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Anthropology Newsletter | September 30th, 2019
Welcome back Anthropology students and faculty!
We hope you have had a wonderful summer and found time to relax and explore some part of the world,wherever you were. If you’re new to the department, we’ll be sending out a newsletter almost every week of the schoolyear, sharing information about upcoming events, presentations, student internships and field schools,and even jobs. We’ll also be sharing highlights of projects that our faculty and students lead or are partof, including achievements (like getting a grant, a paper published, giving a presentation at aconference or receiving an award). If you have something to share with us like this, please send a shortblurb and photograph to [email protected] and we’ll work that into the newsletter. We email ournewsletters on Monday mornings—so get us your materials on Thursday morning, before the Mondayyou’d like your blurb in the newsletter.
Drop-In Anthropology Advising Hours: Tuesday's 11-noon
Please go visit our wonderful academic advisers, Paloma Harrison or Jon Rousseau, when they have drop-in office hours, 11:00 am in Anthropology's Conference room—Cramer 141. If this time doesn’t work—justbook an appointment with one of them
Paloma Harrison [email protected]; youcanbookme page 503-725-3822 for appointments FMH 360 (724 Harrison) Provides academic advising
Jon Rousseau [email protected]; youcanbookme page 503-725-3822 for appointments FMH 360 (724 Harrison) Provides academic advising
They can help you make the wisest decisions about courses to take, so that you get the most out of your PSU experience in the most efficient way possible.
News
New publication with undergrad and grad alumni!
After a multi-year effort, Shelby Anderson is pleased to share a new paper, published in the Journal ofAnthropological Archaeology, "Demographic fluctuations and the emergence of Arctic maritimeadaptations".
This project/paper is a collaboration with three of our former students, T.J. Brown, Justin Junge, andJonathan Duelks.
Link to the paper here if you are interested in learning more: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZjTR-JVbh4gv
Notes from the field
Kayla Martin attended a forensic field school thispast summer run by University of Maryland, focusingon research in Austria. Her project worked with theU.S. Department of Defense, to recover remains ofmilitary personnel that perished when their planescrashed. The picture here is from her field school,taken close to the place where a B-24 crashed inOctober of 1943. Kayla notes that the large cedartree behind the group is older than the crash site andsurvived the fire that burned down part of the forestafter the crash.
Autumn Martinez attended a field school on theMohegan Reservation in Connecticut as part ofthe IFR—Institute for Field Research—whichsupports dozens of field programs around theworld each year. Her field school explored colonial history from the Indigenous viewpointand is run through a partnership between theMohegan Tribe and an academic archaeologistfrom the University of Toronto.
Fellowships & Opportunities
Montana State Parks is recruiting for individuals to serve at four differentanthropologically/historically significant State Parks through December
9, 2019.
Our 2020, 1700 hour AmeriCorps service term will begin on January 13, 2020 and ends onNovember 13, 2020. Students and alumni enrolled in Portland State University’s Department ofAnthropology may be very interested in this wonderful opportunity to apply their anthropologicalbackground while gaining experience and training in the fields of outdoor recreation, parksmanagement, interpretive services, education, community outreach, and volunteermanagement. This opportunity will take place amid the natural wonders and rich culturalheritage of Montana State Parks and these members will complete projects that have lastingimpacts which benefit both the parks and the communities where they exist. Whether they areteaching kids about history or organizing a group of volunteers for to preserve historicstructures; our AmeriCorps members lead the way in our communities by exhibitingstewardship principles and a strong conservation ethic through hands on engagement. Thesesites need to have their story told to the public, and who better than an Anthropologist to do so?
More information can be found here .
2020 Oregon Heritage Fellowship
Community Events
Medieval GeneticsOctober 23rd | 5:00 pm
Lincoln Hall | Room 75, Recital Hall
Recent advances in genomics have been accompaniedby the promise that through genetic analysis,fundamental questions about the human past can be atlast answered. Some of these claims are exaggeratedor even dangerous, as when geneticists reduce identityto biology or proclaim that they will be able to tell us“who we really are.” But at the same time, responsibleanalysis of molecular data combined with historical andarchaeological methodologies does promise new ways
of exploring history. In this lecture, Professor Patrick Geary of the Institute for Advanced Study willdemonstrate the potential of such research by presenting the international, interdisciplinary project hedirects that studies Lombard era migration from Pannonia to Italy. The team, composed of geneticists,archaeologists, and historians from Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and the UnitedStates, is developing new models and methods for the analysis of historical population movements.
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