Teams of two or three students will serve as discussion facilitators for faculty presentations.   This role includes 1) meeting with the faculty member prior to their classroom lecture to get a short academic biography and summarize their scholarship; 2) introducing them to the class; and 3) directing classroom discussion on the reading(s) the faculty member has assigned.  Faculty members will appear in class between 6:00 and 7:15 and lecture on their research.  This lecture will be briefly introduced by the discussion facilitators, who will outline the faculty member's academic biography and their scholarship.  Directing discussion includes preparing a one-page typed list of questions based on the readings, the lecture, and the faculty member's research and providing this handout for each member of the class; each team needs to provide only one list of questions and does not need a separate list for each team member.  You will be expected to pose at least four or five questions to frame discussion.  You must also plan to lead off the discussion with a reasonably structured presentation of about 10-15 minutes; please do not plan to leaf through one of the readings and discuss the lecture off the top of your head.  The students not leading discussion on that day are responsible for contributing to the discussion and offering additional questions pertinent to the readings that may not have been raised.

Your class introduction must be preceded by a meeting with the faculty member during his/her office hours at least one week before their presentation.  Please keep in mind that faculty members are all over-committed, so you MUST contact them directly (copy all emails directly to me to document that you are indeed setting up these meetings or at least trying to do so).  Click on a faculty member's name on this page for their email.  You should coordinate this meeting with the other discussion facilitators presenting the faculty member's work:  please do not expect faculty to meet with each of you individually.  During this meeting, you should secure biographical information, like where they trained, what their central research projects have been, how they came to be anthropologists, and how they define applied anthropology. 

This will count for 10% of your course grade.  Any student that does not meet with the faculty member as required will be penalized half of these points.  Any discussion team that does not provide a written outline for the class will lose one-half of the assignment credit.

Please note that you are scheduled to present the reading directly BELOW your name.  Please do not forget your presentation day; do contact me if you have any questions.

Sept. 18

  Daniel Branstrator, Carl Capone                                                                                                
Guest Lecturer Sue Hyatt  

READINGS:  

• Changing the Subject: Conversation in Supermax (Rhodes) (Oncourse)

• Ethnography "Inside": Acknowledging the 2005 Anthony Leeds Prize for Total Confinement (Rhodes) (Oncourse)

• Deadly Symbiosis: When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Mesh (Wacquant) (Oncourse)

• Ending the Culture of Street Crime: The Lifers Public Safety Steering Committee of the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, Pennsylvania (Oncourse)

Sept. 25

   Victoria Brown, Mike Thompson                                                              
Sept. 25 Guest Lecturer: Kelly Branam

READINGS:  

• Suggested Guidelines for Institutions with Researchers Who Conduct Research on American Indians (Mihesuah)  (Oncourse)

• "Here Come the Anthros" Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology (King) (Oncourse)

• The Development of the Crow Tribal Government (Crow) (Oncourse)

Oct. 2

   James Marsh, Theresa Brown, Dar Devore                                                                  
Guest Lecturer: James Watson

READINGS:

• Anthropological Implications of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in West Africa (Livingstone)  (Oncourse)

• Type 2 Diabetes and Fetal Origins: The Promise of Prevention Programs Focusing on Prenatal Health in High Prevalance Native American Communities (Benyshek) (Oncourse)

Oct. 9

   Karen Dolley, Tamara Peirce                                                                                                         
Guest Lecturer Peg Williams 

READINGS: 

• Global Visits (this is password protected link, so you will need to retrieve the username and password from Oncourse)

• "And what are you reading, Miss? Oh, it is only a website': The New media and the Pedagogical Possibilities of Digital Culture as a South African `Teen Guide' to HIV/AIDS and STDs (Oncourse)

Oct. 16

  Maggy Baurley, Celina Wallisa, Whitney Hamilton                                                                                           
Guest Lecturer: Gina Sanchez Gibau

READINGS:  

• The Natives are Gazing and Talking Back: Reviewing the Problematics of Positionality, Voice, and Accountability among "Native" Anthropologists (Jacobs-Huey) (Oncourse)

• African American Anthropology and the Pedagogy of Activist Community Research  (Oncourse)

APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY ESSAY DUE OCT. 23

Oct. 23

   Leila Lynch, Laurie Brown, Matthew Clapp                                                                       
Guest Lecturer: Larry Zimmerman

READINGS:     

• Archaeology's Perilous Pleasures (Lowenthal) (Oncourse)

• What is Community Archaeology? (Marshall) (Oncourse)

MIDTERM EXAM DUE OCTOBER 30

Oct. 30

   Ben Stout, Tiffany Robinson                                                               
Guest Lecturer Jeanette Dickerson-Putman

READINGS:

• From Analysis to Action: Efforts to Address the Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands (Oncourse)

• Seeking Compensation for Radiation Survivors in the Marshall Islands: The Contribution of Anthropology (Barker and Johnston)  (Oncourse)

Nov. 6

 Stefani Warner, Dave Harvey                                                                              
Guest Lecturer: Chris Glidden

READINGS:  

• 2000  The Archaeologist's Laboratory of Archaeological Data.  Introduction, pp. 1-5 (Banning) (Ebrary  is an electronic library that you can access with your University username and password; if you cannot access it from a non-IUPUI connection, start at Ebrary and search for Banning under author or start at the University Library electronic resources homepage to access Ebrary; if that fails, then go to the Library electronic troubleshooting page)

• 2006  Measuring Time with Artifacts:  A History of Methods in American Archaeology.  Time, Space, and Marker Types in James Ford's 1936 Chronology for the Lower Mississippi (Lyman and O'Brien) (Netlibrary is an electronic library like Ebrary; search for Measuring Time under title)

Nov. 13

   Clare Smith, Amanda Dindiyal, Amber Lane                                                                                                         
Guest Lecturer Susan Sutton

READINGS:  

• International/Intercultural Competencies (Green and Olson) (Oncourse)

• In America's Interest: Welcoming International Students (NAFSA) (Oncourse)

• The United States and South Africa: Partnering to Address Shared Development Goals (Oncourse)

• Acompanar Obediciendo: Learning to Help in Cooperation with Zapatista Communities Simonelli, Earle, and Story) (Oncourse)

Nov. 20

   Bethany Alexoff, Waleed Abdalla, Kim Stanfa                                                                
Guest Lecturer: Paul Mullins

READINGS:   

• Imagining Blackness:  Archaeological and Cinematic Visions of African-American Life (Mullins) (Oncourse)

• Racializing the Commonplace Landscape: An Archaeology of Urban Renewal along the Color Line (Mullins) (Oncourse)

 Nov. 27

  Tanisha Suter, Nicole Suter                                                              
Guest Lecturer: Elizabeth Kryder-Reid

READINGS:  

• From Being about Something to Being for Somebody: The Ongoing Transformation of the American Museum. (Weil) (Oncourse)

• OHR Career Center--Museum Careers (web page)

Dec. 4

  Stevan Richards, Wendy Cowles                                                    
Guest Lecturer: Rick Ward

READINGS: 

• New Perspectives on the Face in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: What Anthropometry Tells Us (Moore et al) (Oncourse)

• Quantitative Approach to Identifying Abnormal Variation in the Human Face Exemplified by a Study of 278 Individuals with Five Craniofacial Syndromes (Ward et al) (Oncourse)

Last updated October 2, 2007