Welcome to the Department of Anthropology

at Miami University

Dr. Jeb Card and Amanda Friend

successfully scan a human skull with

lasers.

Miami University Anthropology students meet the Dalai Lama.

Kaitlyn Hunter

examines a human pelvis in biological anthropology lab.

Anthropology students set up an excavation unit in

San Salvador, Bahamas.

Addison Kimmel is now in graduate school at

Northwestern University.

Evan Barr-Beare befriends the

Tibetan children of the

Tibetan Children’s

Village school in Dharamsala,

India.

Lisa Wilmore conducted an ethnographic research project

with Maasai women in Tanzania in 2011.

Today she’s a paraprofessional working with immigrant

families in Michigan

Alex McFarland studied primates in Borneo

Enjoying local body art in Delhi, India.

Miami students learn to level a floor while excavating a

historical site in Ohio.

Trevor Jordan is trying to be head of the class in the

new biological anthropology lab.

Rachel Smith, Erica Fox, Alexa Pohl, and Robert Tolley with author and

anthropologist Wade Davis.

Devin Fausnaugh snorkels at the Great

Barrier Reef

Anthropology students formally

present their global health

projects.

Lee Hunt is staring into the soul of a desert oasis

in Egypt.

ATH students visit a Mosque in

Berlin.

Maura Reilly makes her way through the

thick landscape of Ecuador.

Miami anthropology students in Luxembourg City during a

summer workshop in 2010.

Kallie Pankau photographs

artifacts in the archaeology

teaching lab.

Charleen Case and

Maura Reilly take a break in a forest in Ecuador.

While studying abroad in Egypt,

Emily Crane worked as a reporter for the

Egypt Daily News newspaper.

David McIntosh

receives the first Ronald and Judith Spielbauer Award for the Best Paper in

Archaeology and Material

Culture.

Abby Sapadin studied musical

practices in Bali

Megan Burlew, Genevieve Cowan and Grace Harten at

the mortuary temple in Giza, 2010.

Kristen Vliet presented her class research project at the

American Anthropological Association national meetings.

Students excavate an Ohio historical site with

Dr. Ron Spielbauer.

ATH major Kerry Logan

(2010) studied abroad in

Rome, Italy.

Today she coordinates volunteer

resources, and community and

corporate partnerships for a

Chicago non-profit.

MUDEC students explore Europe in anthropology

classes.

Erica Fox takes on a cow in the

streets of McLeod Ganj in Fall 2011.

Erica now serves with Teach For

America

In Dr. Hay-Rollins’ class, students create games to

teach anthropology.

Annie Maundrell

studies gorillas at the Cincinnati

Zoo.

Colleen Payne (2010) at the

Taj Mahal.

Miami Anthropology student shows

refugee children her

camera.

Dr. Card helps his students set up an archaeological grid

during a class exercise.

Lee Hunt and Renate

Seiwert ride camels on the Giza Plateau

in Egypt.

Anthropology major Ashley

Malin received the 2013

President’s Service Award

And so did Anthropology

major Erica Fox!

Kaitlyn Hunter and Alexander

McFarlandare learning

while having fun in biological

anthropology lab.

Students celebrate

Tibetan culture week with a prayer flag ceremony

conducted by Tibetan monk Ven Khenpo

Samdup.

Students examine bones in a biological anthropology

class.

Sarah Breedlove, Abi Mendez, and Danielle Browske are huddled together in a mob at the Indian-Pakistan

Border.

Learning anthropology

through games

Nate Devore is now working on his

medical degree at the

University of Toledo

Members of the Field Research Workshop in Egypt relax in a desert

oasis.

Colin Brand, Lee Stefani and Dane Cook received the 2012 Rebecca Jeanne Andrew Memorial Award.

After returning from India,

Jessica DeCandia practices her

Hindi with Prof Lalita Satyal.

Anthropology students

pose in front of the Thai

Royal Palace.

Students celebrate Tibetan Culture

week with a ceremony by

Geshe Kalsung Damdul.

In Dr. Klumbyte’s class in Luxembourg, sometimes you

have to dress up and perform!

She’s now in the M.A. Program in Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati.

Janine M. Sparks is holding a decorated shard in the Bahamas.

Members of the Anthropology Department's Field Research Workshop enjoy traditional

Egyptian foods along the shore of the Red Sea.

Renate Seiwert shakes hands with Dr. Mark Peterson after receiving the

2011 outstanding

senior award.

Ryan Stuckey learning to curate archaeological

artifacts.

An anthropology class at Miami University’s Dolibois European

Center visits a mosque.

Anthropology majors Amanda Friend and Jacob Negrey enjoying the snow while studying biological

anthropology at Corpus Christi, Cambridge.

Amanda is now a PhD candidate at the University of

South Florida

Jacob is earning his PhD at Boston

University

Students wearing traditional Tibetan dress in the foothills of the Himalayas during the Tibetan Studies Program,

Fall 2011.

Anthropology student Nathan Devore receives the President’s

Service Award in 2010.

Timeka Clifford is enjoying her time

in biological anthropology lab.

A donation from the Anthropology Department helped send Miami students to

the Powershift environmental program in Washington DC in April 2011.

In San Salvador, Bahamas, students

conduct a shell bead recovery.

Sophia Perdikaris is

now a professor of archaeology

at Brooklyn College and

CUNY.

Erica Fox, Ellen Quigley, and Colin Brand have an impromptu lesson

with Dr. Suarez in the biology teaching lab.

Charleen Case looks out for monkeys in Ecuador.

The best project awards for Dr. Klumbyte’s students in Luxembourg, with MUDEC Dean Thierry Leterie.

After graduating in 2012, Venicia Slotten helped analyze artifacts from a buried Mayan city in El Salvador.

Dr. Card’s students learn how to evaluate a site in

archaeology class.