Anthropology Newsletter Ball State University Fall 2012 Welcome from the Chair Chris Martin Last fall wrote that he immigrated to Sweden in 2011 and is presently pursuing a master’s degree in Applied Cultural Analysis at Lund University. Another year has passed and the department has been busy! Students are actively working in the department and participating in experiential projects…among them immersive learning courses and field schools. Faculty members and staff are busy playing their role to provide quality teaching and publishing in first-rate journals. Congratulations to Michael Lautzenhaeiser (MA 2010) whose thesis Quakers on the Hoosier Frontier: A Diachronic Perspective on the Archaeology of Huddleston House, a 19th was selected as the BSU Alumni Association Distinguished Thesis for 20112012. Dr. Mark Groover served as his thesis director. I hope you enjoy this year’s newsletter and please let us know what you are doing!!! Cheers, David Pletcher (BA 2007) Recently accepted a position with Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal as an academic advisor. He had his B.S. from Ball State in history with a minor in anthropology in 2007. He received an M.A. in liberal studies from UNC Greensboro in 2009 and an M.S. in academic advising from Kansas State University in 2011. S. Homes Hogue Blasts from the Past: Alumni Updates Kristopher Burnitz (MA 2008) Taught Growth and Development at The University at Albany, SUNY in the Fall of 2011 where he is ABD Ashlee Russeau-Pletcher (BA 2007) Is residing with David in Bloomington and is applying to the ISU history graduate program. She received her B.A. in history with a minor in anthropology in 2007. She then received a M.A. in liberal studies from UNC Greensboro in 2009 and a M.S. in academic advising from Kansas State University in 2011. Craig Knox (MA 2007) MA 2012 in Humanities and Social Thought, and Certificate in Museum Studies, New York University and has been admitted to doctoral program in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Toronto. 1 Gennie Thi Nguyen (BA 2007) is currently a graduate student at the University of Oregon and has a 2012 publication. Building Coalitions and Rebuilding Versailles: Vietnamese American Women’s Environmental work after Katrina. In The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster, edited by Emmanuel David and Elaine Enarson, pp.198-209. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. the University of Arizona this fall where he has a research assistantship in economic geology. John Waldron (MA 1996) was recently promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, University of West Florida. Antonia Westmoreland (BA 2011) is attending the University of Texas, San Antonio in the Social Work graduate program fall 2012. Gary Heathcote (B.Sc.Anthropology, Ball State University, 1969), has a new publication. Heathcote, Gary, Vincent P. Diego, Hajime Ishida, and Vincent J. Sava 2012 Legendary Chamorro Strength In The Bioarchaeology of Individuals. Book edited by Ann L. Wl. Stodder and Ann M. Palkovich. University of Florida Press, Gainesville. Kari Wilhelms (BA 2012) was accepted into Ball State University MA program in communication. Kelsey Perrigo (BA 2012) is attending the MA program in the Department of Anthropology MA program at New Mexico State University. Miranda Taubert (BA 2012) is attending Mississippi State University in anthropology with a graduate assistantship. Tyler Wolford (BA Anth 2012) attending Koc University's (Istanbul Turkey) MA program in Archaeology and History of Art with full scholarship. (Please contact Dr. James Nyce, email jnyce@bsu.edu, about what you are doing!) Student Acceptances into Graduate School Student Awards Bianaca Brammer (BA 2012) IUPUI in Applied Anthropology with a full University Fellowship Chris Manning (anthropology graduate student) was awarded a BSU ASPIRE Student Travel Grant (Sponsored Programs) for $100 and $300 from Troyer Grant (Dept of Anthropology). Her paper, The Material Culture of Household Apotropaia in the Eastern United States was presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference on January 4-8, 2011 in Jesse Fivecoate (BA 2012) will be attending Indiana University in Folklore. Carson Richardson (BA 2012) After having received offers of support from both Minnesota and Arizona, Carson will attend 2 Allison Galbari, (anthropology graduate student) 1st place poster $50, Feasting, Storytelling and Ghosts: The Motifs of Samhain Baltimore, MD. Chris also received the Society for Historical Archaeology Gender and Minority Affairs Committee travel award for $750. Tyler Wolford (senior Anthropology and Ancient Studies Minor) was awarded the 2012 Joe and Carol Trimmer Award for Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis. His mentor was Dr. Chris Shea (Modern Languages). Troyer Scholarship Recipient 20122013 Congratulations to Emma Hofeling, senior anthropology major. Whitney Lingle (anthropology graduate student) received the Bernadette Perham Scholarship awarded by the BSU College of Sciences and Humanities. October 2011. Completed Theses Brent Alexander 2011 Core and Periphery in the Middle Woodland Midwest: An Analysis of the Earthworks of East Central Indiana and South Central Ohio. Committee Members: Mark Groover (chair), Mark Hill, and S. Homes Hogue. Adam Zajac and Bradley Painter (anthropology graduate students) both received the Graduate Merit Fellowships for $3000 from the Graduate School, Ball State University. Lambda Alpha National Honor Society: B. K. Swartz Awards Jamie Cochran-Smith 2011 Maternal Nutrition: A Cross-Cultural Survey of Food Habits of Pregnant Women in the United States. ). Committee Members: Evelyn Bowers (chair), Ronald Hicks, and Paul Wohlt. Papers and posters presented at the Annual Student Research Conference and Anthropology Museum Opening April 13, 2012 were eligible for these awards. Tyler Wolford, 1st place paper $100, Forts, Cabins, and Proper Homes: The Cognitive Contextualization of American Frontier Habitations on the Indiana/Ohio Border after the Indian Wars Emily Murray 2012 Lithic Resource Acquisition at the Taylor Village Site (12H25). Committee Members: Mark Hill (chair), Ronald Hicks, and S. Homes Hogue. Mary Farrell, (anthropology graduate student) 2nd place paper $50, Storytelling Trash: What Lithic Debitage Says about Mounds Jennifer Wyatt 2011 Geophysical Methods: A Case Study at the Patty Ann Farms Site 12H1169. Committee Members: Mark Groover (chair), Colleen Boyd, and S. Homes Hogue. 3 Other Student News Social Media Lauren Holditch (anthropology graduate student is now a gallery Interpreter at the Tech Museum in San Jose, CA (see http://www.thetech.org/). Check out Department of Anthropology FACEBOOK links! http://www.facebook.com/BSUANTHROP OLOGY and Anthropology Club News http://www.facebook.com/BSUAAL On April 12-13 2012, the Anthropology Club and the Department of Anthropology hosted Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum of Purdue University to be the key note speaker for the annual Anthropology Student Conference. Gruenbaum's talk "Secrets, Honor, Outrage: the Movement to Abolish Female Genital Cutting in Sudan and Sierra Leone," held in a Student Center Ballroom, was attended by more than 300 people. Gruenbaum also attended the student conference and had dinner with a group of students and faculty. New Members to the Department Dr. Nicholas Kawa, Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Nicholas Kawa is joining the department for the 2012-2013 academic year. Kawa received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Florida in August of 2011. As an environmental anthropologist, his research centers on socio-cultural dimensions of biodiversity management and long-term human-environmental interaction in the rural Brazilian Amazon. For nearly a decade, Dr. Kawa has collaborated with researchers from the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) to investigate the contemporary use and management of terra preta do indio, a fertile, "anthropogenic" soil associated with Pre-Columbian Amerindian settlements. His research incorporates perspectives form anthropology, archaeology, botany, and agroecology to understand not only the formation of these unique environments, but also how contemporary farmers continue to manage and exploit these soils and their associated botanical diversity. With his collaborators, he has published research 4 International Film Festival in California, Sept 16. It was screened in the documentary competition category. Kari Wilhems attended the festival to represent the VBC/department/university. Anthropology students Zach Coffman, Emma Hofeling, Jessica Miller, Allison Troutner, Antonio Westmoreland, Rory Whited, Kari Wilhems, and Tyler Wolford created the documentary for the VBC seminar, with several history and English majors. articles in such journals as Human Ecology, Economic Botany, and The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability. Amber Yuellig, AAL Administrative Assistant and Archaeologist Amber Yuellig is a graduate of the University of South Florida (2007) with a MA in Anthropology focusing on Public Archaeology. She has primarily worked in the southeastern United States with most of her work in occurring in Florida swamps of the panhandle in Woodland and Mississippian as a part of her thesis research and in the Florida Everglades with the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Following a move to Kentucky with her husband, Lee Florea (BSU Geology Department), Amber accepted an appointment with the National Park Service at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Amber moved to Muncie permanently in 2011. Her research interests are primarily the Woodland, Mississippian periods as well as late 1800s historic archaeology, ceramic technology, cave archaeology, and natural resource booms. In her free time, Amber spends much of her time caving and is active in caving organizations both on the regional and national level. Mark Groover and Christine Keller, AAL Archaeologist, received $33,712 from the Provost immersive Learning Grant for their course. Fort Recovery Documentary and Public Archaeology Volume. Mark Groover has been appointed the National Executive Secretary for Lambda Alpha. Cailín Murray, Associate Professor, received $400 from the Dean's Immersive Learning Funds to support her project The House where Dillinger Slept and Other Stories from Muncie’s Past: Developing a Student-Created Ethnohistoric Atlas for Muncie, IN which was offered this past spring. Patricia Gilson, Visiting Assistant Professor, received $1500 from the Dean's Immersive Learning Funds to support the museum topics course Ethnographic Museum Exhibit this past spring. Dr. Gilson is currently working for the Indianapolis Museum of Art and has been helping with ethnographic collections in the department. Faculty and Staff Kudos Jennifer Erickson, Assistant Professor received a Junior Faculty Research BSU ASPiRE Grant support for the project, “Engaging Southern Sudanese: The Politics of Gender, Faith, and Political Organizing” has been approved in the amount of $8,970. Mark Groover, Associate Professor, and the VBC students produced an Emmynominated documentary Remembering Freedom: James Clemens and the Longtown Settlement was selected for competitive screening at the 2011 Big Bear Lake 5 Christine Keller received a General Faculty Research BSU ASPiRE Grant support for the project, “Battle of the Wabash: Native American Battle Strategies” has been approved in the amount of $4,236. Watermark Mark Hill, Assistant Professor, Christine Keller, and Kevin Nolan, AAL Archaeologist, were awarded an American Battlefield Protection Grant for $54,416. Julie Jenkins has accepted a one-year position at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She will be teaching a variety and classes including religion and development. The department wishes her well and will miss her great teaching, good spirit, and laughter. Christine Keller, Cail n Murray, Associate Professor, and S. Homes Hogue, Professor and Chair, have been awarded a National NAGPRA Grant Award for $90,000. Kevin Nolan, Christine Keller, Mark Hill and S. Homes Hogue “Exploration of Multicultural Dynamics During the Late Prehistoric Period: An Archaeological Survey of Hamilton County, Indiana” $49,981 –National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund – administrated by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. The watermark used in this newsletter is taken from current anthropology museum exhibit, Ritual in African Art and Daily Life. The exhibit was created by the spring 2012 ANTH 377/577 Museum Topics class under the direction of Patricia Gilson. The image is an Elephant Helmet Mask (1950-1970). Elephants and leopards symbolize Bamileke (Cameroon) royal power. The piece was constructed using textile and beads. Christine Keller, Kevin Nolan, and S. Homes Hogue “An Archaeological Survey of Blackford County: Enhancement of a Data Deficient Region Part II” - $49,751 – National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund – administrated by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. 6 volume that describes the events at the historic site. The video documentary and public volume will be used for visitor interpretation at the Fort Recovery Museum, operated by the Ohio Historical Society. Newspaper Articles The following links are for newspaper articles highlighting departmental events. http://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/ballstate-university-applied-archaeologylaboratories/from-the-hartford-city-newstimes/483871834963490 The House where Dillinger Slept and Other Stories from Muncie’s Past: Developing a Student-Created Ethnohistoric Atlas for Muncie, IN Cailín Murray http://www.bsudailynews.com/anthropology -department-receives-49-751-for-survey-inblackford-county-1.2745130 The immersive learning course was taught as part of Dr. Murray’s ANTH 471 Ethnohistory course offered in spring 2012. The partner for the course was the Indiana State Museum. Eighteen undergraduate and two graduate students were enrolled. The class produced a website exploring Muncie’s past that can be found at http://munciepast.org/about.html http://soundcloud.com/christine-keller1/bsu-gets-grant-for http://cms.bsu.edu/About/AdministrativeOff ices/SPO/Research/DigDigDig.aspx Recorded Lectures Ritual in African Art and Daily Life Patricia Gilson Check out Dr. Ron Hicks’ lecture presented on April 20, 2012 at the Toledo Museum of Art. This was an AIA lecture. Patricia Gilson, Visiting Assistant Professor, developed the museum topics (ANTH 377) course into an immersive learning course taught in spring 2012. The ANTH 377/577 Museum Topics class constructed a museum exhibit in the anthropology museum (BB 320) in cooperation with the Ball State University Art Gallery. Thirteen undergraduate and three graduate students were involved. http://www.knowledgestream.org/kstream/in dex.asp?item Immersive Learning News Fort Recovery Immersion Project Mark Groover and Christine Keller Field Projects and Research Activities Updates Anthropology students have worked on the Fort Recovery immersion project since January 2012. They have created a completed draft of a video documentary about the battles at the fort. The students have also completed the majority of a public Jennifer Erickson carried out her ASPiRE Grant research with Southern Sudanese in July 2012 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She conducted interviews and participant 7 observation with dozens of Southern Sudanese men and women about the gendered relationship between political organization and organizing and Christianity. Erickson plans to use the information to write conference presentations, and to write larger grants that will enable her to conduct longer term research on this subject. Undergraduate students Eli Orrvar and Trey Hill with Kevin Nolan, AAL Archaeologist, in Clark County (Phase 1c). As part of Christine Keller’s ASPiRE grant, historical research was conducted in August 2012 on the Native American battle strategies of the Battle of the Wabash in 1791. Keller and student Khyrstin Chance spent two days at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan, and Keller and GA Joe Miller visited the National Archives in Washington, DC. This research will be part of a Midwest Archaeological Conference presentation in October and will be used to apply for a National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program grant in January 2013. Archaeology Field School Summer 2012 Mark Hill Anthropology graduate students Mary Farrell, Katie King, Joe Miller, and Adam Zajac along with undergraduates Khyrstin Chance, John Monger, and Katie Schoeff spent the first part of their summer in the field – literally! Under the direction of Mark Hill, these students spent five weeks in a cornfield excavating a late prehistoric village near Strawtown, Indiana as part of the Department of Anthropology’s 2012 archaeological field school. The Applied Archaeology Laboratories is working on numerous grant and cultural resource management (CRM) projects that involve the collaboration of many students and faculty. Over 7,100 student lab hours were logged in the 2012 spring and summer semesters. The AAL currently have nine student teams working consisting of five graduate assistants, 12 unpaid interns, six Immersive Learning students, and over 30 students on-call and trained for field and lab work. And welcome to Amber Yuelling, the new part-time archaeology administrative assistant for AAL, who is helping us manage all of these projects and students! The site is known as Taylor Village, and it is located on the banks of the White River near Koteewi County Park – location of another important prehistoric site known as the Strawtown Enclosure and occupied at the same time. Taylor Village is a fortified Late Prehistoric community affiliated with an archaeological group known as Oneota. The site is dated to the late 1200’s to early 1400’s AD, or the last few centuries before European settlement began. 8 This summer, graduate and undergraduate students conducted excavations of several square meters and discovered one hearth and several pit features, along with postmolds – circular organic stains from where posts had decayed in the ground. Artifacts such as shell and grit-tempered ceramics, small triangular stone projectile points, and tool manufacturing debris were found around these features. Several animal bones, including a dense concentration of butchered and fragmented deer bone were found as well, representing some of the food resources used by the villagers. This is our second field school at Taylor Village. The investigations began at this site in late 2009 when archaeologists and students from Ball State conducted a remote sensing survey that revealed an extensive double fortification ditch around much of the village (Figure below). Left to right-Adam Zajac, Katie King, Mary Farrell, Khyrstin Chance, Joe Miller, Katie Schoeff, Mark Hill, and John Monger A BSU Department of Anthropology field school took place at the site in 2010, when students conducted a detailed and controlled collection of artifacts seen on the surface of this plowed field, which revealed important structuring within the prehistoric community. Excavations in 2010 confirmed that the feature seen on the remote sensing map was indeed a prehistoric fortification ditch from the 14th century occupation of the village. Students also collected several liters of soil samples from these features which are being analyzed for evidence of other activities, and in particular we hope to find evidence of the crops these villagers were farming in the adjacent White River floodplain. During the course, students learned about and practiced techniques for site excavation, mapping, feature excavation, soils analysis, 9 collection of radiocarbon dating samples, remote sensing, and artifact identification and analysis. Colleen Boyd Boyd, Colleen E. and John B. Boyd 2012. Cultural Survival, Tribal Sovereignty and River Restoration on the Central Northwest Coast, North America. In B.R. Johnston, ed., et al. Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures? UNESCO/Springer, pp. 387-402. Faculty and Staff Publications Gail Bader and James M. Nyce 2012 Cheryl Klimaszewski, Gail Bader and James M. Nyce. Hierarchy, Complicity and Culture in the LIS Preservation Agenda: Observations from Romania. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. DOI:10.1177/0961000611434998 Jennifer Erickson Erickson, Jennifer 2012 Volunteering with Refugees: Neoliberalism, Hegemony, and (Senior) Citizenship. Human Organization 71(2):167175. Summer 2012. 2011 Cheryl Klimaszewski, Gail Bader and James M. Nyce. “Success Stories” As An Evidence Form: Organizational Legitimization in an International Technology Assistance Project. Martor: The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review 16:171-183. Mark Hill Hill, Mark 2011 New Dates for Old Copper: Contemporaneity in the Archaic Western Great Lakes. Wisconsin Archeologist 92(2):85-92. Evelyn Bowers Bowers, Evelyn J. 2012 Abstract published in D.R. Cordero Review of Annual Meeting, Society of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology. American Journal Medical Genetics. A Apr. 9, doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.55283. Andres,Christopher, Eric Bartelink, Mark Hill, Heather Lapham, Mary Ann Levine, and Sarah McClure 2011 Putting the Power back in Powerpoint. SAA Archaeological Record 11(5):11-13. Hill, Mark 2012 The Benefit of the Gift: Exchange, Ritual, and Emergent Regional Systems in the Late Archaic Western Great Lakes. International Monographs in Prehistory series. Ann Arbor, Michigan Bowers, Evelyn J. 2011 Serial Hand-Wrist X-Ray Evidence. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. 48(6):762-772. Bowers, Evelyn J. 2011 Communication: Clarifying the use of ‘prepubescent’. Nature 479:179. 10 Hill, Mark 2012 Tracing Social Interaction: Perspectives on Archaic Copper Exchange from the Upper Great Lakes. American Antiquity 77(2):279-292 Christine Keller Keller, Christine (editor); Joseph R. Miller, Victoria Kiefer, and Kristin Kjeldsen 2012 Survey of Blackford County: A Data Enhancement Project, Volumes 1 and 2. Report submitted to and approved by Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. S. Homes Hogue Hogue, S. Homes and Elodia Leavitt 2011 Analysis of the Faunal Remains from the Fort Recovery Excavations. In Archaeology of the Battles of Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio: Education and Protection. C. Keller, C. Boyd, M. Groover, and M. Hill (eds), pp. 208-218 submitted to the National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program. Grant # GA2255-10-0022. Christine Keller, Colleen Boyd, Mark Groover, and Mark Hill Keller, Christine, Colleen Boyd, Mark Groover and Mark Hill (editors and contributors) 2011 Archaeology of the Battles of Fort Recovery, Ohio: Education and Protection (GA-2255-10-02), Volumes 1 and 2. Report submitted to & approved by the National Park Service, American Battlefield Protection Program. Hogue, S. Homes and Amanda Carver 2011 The Faunal Materials from the Phase II Assessment of 12LE377. For Mitch Zoll, Pioneer Consulting Services, Muncie, IN Kevin Nolan Nicholas Kawa Nolan, Kevin C. and Robert A. Cook 2011 A Critique of Late Prehistoric Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley. North American Archaeologist 32(4):293-325. Kawa, N.C. In- press My Uncle Sandy. Tipiti: Journal of the Society for Anthropology of Lowland South America. 10(1) Nolan, Kevin C. 2012 Review of: Fish and Kowalewski (eds.), The Archaeology of Regions: A Case for FullCoverage Survey. Southeastern Archaeology 31(1):124-126. Kawa, N.C. 2012 Magic Plants of Amazonia and Their Contribution to Agrobiodiversity. Human Organization 71(3): 225-233. Nolan, Kevin C. and Robert A. Cook 2012 A Method for Multiple Cost Surface Evaluation of a Model of Fort Ancient Interaction. Manuscript prepared for Least Cost Analysis of Socionatural Landscapes: Archaeological Case Studies, edited by DA White, and S Surface-Evans, pp 67-93, plate 5. University of Utah Press. 11 Roos, Christopher I. and Kevin C. Nolan 2012 Phosphates, Plowzones, and Plazas: A Minimally Invasive Approach to Infer Settlement Structure of Plowed Village Sites in the Midwestern USA. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(1):23-32, doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.06.033. Sexton, Rocky L. 2011. “Methamphetamine.” In, The Encyclopedia of Drug Policy, Kleiman, Mark & James Hawdon, eds. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Sexton, Rocky. 2012. “Review of Working the Field: Accounts from French Louisiana.” Louisiana History. James M. Nyce Donating to the Department of Anthropology Gwendolyn Bakx and James M. Nyce. 2012 Is Redundancy Enough?: A Preliminary Study of Apache Crew Behaviour. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science. DOI:10.1080/ 1463922X.2012.667169. The Department relies on the generosity of others to support student research and faculty interests. If you would like to make a donation to the Department of Anthropology Department, please visit https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/ olc/pub/BSU/onlinegiving/showGivingForm .jsp?form_id=845 James M. Nyce and Toomas Timpka, MD. 2012 The Reformist Triad and the Institutional Forgetting of Culture: A Field Study into 20th Century Swedish Social Medicine. International Journal of Health Services 42(1):95-107. 2011 Erik Styhr Petersen, James M. Nyce and Margareta Lützhöft. Ethnography ReEngineered: The Two Tribes Problem. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science 12(6):496-509. Below are some of the areas that you may consider when making your donation. Rocky Sexton 503-Chair’s Discretionary Fund Sexton, Rocky In-press. “Too Loud, Too Wild?: CajunCultural Representations in an Ethnic Organization.” Ethnology. 516- Anthropology Research Carlson, Robert, Sexton, Rocky L., Hammar, Lawrence, and Tamara HansenReese 2011 “Driving Themselves to Drink: Qualitative Perspectives from “Hardcore” DUI Repeat Offenders in Ohio.” Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse 10(4). Thank you for your support of Ball State University’s Department of Anthropology. The contribution you make to the Anthropology Department may benefit any one or several of the accounts listed above: For more information on giving to Anthropology contact Ball State University Foundation 765-285-8312 or toll free at 888235-0058. 501-General Fund 502-Museum Fund 550- Anthropology Scholarships 12