The Department would like to recognize Jeremy Krones for his service on the Dean's Student Advisory Council and Katherine Johnson and Beth Pruitt for their service on the Dean's Graduate Student Advisory Council. Thanks to all of you for your service!
Congratulations to Dr. Judith Freidenberg for being Honored Faculty at the 5th Annual University-Wide Celebration of Scholarship and Research.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, Courtney Hofman for receiving the 2012 Smithsonian Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, Tina Zarpour for being selected to receive the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship.
It is our pleasure to announce that Dr. Stephen Brighton has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
Congratulations to Dr. Judith Freidenberg for being selected to receive a 2012 Outstanding Graduate Advisor Award.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, Michael Roller who won the 2012 George M. Phillips Award. The Phillips Award is given in recognition of outstanding graduate student contributions in areas involving community and public concerns.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, Kristin Sullivan, who won 3rd place in the SfAA Tourism and Heritage Topical Interest Group student paper competition for "Carving Chincoteague". This paper was also selected to be in an upcoming issue of Practicing Anthropology. Kristin also placed 3rd in the Valene Smith Prize (tourism and heritage poster competition) for "Exploring Traditional Use and Association through the Ethnographic Overview and Assessment for Assateague Island National Seashore".
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, David Colon-Cabrera, who was chosen to serve as a COPAA student representative for 2012-2014.
Congratulations to Dr. Tony Whitehead and Dr. Mark Leone, whose Summer 2012 and Fall 2012 Emerging Scholars proposals were unanimously approved and selected for funding by the BSOS Teaching Committee. These projects promise to immerse two of our bright young students in research in a significant way.
Courtney Hofman's article on Flightless ducks, giant mice and pygmy mammoths: Late Quaternary extinctions on California's Channel Islands is featured in Our World Archaeology.
Our very own doctoral student, Mary Furlong, is featured in the SfAA News: Coming Together to Uncover the "Fort" in Alexandria, Virginia.
For an anthropological view on exotic dancers in the U.S., check out the Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right by Judith Lynne Hanna.
Dr. Judith Freidenberg's article on Human Experience, Museums, and Human Rights has been published in the Anthropology News.
Dr. Jen Shaffer co-authored a paper with her undergraduate advisee, Ms. Leocadia Naiene, from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. The research looks at local knowledge of climate and environmental change in southern Mozambique.
This year's Maryland Day will be held on April 28th.
Spring 2012 Commencement is scheduled on May 20 (main-campus) and May 21 (individual colleges).
Barbara Little published - Heritage, Resilience, and Peace. Heritage & Society 4(2), Fall 2011.
Mary O. Butler co-edited, and Shirley J. Fiske and Mary O. Butler contributed chapters to the just-released book, Applying Anthropology in the Global Village, which describes the work of practicing and applied anthropologists in a globalized world. Dr. Butler’s chapter is on public health in global localities, and Dr. Fiske’s is on climate change from the ‘bottom up.’
Dr. Janet Chernela authored an article (2011) The Second World of Wanano Women: Truth, Lies and Back-Talk in the Brazilian Northwest Amazon. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 21(2)193-210.
Paul A. Shackel and David Gadsby (editors) (2011) Archaeologies of
Engagement, Representation, and Identity. Historical Archaeology, 45(1).
Dr. Janet Chernela: Barriers Natural and Unnatural: Islamiento as a Central Metaphor in Kuna Ecotourism Bulletin of Latin American Research
Dr. Paul Shackel: New Philadelphia: An Archaelogy of Race in the Heartland
Dr. Mark P. Leone: Critical Historical Archaelogy
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Message from the Chair |
Paul Shackel |
Thank you for your interest in our department. Our program has grown and changed over the past several decades. The department became independent of Sociology in 1974, a Masters in Applied Anthropology was created in 1984, and Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2007. The Department of Anthropology is now known for its strong theoretical orientation and it is nationally recognized for being an excellent applied program. Our faculty work with and make connections between local peoples, national governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), inter-governmental agencies, and academic institutions. We have a strong commitment to preserving and transmitting the knowledge of the past, as well as to illuminating and confronting the challenges of the present.
Anthropology is unique at the University of Maryland because of our ability to teach smaller than average class sizes which encourage the development of strong student - faculty mentoring relationships. Undergraduate enrollment has increased steadily over the past few years, and we continue to attract the best and brightest graduate students. We are very excited about our new Ph.D. cohort, and we continue as always to prize our M.A.A. and B.A. students.
I hope you find our website useful. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.
Sincerely,
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