The Department of Anthropology offers several field schools throughout the year in both Archaeology and Sociocultural Anthropology.  Field experience is important for any student who wishes to pursue these subjects academically or professionally after college or graduate school.

Archaeology in Annapolis
Dr. Leone’s field school in Annapolis is a unique and exciting opportunity to participate in a long term study of our nation’s history through uncovering the past.  Begun in 1981, the Archaeology in Annapolis project has been concerned with promoting better understandings of Annapolis’ diverse past through the interpretation of material culture to promote an inclusive form of Annapolis’ history. Over the past 20 years Archaeology in Annapolis has run an annual field school in urban archaeology and has excavated over forty sites throughout the city’s historic district.

Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora

Summer Field School in Applied Urban Ethnographic and Community Health Sciences
Dr. Whitehead's field school takes place in economically distressed urban neighborhoods relatively close to the UMCP campus. Ethnographic work will focus on quality of life, health, and social justice issues. There will be both classroom and fieldwork components to this experience with the aim to develop data sets relevant to addressing health and social problems in these areas.

Brazil Anthropology: Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Peoples
Dr. Chernela's six-credit course will consider conservation and development from the standpoints of local communities and conservationists. The objectives of the field course are to gain an understanding of: socio-economic dynamics of the Amazonian frontier and drivers of deforestation; tropical forest biology with special attention to regeneration; forest-dependent indigenous and local cultures and their struggle to determine the future of the land and communities that depend upon it. This exciting course will be held in Brazil.

Lattimer Archaeology Project: The Archaeology of Labor Heritage in a Coal Mining Company Town
In the summer of 2012, Penn State Hazleton and the Department of Anthropology of the University of Maryland will collaborate on an archaeological project exploring life in a coal mining company patch town
near Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Lattimer, was founded in the mid-19th century by the Pardee Company and was the site of a tragic labor massacre in September of 1897. Please contact mroller@umd.edu for info on the field school, or check our website as we update our logistics.