News Update of 12/11/08 - Any questions? Call the department at 570-389-4860.
From the Today page in Dec., 2008:
Anthropology students present research
Anthropology seniors presented their research at the 107th American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings in San Francisco on Nov. 22. Matthew Roth displayed his research "All by Myself": An Ethnography of How College Students Spend Alone-Time and Aleksandra Fedunchak presented Exercise and Healthy Lifestyles in the United States: Applying Fitness Anthropology in a University Setting. The two students conducted the research in Faith Warner's ethnographic methods course in spring 2008.
The BU President Dr. David Soltz met the students who received presentation awards in the student colloquium of "Building An Understanding Bridge Across the Pacific Ocean: A Student Colloquium on the U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century." These students are, from left to right, Zachary L. Graybill, history; Austin S. Brunson, political science; Daniel C. Brown, anthropology; and Jan Schwabe, political science; with president David Soltz and political science faculty member Sheng Ding. Stasia Rudiman, criminal justice, is not shown in the photo.
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Dr. Minderhout was interviewed on PCN, the Pennsylvania Cable Network, in Harrisburg on Tuesday, December 2 about the book Andrea Frantz and he published this past May. The hour long televised program will air on the PCN channel and on C-SPAN in January. Minderhout and Frantz are designing exhibits for the Friends of Shikellamy State Park in Sunbury and the Northampton Historical and Genealogical Society in Easton.
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News Update of 11/04/08 - Any questions? Call the department at 570-389-4860.
Dr. David Minderhout will present a lecture, “Native Americans in Pennsylvania Today,” in Pittsburgh on November 4, 2008. The lecture is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Federal Executive Board’s Native American Heritage Committee, in honor of Native American Month in Pennsylvania. The talk will be given at the Federal Building in downtown Pittsburgh.
Dr. Minderhout and Andrea Frantz have been notified that their article, “Native Americans in the Pennsylvania K-12 Curriculum,” will be published in the Winter issue of Practicing Anthropology, a journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology
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News Update of 10/06/08 - Any questions? Call the department at 570-389-4860.
Dr. Susan R. Dauria was invited to present her research on the Bloomsburg Fair at Bucknell University. She spoke as part of their Anthropology/Sociology Department luncheon series. The presentation was entitled, "Studying the Exotic at Home: Research with the Bloomsburg Fair."
David Minderhout and Andrea Frantz will present an invited paper at the annual conference of the Popular Culture Society in Louisville, Kentucky on October 10. The paper is entitled “Popular Culture and Native American Identity.” They are also finalists for the society’s Jerome Stearn Award for Best Essay of 2008.
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News Update of 08/28/08
David Minderhout and Andrea Frantz have created a website, based on their research with Native Americans in Pennsylvania. The site is located at www.panativeamericans.org. The site was designed primarily for K-12 teachers in PA and is entitled “Pennsylvania’s Native Americans: Online Resources of Educators.” However, the site can be of general interest to anyone who is interested in Native Americans. The site was constructed by former anthropology major Brian Boyce with the support of the Institute for Interactive Technology.
David Minderhout and Andrea Frantz spent the summer working as researchers for the Eastern Delaware Nations, collecting oral histories and genealogies and doing archival research for the EDN’s “Our Stories, Our Future” project. The information collected will be stored at the EDN’s planned library and culture center at Wyalusing, PA. This is an on-going project funded in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the Allen F. Pierce Foundation. The project also involves inventorying and cataloguing materials at local libraries and county historical societies in PA’s northeastern counties.
David Minderhout and Andrea Frantz have been named to the Planning Committee of the Northampton County Historical Society as they begin building a museum which will contain an exhibit about the Lenape. They have also been added to the board of the Susquehanna River Heartland Humanities Council, which is housed at Bucknell University. On September 12 they will present a talk on Native American Agriculture in PA at the Third Annual “Cultures on the Confluence” symposium sponsored by Bucknell and the Council.
On September 13, Minderhout and Frantz are invited guests at the new “Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania” exhibit opening at the Anthropology Museum at the University of Pennsylvania. They contributed background information to the museum and the exhibit designer for the exhibit.
The pair will have two articles published this fall, one for Studies in American Culture and one for the Cultural Survival Quarterly. They will be invited speakers at the national conference on the Society for American Popular Culture on October 10.