Upcoming events
From 2 December through 20 December, The Ice Box at Crane Arts (1400 N. American Street) will be the site of an innovative, anthropologically informed group exhibition titled Ethnographic Terminalia. Doctoral student Anabelle Rodriguez is one of the three curators, alumna Stephanie Takaragawa is one of the two organizers, and faculty member Dr. Jayasinhji Jhala is among the artists whose work will be featured. The exhibition's opening event, on 4 December, 7:30-10:00 p.m., is scheduled to coincide with the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia. Admission is free.
On Monday 7 December, Jennifer Alvey will present and defend her dissertation, Of Roads and Revolutions: Peasants, Property, and the Politics of Development in La Libertad, Chontales (1895-1995).
The event will be held at 1:00 in the Fishbowl (Gladfelter Hall room 212). All are welcome, and graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend.
Notices
Faculty member
Dr. Christie Rockwell and doctoral student Elizabeth Rowe are seeking participants for a research study relating to women's health. Those interested in participating in the study can find detailed information here.
Meetings of the Undergraduate Anthropology Association are generally held on the second and fourth Monday of each month. For further information, contact the association’s president, Amy Sreb, amy.sreb@temple.edu, or the secretary, Sara Sivilich, ssivilich@temple.edu. "The Undergraduate Anthropology Association is a forum in which anthropology majors and minors can meet one another as well as interact with professors and graduate students. We include all areas of anthropological study: archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, and anthropology of visual communication. We hold bi-weekly meetings where professors discuss their areas of specialization and we organize trips to museums and events, a graduate student panel, fundraisers, ethnic food nights, and other fun events! It's a great organization to become involved in, especially if you seek guidance in continuing your studies in anthropology at the graduate level."
The Department of Anthropology’s undergraduate Student Liaison to the College of Liberal Arts is Kyle Murray, kyle.murray@temple.edu. His duties include referring students to appropriate University resources; serving on College and University committees; assisting with special projects and events; and encouraging and facilitating interaction between faculty members and students. He also hopes to help students get involved with one another through the Undergraduate Anthropology Association and other department activities. Kyle holds office hours on Mondays, noon-2:00 and Thursdays, 10:00-11:00 in Gladfelter Hall room 210.
Accolades, accomplishments, and awards
Faculty member Dr. Naomi Schiller has been selected for a 2010-2011 Faculty Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT). Her fellowship project is titled "Spectacular Venezuela: Community Media, the State and Popular Politics." [11 November 2009]
Doctoral student Stas Shectman is the author of a chapter in a recently published volume. "A Celebration of Masterstvo: Professional Cooking, Culinary Art, and the Production of Culture in Russia" appears in Melissa Caldwell (ed.), Food and Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World (Indiana University Press, 2009).
[4 November 2009]
Undergraduate anthropology major Sierra Gladfelter and faculty mentor Dr. Jayasinhji Jhala have been awarded funding from Temple's Creative Arts, Research and Scholarship (CARAS) program in support of the project "A Culture of Tourism: The Relationship between Tourists and Natives in Cusco, Peru." This research and ethnographic film project will document the impacts, both positive and negative, that tourism has on the lives of native Peruvians. [2 November 2009]
Professor Emeritus Dr. Jonathan Friedlaender, in collaboration with historian of science Joanna Radin (University of Pennsylvania), has published the book From Anthropometry to Genomics: Reflections of a Pacific Fieldworker (iUniverse, 2009). [November 2009]
Faculty member Dr. Inmaculada García Sánchez has been chosen to receive the Council on Anthropology and Education’s Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her 2009 dissertation from the University of California, Los Angeles is titled Moroccan Immigrant Children in a Time of Surveillance: Navigating Sameness and Difference in Contemporary Spain. According to the award committee, the dissertation "represents excellence in educational ethnographic scholarship on a topic of great significance to the field." The award will be presented during the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. [23 October 2009]
Doctoral student Shu-Fan Wen has been awarded a Dissertation Fellowship for Republic of China Students Abroad from Taiwan’s Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. The fellowship will support her project "Chinese Medical Research Professionals in the Western Suburban Metropolitan Philadelphia Area and their Return Migration to China: Transnational Citizenships in an Era of Globalization." [15 October 2009]
"Trying to unearth a piece of Timbuctoo history," an article in the Burlington County Times of 4 October 2009, features the work of faculty member Dr. David Orr and doctoral student Christopher Barton.
[4 October 2009]
Faculty member Dr. Paul Garrett’s proposal for a new Study Group has been selected for support by the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT). The theme is "Social and Cultural Dynamics of Language Contact: Humanistic Perspectives on Communication across Group Boundaries." This interdisciplinary project, which has both intellectual and programmatic goals, brings together the department’s linguistic anthropologists as well as faculty members from several other departments in three of Temple’s colleges. [2 October 2009]
The Last Rites of the Honourable Mr. Rai, an ethnographic video by faculty member Dr. Jayasinhji Jhala and students Alethea Carbaugh and Lauren Semmel, has been selected for the "International Competition" category of the Astra Film Festival, an international documentary film festival. [31 July 2009]
Faculty member Dr. Raquel Romberg has published her second book: Healing Dramas: Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico (University of Texas Press, 2009). [June 2009]
Doctoral student Beth Uzwiak has been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in support of her project "Mediating Violence: 'Witnessing Publics,' Nationalism, Gender, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim-Making in Belize." [6 April 2009]
Alumnus Dr. Timothy Messner is the 2009 recipient of the Society for American Archaeology’s annual Dissertation Award. His dissertation is titled Woodland Period People and Plant Interactions: New Insights from Starch Grain Analysis. [16 February 2009]
Doctoral student Elizabeth Rowe has been awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant by the Wenner-Gren Foundation in support of her project "The Role of the Progesterone Receptor in the Menstrual Cycle." She is currently seeking participants for this study of issues relating to women's health; further information for those interested in participating is available here. [21 October 2008]
Faculty member Dr. Heather Levi has published her book The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity (Duke University Press, 2008). The book has been the subject of favorable reviews in the Latin American Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, and the Stranger. [October 2008]