BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: THE STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

ANTHROPOS
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

OUTSTANDING JUNIOR
At the Department of
Anthropology's Awards
Luncheon on April 2 7,
two students were honored as the Outstanding
Senior and Junior Anthropology students for 20032004.
This year's winners of
these prestigious awards
are Lindsay Waros
(Outstanding Senior) and
. Sharon Cabana
(Outstanding Junior).
These awards are given
based on a vote by the
anthropology faculty.

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APRIL..:MA Y

& SENIOR STUDENTS

Lindsay, from
Erie, PA, entered
Bloomsburg University as a fresh-

museum studies at
George Washington
University.

Sharon, from
man ~nthropology
Derry, New Hampmajor in August
shire, has maintained
2 000. She has
been on the Dean's a 4.0 since entering
BU in 2001. In addiList since her
tion to majoring in
freshman year. In
anthropology, she has
the summer of
minors
in Spanish and
2003 she was chosen as an intern for Latin American Studies and a concentrathe Smithsonian
Institute's Folklife tion in Chinese. She
is currently studying
Festival. She has
been accepted into in Mexico at the Unigraduate school in versidad Veracruzana.

ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENTS WIN PRIZES
Last month, a paper
based on research con ducted by Andrea Frantz,
Brandi Burlingame and
Sharon Cabana won the
prize as best undergraduate paper at,the Northeastern Anthropological
Association meetings at

Dartmouth College. An
earlier version of this paper will be published in
Focus, the on-line journal
for undergraduate research.
A poster presented by
Abby Thomas and Lind-

say W aros won 2nd place
in the student competition at the Applied Anthropology Meetings held
in Dallas in April. The
poster was Anthropology
Through Play: The Multicultural Preschool Project.

2004

SPECIAL POINTS OF
INTEREST:

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Frederick Doualass Cof!ference- p. 2

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Alumni News- p. 3
SSH£ Cof!ference- p. 4
Lambda Alpha Inductees---

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Women's Fireside Series- p .

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T uxpam Interns- p. 6
Poem b_y Steven Good- p. 7
Anthro Student News- p. 7
Minor in AnthropoloB.J- p-

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Contact Us- p. 8

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS CONFERENCE
Anthropology students made up a large contingent at the Bloomsburg
University Third Annual Frederick Douglass Institute for Academic Excelknee Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference on April 19 and 20,

iF~~~~rl~§i[~i•---'", 2004. The conference was held in conjunction with the American Democracy Project's Day of Dialogue.
Six separate panels with a total of 32 students highlighted research in anthropology.
In a panel on Latino populations, chaired by Jean Downing of SOLVE,
Andrea Frantz presented her paper, "Identifying and Understanding Common Stereotypes: A Study on Recent Latino Immigrants in Berwick, PA."
Brandi Burlingame and Sharon Cabana are co-authors on this paper. In the

same panel, Katrina Weist discussed "The Migrant Community Project of
BU."
SIX DIFFERENT
PANELS
FEATURED 32

BU
ANTHROPOLOGY
STUDENTS.

Dr. Faith Warner chaired a panel, "The Ribogerta Menchu Controversy,
Truth & Human Rights." The student participants were Megan McDermott,
Toni Zangari, Marguerite Chamuris, Mearissa Matthews, Kelly Cochran,
Katlyn Ropers, Jonathan Molinary, Lauren Heagle, Linda Schultz, Stephanie
Adams, Jason Yeager, and AnthonyTersine.
Dr. Dauria chaired four panels dealing with child socialization; these papers originated in her 46.390 class. The students presenting papers were:

Panel 1:
Linda Laskovski-."Migrant Worker Families"
Pamela Bell-"Child Socialization of Chinese Americans"
Molly Adams-"Socialization of the Blind"
Lauren Stras burg-"Child Socialization Among the Mbuti Pygmies"

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS CONFERENCE (CONTINUED)
Panel #2:
Jeanmarie Albert-"Child Socialization Techniques Among Hispanic People"
Benjamin Kovaleski-"European Storytelling"
Jill McCool-"Child Training Practices of the Zande"
Karen Grandzol-"Child Rearing Practices of North American Hmong"
Jillian Faux-"Child Socialization for the Tchambuli & Mundugumor."
Panel #3:
Joshua Jackson-"Yemin Culture"
Charif Zahar-"Child Development Among Arab American Communities."

Shawna Connolly-"Child Rearing Practices Among Italian Americans"
Jean Kaufman-"Child Socialization Among the Iroquois"
Lori Paczewski-"Child Rearing Techniques of the Hopi"
Tina Colonese-"Cambodian Child Socialization"
Lindsey Miller-"Gay & Lesbian Family Relations"
Alycia Smith-Child Rearing Practices of Mexican American Immigrants"
Jeanine Hollywood-"Culture from the Sudan"

ALUMNI NEWS
As reported last month inANTHROPOS, Becky Digan will be attending
graduate school in anthropology at Syracuse. She has recently received the
good news that she will given a teaching assistantship which includes a tuition and fees waiver and a monthly stipend.
Traci Yoder, a 2003 graduate, who is attending graduate school in anthropology at the University of Florida has been awarded a Foreign Language &
Area Scholarship. This includes a tuition waiver and a stipend. She will enter an intensive language program this summer at Ohio University in Swahili ..

MANY OF THE
STUDEN TS
PRESENTING
PAPERS WERE
FROM DR.
DAURIA'S
SOCIALIZATION
OF THE CHILD
C OURSE..

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SSHE UNDERGRADUATE ANTHROPOLOGY CONFERENCE
This year's SSHE Undergraduate Conference in Anthropology will be
. . - - - - - - - - - - . h e l d at the Holiday Inn at Clarion, Pennsylvania on April 24. The program
organizers are Andrea Frantz and Dr. Faith Warner. The conference will be
held in conjunction with the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology's 75th
annu~l meeting. The following BU anthropology students will be presenting
papers:
KimberlyTanne-"Archaeology in Ireland: A Summer Field School Experience."
SueAnn Williams-"TellingTheir Stories: Showcasing the Lives of Our For...__..gotten Heroes ofWar"
Meghan Schaeffer-"Tribalism in Africa: The Effects of Raciali~ing a People"

Jen Soika, Sara Fisher & SueAnn Williams-"The hnpoverishment of
Women in the U.S.: What Are Your Expectations?"
Andrea Frantz, Brandi Burlingame & Sharon Cabana: "Putting Latinos Into
Perspective: Stereotypes, Misconceptions & Common Beliefs Held by NonLatinos in a Rural Community."
Sara Fisher & Abby Thomas-"Microculture Response to Environmental
Disaster: ATown on Fire."
Jennifer Soika-"The Methods for Determining the Biological Profile and
Their Accuracy."

A number of BU students will also present posters at the conference. They
include:
Lindsay Baglini-"Primate Fun on Ometepe"
Jennifer Faux-"Buena Vista Peru: Peru's Early Prehistory."
Sara Fisher & Abby Thomas-"Microculture Response to Environmental
Disaster: A Town on Fire."
Lindsey Miller-''Gay & Lesbian Parenthood"

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CONFERENCE (CONTINUED)

Andrea Frantz, Brandi Burlingame & Sharon Cabana- "Putting Latinos Into
Perspective: Stereotypes, Misconceptions & Common Beliefs Held by NonLatinos in a Rural Community."
Stephanie Gauthier-"Historic Archaeology & Utopian Communities: Comparison Between History and Archaeological Findings"
Joshua Ramsey-"An Unfolding Tale of Late Prehistoric Subsistence in
Pennsylvania."
Leonard Rodino-"The Backyard: The Effects of a Nuclear Powered Facility
on the Citizens of Berwick, Pennsylvania"
Meghan Schaeffer-'Tribalism in Africa: The Effects of Racializing a People

Jennifer Soika- "The Methods for Determining the Biological Profile and
Their Accuracy"
Jennifer Soika-"Forensic Art: Fleshing Out the Unknown"
Jen Soika, Sara Fisher & SueAnn \Villiams-"The Impoverishment of
Women in the U.S.: What Are Your Expectations?"
KimberlyTanne-"Archaeology in Ireland: A Summer Field School Experience "
Abigail Thomas & Lindsay Waros-"Anthropology Through Play:

The Multicultural Preschool Project"
SueAnn Williams-'TellingTheir Stories: Showcasing the Lives of Our Forgotten Heroes ofWar"
In addition, Andrea Frantz, Joshua Ramsey and SueAnn Williams will be
acting as presentation panel moderators.
Next year's conference will be held at Bloomsburg University.

NEXT YEAR'S

SSHE
CONFERENCE
WILL BE HELD AT
BLOOMSBURG.

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LAMBDA ALPHA INDUCTEES
Seventeen new student members will be inducted into Lambda Alpha, the national honor society for anthropology, at the Department of Anthropology's Awards Luncheon on April 27, 2004. They are: Brandi Burlingame, Sharon Cabana, Christina Chimi, Jillian Faux, Andrea Frantz, Kevin
Lally, Jennifer Miller, Lindsey Miller, Joshua Ramsey, Leonard Rodino, Joanna Salicki, Lisa Shearer, Alycia Smith, Jennifer Soika, Cheryl Toborowsky,
Michael West, and Erin Wilbur.
All the new members will receive a stole which they may wear at their
commencements.
Dr. Faith Warner is advisor to Lambda Alpha.

BU
ANTHROPOLOGY
STUDENTS ARE
INVOLVED IN
MANY
ACTIVITIES.

On April 21 at 7 PM, anthropology students SueAnn Williams, Sara
Fisher and Jen Soika gave a panel presentation as part of the Women's Fireside Series. The students' presentation will center on the issue of women's
impoverishment and the gender gap in the United States. The students surveyed BU students' knowledge and attitudes towards gender equality
through a questionnaire administered to over 500 persons. The presentation included current statistics on the gender gap and the results of the sur vey. Moderators for the event were Dr. Warner and Dr. Wymer.

TUXPAM, MEXICO INTERNSHIP PROGRAM-SUMMER

2004

Seven BU anthropology students will be completing various internships in
Tuxpam, Mexico this summer under the guidance of Drs. Salas-Elorza and
Warner. Christina Chimi, Lindsey Miller and Amber Toole will ve teaching
English at rural schools in the Tuxpam area. Lisa Shearer and Brandi Burlingame will begin research at the National Institute of Immigration as part of a
larger project undertaken by Salas-Elorza and Warner; a number of BU students will be involved in this project. Andrea Frantz and Josh Ramsey will
be curating artifacts at the Tuxpam Museum of Anthropology.

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"DEATH OF A COUNTRY" BY STEVEN GOOD

Africa's shivering starved,
Spindling parasitic worms around a stick.
Dying of AIDS, a plague on the immoral.
Strange, I feel fine. But ostracized, ps. so lonely.
We're weary, they're saying, America.
You said you'd write.
But we haven't received a single note, not since
You've synthesized rubber. How is it going by and by, America?
I do care. I'll keep checking the letterbox.

-I staggered out into the night. Below the formless constellations.
Footsteps falling like slate falling off a precipice.
Smallish eyes, smoldering, submerged into the gut of guerilla warfare.
The porch a picket. With a lamppost broken light, like thoughts, spilling
Through the supports of her banister. Seventy-six year old, Ethel looked out of her
Window to see. I'm running flailingly, in boots and jockeys.
Gallantly streaming her rampart across the walk.
It ends like this, a quixotic caped mercenary, standing alone along the riverbank.
Drunk and swaying behind the parapet.

I saw the obituary in our Herald.
It turned up in the river, washed up
Along the bank, the striped smegma of-our forefathers.

BU

ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENT NEWS

The following anthropology students plan to graduate this May: Garrett
Paul~y, Tina Colonese, Kristen Gensel, Erin Wilbur, KimberlyTanne, and
Lindsay Waros.
Planning to graduate in August are Christina Chimi, Bea Madison, Amber
Toole, SueAnn Williams, Lindsey Miller, Melissa Davis and Erin Goode.
Brandi Burlingame and Jennifer Faux will be Fall 2004 exchange students
at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico.

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA: THE ST ATE
SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Dr. David Minderhout, Editor
Department of Anthropalogy
Room 150 Centennial Hall ·

ANTHROPOS: the Anthropology Newsletter, is published
six times. during the academic year and is mailed to interested students, faculty, administrators, and alumni. It is also

Phone: 389-4859
Fax: 389-5015
Email: dminderh@bloomu.edu

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Minderhout at the address and numbers on the left.
The Department of Anthropology offers a 36 credit B.A.

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degree and an 18 credit minor in anthropology. If you
would like to see details, please see any of the anthropology
faculty.

ANTHROPOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF

HUMANS

The department of
Anthropology offers an
18 credit minor in anthropology. The minor
is composed of 6
courses, 3 of which are
required. They are:

sen in consultation
with an anthropology
faculty member.

To declare a minor
in anthropology, a student must obtain a
Declaration of Minor
46. 2 00, Principles of
form from the anthroCultural Anthropology pology office or the
Office of Academic
46. 210, Prehistoric
Advisement. The form
Archaeology
must be signed by the
46.220, Human Oridepartment chairpergins
son, Dr. Dee Anne Wymer, and then returned
The other 3 courses
are electives to be cho- to Academic Advise-

ment. Upon completing the minor, a student must file a Verification of the Completion of the Minor
form with the registrar's office. This step
is necessary for there
to be any official recognition of the minor
on your records. This
form must also be
signed by Dr. Wymer.

Robert Dunkelberger
University Archives
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