chose the field because it combines her passion for anthropology with her lifelong love of nature.

“Growing up, nature was always really important to me, and I’ve always kind of gravitated toward classes on the environment,” she explained. “It just seemed like a natural marriage, combining what I loved doing outside of academia with my academic interest.”

Although there has been a longstanding tradition in archaeology of examining how xxx past peoples interacted with and changed their environments, developments in other fields now allow for both a more nuanced and more complete picture of past systems – a perspective that can greatly inform efforts for protecting our current environment.

“We can learn so much about how people interacted with their environment in the past to help inform our interactions with our environment today,” she said. “We can find out where we might be going wrong.”

Finding her place in the department Mendel also feels grateful that Ohio State’s Department of Anthropology has so many faculty members devoted to environmental archaeology, as this allowed her to get involved with meaningful research as soon as she got to campus. As a transfer student, Mendel remembers feeling nervous initially, but immediately felt welcomed by the department and in awe of all the opportunities available.

She advises new students take advantage of every opportunity they can and to not be too intimidated. “Put yourself out there a little bit and you’ll be rewarded for it in this department,” Mendel said.

According to Mendel, this advice can be applied to everything from joining student organizations to interactions with faculty.

“Professors in the anthropology department are really great about reaching out to people who seem interested in research,” she said. “If you express interest to them, they will try to find the appropriate fit for you. They’re always encouraging you to find the right path.”

Forging a path One of the research experiences Mendel became involved with is a computer modeling project with Dr. Deanna Grimstead, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, that examines the domestication of wild turkeys in the American Southwest. By looking at the ecology of turkeys alongside ethnohistorical accounts of tribes in the area, the team hopes to paint a picture of how this domestication happened over time.

Since Mendel is also a student in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Dr. Grimstead entrusted her with the ecology research side of the project, which allowed Mendel to further hone her research interests.

Mendel feels that the crossover she sees in her research illustrates the interdisciplinary nature of anthropology. “I feel like anthropology at its best is interdisciplinary,” she said. “If you look at people in isolation, it’s not going to answer much, because that’s not how we live.”

Mendel believes looking to the past can provide a lot of insight for the future of our civilization.

“We’re never going to learn from our past mistakes if we don’t understand how people functioned in the past,” she said.

“We’re never going to be able to grow as a species morally, intellectually or cohesively if we don’t understand where we came from. It’s important.”

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Searching for answers in the Amazon

Luke Fannin’s passion for research has taken him far. The fourth-year zoology and anthropology student has spent his academic career searching for answers in labs at Ohio State, museums in major American cities and the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest.

As he made his way through the zoology major, Fannin sought opportunities to get involved with research, right away. He discovered the lab of Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg in the Department of Anthropology and was immediately enthusiastic about her research as it aligned with his interest in physical anthropology, dental anatomy and non-human primates.

From there, Fannin also joined the lab of Scott McGraw and worked alongside him and Dr. Guatelli-Steinberg on projects relating the skeletal and dental anatomy of monkeys from the Taï Forest, Ivory Coast to their behavior and feeding ecology. With the help of a STEP grant, Fannin was able to further his interest in dental anthropology by visiting several museums around the country to collect data and take dental impressions of primate specimens for an independent project.

Fannin sees his participation in the Department of Anthropology as a natural pairing with his studies in zoology. “I can use what I’ve been learning in my anthropology classes and couple that with primate ecology, evolution and anatomy to have this multidimensional approach to my research questions,” Fannin explained.

Fannin believes all of these experiences will help prepare him for the next

step in his academic career: graduate school. “The research experiences I’ve had at Ohio State, coupled with the background knowledge I’ve gotten from my classes in anthropology and EEOB, allows me to better interpret what other people have done,” he said. “Then, I can use the research experience I’ve gained in the field and in the lab to create new methodologies or improve the existing methodology, which I think is really the essence of graduate study.”

Fannin’s ambitious research goals have also taken him outside the U.S. For the past two summers, he’s worked as a research assistant with Field Projects International, a nonprofit research organization, to study the behavior of primates in the Peruvian Amazon.

Located in a remote area in the Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru, Fannin and FPI study the behavior of emperor and saddleback tamarins.

These small, territorial primates travel in family groups throughout the study site and are tracked with radio collars to collect spatial, feeding and behavioral data. This data is just a small part of the larger project – which includes information on births, deaths, mating, migration, territories, health and disease prevalence – that is used by Field Projects International to understand the comprehensive ecology of this enigmatic and understudied species of Neotropical primates.

The project has been helpful in shaping Fannin’s research interests in primate evolutionary ecology and providing more context to his studies.

“You must go in with an interest in the ‘big picture’ and try to understand how your primates fit in to the larger mammal community and the entire ecosystem,” he said. “This invites further collaboration with other researchers who study other animals, which

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then makes your questions so much more detailed and your answers so much more thorough with respect to ecological interactions.”

This experience has also shown Fannin just how important it is to pair anthropology with ecology.

“Studying anthropology with ecology outlines how connected we are to the rest of the natural world,” he explained. “For example, when we’re out in the field, we are a part of the animal community. We can get ticks or parasites just like the animals we are studying. You are dwarfed by the vast number of bird species and encounter mammals ranging from peccaries to jaguars. You become part of the ecosystem, which also brings a responsibility to protect and study it.”

Fannin went on to explain that by reexamining our connections to these tropical ecosystems, anthropologists can make life better for both humans and animals. “By understanding basic ecological needs that we all have, you can improve people’s lives and save environments,” he said. “I feel like both of those things can be compatible.”

Fannin credits the Department of Anthropology’s open and supportive environment with allowing him to tackle these big research questions as an undergraduate student.

“No matter if it’s research or student organizations, you’ll find graduate students and faculty in the Department of Anthropology who are willing to take you in and make you a better student and researcher,” he said. “By getting involved in the department, you’re joining a community that will really enrich your academic experience.”

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Looking to the future – and to the past Colleen Cheverko has always been fascinated by the study of humans, but it wasn’t until halfway through her undergraduate career that she decided to study anthropology. Now, the PhD student and Presidential Fellow has a completed dissertation under her belt and is off to the University of California, Merced, to continue her research as a postdoc fellow.

How did you decide to study anthropology?

I stumbled into anthropology as a sophomore at Binghamton University when I took a course called “Bones, Bugs, and Forensic Science” because a friend was taking it and it sounded cool. I couldn’t believe how interesting biological anthropology was! I realized I could easily double major while still graduating on time, but I still had no plans to study it after college even though I was more involved in research in anthropology instead of psychology (my other major). During my senior year, I decided I would apply to grad school for anthropology because I liked the research I was already doing as an undergraduate and wanted to continue it.

How does the graduate program fit into your career goals?

As a graduate student, I was encouraged to publish, teach, apply to grants and continue to create long-term research plans.

It helped set me up to apply to postdocs and other academic positions, which falls within my long-term career goal to teach at a four-year university, while continuing research.

What do you study?

I study associations between childhood stress experiences and adult mortality risk using skeletal remains. I recorded stress markers and estimated age-at-death for about 400 individuals for my dissertation research using museum collections from prehistoric California, prehistoric Alaska and an anatomical sample from about 150 years ago to try to identify broad-scale patterns between the three contexts, if they exist. I was awarded the Presidential Fellowship to support dissertation writing for this project. It gave me the freedom this summer to finish my dissertation.

Why should we study anthropology?

There are applications for anthropology in everything – from everyday interactions with friends or strangers to working with major corporations. Our ability to understand people and translate differences into similarities is one part of anthropology that I think has the most real-world applications.

What advice would you give to incoming students?

Figure out what interests you and find opportunities to study those interests. Find faculty and other students who share your interests and try to work with them. For undergraduates, explore a couple of different aspects of anthropology before deciding what you want to focus on, because anthropology includes so many different topics and they’re all interesting.

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Pursuing a passion for anthropology through the Summer Research Opportunities Program Nearly 35 years ago, the Big Ten Academic Alliance founded the Summer Research Opportunities Program to connect underrepresented students from across the nation with valuable research experience at Ohio State and other Big Ten universities.

The program has since been dubbed “a gateway to graduate education” — and that’s not much of an exaggeration. More than 600 Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) alumni have gone on to earn a PhD, and thousands of others have completed graduate training.

The plant remains survived hundreds of years because they were burned and carbonized, Stevens explained. He looked at different characteristics of the materials to determine what species of plant they came from, which — along with ethnographical work including interviews and historical texts — helped him make inferences and hypotheses about human action.

“We can see that they were using specific types of plants and trees for fires they were burning inside versus plants used for outside fires, which they could use to deter insects off their cattle, among other uses,” Stevens said.

This past summer, three students participating in SROP came to Ohio State to work with faculty mentors in the Department of Anthropology. For two months they conducted intensive research; participated in workshops and seminars on research skills, graduate education and professional development; and presented their research findings at both a campus and regional conference.

Stevens has since received a Marshall Fellowship, which will fund his graduate studies at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. He hopes to eventually obtain a PhD and pursue his research interests surrounding identity formation in the African Diaspora during the colonial period.

Though they explored vastly different subject matter, their takeaways were the same — an extremely impactful research experience and an appreciation for the high-quality teaching and scholarly activity at The Ohio State University Department of Anthropology.

He said he is extremely grateful for SROP and McCorriston’s mentorship. “SROP is outstanding in its focus on providing opportunities to students of color,” Stevens said. “To be a graduate student in anthropology you need research experience, you can’t just have an idea. You actually have to prove you put the time and work in, and because of financial reasons, that is often harder for young students of color.”

Archaeology informs history Craig Stevens has always been skeptical of the normative telling of history, which is why he decided to become an ethnoarchaeologist.

“I knew I wanted to work with Dr. McCorriston over the summer, and SROP provided me an opportunity to actually make it happen,” he added. “I wouldn’t have been able to take on the costs and spend time out there if it wasn’t for this program.”

Anthropology meets economics Andre Santiago, a senior at Northeastern Illinois University, worked under anthropology professor Jeffrey Cohen to define how Mesoamericans migrating to the United States utilize their income, especially in terms of remittance, or funds sent back to families or loved ones in the migrant’s

“Archaeology can be a means of informing history; challenging history because it’s more evidence-based … there are fewer layers of biases,” said Stevens, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from American University shortly after participating in SROP at Ohio State under the mentorship of Joy McCorriston, professor of anthropology.

Working with McCorriston, Stevens completed an archaeological study of burnt plant remains from 2,000-yearold cattle herder camps in Oman, a Middle Eastern nation on the coast of the Arabian Peninsula.

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country of origin.

“There are two competing ideologies: one is the idea that people are always going to put their own self-interests first when it comes to money, and the other is the ideology that a

lot of anthropologists have, which is that indigenous people always put their communities first,” Santiago said.

After analyzing dozens of research publications, economic reports and historical texts, he found that it’s not so black and white. Mesoamerican migrants “gained money for their own purposes, but they also reinvested it back into the community.”

Cohen and Santiago found that funds sent by migrants back to their households served not only as a resource that guaranteed survival for their loved ones, but as a way for migrants to create social identities that gave them status both home and abroad.

“It really highlights the diverse inner workings of indigenous societies,” Santiago said, noting how the text-focused nature of his research challenged him to hone his critical thinking skills.

How Ohio State became home Kendra Weinrich found her SROP experience at Ohio State so valuable that she is now a graduate student here.

Before graduating from Beloit College with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and biology, Weinrich spent last summer at Distinguished University Professor Clark Larsen’s Bioarchaeology Research Laboratory studying human skeletal remains from the 16th century.

“Economists are not looking at the same thing that anthropologists are, so when I was reading economic journals I had to read between the lines,” he said.

The 47 skeletons were excavated in 2013 from St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia, which was home to the prehistoric Guale population. Weinrich compared these skeletons with previously collected data from skeletons dating back to 1000 AD and found that dental health significantly worsened over time.

Santiago — who’s Puerto Rican — describes himself as someone who’s always loved different languages and been fascinated with culture. “I travelled a lot as a young person, so I was always experiencing different languages; different cultures; different ways of living, and that’s always fascinated me,” he said.

“Oral health drastically declined after European contact and is associated with dietary changes exacerbated by Spanish missionaries, including forced relocation and centralization of many Guale people,” explained Weinrich, adding that other characteristics of the skeletons suggest an general health decline in the Guale after Europeans came to the area.

Participating in SROP at Ohio State gave Santiago the very glimpse he needed into academia.

“Working with Dr. Larsen on this project allowed me gain immense insight into the vast history of the Guale, which is far too often overshadowed and silenced by European history,” Weinrich said.

“Just being able to be in an academic setting and conduct research with a mentor was tremendous for me,” Santiago said. “It allowed me to experience anthropology in a very different way — a very applied way, and it showed me the potential of what obtaining my PhD could do.”

The experience was just as impactful to Cohen. “Working with [Santiago] and being a part of SROP is one of the very best opportunities I’ve experienced as a faculty member,” Cohen said. “It is exciting to watch young scholars develop and to serve as a mentor to the next generation of researchers in our field.”

She presented her findings at the 2018 American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting in Austin, Texas, in April, and spent her summer at the Staatssammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie in Munich collecting health data on a series of 100 skeletons from the early Medieval period.

“The SROP experience gave Weinrich extraordinary insights into the development of research and valuable preparation for a career in biological anthropology,” Larsen said.

Santiago aims to graduate with a dual degree in Spanish and anthropology from NEIU in May 2019, and he’s already been busy applying to graduate programs.

“Ohio State was one of them, of course,” he said.

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Finding the human element in field work When people ask fourth-year student Megan Hardie what she studies at Ohio State, she tells them: “I study you. I study myself. I study everyone, basically.” The St. Louis native‘s love of studying humans led her to pursue a double major in English and anthropological sciences – and it keeps her very busy.

“I couldn’t choose, so I decided to do both,” Hardie explained.

“I’m trying to do a lot in a short amount of time.”

One of the many activities that keeps her busy is her job as a volunteer researcher in the lab of Clark Larsen, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Anthropology. As part of her job duties, Hardie cleans and catalogs human remains that are more than five centuries old.

Hardie recommends that anthropology students get involved in research any way they can, citing the valuable experience she’s gotten from working alongside Larsen.

Hardie is also an educator with the Anthropology Public Outreach Program, an organization that introduces youth to anthropology at places like COSI. Hardie said the organization’s mission resonates with her, particularly because she didn’t learn about anthropology as a career path until she watched Bones in high school.

“I’m just glad I finally discovered it,” she said. “Because otherwise I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

Over the summer, Hardie completed a month-long internship with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The university is home to the first human decomposition facility in the world (also known as a “body farm”), which provides training and research opportunities to everyone from law enforcement officers to anatomy and anthropology students like Hardie.

She spent her days documenting human decomposition and collecting and cataloguing skeletal remains.

According to Hardie, the internship was an incredible learning experience, offering both exposure to the environment of a field site and to anthropologists already in the profession.

“I feel so privileged to be able to add this to my list of experiences,” Hardie said. “It’s not something most people get to do.”

Hardie is also grateful for the insight the experience gave her into two sub-fields of anthropology that have interested her throughout her college career: forensics and bioarcheology.

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By speaking with professionals in the field, she was relieved to learn she could pursue both in her career.

Within forensics, Hardie is interested in improving identification methods used on human remains, specifically in areas where mass fatalities have occurred as a result of human rights violations.“ There are groups that work to identify as many people as possible, as accurately as possible at these burial sites,” she explained. “I’m very interested in helping with that work.”

Hardie is also passionate about the repatriation of remains to Native American communities. Often when human remains are found in the United States, they are collected and then put into storage. Hardie wants to become a consultant to identify the remains of Native Americans and then act as an intermediary between the tribes and the anthropology community to ensure the remains are repatriated to the closest affiliated tribe.

She also hopes to educate future anthropologists on this issue. “We’re trying to raise awareness in anthropology classes that this has happened in the past, and we need to stop history from perpetuating itself,” Hardie explained.

2018 STUDENT AWARDS Undergraduate Majors Gretchen Klingler, third place at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum for her research, “More than Babel: Iraqi women’s narratives of migration and settlement.” Mentor: Jeffrey H. Cohen.

Dana Outcalt, Outstanding Senior Award from the Ohio State Office of Student Life.

Graduate Students

Hardie says the biggest thing she’s gained from her anthropology courses is a holistic view of humanity. “I’ve learned so much about being empathetic and valuing differences,” she said. “You gain more universal views, more acceptance, more tolerance. These skills are really valuable, even just in the workplace.”

For aspiring anthropologists, Hardie recommends sampling courses from different disciplines within anthropology.

She explains that even though the subject matter can vary dramatically — like between cultural anthropology and bioarcheology, for example — it’s important to approach the field with a broad perspective.

“You always have to keep the other branches of anthropology in mind so you can perform your best in the one you’ve chosen to specialize in,” Hardie said.

Although Hardie’s chosen field is highly technical, she still looks for the human element in everything she does. “With anthropology, I can still bridge science and humanity really well,” she said. “There’s so much of a human quality that goes into understanding the biological aspects of anthropology.”

Six anthropology graduate students were awarded the William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists: Colleen Cheverko, Emma Lagan, Sara McGuire, Brian Padgett, Alexandra Tuggle, and Nicole Weiss. The award helps students defray the costs of attending the annual American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting in New Orleans.

Ashley Edes, Aleš Hrdlička Prize, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, for “Examining stress in western lowland gorillas: A multi-zoo application of the first allostatic load index in zoo-housed great apes.”

Emma Lagan,C. G. Turner II/ Cambridge University Press Poster Competition. “Dentine without Borders: An Improved Dental Macrowear Scoring Method with Cross-Cultural Adaptation.”

Frances Sutton, research award from the Ohio State Sports & Society Initiative, to fund summer research on “Consumption of American Football Among Muslim Women in Dearborn, MI;” Best GTA Award from the Department of Anthropology.

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OUR FACULTY

Slash-and-burn agriculture in Belize By studying the relationship between human populations and swidden — or slash-and-burn — agriculture, associate professor of anthropology Sean Downey hopes to develop a better understanding of the dynamic between rural communities, the ecological and environmental impacts of their subsistence farming techniques, and how that applies to contemporary cultures and environmental sustainability.

These ponderings have ultimately led Downey, an ecological anthropologist, to the remote Q’eqchi’ Maya farming villages nestled within the lush, green jungles of southern Belize, where he’s in the midst of a five-year, National Science Foundation-backed research project titled “CAREER: Analyzing the Emergence of a Complex Swidden Management System in the Toledo District, Belize.”

“The main goal is sustainability,” Downey said. “We have growing populations, and we need to know how to feed them without ruining the planet that we’re living on. Swidden is a form of subsistence that has been used for the last 10,000 years and currently feeds between 200 million and 500 million people. Yet we do not have particularly good models explaining how it works and the conditions when it’s most sustainable. We need to know much more about the social and environmental factors related to it.”

Much of the research project’s first two years focused on comprehensive social and environmental data collection.

Downey and a team of researchers conducted household surveys, took extensive notes while participating in day-to-day tasks and used game theory to make behavioral and social observations from an interactive agriculture field experiment they developed that simulated agricultural decision making.

The game — which represents the forest using a 10x10 square

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board with removable game pieces — requires participants to choose between their own financial interests and the good of the group, as well as their understanding of the forest’s ability to provide sustainably for the duration of the game.

The experiment is aimed at shedding light on the relationship between social traditions and ecological and environmental longevity and sustainability.

The main goal is sustainability. We have growing populations, and we need to know how to feed them without ruining the planet that we’re living on.

“I was really happy when I was doing interviews afterward with folks and how they responded,” Downey said. “I’d ask them if the game seemed familiar, and one person I was interviewing looked at me with a note of surprise and said, ‘This is our village.’ When he was playing the game, he was struck by how familiar it was — both in the way it modeled social norms for labor exchange and labor reciprocity, and the circumstances that caused certain people to overuse the forest but also to come together to preserve it.

Perhaps the most technically challenging and intensive datacollecting technique Downey and his collaborators at the University of Maryland Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site

embarked on was the comprehensive aerial photography of more than 17,000 acres of land. They used a pair of FireFLY6 drones outfitted with multispectral cameras to collect thousands of images that depict the agricultural capacity of the landscape.

The images are taken annually, and two data sets have been captured already — one in 2017 and another in 2018 — leaving three sets of data to go. The images are sent to a photogrammetry specialist who uses specialized software to stitch the pictures together.

“One of the basic outputs is something called NDVI — the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index — and it’s essentially a greenness indicator,” Downey said. “The greener things are, the healthier they are. Obviously, when you chop down a field, it’s not as green. So, the idea is we can use those differences and indices to look at ecosystem cycling hopefully over large scales.”

Despite the in-depth nature of the data gathering, the social contexts, political tensions and obligations to perform his research in a respectful and culturally conscious way are not far from Downey’s mind. The communities have been historically oppressed, and they just recently gained legal access to their own lands.

“While the primary goal is to conduct basic research into sustainability, one of the broader impacts of the project is to make the data useful to the community as they grapple with legally managing their community land,” Downey said.

Looking ahead, it’s nearly time for Downey to delve into and analyze the data he’s accumulated, from which there will be reports to write and presentations to give. He’ll also spend

the 2018-19 academic year teaching at Ohio State while simultaneously facilitating a service-learning project in Belize, which will bring together students from Ohio State and Belize to focus on research problems that will be determined in case collaboration with the community. He will return to Belize to continue the project in 2019.

“I always like to push methods in anthropology forward as much as I can, and in this case that means using advanced technologies like the drone survey,” Downey said. “It’s going to be really exciting to start digging into the analysis.”

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Over the summer, students in the bioarchaeology field school — led by Professor Jules Angel — have the opportunity to utilize the skills they gained in class by participating in excavations and analyzing their findings. Similarly, the forensic field school allows students to gain experience in crime scene processing and evidence collection.

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OUR FACULTY

Gaining hands-on experience in field schools Ever want to dig up bones?

Hang out with Dr. Jules Angel long enough, and that might be what you end up doing.

Angel is a senior lecturer within Ohio State’s Department of Anthropology and teaches a pair of field schools: a bioarchaeology field school and a forensic field school. She also teaches a course, Introduction to Forensic Science (ANTHROP 3211), that touches on subjects of both field schools and can be taken concurrently with the forensic field school.

“If you’re interested in any aspect of forensics, criminal justice, investigation, anthropology, anything like that at all, come take these classes,” Angel said. “There’s something for everyone in there.”

The bioarchaeology field school, Angel says, is all about trying to find the skeletons of people for further analyses. The first four weeks of summer semester, students gathered at an undisclosed gravesite in Pickaway County. The students work to identify and read the layers of earth that have been disturbed to find a grave shaft. Once they find the grave shaft, they must meticulously but efficiently remove the earth to find the bones.

Once bones are found, the work begins to expose, measure and photograph them before delicately extracting them.

“The students learn how to read soil, how to read earth, how to read what we call the stratigraphy, the layers of earth that have built up over time,” Angel said. “They get to understand the methods and techniques archaeologists use to move down through the ground efficiently and effectively but also with as little damage as possible to whatever we’re looking for.

They understand paperwork, how to take notes, how to take photographs, use surveying equipment. They understand how to identify which bones are which, how to extract them safely and carefully and how to curate them so that they can be analyzed later. So they get a full, hands-on understanding of what it means to be an archaeologist in the field.”

The forensic science field school borrows some elements from the archaeology field school, but this time, students learn crime scene processing, evidence collection and how to be an expert witness in court.

The forensic field school is an abbreviated version of the field school Angel developed in 2007, but the content, Angel says,

is more or less the same. The course takes place fall of 2018, and Angel will construct fake crime scenes outside of Smith Laboratory and inside Evans Laboratory. The mock crime scenes will be simple — maybe a knife on the floor, some fingerprints on a desk and bone fragments — and the students will learn how to deduce what is evidence and what isn’t, dig up faux burial sites and perform biological analysis on bones.

Students will also learn about indoor and outdoor crime scene photography and how to interact with police departments and investigators.

“They work in a structured way, trying to understand the methods needed and the techniques needed to gather evidence,” Angel said. “We’re not gathering evidence for the police because they do that, but to give them an idea of what it’s like, what the police will need and what is evidence and what isn’t evidence.”

Angel’s experience in bioarchaeology and forensics is vast. She spent 10 years with Scotland Yard as a crime scene photographer, attending over 2,500 crime scenes to photograph evidence. She also has 20 years’ experience in forensic work in both New Mexico and Ohio. She is currently co-director of the Department of Anthropology’s Forensic Anthropology Case Team (FACT), which partners with local law enforcement agencies to help investigate Ohio murder cases.

Since 2004, FACT has worked on more than 75 cases for various county agencies, coroner’s offices, the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI. The field schools have class sizes at around 17 students. Angel says the courses need to remain relatively small.

“You’ve got to supervise people doing something they’ve never done before on a site,” she said. “You don’t know what you’re going to find until you start digging it up, and you’ve got to teach them and show them things as well.”

Angel hopes to teach the bioarchaeology field school again next summer semester and the forensic field school every fall. Those who take the field schools, Angel says, have very positive reactions to them.

“The students love them,” she said. “They fill up within just a couple of weeks, if that. The reaction has always been very good. We haven’t had an archaeology field school in central Ohio for the better part of 20 years as far as I know. So this is a really good experience to do that.”

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OUR ALUMNI

Bringing art and history to life When Larissa Boiwka ’05 was an anthropology undergraduate at Ohio State studying ancient cultures, she never imagined where her degree would take her after graduation.

After taking classes on witchcraft, archaeology and tribal cultures, Boiwka traveled extensively, tracking the sites she learned about in her classes. She even had the opportunity to summit a volcano in Guatemala to visit the shrine of the local deity Maximón, an impish saint who accepts offerings of handrolled cigarettes and alcohol.

“The expedition sounded like the beginning of an Indiana Jones movie, so of course, I jumped at that invitation,” said Boiwka.

Boiwka’s adventurous nature lends itself well to life as an entrepreneur.

Her bespoke corsetry business, Wilde

Hunt Corsetry, formed serendipitously after she made a corset for herself for a Halloween costume.

“While I was busy considering my next move, my business formed very organically, and it became abundantly clear that there was a real niche and strong demand for what I was creating,” Boiwka said of her business’ beginnings.

“It’s definitely not something that I could have planned in advance.”

Under the Wilde Hunt Corsetry label, Boiwka creates custom leather corsets, often using historical beading and embroidery techniques and incorporating inspiration from the ancient cultures she studied in school. Boiwka, who is an entirely self-taught designer, credits the education she received from Ohio State’s Department of Anthropology with setting her up for success as an artist and small-business owner.

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“The things I read about, the cultural sites I visited and the relationships I formed as a result of my education at Ohio State still inform my work as an artist today,” she said.

Boiwka also cites the cognitive and language skills she gained during her studies with helping her tell her story today, as well as securing grants and funding for her projects.

Her studies also provided the inspiration for her shop’s unique name. Taken from a lecture in Professor Sarah Iles Johnston’s class on witchcraft in the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, “The Wilde Hunt” (or “die Wilde Jagd”) is a myth that tells of an ethereal hunting party, and includes divinities such as Frau Holle, Hulda, Diana, Freya and Odin. The topic captured Boiwka’s interest immediately.

See more of Boiwka’s work and learn about the types of corsets she makes on her website: wildehunt.com.

“I thought this story painted a really lush creative landscape that could hold a wealth of tales, almost a unique universe in and of itself for me to create within,” Boiwka said.

In addition to creating custom corsets for clients worldwide, Boiwka’s creations have also captured the attention of television and music producers. She has created pieces for music videos and, most recently, the PBS Civil War drama Mercy Street, which premiered in 2016, starring Josh Radnor.

Mercy Street costume designer Amy Harrell Andrews commissioned Boiwka to create two period corsets for the show and tasked her with the unique challenge of blending the show’s artistic aesthetic with historically accurate details. Luckily, Boiwka had access to Ohio State’s Historic Costume and Textiles Collection, which provided her

with inspiration and guidance to help her craft the historic costumes.

Although her work on Mercy Street is complete, Boiwka’s partnership with PBS allowed her to contribute to a new series on the network. The new show Civilizations examines the role of art and creative imagination throughout history, and PBS publishes blog posts written by current artists to accompany each new episode. Boiwka was asked to provide her reactions to episode two, entitled “How Do We Look?” which centers on art and the human body.

According to Boiwka, this assignment gave her the opportunity to reflect on her work and her education.

“Examining the human body through art and viewing my work through an anthropological lens brought the journey of my education and my business

creation full circle for me,” she said.

Reflecting on her experience at Ohio State, Boiwka recommends aspiring artists cultivate good observation and always be on the lookout for new opportunities.

“Good luck is really just the result of paying attention,” she said. “If you are attentive, you will recognize great opportunities when they present themselves to you — things you could never predict.”

She also reminds young people to be kinder to themselves.

“Try to get more sleep and not be so critical of yourself. This is something we easily forget when we’re working on a goal,” she said. “And finally, maybe go bring Maximón some rum, jade or copal.

It worked out pretty well for me.”

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FACULTY NEWS, AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS Scott McGraw receieves Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award

Deanna Grimstead receieves Outstanding Teaching Award

Professor Scott McGraw teaches courses on primates and physical anthropology, and students comment on his ability to maintain a relaxed, yet challenging classroom and learning environment. He is also a dedicated graduate and undergraduate honors mentor. He has served for more than a decade as the undergraduate academic advisor in his department and has chaired its undergraduate studies committee.

He has also served on the college curriculum committee and the Board of Regents panel for articulation and transfer, signaling his ongoing commitment to all aspects of undergraduate education.

In research, Professor McGraw and his students work both in the field and in the lab. At his primary research site in West Africa, he has played a crucial role in conservation efforts, with the goal of saving endangered monkeys. In short, he has had an impact on his students, in his profession and on the world.

The Harlan Hatcher Award recognizes a full professor who has a truly exceptional record in teaching, research and service. The award was established with gifts from Mrs. Anne Hatcher and her family, in honor and memory of Dr. Harlan Hatcher, an alumnus and former dean of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University.

Deanna Grimstead, assistant professor of anthropology, is a geochemical zooarchaeologist, theoretically grounded in evolutionary ecology. Her research focuses on environmental adaptations and regional economic systems within prehistoric communities in western North America. This research broadly addresses resource use, procurement and organization within subsistence and non-subsistence artifact classes.

Grimstead is specifically interested in understanding how the dynamic relationship between human populations, animal populations, environment and climate affect human behavior and society through time. This integrative ecosystem approach provides the opportunity to study changes in subsistence strategies, the development of regional procurement systems, the adoption of domestication, technological innovation, regional abandonment and human behavioral adaptations.

The Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes excellence in teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences. The award is administered and presented by the Arts and Sciences Student Council.

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Richard Moore honored with the Public Policy Award by the American Anthropological Association Richard Moore, emeritus professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources and adjunct emeritus professor in the Department of Anthropology, receieved the Public Policy Award on Nov. 29, 2017, at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The AAA Committee on Public Policy was particularly impressed with Moore’s cross-disciplinary research, outreach to high school and college students through a new curriculum and influence on water quality programs and overall environmental policy. The committee felt that his work on these issues truly represents the sort of policy contributions that deserves recognition through this award.

Moore conducted theoretical and applied work on grassroots participatory groups that resulted in a water quality trading project that has been a pioneering model program both in Ohio and nationally. It was cited as the “poster child of water quality trading” at the 2014 congressional hearing of the House Transportation Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment, where Moore was asked to testify.

The success of his water quality trading plan started in 2007 and has resulted in making the Alpine Cheese Nutrient Trading Plan the longest continuous water quality trading plan used as part of an EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System pollution permit in the United States. Within Ohio, it has spread to 22 of the state’s 88 counties. In addition to saving factory money, the plan improved the water quality in the Middle Fork of Sugar Creek while giving Amish farmers an opportunity to implement conservation measures paid for by the factory without using federal funds, which Amish are prohibited from using due to cultural restrictions on paying social security taxes.

Douglas Crews elected president of the International Association of Physiological Anthropologists Douglas Crews, professor of anthropology and public health, was elected president of the International Association of Physiological Anthropologists for 2017-19 at the 17th annual Society for the Study of Human Biology and International Association of Physiological Anthropologists conference in Loughborough, England, in September. Crews and anthropology graduate students Alex Tuggle and Adam Fromme presented at the conference.

Nick Kawa: How Far Can You Get Away From Technology?

Anthropology professor Nick Kawa was featured in an article by Gizmodo, offering this answer to the titular question. “The answer depends on what technologies you’re referring to. As long as humans have been on this planet, we’ve been creating technologies to better adapt to our environments and make them more congenial for human flourishing. So, we could be talking about anything from stone tools and the written word to the latest killer app. My research has mostly focused in the rural Amazon, which most people would consider a fairly ‘remote’ region of the world. But even in small communities that are several days by boat from the nearest city, you’ll find households with parabolic antennas, DVD players, and thumb drives chock full of mp3s of the latest pop music. I think the question really is: is there anywhere on this planet where you don’t find some evidence of modern technology present?” Visit go.osu.edu/HowFar to read the full article.

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Graduate student Mark Anthony Arceño’s research, “A Year in the Fields: Walking and Talking with Winegrowers about Terroir, Place-Based Identity, and Environmental Change in Ohio, USA, and Alsace, France,” compares how winegrowers in Ohio and Alsace perceive changes in their winegrowing landscapes, how they adapt to changes in winegrowing conditions and how changes in winegrowing practices change conceptions of terroir.

In order to understand these themes, Mark Anthony conducts interviews with winegrowers and, whenever possible, also works alongside them in their vineyards, wine cellars and tasting rooms. In doing so, Mark Anthony’s data allow him to analyze how culture, human-nature relationships and the goût du terroir (in English, the “taste of place”) change as environments change.

His Ohio research is supported by the Larsen Research and Travel Award. His research in Alsace, France, is supported by the Office of International Affairs’ Academic Enrichment Grant.

Graduate student Melissa Clark was one of the teachers on the May study abroad trip titled “The History and Archaeology of Medieval Ireland: Trim and the Blackfriary.” Students studied medieval history with an introduction to bioarchaeology, the study of human remains from archaeological sites. They then participated in archaeological excavations of the Blackfriary, a medieval monastery and cemetery located about 40 minutes from Dublin. Professional archaeologists from the Irish Archaeology Field School helped train the students in excavation methods.

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Here are some examples of funds you may wish to consider. For more giving opportunities, visit our website at anthropology.osu.edu A gift to the SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION IN AFRICA’S RAINFORESTS FUND (313356) supports student’s travel expenses to Africa, antipoaching patrols in selected rainforests, wildlife education materials and materials for programs in rural African schools. The fund also sponsors exchange programs for African and Ohio State undergraduates.

A donation to the BOURGUIGNON LECTURE IN ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY FUND (311079) will ensure that the only annual anthropology department-sponsored event will continue on into the future.

A donation to the DANIEL HUGHES MEMORIAL FUND (20331) ensures that more of our best and brightest graduate students have the opportunity to travel to and present their research at professional conferences.

A gift to the ELIZABETH A. SALT ANTHROPOLOGY TRAVEL FUND (646305) will allow graduate students engaged in dissertation research to study and conduct field research abroad.

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