OPPORTUNITIES
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in June of 2012 that of all, yes
all occupations tracked by the BLS, jobs for anthropologists (to include sub-fields, especially archaeology) are expected to grow more that all other occupations
combined,
a staggering 21% over the next 8 years, with all other social science related fields projected to grow 18%....The job market for anthropologists has never been better, more diversified, or more lucrative (no matter flavor of filthy lucre you favor – cash money, benefits, tenure of one shade or another, world travel, adoring students, stacks of papers to grade, etc. and then some and so on)." (excerpt from
L. Angelina Howell's blog)
The organizers of the South Carolina Anthropology
Student Conference (SCASC) are soliciting abstracts for papers and posters to
be presented at SCASC 2013, Sunday, April 21st, on the Winthrop University
campus. Students from academic
institutions across the state of South Carolina are invited to submit
abstracts, as well as students from outside the state doing research on South
Carolina. This conference will feature student presenters at
both the undergraduate and graduate level and will provide a friendly forum for
presenting a conference paper or academic poster, with constructive feedback
from fellow students and professors. Papers and posters should employ an anthropological
perspective. Students need not be in a department of anthropology (since not
all colleges and universities in the state have such departments), but a
student submitting an abstract needs to have been mentored in the ethics,
concepts, and methods of anthropology by an advisor for the project. Research
is welcomed from all the subfields of anthropology -- cultural, linguistic, and
biological anthropology, and archaeology.
Oral history projects are welcomed, since they definitely fit within the
scope of this conference. Since the conference will be at the end of the spring
term, it will be a good opportunity to share course-related individual or
collaborative research projects, as well as the results of longer-term thesis
projects. This is a good venue for presenting work that students plan to go on
and present in national and international conferences, as well. Abstracts should be 250 words or less. The abstract
needs to have a title, followed by either (paper) or (poster) to indicate the
student’s preferred format for presentation. A student may submit one abstract
for the conference. The student’s name, contact information, and affiliation
should be included at the bottom of the page, along with the faculty advisor’s name
and contact information. The advisor needs to review the abstract before it is
sent. Please e-mail abstracts to Claudia
Carriere at cfcarri@mailbox.sc.edu
with “SCASC 2013 abstract” in the subject line.
Abstracts must be received by 5PM on Friday, March 29th, in
order to be considered for the SCASC 2013 program. There is a $5 registration fee, which is to be paid
on-site, the morning of the conference. All presenters must register for the
conference; students who are not presenting may register to attend, or may
attend a morning or afternoon session without registering to get a sense of
what a professional student conference is like. Questions
about the conference may be directed to Claudia Carriere (cfcarri@mailbox.sc.edu) in the
Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina – Columbia, at
803-777-6500.
The annual Conference on Gender will be held on March
26 in the Montgomery Room in Burwell. Students who have completed a research
paper on an issue of gender and who would be interested in presenting a
truncated version of that paper to fellow students and faculty should send an
abstract (100-150 word summary of the argument) to Dr. Goodchild or Dr. Brunow
before Feb. 15. Contact: Dr. Sally Hitchmough Email: hitchmoughsa@wofford.edu Telephone/Extension: 4578.
This is a six-week program in La Paz, Bolivia, offering two integrated courses: (1) politics and culture of the Andes and (2) multidisciplinary social science methods. The field school nature of this course will be emphasized as the curriculum is integrated and predicated on active, experiential learning in multiple sites in La Paz. For instance, while discussing the social impact of the 1952 Revolution in the first course, we will visit the National Archives to search for relevant documents as well as seek out Bolivians for oral histories as assignments in the second course
The Stony Brook University field school is offering a full time program of 15 upper division credits in Kenya in the Fall and Spring. The program exposes students to all aspects of Archaeology, Ecology, Geology, Human Evolution and Paleoecology. The courses are taught by the world's leaders in these fields. Among the co-instructors are the Leakey family, who have worked in the Turkana basin for 40 years and contributed to the discoveries of the fossil evidence for human evolution between 7 and 1 million years.
Find more opportunities on the American Anthropology Association Field Schools and Internships pages.