Guest slideshow “My Journey Through Graduate School” © Nadine Armstrong; School of Biology, Ecology, & Environmental Science; The University of Southern Mississippi

1. Kori Nadine Armstrong
Fall 2018

2.  B.A. in History
 Took Anthropology 101 course (spring/junior year)
 History Independent Project (spring/senior year)
 The Black Belt Oral History Project
 Tuition/Income
 Scholarships, work-study/workships
 University Sustainability committee
 Student/Employee representative
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French palisade wall at fort Tombecbe. Retrieved from N. Armstrong

3.  During final semester of undergrad, began to
look at graduate schools
 Attracted to U.S.M.’s Anthropology/History
Dual Master’s Program
 Met with graduate recruiter, Dr. Marie
Danforth about taking undergraduate
courses
 Applied and enrolled in Dual Master’s
Program
Retrieved from https://www.usm.edu/anthropology-sociology/welcome

4.  Requires 33 graduate hours
 (Seminars + 15 hrs. of graduate coursework + thesis hours)
 Southern Ethnography
 Southeastern studies
 Laura Ogden’s (2011)Swamplife
 human/non-human/environment relationship
 Thesis
 Deciding topic
 Knew human-animal relations
 Multsipecies ethnography (Kirksey and Kelmreich 2010)
 Watched documentaries, read articles/books, listened to
podcasts
 Moore, Lisa Jean and Mary Kosut’s (2013) Buzz
 anthropologist and sociologist who studied beekeepers in
New York Images retrieved from www.amazon.com
Kirksey, Eben and Stefan Helmreich. 2010. The emergence of multispecies ethnography. From the Cultural Anthropology website, June 14. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/277-the-emergence-of-multispecies-ethnography
Moore, Lisa J. and Mary Kosut. 2013. Buzz: Urban beekeeping and the power of the bee. New York: New York University Press.
Ogden, Laura. 2011. Swamplife: People, gators, and mangroves entangled in the everglades. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

5.  Field School in Gozo, Malta
 Helped build thesis and gain experience
 Learned to always backup data
Images retrieved from Nadine Armstrong
OfftheBeatenTrack.Retrievedfromhttp://www.anthropologyfieldschool.org/index.html

6.  Studied how interactions with bees affect beekeepers’ perception
of the environment
 Modes of communication studied through ethnographic fieldwork/
participant observation
Images retrieved from Nadine Armstrong

7.  Can have two years of assistantship in
Anthropology Master’s Program
 Tuition + stipend
 Stipend is for 20hrs a week
 After two years, leave campus or find assistantship
in other department
 Office of Research Integrity
 CITI data entry and research
 Meanwhile, finished thesis + Graduate Certificate in
Non-Profit Studies
 Took Dr. Miller’s Sustainable Planning and
Development as elective
Retrieved from https://www.usm.edu/anthropology-
sociology/graduate-certificate-nonprofit-studies-0
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Bruton, Samuel, Donald F. Sacco, Earl Spurgin, and Kori N. Armstrong. 2018. Race and the extra-legal punishment of professional athletes. Sport in Society 21, no. 5.
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8.  Was always planning on teaching in higher
ed./earning Ph.D.
 Had considered Un. of Texas – San Antonio
 Environmental Anthropology
 Decided on Doctoral Program in Geography
at U.S.M.
 Requires 54 hours
 Diversify knowledge and skills
 Opens door to more opportunities
 Applied in Spring and began in Fall 2016
 Stayed in ORI first year
 After 2nd year, received assistantship
 Teach Weather and Climate labs, proctor IVN, etc.
Graduate Programs in Geography
The Department offers a program of study and research
leading to a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy
in Geography. Field and archival methods, geographic
information techniques, quantitative and qualitative
methods provide students with necessary research tools
and skills.
Interdisciplinary backgrounds are encouraged and are
developed through course work in other disciplines, as
well as through involvement in research colloquia across
campus. Through our graduate program students will
become professional geographers and develop research
skills and techniques that will allow them to be
competitive in the private or public sector.
Graduate students can design their course of
study/research and concentrate in one of the subfields of
geography that the faculty support. These areas include,
but are not limited to, geospatial technologies (remote
sensing, GIS, cartography), cultural geography,
geomorphology, environmental change, biogeography,
cultural and political ecology, economic development,
Latin America and the U.S. South.
Retrievedfromhttps://www.usm.edu/geography-geology/graduate-programs-geography

9.  Wanted to learn something different
 Knew wanted to do something with
sustainability
 Changed topic a few times
 From sustainable economic development >
sustainable cave tourism >
 Sustainable Development in Higher Education
 Researched careers
 Holm et al.’s call for papers
 Calls for more large-scale and systematic
analysis of (environmental) sustainability in
higher ed.
 Joined professional organizations/attended
conferences
 Opened job and research opportunities
 Large-scale sustainable development
Potential Jobs
• Sustainability Director/Coordinator
(on or off campus; private or public)
• Academic – Teaching/Research
• Environmental anthropology,
cultural geography, sustainable
development, political ecology,
etc.
Retrieved from indeed.com
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10. kori.armstrong@usm.edu