Party, anthro club news, scholarships, events, digs, jobs, interesting
stuff on the wwweb -- the usual anthro newsletter stuff

Justice Cochran is hosting a New Year's Eve party, and has invited the
anthro/soc students on this emailing list:
Address is 916 Water St, Hobart In 46342
219-973-3063 or e-mail justicecochran@yahoo.com
Its B.Y.O.B and will be from 7 to whenever;
plug in that address at http://www.mapquest.com/ to get a good map.
Driving details:
If coming from Merrillville direction: follow the 51 signs till the
Clark station and turn left at that road (its Water, but there is no
sign on that end). It is about the 6th house down.
If coming through Hobart downtown, turn at the Dairy Queen and follow
that road all the way till it curves (that is Water). Go almost to the
end of the road, but stop before the Clark Station.

Given the after-midnight heated discussion about Post-Modernism and
social theory that occurred at the pre-Christmas party at Jack Bloom's,
attendees might want to study up at the humorous "lego guide to social
theory" page: http://www.theory.org.uk/lego.htm

IUN Spring registration is Tues Wed Jan 7 & 8.

IUN Anthropology Club:
1. much has happened at the last few club meetings despite the scarcity
of elected officers attending; the members have called for an election
at the first meeting in January (see schedule below).
2. The club voted to increase the scholarship $$$ effective January
2003. This means the 2003-2004 Clarke Johnson Memorial Scholarship will
be a total of one thousand dollars, likely to be split between a Junior
or Senior, and a lower division student. The two present scholarship
holders will receive $250 each for the Spring semester; I will have the
final application form for next year to submit for student approval.
3. Given that we had to rent tables for the last booksale because the
university did not have enough available, the club approved $500 for the
purchase of long tables for the booksale; the original intention was to
buy six and ask the university to match with six more, making all twelve
available for the booksale and also for non anthro events. Instead Dave
Holland found a sale and was able to buy 13 new good quality tables for
the same money, so the club can just keep them for the booksale itself.
Dave, myself, and my son stenciled "IUN Anthropology Club" on two edges
of each table.
4. MAPS: The club authorized $500 to buy laminated world maps with the
intention of installing one in as many classrooms as possible; we have
purchased about 25, have worked out the physical installation, and are
waiting for final administration approval before having the physical
plant hang them. They will be labeled "Donated by IUN Anthropology
Club".
5. Kathy Forgey has arranged for a Friday evening speaker for 5 pm Feb
7: Marisa Fontana is a PhD candidate at University of Illinois at
Chicago, studying prehistoric warfare. Her specialty concerns warfare
and fortification among prehistoric Mississippian groups in the
Southeastern U.S. and the Ancestral Puebloans in the American Southwest.
She is also a leader for that school's excavations in Alabama, and has
already recruited one IUN student (Buddy Geary) to work there next
summer; plan on coming if you are interested in a summer field school.
(Elizabeth Baker has been accepted for the summer dig in Transylvania
reported in an earlier letter.) I will post more info on the talk in
this letter and in the events page as the time approaches.
http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw/EVENTS.htm
6. Darwin Day is tentatively scheduled for Wed Feb 12, 1 to 3 pm.
Speakers will be Mark Hoyert (Psychology), Kristin Huysken (Geology),
Christine Malcom (Anthropology) and Kathy Forgey (Anthropology). I say
"tentatively" because there seems to be a flaw in the IUN system for
reserving the rooms; I submitted an on-line reservation request and
received an email saying it would be processed, but when I asked a
couple of weeks later when it would be confirmed so we could advertise
it, I was told something like "you have to let us know you applied" and
was given a long multi-carbon form to fill out that asked for the same
info as I had submitted electronically; I submitted that, but because of
the holiday, we are still waiting for room and date confirmation.
7. Club meetings: the students suggested a schedule of weekly meetings
that alternate between Friday events and wed/Thurs so that there would
be more time for discussions, and so as many people as possible could
attend at least some of the meetings; Kathy Forgey has acquired a
"Vessel of Intrigue" to hold suggested discussion topics. All meetings
will be held in the Women's Center, Savannah 207; I was asked to choose
times that avoided anthro classes:
Friday Jan 24, 5 pm: election of officers, maybe a movie.
Thurs Jan 30, 2:30 pm
Friday Feb 7, 4:00 (before Marisa Fontana's archaeology talk)
Wed Feb 12: Darwin Day in lieu of meeting
Friday Feb 21
Thurs Feb 27, 2:30
Friday March 7
Wed March 12 4 pm
BREAK WEEK
THEN BOOKSALE WEEK
Thurs April 3, 2:30
Friday April 11
Wed April 16 4:00
Friday April 25
Thurs May 1 2:30
I will put this schedule up on the web events page, but the Anthro Club
will have its own web calendar:
http://cf.iun.edu/cal/menu.cfm?y=2003&m=1&t=419
and we do still need a club webmaster
8. Booksale: tentatively scheduled for week of March 24-28; we will
need to solicit book donations; Dave Holland will be putting up a drop
box in Moraine.

Other IU scholarships:
The IU Alumni Association is please to announce that it will award 16
$1, 000 scholarships in 2003 to full-time undergraduate students
attending any IU campus WHO ARE THE CHILDREN of IU Alumni Association
members. Known as IU Alumni Association Scholars, this program is in its
ninth year of providing to IU students. This scholarship program is
funded by the revenue received from the IU Collegiate License Plate
Program. In 2002, more than 24,000 plates were sold, making the IU plate
the most popular collegiate plate in Indiana. Applications must be
returned by April 4, 2003. Applications and additional information were
forwarded to the various Divisional Recorders. Apply online at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~alumni/programs/scholars.html

NEH Summer fellowships: The National Endowment for the Humanities
Announces Internships for Summer 2003.
NEH is offering up to 15 internships in Washington,
D.C., for the summer 2003. College students entering
their junior or senior year in fall 2003 are eligible.
NEH interns receive $4,000 for 10 weeks of work.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens, foreign nationals
who have been legal residents in the United States for
at least 3 years or territorial residents of Puerto
Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Past
interns have written articles for Humanities magazine, researched
emerging fields in the humanities, and developed web-based tools for
gathering humanities-related information.
The application deadline is Tuesday, January 21, 2003.
Applications are being accepted online at
http://www.neh.gov . Questions should be directed to
Ralph Canevali in the Office of Strategic Planning at
internships@neh.gov . Please have interested students contact the Office
of Special Scholarship programs if they have questions.
They can begin by calling or emailing Beth Powers at bpowers@uic.edu

Interesting web site, courtesy of Regina Boe:
http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/
look for the article by Donald Johanson

>From me: http://vlib.anthrotech.com/

>From Kate Gillogly at CAPA: http://www.publicanthropology.org/

and from Kathy Forgey, a sub-site of that one which has abstracts of
articles in American Anthropologist from its start in 1888 to 2000:
http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/AAListByYears.htm

CAPA website is at : http://www.chicagoanthro.org/ , next meeting is
Tues Jan 28 site and topic TBA
Then Sunday March 9: "rapid assessment"
Wed April 16: DePaul U Urban Studies Project
Sunday May 18 "Participatory Action Resources"

Interesting review article in the new AJPA Yearbook about Ancient DNA
recovery and analysis done by two researchers at IU Bloomington.

A new word, a verb, has entered the English language: "to mucci, vt",
meaning: to make (an exam) longer and harder than necessary; as in "My
psych teacher really muccied our midterm, we barely finished it."

JOBS: there are several open positions related to anthropology at the
Field Museum of Chicago, from education to technical:
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/museum_info/job_opportunities.asp

JOBS: The Hispanic Health Council has an immediate guaranteed opening
for a full-time Qualitative Researcher/Ethnographer for our new
Drug Use and Health Risk Monitoring Study
The Hispanic Health Council (HHC) is a community based health research,
service and advocacy institute in Hartford, CT. The HHC was co-founded
by an anthropologist and a community health activist in 1978. Since
then, the HHC has grown into a major center of applied anthropological
and public health research, direct community service, and training with
a full-time staff of 70 people. There currently are a number of
anthropologists, including the Director of Research, epidemiologists and
public health interventionists on staff at the HHC. The open positions
are for field qualitative researchers/ethnographers on a CDC-funded
study of health risks associated with new forms
of drug use. Using an array of qualitative methods and survey
techniques, the study is designed to identify new drugs, new forms of
drug use, and new drug-using populations in several Hartford
neighborhoods. Continuous data analysis of findings will contribute to
the rapid development of new forms of harm reduction interventions
through researcher-provider collaborations.
Qualifications for this applied research position include: a PhD or MA
in anthropology, public health or a related field, at least 1 year of
ethnographic field experience, good observational and note taking
skills, willingness to work as a member of a field team, and
readiness to work with the target population of this study. Spanish
speaking ability required. Familiarity with NUD*IST or other software
for qualitative data management/analysis is a plus. Salary: DOE
Send CV plus cover letter summarizing your relevant experience to: Maria
Martinez Hispanic Health Council 175 Main St. Hartford, CT 06106
Mariam@hispanichealth.com Attn: Drug Monitoring study

FOR ETHNOGRAPHERS (via CAPA):The Happy Project: an ethnography of
happiness across cultures -- We’re looking for images that illustrate
“happy” around the world for an ongoing ethnography of happiness. We’ll
electronically archive the photos at Context and issue a newsletter each
month with a selection of photos from different locations. You and other
Context Research fans will receive the Happy Project Ethnography Report
– with select photos each month. At year-end, we will deliver a summary
that highlights key things that we’ve learned.
We will pay $100 per photo that we select to run in the Reports and $100
for any additional photos we choose for the year-end summary. To
participate? Take a photo and email it to Robbie at
rblinkoff@contextresearch.com with:
1) Who: Your name & some information to help us understand who you are.
2) Where/When: Where and when you took the photo (place, date, etc.). 3)
Why: What does the photo illustrate about happiness?
Remember, be sure people in your photos understand that their image may
end up in an on-line newsletter
We understand not all the world’s digital, so you’re welcome to send
along non-digital pictures to: The Happy Project, Context-Based
Research Group, Suite 1100, 120 West Fayette St., Baltimore, MD
21201-3741
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Register on anthrojob http://www.anthrojob.com Learn about Context
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Received this: Hello Dr. Mucci
My name is Michael Wilmore, with the Organizing
Institute. I'm writing because the Organizing
Institute is seeking students committed to Social
Justice work, and I'm hoping you can forward the
following information to the Anthropology Dept student list. Below,
you'll find information about paid internships and on-the-job training
in the Labor Movement. If you're interested in finding out more about a
job after graduation, please contact me now, as there is an application
process which has several steps that
you may need to know about sooner rather than later,
and a weekend event in February that you may need to
be a part of. JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE
The Organizing Institute provides paid training for people interested in
working as UNION ORGANIZERS. If you have interest in working for social
and economic justice after graduation, join us in building the next
generation of LABOR ACTIVISTS. Across America, students and working
people are becoming more active in the struggle for basic rights in
this country and around the world: civil rights, the right to a living
wage and adequate health care, and the right to be treated with dignity
and respect. YOU CAN BE A PART OF THAT CHANGE! Since the education you
receive through the Organizing Institute is actual on-the-job practice
of union organizing, you have the opportunity to make a major and
immediate impact on the lives of a community of
working people. The Organizing Institute will soon be hosting 3-Day
trainings in the midwest for students graduating this academic year and
interested in jobs as union organizers. The 3-Day is the first step of
our program that eventually includes classroom training,
field training and job placement. For students not yet graduating this
year, the O.I. offers paid four week summer internships through our
Union Summer program. If you are looking for something meaningful to do
this summer, Union Summer is a great opportunity to meet student
activists and spend your summer working for justice in the work place.
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF WORKING PEOPLE, IF YOU WANT TO WORK FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, CONTACT US NOW!!!!!
Please contact Michael Wilmore for more information
at: organizerwilmore@yahoo.com
Or by voice mail at: (888)787-1347
Read more about the Organizing Institute and jobs in
union organizing at our website:
www.organize.aflcio.org For information on Union Summer, check our
website at: www.aflcio.org/unionsummer
--
Bob Mucci
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Anthropology
Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway, Gary IN 46408
219-980-6607

"Education not slogans is our motto"