Congratulations to Dr. Judith Freidenberg, who has been selected as a 2012 Stamp Service-Learning Faculty Fellow.
Video clip on the Wye House featuring Dr. Mark Leone and PhD students, Amanda Tang and Benjamin Skolnik.
An 8 minute clip of Dr. Barbara Little and others being interviewed on WYPR about her dissertation project relate to the colonial printers in Annapolis - Jonas and Anne Catherine Green.
Dr. Michael Paolisso and his students in ANTH 606 are featured in Between the Columns regarding their work on the McKeldin Library
Check out this Interview with Adjunct faculty member, Dr. Barbara Little on the Archaelology, Museums & Outreach wordpress.
Congratulations to Dr. Judith Freidenberg whose Spring 2012 Emerging Scholars' proposal was unanimously approved by the BSOS Teaching Committee. This project promises to immerse one of our bright young students in research in a significant way.
Dr. Michael Paolisso and his students in ANTH 606 and a spring architecture class will be given the liberty to redesign and reformat McKeldin Library's interior to cater to the needs of students.
One of our undergraduate students, Michelle D'Ippolito has been selected for recognition as one of Maryland's "Undergraduate Researchers of the Year" for 2011.
ANTH220H students first fall 2011 field trip to “Written in Bone” at NMNH.
Junior anthropology major Ryan Elza is featured in the Diamondback Online "Leading toward healthy lives." as he launched Health Leads at UMD with the support of his advisor, anthropology affiliate faculty, Dr. Katherine Russell.
One of our current PhD student, Michael Roller, is featured in the following article.
Dr. Stephen Brighton featured in the following article based in Crozet, Virginia
Our very own students, Megan Bailey (current PhD student) and Joy Beasley (MAA alum), featured in this film assisting National Park Service excavate slave village at Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick, MD.
An archaeological team led by Dr. Mark Leone is uncovering an unexpectedly rich haul of household materials from an historic African American home in Annapolis.
Dr. Janet Chernela's presentation at the ICARUS conference, Ann Arbor, MI, on May 5, 2011, is now posted online at the ICARUS site.
Dr. Janet Chernela is featured in "Brazil on the Rise" in CQ Global Researcher at www.globalresearcher.com.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month! The Latin American Youth Center’s Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers, along with participating organizations, hosted a dialogue aimed at addressing mental health needs, particularly of young people. This event was part of a larger initiative to raise mental health awareness and services through coalition-building, community research, youth leadership and advocacy in Prince George’s County. Our very own, Dr. Judith Freidenberg was one of the panelists that presented at this event.
Barbara Little was a special honoree and delivered a keynote address at the recent International Heritage Conference "Why Does the Past Matter" in Amherst, Massachusetts, May 4-7. Her award was, "For her prolific and fundamental work in public archaeology, issues of public outreach and involvement, evaluation and official designations of archaeological places, and on the public relevance of archaeology."
Congratulations to our graduate student, Mary Furlong, for receiving one of the Diamond Jubilee Scholarships.
One of our undergraduate students, Michelle D'Ippolito has been selected for recognition as one of Maryland's "Undergraduate Researchers of the Year" for 2011.
Dr. Tony Whitehead is featured in the article "Getting local: A call for community-based activism".
Congratulations to one of our graduate students, Kristin Sullivan, who has been awarded as one of the Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2011.
Dr. Erve Chambers and Dr. Mark Leone both successfully competed for the Emerging Scholars Program grants for Summer and Fall 2011. The program is jointly supported by the College of Behavioral and Social Science and the Department of Anthropology and it provides an opportunity for an undergraduate student to work for 20 hrs/wk for 15 weeks.
Interested in working with Dr. Chambers to help with the ethnography program on Chincoteague Island should contact him directly at echambers [at] anth [dot] umd [dot] edu or Ms. Kristin Sullivan at sullivank [at] anth [dot] umd [dot] edu.
Interested in working with Dr. Leone to help with the Archaeology in Annapolis should contact him directly at mleone [at] anth [dot] umd [dot] edu or Ms. Amanda Tang (atang [at] anth [dot] umd [dot] edu) or Ms. Jocelyn Knauf (jknauf [at] anth [dot] umd [dot] edu).
The university's Center for the History of the New America was launched last month.The center is also forging relationships with federal agencies, including a collaboration with anthropology professor Judith Freidenberg in a large grant proposal to the Smithsonian Institution. The networking has even reached a global scale, as the center established a relationship with the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil, which is compiling an archive on the African diaspora. Freidenberg, who heads the university's Anthropology of the Immigrant Life Course Research Program, said the creation of this new center is fostering collaboration across disciplines to generate new knowledge about immigration.
Where do Masters grads in Anthropology go after they receive their degree? And what kind of careers do they craft? The American Anthropological Association has just released and posted The Changing Face of Anthropology, by Dr. Shirley Fiske, Research Professor of Anthropology, along with four colleagues as co-authors. This is the first national electronic survey of MA graduates in anthropology-- to help the discipline and profession better understand the needs of MA grads in education and their careers. To see the survey, go to http://www.aaanet.org/resources/departments/Surveys.cfm.
Dr. Stephen Brighton is featured in the Maryland Life Magazine: Piecing Together the Past.
A team of archeologists, led by Dr. Mark Leone, is unveiling new findings today that show the role African slaves in building and running one of the most famous buildings of colonial American, the greenhouse at the Wye Plantation on the Eastern Shore. That’s the plantation where Frederick Douglass worked as child, and he wrote about the greenhouse and the plantation.
Dr. Janet Chernela was featured as one of the two keynote speakers at the Conference on Amazonian and Andean Studies.
Congratulations to Jane Hall-Williams, Undergraduate Anthropology major, who has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Chile during the months of March through December. There, she will be working on her project on "National Identity and Memory in Northern Chile".
Undergraduate Anthropology major Paul Flynn was awarded the Tillman Military Scholarship from the Pat Tillman Foundation.
Congratulations to Dr. Erve Chambers, who has been awarded a semester Research and Scholarship Award (RASA) for the spring semester of the academic year 2011-2012
Dr. Janet Chernela is featured in the Anthropology News: Opposition in the Time of Avatar.
Dr. Cathleen Crain is featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Anthropology Group Restyles Its Offerings to Lure Nonacademics.
Dr. Paul Shackel and Michael Roller, current PhD student, are featured in two articles: Are bullets Lattimer Massacre's smoking gun? and 'Witness building' set to be demolished.
Dr. Michael Paolisso is featured in the World View's article At the Water's Edge: Bringing Environmental Justice to Chesapeake Bay Communities on Pages, 6-7.
The Department of Anthropology, in partnership with the David C. Driskell Center
presents a Public Program on“Human Mobility: Perspectives from History, Anthropology, and Museology.” Spearheaded by Jacob Lawrence’s visual rendition of the African-American move to the North in the 20th Century, this presentation intends to engage public dialogue on human mobility through a museum exhibition and a panel discussion with our very own, Dr. Judith Freidenberg, Dr. Stephen Brighton, and Dr. Tony Whtiehead.
The Department of Anthropology, in partnership with the David C. Driskell Center
presents a Public Program on “Human Mobility: Perspectives from History, Anthropology, and Museology.” Spearheaded by Jacob Lawrence’s visual rendition of the African-American move to the North in the 20th Century, this program intends to engage public dialogue on human mobility through a panel discussion and a museum exhibition.
ProfessorJudith Freidenberg took participants attending the Jewish Literary Festival at the Embassy of Argentina in Washington, D.C., on a journey that began with her grandparents in Eastern Europe in the late 19th century and continues today in Prince George's County. See her in action as she discuss an exhibit she curated, "The Immigrant Experience in Prince George's County,"
Congratulations to one of our MAA student, Daniel Jordan, who has recently been elected as the new president of PASA for the year 2010-2011. As the new PASA president, Dan will also be serving as the new graduate student representative at faculty meetings.
Congratulations to one of our adjunct faculty, Dr. Barbara Little, who is being recognized as one of the special honorees at the International Convention in UMass Amherst Campus, for her outstanding contributions and tireless professional activities and influential publications emphasizing the public value and importance of heritage in general and public archaeology in particular.
Congratulations to Dr. Judith Freidenberg for being chosen as the seventh "Esther Hermitte" lecturer for the Center of Social Anthropology at the IDES (Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social) of Argentina. She will be lecturing on December 20, 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, making this conference the most important event organized by the Center since 2005.
Congratulations to Dr. Erve Chambers and Dr. Tony Whitehead for being selected as 2010-2011 CTE-Lilly Fellows by the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Undergraduate Studies. As CTE-Lilly Fellows, they will be assisting in the effforts to transform the undergraduate curriculum by identifying local, national, and international experiences that would enhance cultural competence in the classroom and on campus and developing resources such as course templates, a handbook to assist faculty in the transformation of existing courses and model courses.
Congratulations to one of our MAA student,Kirsten Benham! Kirsten was elected as a student board member for the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA) last August. This is the second year in a row that a student from the department of Anthropology has served as board member, and Kirsten is the 6th student from UMD to do so. Among her responsibilities is serving on the Program Committee and identifying speakers, topics, and locations for their monthly meetings.
PhD Graduate Student, Megan Bailey, participated in archaelogical dig in Frederick, MD.
Check out the recent finds of the Archaeology in Annapolis crew under the supervision of Dr. Mark Leone: "Digging up more of Annapolis' Past"
Congratulations to Dr. Judith Friedenberg who's ongoing work with immigrants was recognized in the most recent issue of Between the Columns: "Professor to Help Open doors for Immigrants at New CASA"
The Department of Anthropology as been selected to receive the Lilly-CTE 2009-2010 Departmental Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching.
Congratulations to Ph.D. students Amy Carattini, Tina Zarpour, and Melissa Stevens who were all awarded summer research funds!
Ph.D. students David Colon-Cabrera and Tina Zarpour were awarded funds to attend the NSF's AGEP-SBES Conference in Austin, TX. Congrats!
Dr. Michael Paolisso was interviewed for Maryland Public Television's Chesapeake Bay Week program "The Skipjack".
Dr. Stephen Brighton was interviewed recently on the WYPR show "Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast" and on ABC's "Let's Talk Live" about his work on the Irish of Texas, MD
Learn about last summer's archaeological excavation in Riversdale, MD!
Archaeology in Annapolis' Continued Work Towards Uncovering the Past Is Featured!
Hear about Dr. Stephen Brighton's involvement with archaeological work near Philadephia concerningIrish Immigrants!
University of Maryland Archaeology Students Help Piece TogetherHistory of Immigrants' Town! Check out the work of Dr. Stephen Brighton in Texas, MD as featured in the Baltimore Sun.
New release from NOAA about the project "Voices from the Fisheries," which provides interviews and oral histories from people active in US fisheries. This is an important anthropological venture led by Susan Abbott-Jamieson (Adjunct Professor) and Patrica Pinto da Silva at NOAA Fisheries.
Check out Dr. Brighton's work on the Irish in Baltimore County's Texas.
New Philadelphia, Illinois wins National Historic Status.Click here to learn more about this momentus road to recognition.
Maryland Archaeology featured in the New York Times: See "Under Maryland Street, Ties to African Past".
Check out the latest article on Paul Shackel's project in New Philadelphia, Illinois.
David Gadsby and Don Linebaugh: "Teaming Up To Preserve Mansion" Check out this feature to learn about exciting work at Bostwick Mansion in Bladensburg.
National Public Radio feature story details Archaeology in Annapolis Field School work at Wye Farm.
The Passing of Professor Aubrey Williams...to learn more about Professor Williams' life and work
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Discovery Channel documents Wye Hall archaeological field school : See the videos:
Archaeologists Dig Into Douglass' Childhood
Archaeologists Look Underground for Answers
Cool Jobs :: Archaeologist (MAA Matt Cochran tells all)
Congratulations to Amy Carattini who has won the Culture, Literature, and Society-2 section
