Good News Spring 2016
Department of Anthropology
Table of Content Upcoming Events 1. Main Commencement May 18, 2016 2. Department Commencement May 20, 2016 3. Summer Term May 31-August 19
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Message from Chair . . . Announcements . . . Summer Courses . . . Awards, Honors, and Grants . . . Scholarship and Service . . . Publications . . . Conferences and Presentations . . . i. Society for Historical Archaeology ii. Society for Applied Anthropology 8. Graduating Students . . .
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Message from Chair
“As we come to the end of the academic year, it is a great time to reflect upon and celebrate our department’s many successes. This spring we hired two outstanding professionals in the area of health. Dr. Andrea Lopez will join our faculty in September 2016 and Dr. Alison Heller will arrive in September, 2017 after spending a fellowship year in Santa Fe. This year our department was hard at work developing two new degree programs including a dual master’s degree in MAA/MHP and a BS degree in Anthropology. The BS degree allows our students the opportunity to gain a background in Anthropology as well as to acquire a science background. This spring eight of our MAA students presented their internships at the Colloquium. During our graduation, we will be hooding three new PhD students, six MAA students will be receiving their master’s degree, and 35 undergraduates will be earning their BA degrees. Congratulations to all!! At the end of this semester Professor William Stuart will be retiring from our faculty after 42 years of teaching in the department. Thank you Bill for your service to the department and the university. In this newsletter you will see that members of the department continue to be successful. Following is an overview of some of our student and faculty accomplishments. Hope you have a great summer and please keep in touch.” - Paul A. Shackel
Announcements Paul Shackel will be on sabbatical next year. Michael Paolisso will serve as the Interim chair for the academic year 2016-2017 while Dr. Shackel is away. We wish Dr. Shackel best of luck in his research. In March, the Practicing Anthropologist Student Association (PASA) held its 7th annual AnthroPlus Student Conference "Building Community Engagement and Social Equity in a Changing World". This year's conference had over 25 presentations by graduate and undergraduate students as well as talks and workshops by department faculty. The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Rachel J. Watkins, Associate Professor of Anthropology at American University. Congratulations to the PASA board members and all participants! 2
Summer Courses ANTH222: Introduction to Ecological & Evolutionary Anthropology Taught By: Robert O’Malley ANTH240: Introduction to Archaeology Taught By: Joshua Samuels ANTH260: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology & Linguistics Taught By: Stanley Herman ANTH263: Sexuality and Culture Taught By: Cherneka Lane ANTH265: Anthropology of Global Health Taught By: Mary Butler ANTH266: Changing Climate, Changing Cultures Taught By: Kathleen Clendaniel ANTH271: Digital Ethnography Taught By: Jeremy Trombley ANTH423/623: Primate Behavior Ecology Taught By: Robert O’Malley ANTH468P: Anthropology War & Security
Awards, Honors, and Grants Megan Bailey has accepted a dissertation fellowship for the Fall 2016 semester from the University of Pennsylvania's McNeil Center for Early American Studies. The fellowship includes a residency at the University of Pennsylvania and funding to support her dissertation writing and research. Megan Bailey and Jeremy Trombley were selected for the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship. This fellowship supports students with excellent qualifications and in the later stages of writing their dissertations. Fabio Correa was invited to attend a four-week seminar on Complex Systems Science at the Santa Fe Institute in June 2016. This program provides a unique opportunity for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to further develop a solid foundation in interdisciplinary complex systems science. Fabio was selected to attend this seminar based on his outstanding academic credentials and strong application. Leslie Crippen was the winner of the Student Paper Competition for the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA). Her paper, “Finding our Place: Uncovering Queer Hidden Heritage in the U.S. with the National Park Service” was the strong favorite of the Student Paper Competition Committee and her work stood out among the judges as a piece of first-rate scholarship. Sean Downey has been awarded a $500,000 grant through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER). Through the grant, Downey, a team of graduate students and international collaborators will conduct a comprehensive study of a farming practice common in Mayan villages in Belize.
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Migrant clinic working under the hot summer sun in the rural Eastern Shore Photo by: Emilia Guevara
Emilia Guevara has been awarded UMD's Graduate All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. This award recognizes graduate students who are both outstanding scholars and outstanding graduate assistants. Emilia Guevara was also the winner of the American Anthropological Association 2016 Photo Contest. Emilia's photograph entitled Watermelon Harvest is featured in the 2016 AAA calendar. Sarah N. Janesko received the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for her work with the Museum Scholarship and Material Culture Certificate Program. This recognition establishes her among the top 2% of Graduate Assistants at the University of Maryland. Katherine (Jo) Johnson was awarded second place for her poster, "Using Ethnographic Understanding of Vulnerability and Resilience to Enhance Collaborative Learning and Adaptation to Climate Change” at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) 2016 Conference held in Vancouver. The poster summarizes the vulnerabilities and resiliencies identified by Deal Island Marsh and Community Project Stakeholders.
Rebecka Lundgren received the Marjorie C. Horn Operations Research Award in September from the Research, Technology and Utilization (RTU) Division of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health, Bureau for Global Health at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The award recognized Lundgren’s dedication and exemplary service in operations research, and in the scientific inquiry in the areas of fertility awareness and normative change in family planning populations. Magda E. Mankel was awarded the Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship for the summer 2016. This fellowship is awarded to midcareer doctoral students and it will help Magda begin her fieldwork and research regarding the production and mobilization of new, migrant heritage along the Arizona, U.S.-Sonora, Mexico border. Adriane Michaelis was awarded an International Graduate Research Fellowship from the Graduate School to participate in a soil sciences course at the University of Tübingen in Germany. This opportunity is part of a collaborative project among Dr. Sean Downey and Dr. Bruce James at UMD as well as faculty at the University of Tübingen. 4
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels was awarded a Semester Research and Scholarship Award (RASA) from The Graduate School, UMD, for research on the cultural heritage of anthropogenic climate change. Megan Springate has been awarded a President's Travel Fund for Emerging Historians grant from the Organization of American Historians. Springate was a panelist for New Directions in LGBTQ Public History and is committed to including the broad and intersectional histories of all LGBTQ Americans in the initiative. Migrant work in Eastern Shore Photo by: Emilia Guevara
Scholarship and Service Janet Chernela, together with Emily Colon, Emily Dooley, and Emily Masucci, Javier Carrera-Rubio, and Christopher Hewlett, established CRACIA – the Center for Research And Collaboration in Indigenous America. The center brings together faculty, researchers, students, practitioners, and indigenous affiliates to expand the knowledge and resources of Amazonian Studies at the University of Maryland and the surrounding region. The Center fosters a cohesive community for research and program creation through seminars, conferences, film showings, courses, lectures, and roundtable discussions by members and visitors. Please see website: http://www.cracia.org/ Janet Chernela was invited to discuss the new film, Embrace of the Serpent, at the Third Annual Georgetown Latin American Film Festival. Filmed in the Northwest Amazon of Brazil, Embrace of the Serpent is an allegorical tale of lost knowledge and the ravages of colonialism. Judith Freidenberg gave a talk titled, "Imaginaries of Immigration, Ethnicity and Social Class in an agricultural colony". This talk used Freidenberg's book "The Invention of the Jewish Gauchos" translated into Spanish to lead a seminar on the middle class at the Institute of Social and Economic Development (Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social). Judith Freidenberg gave a talk at the University of Buenos Aires working group on migration, population and development, where she is an affiliated visiting professor. The talk was titled, "Citizenship Practices and Emigration Cultures: The Case of US nationals in Argentina". 5
Judith Freidenberg gave a lecture titled, "Conversations on migration in the US" for a class for doctoral and post-doctoral students at the University of Buenos Aires. Katie Geddes interned for the White House Council on Environmental Quality where she worked on a wide range of environmental policy issues affecting the American people. She served on the Conservation and Wildlife team in the Office of Land and Water within the Executive Office of the President. Christina Getrich started a new locallybased research project examining the health and well-being of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients living in Maryland. She received a Research and Scholarship Award (RASA) to support this project during summer 2016. The project is being carried out by a team of Anthropology graduate and undergraduate students; the team is excited about conducting a locally-based project and connecting with immigrant young adults in the surrounding community. Judith Lynne Hanna spoke on “The Performing Brain: Dance Cognition, Emotion and Movement” at the Royal Anthropological Institute in London. Her talks on “Dance and Movement for a Healthy Brain” at Strathmore Performing Arts Center in Rockville, Maryland and “Dance in the Learning Classroom: Why/ How to Use the Brain as Choreographer,” as part of the Learning & the Brain Conference on "The Science of Imagination: Cultivating Creativity, Curiosity and Passion in School,” in Orlando, Florida had dance movement activities to demonstrate the elements of dance and its creation. Hanna’s talks are based on neuroscience research in the past decade, a golden era of new technologies, that reveals the power of dance to promote physical, emotional, and cognitive development.
Tracy Jenkins worked with Historic Easton, Inc., and Assemble Design to install a walking tour of archaeology in Easton, Maryland. The tour includes four interpretive signs and a brochure for self-guided tours and features research from The Hill Community Project's team and Historic Easton. The tour is funded by the Maryland Heritage Area Authority, Historic Easton, the East End Neighborhood Association, and the Talbot County Office of Tourism. Anthropology student Becca Lane and department alumnus Tim Vettel helped install the interpretive signs. Tracy Jenkins gave a presentation on The Hill Community Project as part of a panel on African-American archaeology in the D.C. region in April at the invitation of Dr. Dennis Doster, manager of Prince George's County's Black History program and adjunct professor in African-American Studies. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels gave an invited lecture for the Recovering Voices Seminar Series at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC in May. Her talk was titled “Recovering Heritage Rights in Tunisia: The Specter of Customary Law.” Mark P. Leone was one of five lecturers in a week-long course in April at Oxford University entitled The Politics of Heritage. The course explored the diversity of contemporary ideas and debates about the politics of heritage and takes stock of current approaches in archaeology and related fields to questions of public engagement, of cultural ownership and repatriation. Mark Leone and Kathryn Deeley gave a tour on Archaeology in Annapolis. This tour showcased the findings of more than three decades of archaeological research in Maryland's capital. The Archaeology in Annapolis project pioneered critical archaeology and public engagement in order to look at forms of class and racial oppression and the movements to combat them. Michael Paolisso organized (co-PI) and participated in four day work workshop on "Participatory Modelling for Action Oriented Outcomes" at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, MD in February. Workshop participants included researchers from a range of social and environmental sciences who worked together to synthesize the various forms and types of participatory modelling approaches and to identify areas where research 6 is needed.
Michael Paolisso participated as a Distinguished ScholarLecturer in an Anthropology Immersion Workshop for the Postdoctoral Socio-Environmental Immersion Program at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, MD in February and March. This workshop consisted of five senior environmental anthropologists providing post doctoral researchers in the social and environmental sciences with training in the core concepts and foundations of anthropology, and how anthropology has addressed environmental issues. Michael Paolisso participated in Public Presentation as member of Doctoral Examination Committee for Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leuven in Belgium earlier this March. This doctoral defense was for a student who has graduated from the MAA program. Michael Paolisso participated, as member of International Expert Board, in an annual review of the European Union project "Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts Toolkit Project (RISC-Kit)," at Faro, Portugal in April. The EU research project includes 10 case studies of coastal areas throughout Europe. The project has developed complex formal socio-ecological models linking hydrology, flooding, erosion, human and infrastructure exposure and vulnerability, and human responses to severe storm events. The project is developing an online tool kit for coastal planners and stakeholders who can use the software and models to assess risks of storms and flooding along their coasts. Michael Paolisso, Katherine (Jo) Johnson, and Elizabeth Van Dolah have been working on The Deal Island Marsh and Community Project to build resilience to climate change on Maryland's Eastern Shore. As part of the project, they hosted a workshop in January and community conversation in February to target areas of the Deal Island Peninsula for coastal resiliency assessment and planning. Please see the website for more details: http://www.dealislandmarshandcommunityproject.org/ Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman presented, “Just Move On”: Lessons from the Career of Dr. Betsy Reitz, at the Society for American Archaeology in Orlando, FL. Dr. Pavao gave the introductory talk in the Society for American Archaeology’s Fryxell Award Symposium honoring Dr. Elizabeth J. Reitz. Dr. Pavao was Dr. Reitz’s first 7 anthropology PhD graduate.
Thurka Sangaramoorthy led the organization of a new lecture series titled “Global Health and Culture.” The inaugural event featured Jason Beaubien, NPR’s global health and development correspondent. The event attracted 200 attendees, a majority of whom were undergraduate students interested in the social context of health. Thurka Sangaramoorthy participated in and moderated a panel at the 3rd Annual Parren J. Mitchell Symposium titled Racism: In Sickness and In Health. The symposium focused on how race and racism shape health outcomes.
Paul Shackel gave an invited lecture in the Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia in March. His presentation “Heritage Matters: An Archaeology of Northern Appalachia and the New Migration” provided an overview of historic and contemporary immigration on Northeastern Pennsylvania. Tony Whitehead is teaching an Osher Life Long Learning Institute Course in his residence community, Reston Virginia. This eight week course titled, "Human Difference, Cultural Understanding, and Social Healing”, explores such locations of human difference, communication breakdowns, and conflict as: gender, race/racism, ethnicity, regional, religious, and cross cultural.
Dr. Sangaramoorthy led the organization of a new lecture series titled “Global Health and Culture.” The inaugural event featured Jason Beaubien, NPR’s global health and development correspondent. The event attracted 200 attendees, a majority of whom were undergraduate students interested in the social context of health (From left to right: Gregory Ball, Jason Beaubien, Jane E. Clark, Elisabeth Maring, Priya Parikh, Thurka Sangaramoorthy, and Robert S. Gold)
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Publications
Mill ruins in the western Poconos. Photo by: Paul Shackel
Janet Chernela submitted the article "An End to Difference: Imagining Amazonian modernity at the dawn of the twentieth century," to the Journal of Anthropological Research. The article describes the role of photographic postcards in establishing the Amazonian city of Manaus as a showcase of civilization and urbanity at the turn of the nineteenth century. Adam Fracchia, Kathryn Deeley, Beth Pruitt, Tracy Jenkins, Stefan Woehlke, Mary Furlong Minkoff, and Benjamin Skolnik contributed to the book, Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Crossings, which has been fully copy-edited and submitted to the Press. The book is jointly edited by Mark P. Leone and Professor Lee Jenkins, School of English, University College Cork. The book is the result of substantial sponsorship by the Graduate School, University of Maryland. The book will be published by Brill and is due out in 2016. Laurie Frederik has a new book in production and coming out in spring 2017, titled Showing Off, Showing Up: Studies of Hype, Heightened Performance, and Cultural Power (University of Michigan Press). Frederik is the primary editor of the anthology (with Catherine Schuler and Kim Marra), as well as the author of the introduction, “On the Unexpected Glittering of Glass,” and a chapter titled “Painting the Body Brown and Other Lessons on How to Dance Latino.” The collection examines showing as a particular species of performance and cultural action that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and the exposure of core values and hidden truths. Judith Freidenberg's book Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George’s County, Maryland will be in press late May for Lexington Books. The book contextualizes the narratives of international migrants arriving to Prince George’s County, Maryland, from 1968 to 2009. It demonstrates that an immigrant’s experience is grounded in personal, social, economic, and political spheres of influence, and reflects the complexity of migrants’ stories to help demystify homogenous categorization. 9
Katie Geddes published the article "Culture, Conflict, and the Chesapeake" in Practicing Anthropology. This article is about her experience working at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis, Maryland and explores the conflict that arises between environmentalists and watermen during Chesapeake Bay restoration. Christina Getrich published an article, entitled, “Border Brokers: SecondGeneration Mexicans Navigating the U.S. State” for a Special Issue of Practicing Anthropology entitled, "How Do We Talk About Migration? Voices from the United States and Mexico.” This spring, she also presented data from this longitudinal project at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings in Vancouver and the UMD Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Qualitative Research Interest Group panel, "Racial/Ethnic Quandaries: Through Four Different Lenses." Judith Lynne Hanna published “Fit To Learn: How Dancing Ignites Brain Cells and Elevates Learning,” Principal Leadership, reprinted in Sharp Brains, which also published “What Everyone Should Know about Stress, Brain Health, and Dance.”
Building in decay at Eckley Miner's Village Photo by: Paul Shackel
Domestic House in Northeastern, Pennsylvania Photo by: Paul Shackel
Judith Lynne Hanna’s book, Dancing to Learn: The Brain’s Cognition, Emotion, and Movement will be translated in Chinese by Shanghai Music Publishing House, a 60 year acclaimed publisher for academic books in performing arts. The book explores the rationale for dance as a medium of learning to help engage educators and scientists to explore the underpinnings of dance, and dancers as well as members of the general public who are curious about new ways of comprehending dance. Christine Miller Hesed wrote a book chapter entitled "Responding to Climate Change: Local Knowledge in African American Communities on Maryland’s Eastern Shore" which will be published in Socialism in Process: Ecology and Politics Toward a Sustainable Future. The chapter illustrates what can be gained by including local knowledge in vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning. Sarah N. Janesko and Sarah A. Grady coauthored a commentary with Valerie M. J. Hall titled “Engagement, Agency, and Activism through Environmental Archaeology: A Citizen Science Program at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center” to be published this summer in the journal Practicing Anthropology. They describe their roles as volunteer archaeologists with the Smithsonian Environmental Archaeology 10 Laboratory and describe current research questions.
Marilyn London published the chapter “September 11, 2001, A moment in time: Relevance of the Smithsonian Human Skeletal Collections” in Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts. The chapter addresses the importance of the human skeletal collections at the National Museum of Natural History in the development of techniques and standards used to identify the dead, specifically in cases like the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Don Linebaugh published a co-edited volume, The Saratoga Campaign: Uncovering an Embattled Landscape, with Dr. Bill Griswold of the National Park Service. Published by the University Press of New England (May 2016), the volume takes an interdisciplinary look at the Saratoga battles, drawing on the work of historians, archaeologists, and museum scholars. Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, with a colleague, published an article "Historical continuity in Sonoran Desert free-range ranching practices: Carbon, oxygen, and strontium isotope evidence from two 18th-century missions" in an upcoming (June 2016) issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. This research uses stable isotopes to reconstruct ranching practices at 18th century missions in the Sonoran Desert. Mission livestock were primarily free-ranged and the missions managed and stored water for livestock use. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels published the article “The Cadence of Climathe: Heritage Proxies and Social Change,” in the Journal of Social Archaeology. The article addresses the translation of archaeological research on climate change to the public sphere, and issues a call for more archaeological attention to climate change mitigation. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels published the article “Transnational Turns for Archaeological Heritage: From Conservation to Development, Governments to Governance,” in the Journal of Field Archaeology. The article offers a broad overview of emerging trends in global heritage, including heritage development, deliberative democracy, heritage rights, and the challenges posed by global climate change.
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Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Emilia Guevara published “Immigrant Health in Rural Maryland: A Qualitative Study of Major Barriers to Health Care Access" in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. This is the first publication to examine perceived barriers to access to care for Latino and Haitian immigrants on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Thurka Sangaramoorthy was part of a team from the University of Maryland that conducted a statewide health impact assessment of potential public health impacts of fracking in Maryland last year. As a result, they have published two articles resulting from this work that are the first to document work related to fracking in Maryland. The first article titled, “Placebased perceptions of fracking along the Marcellus Shale,” published by Social Science and Medicine, discusses the stress and health vulnerabilities experienced by those undergoing fracking. The second article titled, “Hazard Ranking Methodology for Assessing Health Impacts of Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Production: The Maryland Case Study,” published in PLOS ONE, discusses the methods utilized by University of Maryland researchers to conduct the health impacts of potential fracking operations. With the fracking moratorium set to end on October 2017 in Maryland, both articles are predicted to have wide distribution and discussion. Paul Shackel published “The Meaning of Place in the Anthracite Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania” in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. The article describes some of the recent research in anthracite heritage in Northern Appalachia. Elizabeth Van Dolah and Michael Paolisso published “Frontiers in Ecosystem Ecology from a Community Perspective: The Future is Boundless and Bright” in the journal Ecosystems. This paper was published in collaboration with a team of ecosystem scientists to define and prioritize research frontiers in the ecosystem sciences to invest in over the next ten years. The research was guided by survey data and key-informant interview data, which Van Dolah and Paolisso analyzed to identify and describe the key frontier themes outlined in this paper. 12
Conferences and Presentations Fabio Correa presented a talk at the Anthro+ 2016 conference entitled "Models, communities, and environments: an interdisciplinary introduction to computer modeling in anthropology." In this presentation he described how modeling in social sciences and anthropology used to be largely conceptual for decades, but published literature shows that mathematical and computer models have been emerging in several areas of anthropology for years. Fabio discussed models in general and modeling in environmental anthropology. Nadine Dangerfield, Sarah Hartge, Sarah Janesko, and Blaze Buck were panelists with students from other departments in a round table session titled “Museum Scholarship in the Age of New Museology: Interdisciplinary Experiences from University of Maryland Graduate Students� at the Small Museum Association Conference in Ocean City, MD. Representing the Museum Scholarship and Material Culture Certificate program, they discussed current museum scholarship research and facilitated thoughtful conversation about what scholarship means in everyday practice and the role of scholarship in small museums. Kevin Gibbons, Donald Linebaugh, George Hambrecht, Joshua Samuels, and Kirsten Crase, presented a paper titled "Movement and Gathering Across Time: A Preliminary Report on the Potomac River Gorge Environmental History and Historic Resources Study Project" at the Spotlight on National Park Resources in the National Capital Region conference at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. This team is charged by the National Park Service's National Capital Region with producing a comprehensive historical ecology study for the Potomac Gorge region that will serve as the primary example for integrative natural and cultural studies13 throughout the National Park Service.
Harvested watermelons by migrant workers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore Photo by: Emilia Guevara
Kevin Gibbons, with other colleagues, presented a paper titled "Archaeological Contributions to Historical Ecology: 50 Questions, Infinite Prospects" at the meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in Whitehorse, Yukon Territories. This paper represents an interim report on a large, collaborative article that is a result of two international workshops with dozens of scholars providing input in narrowing down the 50 most important questions that can be tackled using the framework of historical ecology. The authors of this talk are members of the steering committee for the New International Community for Historical Ecology. Kevin Gibbons was invited to present the paper "Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: Archaeological Sites as Endangered Environmental Archives" at the meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in Whitehorse, Yukon Territories. Kevin was invited to speak as a representative of the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization and SAA's Climate Change Strategies and Archaeological Resources committee to introduce the conceptualization of archaeological sites as 'distributed observing networks of the past' and call for more archaeologists to begin to prioritize certain sites in the face of climate-related losses of site integrity. George Hambrecht, Ennis Barbery, Elizabeth Van Dolah, and Kevin Gibbons presented a paper titled "International Efforts to Engage with Climate-Based Threats to Cultural Heritage" at the meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Orlando, Florida. This paper represents a chapter within the forthcoming National Park Service framework for addressing and ameliorating climate change threats to cultural resources held by the federal 14 government.
Sarah N. Janesko presented a paper titled “Architectural and Archaeological Spaces of LateNineteenth Century Tenant Farm Houses” at the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference in Ocean City, MD. Using data from two historic African American tenant farm houses at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Janesko compared artifact assemblages, architectural features, topography, and historic documents which show similarities in the types of domestic artifacts and the variation in the type and construction of tenant houses.
Marilyn London, with colleagues from Kennesaw State University and Grand Valley State University, organized and moderated the fifth annual Teaching Biological Anthropology in the 21st Century annual workshop at American Association of Physical Anthropologists 85th Annual meeting in Atlanta, GA in April. This year’s topic was Teaching Critical Thinking. Several examples were given to the participants, and then break-out groups developed in-class exercises to address this problem.
Tracy Jenkins was part of a forum entitled "Historic Black Lives Matter: Archaeology as Activism in the 21st Century." This panel discussed the role of archaeology at AfricanAmerican cemeteries, the legacy of the African Burial Ground project, and opportunities for community service within anti-racist archaeology.
Adriane Michaelis presented the paper, “Aid Intervention and Experiences of Agency in Rural Mozambique” (coauthored by Jen Shaffer and Jordan Tompkins) at AnthroPlus. The paper describes individual and collective agency relative to malaria intervention and wildlife management in Mozambique.
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels presented the paper “An Archaeology of Rights: Cultural Heritage in the Medjerda Valley, Tunisia” for the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, held in San Francisco, CA in January.
Christine Miller Hesed and Michael Paolisso presented "Cultural Knowledge and Local Vulnerability in African American Communities” as part of the Panel Presentation at Climate Action 2016 Forum at the University of Maryland in May. The presentation focused on Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels organized the how local environmental, socio-cultural and roundtable “Using Ethnography in Public History justice factors affect the vulnerability of African to Challenge the Exclusive Past” with Alicia American churches to flooding and increased McGill, and was a participant in the roundtable, risks due to climate change, for the Eastern for the annual meeting of the National Council on Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Public History, held in Baltimore, MD in March.
Refugees and asylum seekers from many countries find a welcome in the Sanctuary City of Sheffield, England, during Linda Rabben’s recent research trip to the UK. Photo by: Linda Rabben
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Michael Paolisso and Jeremy Trombley presented "Cultural and Computational Models in Collaborative Decision-making" as part of a workshop on "Participatory Modelling for Action Oriented Outcomes" at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, MD in February. The presentation highlighted how cultural and computational models can be integrated to address the needs of participatory modelling. Michael Paolisso presented "Anthropological Research Methods" and "Culture, Cognition and Environment” at Anthropology Immersion Workshop for the Postdoctoral Socio-Environmental Immersion Program at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, MD in February through March. The presentation provided postdoctoral scholars in the social and environmental sciences an overview of foundational anthropological research methods. The presentation was video recorded and will be available online. Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman gave the talk, Zooarchaeology and the Development of Colonial Period Archaeology in the Pimería Alta, at the Society for Ethnobiology in Tucson, AZ. The talk focused on the contribution of Dr. Pavao and her students to our understanding of colonial period archaeology in the region that encompasses southern Arizona and northern Sonora (Mexico), a time period and region that was understudied prior to the research completed by Dr. Pavao and her students. Zooarchaeological (animal bone) research by Pavao and students indicates that Spanish missions freeranged cattle for the extraction of both meat and tallow, managed water for livestock use, and engaged with a regional and global economy.
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman presented, Using Zooarchaeology and Stable Isotopes to Reconstruct Historic Ranching Practices in the Sonoran Desert, at Center for Applied Isotope Studies in Athens, GA. Dr. Pavao was invited to present the results of her research on stable isotopes on livestock teeth from Spanish colonial missions in Arizona and Sonora to one of the top centers of archaeological isotope research, the Center for Applied Isotope Studies at the University of Georgia. Stable isotope assays on livestock teeth indicate that missions free-ranged livestock, and stored water for livestock use. Ashley Rivas presented a paper entitled "Toy Analysis: Children's Gender Roles in 19th and 20th Century Easton, Maryland" at the AnthroPlus Conference in March. Her analysis of children's toys excavated in Easton is part of The Hill Community Project's documentation of life in this long-standing free black community. Rivas’ paper presentation was the runner up at the conference. Sabrina Shirazi presented a paper entitled “Using Environmental DNA at Archaeological Sites to Recreate Paleoecosystems” at the AnthroPlus Conference in March. Shirazis’ presentation was selected as the 1st paper prize winner at AnthroPlus. Andrew Webster presented the paper "The Transatlantic Irish and Their Material Culture: Consumption Strategies of the Immigrant Working Class" at the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish studies at the University of Notre Dame. His paper ties together material culture and archival research to better understand the lives of Irish immigrants to Boston in the nineteenth century. 16
UMD Representation at Society for Historical Archeology Kevin Gibbons presented a paper titled "Icelandic Agricultural Heritage and Environmental Adaptation: Osteometrical and Genetic Markers of Livestock Improvement". This talk framed Kevin's dissertation research as a potential avenue to explore faunal remains as tangible cultural heritage that can be utilized to address contemporary issues of livestock management and sustainability. George Hambrecht presented a paper titled "aDNA in Historical Archaeology as a Tool for the Mitigation of Climate Change Hazards" as part of the Symposium: The Most Important Contribution Historical Archaeology Can Make to the Situation of Climate Change. Sarah N. Janesko presented a paper titled “Remembering the Tenant Farmers: A Comparison of Two Late 19th-century Tenant Farm Dwellings in Maryland”. Using data from her internship research at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Janesko compared spatial distribution of artifact assemblages and found variation in use of yard space among two African American tenant farmer households.
Early Morning on the Riozinho Photo by: Emily Colon
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, along with colleagues, presented the “Linking Hispanic Heritage Through Archaeology”. This paper reported on the results of a project funded through the National Park Service’s Latino Initiative that was focused on involving Latino youth in archaeology and cultural heritage. Benjamin Skolnik presented "The Aura of Things: Locating Authenticity and the Power of Objects" as part of the session "Landscapes and Culture". Stefan Woehlke presented "Developing an Ecological Interpretation of Land Use in Virginia's Piedmont: The Montpelier Example" as part of the Symposium: "Crops and Culture: The Archaeology of Agricultural Thought".
Men’s house at the center of the Kayapó Village of A’ukre, Para, Brazil Photo by: Emily Dooley 17
UMD Representation at Society for Applied Anthropology Blaze Buck presented Sharing is Believing: Can the Gravity of “Genocide” Be Conveyed with Social Media? at the Session: Violence and Genocide: Structural and Ideological.
Shirley Fiske and Robert Winthrop were roundtable participants at the Session: Beyond Changing the Atmosphere”: What Next? Session.
Emily Colon presented Building Intercultural Relationships: The “Middle Ground” in a North American Field Course in the Brazilian Amazon at the Session: Intersections in Diversity, Gender, Ethnicity and Change.
Katie Geddes presented Opposing Viewpoints of Environmentalists and Watermen: Implications for Chesapeake Bay Management at the Session: Fishing and Government Regulations: the Intersection of Public, Private, and Community Interests.
Shirley Fiske was a roundtable participant at the Session: The Intersections of Canadian and U.S. Applied and Engaged Anthropology. Shirley Fiske presented Can Anthropology Produce “Actionable” Knowledge? at the Session: Anthropologists Influencing Climate Change Policies and Programs in Government, Non-Profits, and Other Organizations.
Christina Getrich presented Navigating Exclusionary Immigration Policies: SecondGeneration Brokers in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands at the Session: Immigrant Health through a Family Lens: The Intersection of Immigration Status, Policy, and Family Relationships.
Students from Dr. Don Linebaugh's Archaeology and Preservation class excavating at the Smith/St. Leonard Site after a tour of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab. Anthropology graduate and MAC lab staff member Alex Glass is second from right working behind the screen. Photo by: Don Linebaugh 18
Emilia M. Guevara and Thurka Sangaramoorthy presented The Place that Time Forgot: Gender, Labor, and Immigration on Maryland’s Eastern Shore at the Session: Ethnographies of Migrant Mental Health in the United States. The presentation was chosen to be podcasted on the SfAA website, which can be found here: http://sfaa.net/podcast/index.php/podcasts/2016/eth nographies-migrant-mental-health-united-statessma/ Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts presented “Anthropology and Implementation Science: The Need for Focused Methodological Research Integrating Qualitative Methods” at the Session: Footprints in Academic Health Centers.
Coal breaker constructed for the 1969 paramount Movie "The Molly McGuires" located in Eckley Miner's Village
Katherine (Jo) Johnson and Jeremy Trombley co-chaired the Session: Engaging and Collaborating with “The Other”: Scientists, Environmental Managers, Governmental Representatives, Civic Organizations, Residents, and Stakeholders. Michael Paolisso, Shirley Fiske, Kathleen Clendaniel and Elizabeth Van Dolah were roundtable participants. Rebecca Quick presented her poster Sustainable Development: Human Rights in Development Finance. Thurka Sangaramoorthy conducted a workshop on the Rapid Ethnographic Assessment: Adapting Anthropological Tools for Public Health Programs. Nathaniel Tashima and Cathleen Crain presented Intersections of Cultural Values, Practices, and Public Health Policy: Methodological Adaptations in Working Effectively with Communities: Understanding Cultural Assets in Context for Child Wellness Advocacy in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities at the Session: Strong Cultures, Health Children. Robert Winthrop presented Conflict, Coexistence or Symbiosis?: Tourism and Environmental Conservation Re-visited & Stewardship: an Undervalued Mechanism of Energy and Resource Conservation at the Session: Emerging Issues in Conversation.
Fieldschool student Mikeala Girard and Dorothy Canevari at Eckley Miner's Village
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Foggy morning in Eckley Miner's Village
Congratulations to the Graduating Class of 2016! Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Anthropology Diane Gardsbane Violence against Women Policy and Practice in Uganda: Promoting Justice within the Context of Patriarchy (Defended December 2015) Diane conducted multi-sited ethnographic research in Uganda to understand how and whether policy and practice relating to violence against women, especially Uganda’s Domestic Violence Act of 2010, have had an effect on women’s beliefs and practices, as well as on support and justice for women who experience abuse by their male partners. Christine Miller Hesed Integrating Environmental Justice and Social-Ecological Resilience for Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons from African American Communities on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay (Defended May 2016) Christine's dissertation concerns the empirical and conceptual relationship between environmental justice and social-ecological resilience as it relates to climate change adaptation and vulnerability. Christine found that political isolation and procedural injustice greatly increase the vulnerability of flood-prone African American communities on the Eastern Shore; however, if these communities are engaged in adaptation decision-making processes, they may be able to help policymakers envision a future for the Eastern Shore that is both more just and more resilient. Katherine J. Johnson Resilience to Climate Change: An Ethnographic Approach (Defended May 2016) Jo's dissertation research leverages engaged and multisited ethnography to enhance our understanding of vulnerability and resilience to climate change through focus on local and cross system perspectives of vulnerability and resilience in the Deal Island Peninsula area of the Chesapeake region.
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Master of Applied Anthropology (M.A.A.) Leslie Crippen Finding our Place: Uncovering Queer Hidden Heritage in the U.S. with the National Park Service Katie Geddes Conflict on the Chesapeake: Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Watermen Environmentalism Umai Habibah Understanding the Refugee Experience Through Their Past and Present Sarah Janesko Remembering the African American Tenant Farmers; Exploring Historical Archaeology at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Magda E. Mankel Gauging Hispanic Interests in Hispanic Heritage Resources: An exploratory study of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, Tucson, Arizona
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Anthropology Angelica Barrall Lauren Bokor Astrid Diaz Anna Dottle Adefolarin Falade Sydney Fenton Cristina Fifer *Matthew Gabb Richard Griner Yelena Guseva Julianna Himelstein Judith Joklik Emily Joy Lisa Lane Eric Laughlin *Emily Masucci Kristin Ngo
Catherine Oidtman Ashley Rivas Tarika Sankar Megan Schleicher Olivia Shea *Sabrina Shirazi Samuel Silverman Sydney Sotelo Rebecca Stein Chelsea Stolt James Sullivan Delmis Umanzor Taylor Vaughan Donald Warner Lauren Wiener William Wiles *Graduating with Honors
Rebecca Quick A Complicated Relationship: The World Bank and Human Rights Non-profits
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