This document provides an overview of the Department of Anthropology at Miami University, highlighting various student experiences including conducting field research globally, engaging with communities abroad, presenting work at conferences, and pursuing further education and careers post-graduation. Photos depict anthropology students interacting with people in different countries, participating in labs and excavations, receiving awards, and engaging in experiential learning opportunities around the world.

1. Welcome to the
Department of
Anthropology
at
Miami University

2. Dr. Jeb Card and
Amanda Friend
successfully scan a
human skull with
lasers.

3. Miami University Anthropology students meet the Dalai Lama.

5. Anthropology
students set up an
excavation unit in
San Salvador,
Bahamas.
Addison Kimmel is now
in graduate school at
Northwestern
University.

6. Evan Barr-Beare
befriends the
Tibetan
children of the
Tibetan
Children’s
Village school
in
Dharamsala, In
dia.

7. Lisa Wilmore conducted an
ethnographic research project
with Maasai women in
Tanzania in 2011.
Today she’s a paraprofessional
working with immigrant
families in Michigan

8. Alex McFarland studied
primates in Borneo

9. Enjoying local
body art in
Delhi, India.

10. Miami students learn to level
a floor while excavating a
historical site in Ohio.

11. Trevor Jordan is trying to
be head of the class in the
new biological
anthropology lab.

12. Rachel Smith, Erica Fox, Alexa Pohl,
and Robert Tolley with author and
anthropologist Wade Davis.

13. Devin Fausnaugh
snorkels at the Great
Barrier Reef

14. Anthropology
students
formally
present their
global health
projects.

15. Lee Hunt is
staring into
the soul of a
desert oasis
in Egypt.

16. ATH students visit
a Mosque in Berlin.

17. Maura Reilly makes
her way through the
thick landscape of
Ecuador.

18. Miami anthropology students in
Luxembourg City during a
summer workshop in 2010.

19. Kallie Pankau
photographs artifacts in
the archaeology
teaching lab.

20. Charleen
Case and
Maura
Reilly take a
break in a
forest in
Ecuador.

21. While studying abroad in
Egypt, Emily Crane
worked as a reporter for
the Egypt Daily News
newspaper.

22. David
McIntosh
receives the
first Ronald
and Judith
Spielbauer
Award for
the Best
Paper in
Archaeology
and Material
Culture.

23. Abby
Sapadin
studied
musical
practices
in Bali

24. Megan Burlew, Genevieve
Cowan and Grace Harten at
the mortuary temple in
Giza, 2010.

25. Kristen Vliet presented her class
research project at the
American Anthropological
Association national meetings.

26. Students excavate an
Ohio historical site with
Dr. Ron Spielbauer.

27. ATH major Kerry
Logan (2010)
studied abroad
in Rome, Italy.
Today she
coordinates
volunteer
resources, and
community and
corporate
partnerships for a
Chicago
non-profit.

28. MUDEC students
explore Europe
in anthropology
classes.

29. Erica Fox takes on
a cow in the
streets of McLeod
Ganj in Fall 2011.
Erica now serves
with Teach For
America

30. In Dr. Hay-Rollins’
class, students create games
to teach anthropology.

31. Annie
Maundrell
studies gorillas
at the Cincinnati
Zoo.

32. Colleen Payne
(2010) at the
Taj Mahal.

33. Miami
Anthropology
student shows
refugee
children her
camera.

34. Dr. Card helps his students
set up an archaeological grid
during a class exercise.

35. Lee Hunt and
Renate
Seiwert ride
camels on the
Giza Plateau
in Egypt.

36. Anthropology
major Ashley
Malin received
the 2013
President’s
Service Award
And so did
Anthropology
major Erica Fox!

37. Kaitlyn Hunter
and Alexander
McFarland
are learning
while having fun
in biological
anthropology lab.

38. Students
celebrate
Tibetan culture
week with a
prayer flag
ceremony
conducted by
Tibetan monk
Ven Khenpo
Samdup.

39. Students
examine bones
in a biological
anthropology
class.

40. Sarah Breedlove, Abi
Mendez, and Danielle
Browske are huddled
together in a mob at
the Indian-Pakistan
Border.

41. Learning
anthropology
through
games

42. Members of the Field
Research Workshop in
Egypt relax in a desert
oasis.

43. Colin Brand, Lee Stefani and Dane Cook received the
2012 Rebecca Jeanne Andrew Memorial Award.

44. After returning from
India, Jessica
DeCandia practices
her Hindi with Prof
Lalita Satyal.

45. Anthropology
students
pose in front
of the Thai
Royal Palace.

46. Students
celebrate Tibetan
Culture week with
a ceremony by
Geshe Kalsung
Damdul.

47. In Dr. Klumbyte’s class in
Luxembourg, sometimes you
have to dress up and
perform!

48. She’s now in
the M.A.
Program in
Anthropology
at the
University of
Cincinnati.
Janine M. Sparks
is holding a
decorated shard
in the Bahamas.

49. Members of the Anthropology
Department's Field Research
Workshop enjoy traditional
Egyptian foods along the shore of
the Red Sea.

50. Renate Seiwert
shakes hands
with Dr. Mark
Peterson after
receiving the
2011
outstanding
senior award.

52. Ryan Stuckey learning to
curate archaeological
artifacts.

53. An anthropology class at Miami
University’s Dolibois European
Center visits a mosque.

54. Anthropology majors Amanda Friend and Jacob
Negrey enjoying the snow while studying biological
anthropology at Corpus Christi, Cambridge.
Amanda is now a PhD
candidate at the University of
South Florida
Jacob is earning his
PhD at Boston
University

55. Students wearing traditional Tibetan
dress in the foothills of the Himalayas
during the Tibetan Studies Program,
Fall 2011.

56. Anthropology
student Nathan
Devore receives
the President’s
Service Award in
2010.

57. Timeka Clifford is
enjoying her time
in biological
anthropology lab.

58. A donation from the Anthropology
Department helped send Miami students to
the Powershift environmental program in
Washington DC in April 2011.

59. In San Salvador,
Bahamas, students
conduct a shell bead
recovery.
Sophia
Perdikaris is
now a professor
of archaeology
at Brooklyn
College and
CUNY.

60. Erica Fox, Ellen Quigley, and Colin
Brand have an impromptu lesson
with Dr. Suarez in the biology
teaching lab.

61. Charleen Case
looks out for
monkeys in
Ecuador.

62. The best project awards for Dr. Klumbyte’s students in
Luxembourg, with MUDEC Dean Thierry Leterie.

63. After graduating in
2012, Venicia Slotten
helped analyze artifacts
from a buried Mayan
city in El Salvador.

64. Dr. Card’s students learn
how to evaluate a site in
archaeology class.