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DepartmentofAnthropologyGoodNewsSpring2016

UpcomingEvents

1.MainCommencementMay18,2016

2.DepartmentCommencementMay20,2016

3.SummerTermMay31-August19

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“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

MessagefromChair

InMarch,thePracticingAnthropologistStudentAssociation(PASA)heldits7thannualAnthroPlusStudentConference"BuildingCommunityEngagementandSocialEquityinaChangingWorld".Thisyear'sconferencehadover25presentationsbygraduateandundergraduatestudentsaswellastalksandworkshopsbydepartmentfaculty.ThekeynoteaddresswasdeliveredbyDr.RachelJ.Watkins,AssociateProfessorofAnthropologyatAmericanUniversity.CongratulationstothePASAboardmembersandallparticipants!

PaulShackelwillbeonsabbaticalnextyear.MichaelPaolissowillserveastheInterimchairfortheacademicyear2016-2017whileDr.Shackelisaway.WewishDr.Shackelbestofluckinhisresearch.

Announcements

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SummerCourses

ANTH222:Introduction toEcological&EvolutionaryAnthropology

TaughtBy:RobertO’Malley

ANTH240: Introduction toArchaeology

TaughtBy:JoshuaSamuels

ANTH260:Introduction toSocioculturalAnthropology&Linguistics

TaughtBy:StanleyHerman

ANTH263:SexualityandCulture

TaughtBy:ChernekaLane

ANTH265:AnthropologyofGlobalHealth

TaughtBy:MaryButler

ANTH266:ChangingClimate,ChangingCultures

TaughtBy:KathleenClendaniel

ANTH271:DigitalEthnography

TaughtBy:JeremyTrombley

ANTH423/623:PrimateBehaviorEcology

TaughtBy:RobertO’Malley

ANTH468P: AnthropologyWar&Security

TaughtBy:KatherineIzsak

Awards,Honors,andGrantsMeganBailey hasacceptedadissertationfellowshipfortheFall2016semesterfromtheUniversityofPennsylvania'sMcNeilCenter forEarlyAmericanStudies.ThefellowshipincludesaresidencyattheUniversityofPennsylvaniaandfundingtosupportherdissertationwritingandresearch.

MeganBailey andJeremyTrombley wereselectedfortheAnnG.WylieDissertationFellowship.Thisfellowshipsupportsstudentswithexcellentqualificationsandinthelaterstagesofwritingtheirdissertations.

FabioCorreawasinvitedtoattendafour-weekseminaronComplexSystemsScienceattheSantaFeInstituteinJune2016.Thisprogramprovidesauniqueopportunity forgraduatestudents,postdoctoralfellows,andfacultytofurtherdevelopasolidfoundationininterdisciplinarycomplexsystemsscience.Fabiowasselectedtoattendthisseminarbasedonhisoutstandingacademiccredentialsandstrongapplication.

LeslieCrippen wasthewinneroftheStudentPaperCompetitionforthe2016AnnualMeetingoftheSocietyforHistoricalArchaeology (SHA).Herpaper,“FindingourPlace:UncoveringQueerHiddenHeritageintheU.S.withtheNationalParkService”wasthestrongfavoriteoftheStudentPaperCompetitionCommitteeandherworkstoodoutamongthejudgesasapieceoffirst-ratescholarship.

SeanDowney hasbeenawardeda$500,000grantthroughtheNationalScienceFoundation(NSF)FacultyEarlyCareerDevelopmentProgram(CAREER).Throughthegrant,Downey,ateamofgraduatestudentsandinternationalcollaboratorswillconductacomprehensivestudyofafarmingpracticecommoninMayanvillagesinBelize.

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EmiliaGuevara hasbeenawardedUMD'sGraduateAll-S.T.A.R.Fellowshipfortheacademicyear2016-2017.Thisawardrecognizesgraduatestudentswhoarebothoutstandingscholarsandoutstandinggraduateassistants.

EmiliaGuevarawasalsothewinneroftheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation2016PhotoContest.Emilia'sphotographentitledWatermelonHarvest isfeaturedinthe2016AAAcalendar.

SarahN.Janesko receivedtheOutstandingGraduateAssistantAwardforherworkwiththeMuseumScholarshipandMaterialCultureCertificateProgram.Thisrecognitionestablishesheramongthetop2%ofGraduateAssistantsattheUniversityofMaryland.

Katherine(Jo)Johnson wasawardedsecondplaceforherposter,"UsingEthnographicUnderstandingofVulnerabilityandResiliencetoEnhanceCollaborativeLearningandAdaptationtoClimateChange”attheSocietyforAppliedAnthropology (SfAA)2016ConferenceheldinVancouver.ThepostersummarizesthevulnerabilitiesandresilienciesidentifiedbyDealIslandMarshandCommunityProjectStakeholders.

RebeckaLundgren receivedtheMarjorieC.HornOperationsResearchAwardinSeptemberfromtheResearch,TechnologyandUtilization(RTU)DivisionoftheOfficeofPopulationandReproductiveHealth,BureauforGlobalHealthattheUnitedStatesAgencyforInternationalDevelopment(USAID).TheawardrecognizedLundgren’sdedicationandexemplaryserviceinoperationsresearch,andinthescientificinquiryintheareasoffertilityawarenessandnormativechangeinfamilyplanningpopulations.

MagdaE.Mankel wasawardedtheGraduateSchoolSummerResearchFellowshipforthesummer2016.Thisfellowshipisawardedtomid-careerdoctoralstudentsanditwillhelpMagdabeginherfieldworkandresearchregardingtheproductionandmobilizationofnew,migrantheritagealongtheArizona,U.S.-Sonora,Mexicoborder.

AdrianeMichaelis wasawardedanInternationalGraduateResearchFellowshipfromtheGraduateSchooltoparticipateinasoilsciencescourseattheUniversityofTübingeninGermany.Thisopportunity ispartofacollaborativeprojectamongDr.SeanDowneyandDr.BruceJamesatUMDaswellasfacultyattheUniversityofTübingen.

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KathrynLafrenzSamuelswasawardedaSemesterResearchandScholarshipAward(RASA)fromTheGraduateSchool,UMD,forresearchontheculturalheritageofanthropogenicclimatechange.

MeganSpringate hasbeenawardedaPresident'sTravelFundforEmergingHistoriansgrantfromtheOrganizationofAmericanHistorians.SpringatewasapanelistforNewDirectionsinLGBTQPublicHistoryandiscommittedtoincludingthebroadandintersectionalhistoriesofallLGBTQAmericansintheinitiative.

ScholarshipandServiceJanetChernela, togetherwithEmilyColon,EmilyDooley,andEmilyMasucci, JavierCarrera-Rubio,andChristopherHewlett,establishedCRACIA– theCenterforResearchAndCollaborationinIndigenousAmerica.Thecenterbringstogetherfaculty,researchers,students,practitioners,andindigenousaffiliatestoexpandtheknowledgeandresourcesofAmazonianStudiesattheUniversityofMarylandandthesurrounding region.TheCenter fostersacohesivecommunityforresearchandprogramcreationthroughseminars,conferences,filmshowings,courses,lectures,androundtablediscussionsbymembersandvisitors.Pleaseseewebsite:http://www.cracia.org/

JanetChernela wasinvitedtodiscussthenewfilm,EmbraceoftheSerpent,attheThirdAnnualGeorgetownLatinAmericanFilmFestival.FilmedintheNorthwestAmazonofBrazil,EmbraceoftheSerpentisanallegoricaltaleoflostknowledgeandtheravagesofcolonialism.

JudithFreidenberggaveatalktitled, "ImaginariesofImmigration,EthnicityandSocialClassinanagriculturalcolony".ThistalkusedFreidenberg'sbook"TheInventionoftheJewishGauchos"translatedintoSpanishtoleadaseminaronthemiddleclassattheInstituteofSocialandEconomicDevelopment(InstitutodeDesarrolloEconomicoySocial).

JudithFreidenberggaveatalkattheUniversityofBuenosAiresworkinggrouponmigration,populationanddevelopment, wheresheisanaffiliated visiting professor. Thetalkwas titled,"CitizenshipPracticesandEmigrationCultures: TheCaseofUSnationalsinArgentina".

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JudithFreidenberg gavealecturetitled,"Conversations onmigrationintheUS"foraclassfordoctoralandpost-doctoralstudentsattheUniversityofBuenosAires.

KatieGeddes internedfortheWhiteHouseCouncilonEnvironmentalQualitywheresheworkedonawiderangeofenvironmentalpolicyissuesaffectingtheAmericanpeople.Sheservedon theConservationandWildlifeteamintheOfficeofLandandWaterwithintheExecutiveOfficeofthePresident.

ChristinaGetrich startedanewlocally-basedresearchprojectexaminingthehealthandwell-beingofDeferredActionforChildhoodArrivals(DACA)recipientslivinginMaryland.ShereceivedaResearchandScholarshipAward(RASA)tosupportthisprojectduringsummer2016.TheprojectisbeingcarriedoutbyateamofAnthropologygraduateandundergraduatestudents;theteamisexcitedaboutconductingalocally-basedprojectandconnectingwithimmigrantyoungadultsinthesurroundingcommunity.

JudithLynneHanna spokeon“ThePerformingBrain:DanceCognition,EmotionandMovement”attheRoyalAnthropologicalInstituteinLondon. Hertalkson“DanceandMovementforaHealthyBrain”atStrathmorePerformingArtsCenterinRockville,Marylandand“DanceintheLearningClassroom:Why/HowtoUsetheBrainasChoreographer,”aspartoftheLearning&theBrainConferenceon"TheScienceofImagination:CultivatingCreativity,CuriosityandPassioninSchool,”inOrlando,Floridahaddancemovementactivitiestodemonstratetheelementsofdanceanditscreation.Hanna’s talksarebasedonneuroscience researchinthepastdecade,agoldeneraofnewtechnologies,thatrevealsthepowerofdancetopromotephysical,emotional,andcognitivedevelopment.

TracyJenkins workedwithHistoricEaston,Inc.,andAssembleDesigntoinstallawalkingtourofarchaeologyinEaston,Maryland.Thetour includesfourinterpretivesignsandabrochureforself-guidedtoursandfeaturesresearchfromTheHillCommunityProject'steamandHistoricEaston. ThetourisfundedbytheMarylandHeritageAreaAuthority,HistoricEaston,theEastEndNeighborhoodAssociation,andtheTalbotCounty OfficeofTourism.AnthropologystudentBeccaLaneanddepartmentalumnusTimVettel helpedinstalltheinterpretivesigns.

TracyJenkins gaveapresentationonTheHillCommunityProjectaspartofapanelonAfrican-AmericanarchaeologyintheD.C.regioninAprilattheinvitationofDr.DennisDoster,managerofPrinceGeorge'sCounty'sBlackHistoryprogramandadjunctprofessorinAfrican-AmericanStudies.

KathrynLafrenzSamuels gaveaninvitedlecturefortheRecoveringVoicesSeminarSeriesattheSmithsonianNationalMuseumofNaturalHistoryinWashington,DCinMay.Her talkwastitled“RecoveringHeritageRightsinTunisia:TheSpecterofCustomaryLaw.”

MarkP.Leone wasoneoffivelecturersinaweek-longcourseinAprilatOxfordUniversityentitledThePoliticsofHeritage.Thecourseexplored thediversityofcontemporaryideasanddebatesaboutthepoliticsofheritageandtakesstockofcurrentapproaches inarchaeologyandrelatedfieldstoquestionsofpublicengagement,ofculturalownershipandrepatriation.

MarkLeone and KathrynDeeley gaveatouronArchaeologyinAnnapolis.ThistourshowcasedthefindingsofmorethanthreedecadesofarchaeologicalresearchinMaryland'scapital.TheArchaeologyinAnnapolisprojectpioneeredcriticalarchaeologyandpublicengagementinorder tolookatformsofclassandracialoppressionandthemovementstocombatthem.

MichaelPaolisso organized(co-PI)andparticipatedinfourdayworkworkshopon"ParticipatoryModellingforActionOrientedOutcomes"attheNationalSocio-EnvironmentalSynthesisCenter(SESYNC)inAnnapolis,MDinFebruary.Workshopparticipantsincludedresearchersfromarangeofsocialandenvironmentalscienceswhoworked togethertosynthesizethevariousformsandtypesofparticipatorymodellingapproachesandtoidentifyareaswhereresearchisneeded.

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MichaelPaolisso participatedasaDistinguishedScholar-LecturerinanAnthropology ImmersionWorkshopforthePostdoctoralSocio-EnvironmentalImmersionProgramattheNationalSocio-EnvironmentalSynthesisCenter(SESYNC)inAnnapolis,MD inFebruaryandMarch.Thisworkshopconsistedoffiveseniorenvironmentalanthropologistsprovidingpostdoctoralresearchersinthesocialandenvironmentalscienceswithtraininginthecoreconceptsandfoundationsofanthropology,andhowanthropologyhasaddressedenvironmentalissues.

MichaelPaolissoparticipatedinPublicPresentationasmemberofDoctoralExaminationCommitteeforFacultyofSocialSciencesattheUniversityofLeuveninBelgiumearlierthisMarch.ThisdoctoraldefensewasforastudentwhohasgraduatedfromtheMAAprogram.

MichaelPaolisso participated,asmemberofInternationalExpertBoard,inanannualreviewoftheEuropeanUnionproject"Resilience-IncreasingStrategiesforCoastsToolkitProject(RISC-Kit),"atFaro,PortugalinApril.TheEUresearchprojectincludes10casestudiesofcoastalareasthroughoutEurope.Theprojecthasdevelopedcomplexformalsocio-ecologicalmodelslinkinghydrology, flooding,erosion,humanandinfrastructureexposureandvulnerability,andhumanresponsestoseverestormevents.Theprojectisdevelopinganonline toolkitforcoastalplannersandstakeholderswhocanusethesoftwareandmodelstoassessrisksofstormsandfloodingalongtheircoasts.

MichaelPaolisso,Katherine(Jo)Johnson, andElizabethVanDolahhavebeenworkingonTheDealIslandMarshandCommunityProject tobuildresiliencetoclimatechangeonMaryland'sEasternShore.Aspartoftheproject,theyhostedaworkshop inJanuaryandcommunityconversationinFebruarytotargetareasoftheDealIslandPeninsulaforcoastalresiliencyassessmentandplanning.Pleaseseethewebsiteformoredetails:http://www.dealislandmarshandcommunityproject.org/

BarnetPavao-Zuckermanpresented,“JustMoveOn”:LessonsfromtheCareerofDr.BetsyReitz,attheSocietyforAmericanArchaeologyinOrlando,FL.Dr.Pavaogavetheintroductory talkintheSocietyforAmericanArchaeology’sFryxellAwardSymposiumhonoringDr.ElizabethJ.Reitz.Dr.PavaowasDr.Reitz’sfirstanthropologyPhDgraduate.

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ThurkaSangaramoorthy ledtheorganizationofanewlectureseriestitled“GlobalHealthandCulture.”TheinauguraleventfeaturedJasonBeaubien,NPR’sglobalhealthanddevelopmentcorrespondent. Theeventattracted200attendees,amajorityofwhomwereundergraduatestudentsinterestedinthesocialcontextofhealth.

ThurkaSangaramoorthy participatedinandmoderatedapanelatthe3rdAnnualParrenJ.MitchellSymposiumtitledRacism:InSicknessandInHealth.Thesymposiumfocusedonhowraceandracismshapehealthoutcomes.

PaulShackel gaveaninvitedlectureintheDepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofVirginiainMarch.Hispresentation“HeritageMatters:AnArchaeologyofNorthernAppalachiaandtheNewMigration”providedanoverviewofhistoricandcontemporary immigrationonNortheasternPennsylvania.

TonyWhitehead isteachinganOsherLifeLongLearningInstituteCourseinhisresidencecommunity,RestonVirginia.Thiseightweekcoursetitled,"HumanDifference,CulturalUnderstanding,andSocialHealing”,exploressuchlocationsofhumandifference,communicationbreakdowns,andconflictas:gender,race/racism,ethnicity,regional,religious,andcrosscultural.

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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PublicationsJanet 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.

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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: Second-Generation 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.”

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Judith Lynne Hanna’s book, Dancing to Learn: The Brain’s Cognition, Emotion, and Movementwill 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 Hesedwrote 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. Janeskoand Sarah A. Grady co-authored 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 Laboratory and describe current research questions.

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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 Guevarapublished “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, “Place-based 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 Shackelpublished “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 Paolissopublished “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.

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ConferencesandPresentations

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 studies throughout the National Park Service.

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Harvested watermelons by migrant workers on Maryland’s Eastern ShorePhoto 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 government.

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Sarah N. Janeskopresented a paper titled “Architectural and Archaeological Spaces of Late-Nineteenth 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.

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 African-American cemeteries, the legacy of the African Burial Ground project, and opportunities for community service within anti-racist archaeology.

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.

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels organized the roundtable “Using Ethnography in Public History to Challenge the Exclusive Past” with Alicia McGill, and was a participant in the roundtable, for the annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, held in Baltimore, MD in March.

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.

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.

Christine Miller Hesed and Michael Paolissopresented "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 how local environmental, socio-cultural and justice factors affect the vulnerability of African American churches to flooding and increased risks due to climate change, for the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

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Michael Paolisso and Jeremy Trombleypresented "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 free-ranged 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.

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UMDRepresentationatSocietyforHistoricalArcheologyKevin 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. Janeskopresented 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.

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".

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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.

Emily Colon presented Building Intercultural Relationships: The “Middle Ground” in a North American Field Course in the Brazilian Amazonat the Session: Intersections in Diversity, Gender, Ethnicity and Change.

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.

Shirley Fiske and Robert Winthrop were roundtable participants at the Session: Beyond Changing the Atmosphere”: What Next? Session.

Katie Geddes presented Opposing Viewpoints of Environmentalists and Watermen: Implications for Chesapeake Bay Managementat the Session: Fishing and Government Regulations: the Intersection of Public, Private, and Community Interests.

Christina Getrich presented Navigating Exclusionary Immigration Policies: Second-Generation 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

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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/ethnographies-migrant-mental-health-united-states-sma/

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.

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.

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CongratulationstotheGraduatingClassof2016!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 HesedIntegrating 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. JohnsonResilience 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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Leslie CrippenFinding our Place: Uncovering Queer Hidden Heritage in the U.S. with the National Park Service

Katie GeddesConflict on the Chesapeake: Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Watermen Environmentalism

Umai HabibahUnderstanding the Refugee Experience Through Their Past and Present

Sarah JaneskoRemembering the African American Tenant Farmers; Exploring Historical Archaeology at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Magda E. MankelGauging Hispanic Interests in Hispanic Heritage Resources: An exploratory study of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, Tucson, Arizona

Rebecca QuickA Complicated Relationship: The World Bank and Human Rights Non-profits

BachelorofArts(B.A.)inAnthropology

Angelica BarrallLauren BokorAstrid Diaz Anna DottleAdefolarin FaladeSydney FentonCristina Fifer*Matthew GabbRichard GrinerYelena GusevaJulianna HimelsteinJudith JoklikEmily JoyLisa LaneEric Laughlin*Emily MasucciKristin Ngo

Catherine OidtmanAshley RivasTarika SankarMegan SchleicherOlivia Shea*Sabrina ShiraziSamuel SilvermanSydney SoteloRebecca SteinChelsea StoltJames SullivanDelmis UmanzorTaylor VaughanDonald WarnerLauren WienerWilliam Wiles

Have a wonderful summer break!

*Graduating withHonors