Fishing Inle Lake; Myanmar, 2017
Edward Glayzer; Graduate Student
A Parade in Began; Myanmar, 2017
Edward Glayzer; Graduate Student
Reading Aloud in Fon; Benin, 2018
Marcy O’Neil; Faculty
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The Department of Anthropology would like to congratulate undergraduate Becca Albert on her outstanding research. She is the Anthropology Senior of the Year, an award given yearly by our department to a graduating senior. Last week she won first place in her section at the Michigan State University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum, and she is lead author on a brand new American Antiquity article entitled “Earliest Microbotanical Evidence for Maize in the Northern Lake Michigan Basin.” Great job on all of you hard work Becca!
The Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track Assistant Professor position. The appointment will begin August 16, 2018 and be renewable annually. Our faculty envision this as a teaching professor position focused on excellence in the anthropology classroom. This individual will play a key role in the advancement of undergraduate learning in the department.
The successful candidate should possess the qualifications and skills necessary to teach an array of large and small undergraduate courses, mixed (hybrid) courses, and fully online formats in all the department’s sub-disciplines, have evidence of strong teaching skills and be able to demonstrate their commitment to teaching excellence. This position will normally teach 4 classes (usually 2-3 preps) per semester, with an annual course release negotiable and based on other contributions, such as working with the undergraduate anthropology club and organizing the department’s annual undergraduate research showcase. Teaching assignments are based on the needs of the department. MSU provides opportunities and resources to support faculty advancement in instructional development.
We seek a candidate with an engaged, innovative and thoughtful approach to teaching a large and diverse student body who is committed to student success.
To view a full posting of this job (497448), including deadlines and requirements, visit careers.msu.edu and search for job listing 497448. Alternatively, visit http://careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/498957/assistant-professorfixedterm directly.
Our own recent graduate and adjunct faculty, Dr. Rowenn Kalman has been awarded the Gill-Chin Lim Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Global Studies from the MSU International Studies and Programs. This award, given every academic year, acknowledges a graduate student for their outstanding doctoral dissertation. The dissertation submitted had to be completed the preceding year of the award, and must focus on global studies. This award is named after the late Dr. Gill-Chin Lim, MSU Professor of Geography and Urban Planning and Dean of International Studies and Programs. MSU faculty, as well as from deans, directors, chairpersons, and academic advisors, nominate students from across the university for the Gill-Chin Lim Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Global Studies.
Dr. Rowenn Kalman received her degree this past May of 2017. Her dissertation entitled “‘Conciencia’ for Conservation: Andean Indigeneity, Economic Rationalism, Technical Science and the Production of Diverse Subjectivities through Rural Stewardship in Ancash, Peru” examined the need for a new scholarly approach to subjectivity and environmental governance through the analysis of the broader context of competing discourses and multifaceted identities that lead rural stewards to engage in diverse, strategic, and sometimes ambivalent ways.
Rowenn received multiple fellowships and recognition during her time as a graduate student in our department including: Foreign Language and Area Studies to learn Quechua, an International Studies Program pre-dissertation research grant, a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship and GenCen’s Rita Gallin Award for best graduate student paper on gender.
Dr. Kalman received her award at the awards ceremony on March 29th. Congratulations Dr. Kalman on your outstanding dissertation research and your award.
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Mary Ann J. Ladia, PhD currently serves as University Researcher III of the Institute of Clinical Epidemiology at the National Institutes of Health and Faculty of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology of the College of Medicine at the University of the Philippines Manila. Dr. Ladia received her PhD from the Department of Anthropology in 2008 under the guidance of Drs. Judy Pugh and Linda Hunt, as adviser and committee member, respectively.
On March 28th, she will be speaking to Dr. Heather Howard’s Anthropology 370 course, Culture, Health, and Illness. Dr. Ladia will be presenting her paper entitled “Clinical ramifications of TB stigma in Baguio City, Philippines.” This event is open to interested undergraduates from 12:40 – 2 pm in C100 Wonders Hall. You can hear Dr. Ladia discuss her paper below.
On March 29th, Dr. Mary Ann J. Ladia will be presenting her talk “TB Patient Care Pathway and Stigma” at noon in Baker Hall 155. This event is open to the public.
Using surveys, ethnography, and secondary data, this presentation highlights the Philippine national tuberculosis (TB) program from the establishment of sanitoria at the end of 19th and early 20th centuries to the present. The age-old understanding of the disease transmission continues to play a major role in the patient care pathway despite the discovery of scientific methods of TB control. Due to stigmatized health condition, Filipinos affected by TB shift care from public to private clinics and move away from their hometown to seek care.
This visit is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology of the College of Social Science, Michigan State University.
Dr. Stacey Camp, Dr. Lynne Goldstein (Anthropology), and Dr. Leigh Graves Wolf (College of Education) with the Archaeology STEM Camp Pilot Project will use a grant from Science and Society at State (S3) to run a two-day archaeology camp this June for 15 International Baccalaureate (IB) high school students on Michigan State University’s campus. Founded in 1968, the International Baccalaureate is a non-profit educational foundation that offers internationally respected curricula and programming. IB programs are growing in popularity, representing 90,000 students worldwide. All IB students are required to conduct research for and complete ad 4,000 word “extended essay.” This pilot project will provide a unique hands-on experiential opportunity for IB students to learn about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and archaeology. It will also allow students to gather data for their extended essay requirement.
Dr. Stacey Camp, Dr. Lynne Goldstein, and Dr. Leigh Wolf (College of Education) initiated their collaboration in October of 2017 after Dr. Goldstein was contacted by a local school district with requests to develop a targeted archaeology outreach program. Additionally, university administration expressed support for the development of an ongoing program to connect the MSU Campus Archaeology Program (CAP) to secondary school students. CAP had worked with schools in the past to present workshops and demonstrations, but they wanted to develop an ongoing long-term program to provide both a participatory experience for high school students and an interdisciplinary research opportunity for the project team members.
While archaeology is not always considered a STEM discipline, archaeologists use principles and approaches from geometry, geography, geology, various physical sciences, botany, and zoology to study the past. Archaeologists also study landscapes, use engineering equipment and GIS, do various kinds of digital work, and we identify artifacts, plant and animal remains, and study soils.
Team Leader
Stacey L. Camp, Department of Anthropology, College of Social Science
Team Members
Leigh Graves Wolf, College of Education
Lynne Goldstein, Department of Anthropology, College of Social Science
Science and Society at State (S3), is an interdisciplinary research institution offering financial support for scholarship across disciplines at Michigan State University. Their mission is to promote interdisciplinary research and education that utilizes methods, approaches, and scholarship from STEM, the health sciences, and science studies (studies of science using methods and scholarship from the humanities and/or social sciences).
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Your gifts can be directed to (https://www.givingto.msu.edu/gift/index.cfm?sid=701):
Department of Anthropology – This is a general fund used to support undergraduate and graduate student travel and research, bring in visiting scholars for lectures and workshops, and support other learning events across the sub-disciplines.
Alumni and Friends Expendable Fund in Archaeology – This fund supports a competitive archaeology student research enhancement award and visiting archaeology scholars that provide public lectures, visit classes, and provide student workshops.
Forensic Anthropology Lab Fund – Special equipment needed for the lab as well as forensic student research and learning support is provided with this fund.
Department of Anthropology Memorial Fund – Used occasionally to collect donations in honor of a recently deceased member or friend of the department. Families of the deceased typically help decide how the memorial funds are used, usually a scholarship related to the individual’s work.
Archaeology – This is a general archaeology fund that can be used to cover lab and field equipment, student support for conferences, research, or teaching needs.
Lynne Goldstein Fellowship Fund – Provides fellowships to graduate students in any of the sub-disciplines who have worked with the Campus Archaeology Program.
Invisible in Plain Sight: Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest by alumna, Dr. Jill Rowe
African Medical Pluralism by alumni Dr. William Olsen and alumna Dr. Carolyn Sargent
Evil in Africa by alumni Dr. William Olsen and Walter Van Beek
“Public heritage at scale: Building tools for authoring mobile digital heritage and archaeology experiences” in Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage by faculty, Dr. Ethan Watrall
“’Fiery Technology’ and Transformative Placemaking: A Contextual Examination of a ‘Crematory’ at the Aztalan Site in Wisconsin,” in Cremation and the Archaeology of Death (J. Cerezo-Roman, H. Williams, and A. Wessman, eds.). Oxford University Press. Chapter 5 by faculty, Dr. Lynne Goldstein
“Contextual and Biological Markers of Community Identity in the Effigy Mound Manifestation of Southern Wisconsin,” in The Bioarchaeology of Community (S.L. Juengst and S.K. Becker, eds.) by alumni Jered B. Cornelison, alumni Wendy Lackey-Cornelison, and faculty Lynne Goldstein
“Medicaid Healthcare Access Must Be Protected” in Adelante by Hannah S. Bell, (faculty) Linda M. Hunt, Luciana Solis
““They Treat You a Different Way”: Public Insurance, Stigma, and the Challenge of Health Care Inequality” in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry by alumnus Anna C Martinez, Hannah Feig, Allison M Baker, Kristan Elwell, Isabel Montemayor, (faculty) Linda M Hunt
“Electronic Health Records and the Disappearing Patient” in Medical Anthropology Quarterly by faculty Linda M. Hunt, Hannah S. Bell, Allison M. Baker, and faculty Heather Howard
The Alumni and Friends of Archaeology Expendable Fund, established to enhance research and learning of undergraduate and graduate students in the archaeology program through the MSU Department of Anthropology, provided two student awards Spring 2017. This was the inaugural year for the Alumni and Friends of Archaeology Research Enhancement Award. The Enhancement Award was granted to two doctoral students, Kate Frederick and Susan Kooiman. Dr. Bill Lovis serves as the doctoral advisor for both students.
Ms. Frederick was able to complete the fieldwork/data collection portion of her dissertation using these funds, which allowed her to spend two weeks in the field. She is now completing her data analysis. Kate’s research examines prehistoric food storage as a risk management strategy and the landscapes suitable for caching along inland waterways in Northern Michigan.
Kate’s interdisciplinary field research, carried out at the University of Michigan’s Biological Research Station, was completed with the assistance of graduate and undergraduate students from the Department of Anthropology, and Dr. Randy Schaetzl from the Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences.
Ms. Kooiman was able to fund the processing of additional laboratory samples for her dissertation. She sent out samples for laboratory analysis of Carbon to Nitrogen stable isotope ratios and lipid residue analysis. Some of these results allowed her to confidently say that predatory fish were consistently cooked in the ceramic vessels she is using. Her dissertation research examines dietary and technological change through time (200 BC – AD 1700) for precontract Native Americans. Her research takes place in Northern Michigan waterways, along Lake Huron.
Susan’s interdisciplinary work involved Department of Anthropology undergraduate student Becca Alberts, Dr. Frank Telewski from the Department of Plant Biology, Dr. Catherine Yansa from the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences and Dr. Ryan Tubbs from the Department of Radiology, Division of Human Anatomy here at MSU.
Graduate student and PhD. Candidate Susan Kooiman received the 2016-2017 Moreau Maxwell Scholar Award. This award is given to an Anthropology graduate student for an outstanding research contribution in Anthropology. The award is named in honor of the late Professor Moreau Maxwell, who is internationally recognized for his research contributions in Arctic archaeology. This award was presented in recognition of Ms. Kooiman’s two journal articles published in 2016, and co-authoring two more in the year 2017. Congratulations Susan for your recognition.
Dr. Gabe Wrobel and his Central Belize Archaeological Survey project (CBAS) have recently published an article in Antiquity on stone panels they found depicting kings playing a ballgame. This article has been highlighted in several other news sources such as Archaeology Magazine, the UK Daily Mail, Live Science and the Archaeology Channel podcast. The CBAS project is a multidisciplinary effort and the article is authored by several people, highlighting this focus on bringing experts together from all over. Check out all the live links to explore this fascinating discovery.
Graduate student, PhD. Candidate and Graduate Student Association President Caitlin Vogelsberg was awarded one of 20 fellowships by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) for their Graduate Research Fellowship in STEM for the 2017-2018 academic year for her project “Increasing Identifications of Deceased Border Crossers: Investigating Spatial and Skeletal Attributes of Migrant Deaths”. This award will support Caitlin during her dissertation project research and writing phases. Ms. Vogelsberg hopes to complete her dissertation this spring.
