News Update of 5/05/09 and 7/1/09 - Any questions? Call the department at 570-389-4860.
The Outstanding Senior in Anthropology 2009 Award was presented to Daniel C. Brown at the Liberal Arts awards ceremony in April. The corresponding Outstanding Junior award was given to Angela M. Sterling.
Dr. Wymer has emailed from Egypt:
"Hey Janet - you asked for some photos of me in Egypt - so here are some shots of me at the famous site of Tanis - ancient capital of Egypt in the Delta during the late Dynastic period - made famous by the first Indiana Jones movie! We visited there last Friday - it is great! More to come."
Anthropology Students Inducted into Honors Society (thank you to the BU Today Page for photo and write-up)
On April 22, 2009 in the Schweiker Room of Andruss Library, 17 students were inducted into the Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society in Anthropology. Guest speakers were new inductees Sean Martorelli and Katrina Arduino who presented their archaeological field and laboratory research on the Ohio Hopewell under the direction of Dr. DeeAnne Wymer in the summers of 2007 and 2008. Dr. Faith R. Warner is Advisor for the Zeta Chapter of Pennsylvania and Representative of the East on the Lambda Alpha National Executive Board.
Inductees include the following students.
Ren Frattone
Angela Sterling
Michael Kennedy
Matthew Nickels
Aileen Elliott
Gregory Harrison
Christopher Guise
Mary Mensch
Lauren Demberg
Katrina Arduino
Jennifer Baney
Shaina Rae
Nicole Lemieux
Sean Martorelli
Jessica Force
Elizabeth Graboski
Gregory Bradley
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Anthropology students and faculty attended the 22nd Annual 2009 PASSHE Undergraduate Anthropology Conference, held April 18 and 19 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Shown from left Photo (below) from left are, back row: Nicole Matthews, Tyler Powell, Dr. Faith Warner, Dan Brown, Matthew Roth and Donna Rosh. Front row: Katrina Arduino, Dr. DeeAnne Wymer, Shaina Rae and Sean Martorelli. Not pictured are Jessica Dowsett and Dr. David Minderhout.
Student presentations included:
Sean Martorelli — The Lady's Run Site, Chillicothe, Ohio: Hearth and Home in the Hopewell Heartland
Katrina Arduino and Rebecca Brisson — The Lady's Run Site, Chillicothe, Ohio: Hopewell Moundbuilder Disposal Practices on the Edge of the Sacred
Dan Brown, Shaina Rae, and Matt Roth — Anthropology of the New Millennium: An Assessment of Ends, Trends, and Beginnings Since 2000
Nicole Matthews, Tyler Powell, and Greg Bradley — Who's Who in Anthropology: A Decade by Decade Look at the Major Influences in Anthropology
Jessica Dowsett — State Lines and Tribal Ties: A Comparative Look at Four Native American Tribes and Their Current Socio-Economic Positions
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Dr. Susan R. Dauria presented at the Northeastern Anthropological Association Annual Meetings in Providence Rhode Island on March 14, 2009. Her presentation, entitled “A Museum Exhibit Honoring Factory Workers,” explored the representation of industrial history in a museum exhibit that memorialized the loss of a community’s industrial identity.
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News Update of 4/07/09 - Any questions? Call the department at 570-389-4860.
Dr. David Minderhout and alumna Andrea Frantz have had two articles accepted for publication. The first is “Native American Horticulture in the Northeast,” which will be published in General Anthropology in the spring 2009 issue (Vol. 16, No. 1). The second article, “Ten Things You Don’t Know About Pennsylvania’s Native Americans,” will be published in the April issue of the regional magazine, State College.
Their book, Invisible Indians: Native Americans in Pennsylvania, was reviewed in the spring issue of Pennsylvania Magazine.
They also presented a paper at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 21, 2009. The paper was entitled “Our Future, Our Selves: The Eastern Delaware Nations’ Oral History Project,” a project currently on-going. Dr. Minderhout also chaired a session at the meetings, “Native American Identity in Projects and Initiatives.”
Dr. Minderhout is a partner on a research project with four Bucknell faculty members for the summer of 2009. The project, called the John Smith Trail Initiative, has recently received major funding from the Conservation Fund and the Mellon Foundation. The project is designed to, among other things, document the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley both today and in the past. BU anthropology major Jessica Dowsett will be a student intern on the project; she is also a field worker on the EDN Oral History Project.
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News Update of 1/30/09 - Any questions? Call the department at 570-389-4860.
Dr. David Minderhout and former student Andrea Frantz have had two articles published in scholarly journals in the last month. “Stepping Out of the Shadows” appeared in Cultural Survival Quarterly in the Fall 2008 issue of the journal (Volume 32, No. 3: 28-31). The article is paired with another about the new Lenape exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia; Minderhout and Frantz’s book and articles were used in preparing the exhibit.
The second article is “Native Americans in the Pennsylvania School Curriculum,” which appears in the Winter 2009 (Vol. 31, No. 1: 16-20) issue of Practicing Anthropology, a journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology. A draft version of this paper was read at the annual convention of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Memphis in March 2008.
In addition, Minderhout and Frantz have been awarded the Best Essay of 2008 prize for their article in Museum Management & Curatorship, which appeared in June 2008. The article was titled “The Museum of Indian Culture and Lenape Identity.” The prize includes an award of $500.
Dr. Minderhout was also awarded a Lifetime Achievement award by the Institute for Culture & Society at BU at its reception held at the Alumni House on January 27, 2009. (See photo, below)
Dr. Minderhout’s interview on the PCN program, PA Books, airs February 1, 2009 at 9 PM and again on February 2 at 8 AM.
Photograph from the 2/3/09 BU Today Page.
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