Please see this link for a video of Luis Vivanco’s talk on bicycle cultures at the University of California, Davis from April, 2013. Prof. Vivanco’s talk begins at roughly 21 minutes in.
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Two Anthropology Professors Get Competitive College of Arts and Sciences Awards
Posted: November 17th, 2013 by dblom
Each year the College of Arts and Sciences provides up to five Faculty Research Support Awards (FRSA), including one Joan Smith Award for research that addresses, illuminates or seeks to ameliorate a pressing issue of social injustice. This year we are proud to announce that Anthropology actually got two of the awards.
Emily Manetta received a Faculty Research Support Award for her project Vanishing Syntax: Question formation in Romani and the role of endangered languages in linguistic theory. She will investigate question formation processes in the language Romani as part of a larger project in Indic comparative syntax.
Teresa Mares earned the Joan Smith Award and a Faculty Research Support Award to support the first stages of a multi-year ethnographic project on the food practices of Latino/a migrant workers in Vermont’s dairy industry. Through this study, she will work to develop baseline data on the incidence of food insecurity among these workers and will conduct in-depth interviews to better understand the practices and strategies that migrant households engage to access food.
Congratulations to the both of them!
UVM Alumni studying at the University of Chicago!
Posted: November 12th, 2013 by tmares
Congratulations to Mara Zocco (Class of 2012) who recently completed her MA at the University of Chicago in the Master of Arts in the Social Sciences Program. Also, congratulations to Cecilia Ackerman (Class of 2010) who is now starting this very same program!
On Two Wheels: Update on Luis Vivanco’s Research on Bike Culture
Posted: October 29th, 2013 by tmares
Recently, Luis Vivanco returned from delivering a lecture called “Reconsidering the Bicycle” at Hamilton College, part of his ongoing research on bike cultures in the United States and abroad. For a write-up on the lecture, please click here.
With support from UVM’s REACH program, Vivanco visited Bogotá, Columbia to study urban bike cultures and bicycle advocacy this past summer and will return for further research, sponsored by the Fulbright Program.
From Vivanco’s field visit to Columbia, 2013
Politics via Bike, Bogota 2013
Local Media Coverage of the EAT Exhibit!
Posted: October 29th, 2013 by tmares
Check out the recent story on WCAX about the EAT Exhibit at the Fleming Museum, curated by students in Jennifer Dickinson’s honors college seminar class “Introduction to Museum Studies”
http://www.wcax.com/story/23793510/fleming-exhibit-at-full-plate-for-uvm-students#.Umsy5nzg6Qs.email
Also, make sure to check out the EAT exhibit at the Fleming Museum on UVM’s Campus before May 14th, 2014.
http://www.uvm.edu/~fleming/index.php?category=exhibitions&page=eat
Video Available for James B. Petersen First Annual Archaeology Lecture
Posted: October 19th, 2013 by tmares
For the video footage of Dr. John Crock’s lecture “Exploring the 14th-16th Centuries of Native Settlement in the Champlain Valley” courtesy of Vermont’s Regional Educational Television Network, please visit: http://retn.org/show/exploring-14th-16th-centuries-native-settlement-champlain-valley
Consulting Archaeology Program Research on Paleoindians and the Champlain Sea
Posted: October 15th, 2013 by jcrock
Jess Robinson, John Crock and Wetherbee Dorshow will be presenting their poster Through the Mountains to the Sea: An Analysis of Champlain Sea Shorelines, Site Patterning, and Travel Corridors in the Eastern Champlain Basin at Paleoamerican Odyssey: A Conference Focused on First Americans Archaeology, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on October 18th. http://paleoamericanodyssey.com/index.html. Crock, Robinson and Dorshow will present a related paper entitled Reconstructing Paleoindian Settlement, Travel and the Cognitive Landscape within the Champlain Valley of Vermont at the upcoming Eastern States Archaeological Federation conference in Portland, Maine later this month.
Rachel Aronson’s Summer Research Award
Posted: October 14th, 2013 by tmares
Gleaning veggies while gleaning data!
Rachel Aronson, a UVM Anthropology major and Honors College student, spent this past summer doing fieldwork about the role of culturally appropriate food in a nonprofit in Massachusetts that works to prevent domestic and sexual violence. Having received a Summer Research Award from UVM’s Office of Undergraduate Research, Rachel had the opportunity to spend her whole summer in the field collecting data about this topic.
Many people, mostly women and children, come to the organization in need of emotional and physical support during times of crisis in their lives. Many of the women are food insecure, and some of them have run a long way from their homes and communities to seek shelter. Many of the organization’s staff are interested in the local food movement and work to promote healthy eating and nutrition among the program’s clients. During her time in the field, Rachel interviewed staff, clients, and volunteers about their impressions of the local food movement, nutrition, and food safety nets in the US and discussed ways that their cultural, physical, and emotional food needs were or were not addressed while in the program.In addition, she discussed the conflicts and opportunities created by the intense attachment that people have to culturally specific foods, and the way that these foods can create a sense of comfort and home in unfamiliar and dangerous situations.
Rachel is hard at work analyzing her data and plans to complete and defend her honor’s thesis this Spring. Rachel’s work represents the exciting opportunities that are available for students interested in applied fieldwork and we’re excited to see where her research takes her!
New Publications Forthcoming for Scott Matter
Posted: October 8th, 2013 by dblom
Scott Matter has two book chapters forthcoming:
Debating belonging on contested land: cultural politics and territoriality in rural Kenya,” in Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues between State and Tradition. Allan Charles Dawson, Laura Zanotti, and Ismael Vaccaro, (eds), Routledge (forthcoming 2013-2014)
Diversifying Maasai diversification: Macro-level factors and contrasting livelihood pathways in contemporary Kenya. Rural Economies and Livelihoods in the Twenty-first Century: Local Perspectives on Processes of Change, Deborah Sick (ed), Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods Series. London and New York: Routledge Press. Co-authored with Caroline Archambault and John Galaty. (forthcoming, January 2014)
News of Parker VanValkenburgh’s Latest Successes
Posted: October 7th, 2013 by dblom
Parker VanValkenburgh received a grant from the National Geographic Society’s Committee on Research and exploration to support his ongoing field research project, “The Archaeology of Forced Resettlement and Daily Life at Carrizales and Conjunto 131, Zana Valley, Peru.” His volume Territoriality in Archaeology (co-edited with James F. Osborne) is due out this month in the series Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, and his article “Hybridity, Creolization and Mestizaje: A Comment” appeared in Volume 28.1 of Archaeological Review from Cambridge.
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