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• 2008 Archaeology Field School
• Anthropology faculty receive Student Council Faculty/Staff Awards
• 15 Minutes of Fame (assorted press)
• Gibau Receives Advocate of the Dream Award
• Chapter of Alpha Lambda Honor Society Established at IUPUI
• Historical Markers project on The Spot
• 2008 Celebration of Scholarship
• Anthropology News Column
• Spring 2006 Celebration of Scholarship Anthropology Awards
• Gina Gibau's lecture "Cyber CVs: Conversations on Cape Verdean Diasporic Identities" available online
• Recent Faculty Publications

This summer the IUPUI Field School is conducting excavations in Sheridan under the direction of Chris Glidden.  The Field School is examining the circa 1828 site of Hamilton County's first White settlers, George and Hannah Boxley.  The Boxleys had been abolitionists in Virginia, and in their new home on the Indiana frontier they apparently became an Underground Railroad station.  Eventually one of the Boxleys' sons built a grand home on the site in 1878 that burned in 1990, but the original cabin was recently renovated and now sites at the original settlement site in what is now Veteran's Park.  The excavations are being conducted in partnership with the Sheridan Historical Society and the Town of Sheridan.  Volunteers and visitors are welcome through June 18.

For more on the excavation, see the Indianapolis Star article from May 29 or background information on the dig at the IU Home Pages or  the Archaeology Field School Home Page.

Paul Mullins and Chris Glidden each received a Student Council Faculty/Staff Award at the School of Liberal Arts Celebration of Scholarship April 18.  Chris received the Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award for her work on the Anthropology Club.  Paul receive the Outstanding Academic Advisor Award.  Great job!

A story in Richmond, Virginia's Style Weekly on African-American history in the former Confederate capital includes some thoughts from Anthropology Chair (and former Richmond resident) Paul Mullins.  Looking to completely exhaust his 15 minute allotment, Paul is also quoted in a June 2nd article in the Indianapolis Star on cemetery preservation work in Indiana.

Susan Sutton (Anthropology Professor and Dean of International Studies) and Ian McIntosh (Anthropology Adjunct and Office of International Affairs) appear in the film IUPUI and Moi: An Expanding Relationship on Youtube discussing the IUPUI-Moi University partnership which involves Anthropology faculty including Sutton, McIntosh, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, and Peg Williams.  We knew them before they were famous.

IUPUI's Black Student Union selected Anthropology Professor Gina Gibau to receive the "Advocate of the Dream Award" at the 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Dinner.   The award is presented to a faculty or staff member who exemplifies the values of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in their daily living, in addition to their constant involvement and promotion of the Preamble of the Black Student Union as a viable campus organization. The dinner was held on Sunday, January 20, 2008.  Way to go Gina!

On November 13, 2007 IUPUI initiated its first members into Lambda Alpha, the National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology. One of six chapters in Indiana and over 150 nationwide, the IUPUI Lamda Alpha chapter is the only one in the IU system. The IUPUI chapter was formed in large part due to the work of student Jacqueline Ivy, who is the group’s first president. Lambda Alpha offers merit scholarships for outstanding seniors, juniors and graduate students and publishes the annual Lambda Alpha Journal.  The IUPUI chapter's first members are: Sherry Adkins, Beryl-Denise Aguilera, James Brewer, Brian Bunn, Krystle Buschner, Charmayne Champion-Shaw, Wendy Cowles, Cari Cox, William Connerly, Christina Denny, Rachel Gentry, Gina S. Gibau (faculty), Chris Glidden (faculty), Jennifer Hilbert, Susan Hyatt (faculty), Jacqueline Ivy, Stephanie Kern, Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (faculty), Aaron Method, Kara Peterson, John Starbuck, Wade Tharp, James Watson (faculty), and Larry Zimmerman (faculty).  Click on thumbnail images of the induction ceremony below.

The November 2007 issue of Anthropology News has an article by Anthropology student Guy Kuroiwa on the Inside/Out Program.  You can get a PDF version here.  Great job, Guy!

Historical Markers project on The Spot

The October 24 episode of The Spot has a piece on the campus Historical Marker project with Campus History committee member and Anthropology faculty member Paul Mullins.

Celebration of Scholarship

In April 2008 the finest students in Anthropology and Museum Studies were recognized at the Celebration of Scholarship.  Larger images can be found on the School of Liberal Arts Flick'r page.

Courtney Singleton (with Paul Mullins) received the Outstanding Anthropology Student Award.  Great job Courtney!	Kara Peterson received the Friends of Anthropology Scholarship.  Way to go, Kara!	Bill Connerly (with Barbara Jackson) received the Manuela Reynolds Award.	The Loretta Lunsford Scholarship winners include three Anthropology majors:  in the front row at 2nd and 3rd from the left are Dar Devore and Courtney Singleton respectively, and in the back row 2nd from the left is Kara Peterson.  Way to go guys!

The Masarachia Scholars include four Anthropology majors:  front row Heather Meloy (2nd from left) and Praneetha Chaganti, and back row Courtney Singleton (2nd from right) and Dan Branstrator (1st upper right).	Krystle Buschner with Larry Zimmerman receiving the Museum Studies Award.	The camera just seems to always find Dr. Hyatt!

RECENT FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Larry Zimmerman's article "Real People or Reconstructed People?:  Ethnocritical Archaeology, Ethnography, and Community Building" appears in the volume Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices (edited by Quetzil E. Castaneda and Christopher N. Matthews, Altamira Press, 2008).  Way to go Larry!

Paul Mullins and Chris Glidden's paper "Grassroots Politics and Archaeological Engagement along the Color Line" appears in the March 2008 African Diasporan Archaeology Network Newsletter (click here for the PDF version).

Paul Mullins' paper "Marketing in a Multicultural Neighborhood: An Archaeology of Corner Stores in the Urban Midwest" appears in the Spring 2008 special issue issue of Historical Archaeology "Living in Cities Revisited: Trends in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Urban Archaeology," edited by  Mark Warner and Paul Mullins.  Visit his web page for more information. Paul also appears for a few seconds in the documentary "Anthropology: Looking at the Human Condition" in The Adventures of the Young Indiana Jones volume 3 DVD.

Liz Kryder-Reid has an essay entitled "Sites of Power and the Power of Sight: Vision in the California Mission Landscapes" in Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision, edited by Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles and published by University of Pittsburgh Press.  Good job, Liz!

Larry Zimmerman’s chapter, “Simple Ideas To Teach Big Concepts: ‘Excavating’ And Analysing The Professor’s Desk Drawer And Wastebasket,” appeared in Archaeology to Delight and Instruct Active Learning in the University Classroom, edited by Heather Burke and Claire Smith of Flinders University in Australia.  The cover of the book (right) features an “archaeologist action figure.” In Burke and Smith’s paper about their Archaeological Theory class at Flinders, they describe how each student had to design an action figure of an archaeologist important in contemporary archaeological theory, then argue various scenarios from that archaeologist’s perspective. The class included online chats between the students and the dozen professors. The Larry Zimmerman action figure, held in the hand of the student who created it (left), included his strange addiction to playing a didgeridoo.  It is a hauntingly realistic depiction of Dr. Zimmerman, albeit it with much darker hair.