Faculty Survey Results
Blakey
Biological anthropologist
1) What are your requirements for office, storage, research, and equipment space?
The existing 40’x40’ space (divided into two offices, storage, a lecture laboratory, and library entrance) of the IHB is
barely adequate. An additional 15’x15’ office space is preferable.
2) If you are an ethnographer how would you use an ethnographic lab? What are your space needs in such a lab?
NA
3) State the number of graduate students you are advising and their space needs.
I am advisor for 7 Ph.D. students and on the committees of at least 4 others.
4) What kind(s) of teaching space do you need?
A 30’x30’ lab is adequate for teaching.
5) Describe any interdisciplinary projects or other activities that involve resource sharing with other units.
None.
Michael Blakey 11/1/2012
Tomoko Connolly
Ethnographer
1) What are your requirements for office, storage, research, and equipment space?
Same as before, in Washington Hall 123.
2) If you are an ethnographer how would you use an ethnographic lab? What are your space needs in such a lab?
A large table to display objects. Flexible seating arrangements.
3) State the number of graduate students you are advising and their space needs.
Two students. No specific needs
4) What kind(s) of teaching space do you need?
Seminar classroom for upper courses and freshman seminar
Theatre classroom with flexible seating arrangements (like Blow 343 type0, and screen to show films
5) Describe any interdisciplinary projects or other activities that involve resource sharing with other units.
AMES group, Multilanguage programs. Need to conduct skype teleconferences with those in other countries.
Martin Gallivan
Archaeologist
1) What are your requirements for office, storage, research, and equipment space?
My current office and lab space generally meets my needs, but my storage needs are currently met. The dept. would
benefit from a dedicated deep storage space for older collections that we curate. I’d be hard-pressed to estimate
square footage needed.
2) If you are an ethnographer how would you use an ethnographic lab? What are your space needs in such a lab?
NA
3) State the number of graduate students you are advising and their space needs.
Approx. 4-5 MA students and 6 PhD students (Herlich, Shephard, Atkins, Ogborne, Johnson, Beaupre)
4) What kind(s) of teaching space do you need?
A teaching lab capable of handling 20-30 students (i.e. more than my own lab’s capacity of approx. 12 students).
5) Describe any interdisciplinary projects or other activities that involve resource sharing with other units.
- Current project with Applied Science involving Native ceramics,
- Proposed project on bivalve research with Geology.
Jonathan Glasser
Ethnographer
1) What are your requirements for office, storage, research, and equipment space?
I need an office for books and audio recordings, plus enough surface for audio equipment.
2) If you are an ethnographer how would you use an ethnographic lab? What are your space needs in such a lab?
I would mainly use an ethnographic lab for teaching purposes.
3) State the number of graduate students you are advising and their space needs.
I am on one PhD committee and one Masters committee right now.
4) What kind(s) of teaching space do you need?
I generally use Washington 201 for my intro class, and smaller rooms in Washington and Morton for the other classes.
5) Describe any interdisciplinary projects or other activities that involve resource sharing with other units.
I do a fair amount of work at the music department—when working with ensembles, I use the band room or the lounge
space in the music department.
Grey Gundaker
Cultural anthropologist
1) What are your requirements for office, storage, research, and equipment space?
An office, preferably not shared; access to a media lab for working with video and images and showing
students how to do so; space for ethnographic teaching materials storage and layout space so students can
work with them.
2) If you are an ethnographer how would you use an ethnographic lab? What are your space needs in
such a lab?
I envision a lab similar in size to Washington 101with one large central table that can be used for both
seminars and teaching with ethnographic material culture. Around the sides each ethnographer should have
a C-shaped carrell sided with shelving, large enough for a small work table and 2 chairs to allow 1-on-1
teaching.
3) State the number of graduate students you are advising and their space needs.
I am currently the primary advisor for one graduate student who has completed her research and has no
space needs on campus.
4) What kind(s) of teaching space do you need?
A seminar room with projector convenient to the ethnographic lab, or as part of the lab.
5) Describe any interdisciplinary projects or other activities that involve resource sharing with other units.
Part of Africana studies and American Studies. I am also beginning to cross-list courses with Art History.
Presently I teach these courses in College Apts but would prefer to teach them in Anthropology, if space for
work with artifacts was available.
Jenny Kahn
Archaeologist
1) What are your requirements for office, storage, research, and equipment space?
Office for myself
Soils lab (dry lab) with fume hood, oven, scales, calipers, microscope, and storage for my research and my collections as
well as reference collections
Wet lab with sinks, screens, drying racks, sediment traps
Geochemistry lab with XRF machine and equipment for making pressed pellets
2) If you are an ethnographer how would you use an ethnographic lab? What are your space needs in such a lab?
NA
3) State the number of graduate students you are advising and their space needs.
None at the moment
4) What kind(s) of teaching space do you need?
Teaching space for lab courses with scales, digital calipers that can hook into machines, student microscopes, work
stations for 18 students; with storage space for teaching collections; ideally with computers as well for student use. I
anticipate teaching Introduction to Archaeological Science as well as Lithic Technology in the next year.
5) Describe any interdisciplinary projects or other activities that involve resource sharing with other units.
Geology Department
Environmental Studies
VIMS
Native Studies workgroup
Barbara King
Biological anthropologist
1) What are your requirements for office, storage, research, and equipment space?
Office large enough to accumulate large collection of books and journals; lab space to house fossil collection of
nonhuman-primate and hominin materials in appropriate ways; in office or lab, video/DVD-viewing and –playback
equipment for watching/analysis of filmed data
2) f you are an ethnographer how would you use an ethnographic lab? What are your space needs in such a lab?
N/A
3) State the number of graduate students you are advising and their space needs.
N/A
4) What kind(s) of teaching space do you need?
I’m not certain of your intended scope here. I think we as a department would benefit from 2-3 dedicated seminar
rooms, for teaching, right in the department. The seminar table in my lab Room 102 provides this space now but is
underused. Room 101 is sometimes available and sometimes not. If you mean instead teaching space across campus,
that’s a different question. It’s important that for the large Intro classes, we have a state-of-the-art teaching space for
150 students in our building. In any teaching space, including in-department seminar rooms, we need full
computer/video/DVD equipment.
5) Describe any interdisciplinary projects or other activities that involve resource sharing with other units.
N/A
NOTE: It’d be nice to have an open-ended invitation along the lines of “What other space needs are on your mind?”
So…We should think about space in ways that go beyond just research, storage, and teaching, right? What about space
that makes it more attractive to come together over lunch or at other times during the day? The mailroom is too small
for this. We have no space that invites us (=faculty, staff, grad students, undergrad majors) to sit around and talk and I
think this is a loss. For anthropologists who are invested in social networks and communication across boundaries we
don’t come together to talk informally much, and surely some of this can be addressed via thinking about space.
Michelle LeLievre
Ethnographer / archaeologist
1) What are your requirements for office, storage, research, and equipment space?
I require office space with room to store books and files and to meet comfortably with undergraduate and graduate
students. I require a lab space that will accommodate a map cabinet and storage units for archaeological and reference
invertebrates and possibly archaeological soil samples. I hope to analyze archaeological invertebrates, which will require
access to a wet lab that has both a sink with a sediment trap and a fume hood. This lab should include sufficient floor
space for the above storage furniture in addition to equipment such as microscopes, a micro drill, a grinding/polishing
machine. The space will also require electrical infrastructure to accommodate the operation of multiple machines.
My work also requires access to computers, scanners and tablets for analysis and publishing. The Adobe Creative Suite
and ArcGIS are examples of software programs that I use in my research. A plotter for printing maps, aerial photos and
satellite images would also be helpful.
2) If you are an ethnographer how would you use an ethnographic lab? What are your space needs in such a lab?
I would use an ethnographic lab to transcribe interviews and to edit audio and visual recordings. The lab should include
desktop computers with software for transcribing and for audio and video editing (e.g. Final Cut Pro). The lab should also
include transcription equipment (e.g. headsets, foot pedals).
3) State the number of graduate students you are advising and their space needs.
I currently have six graduate student enrolled in one of my classes. However, I am not officially advising any of them yet.
One of these students has expressed an interest in publishing programs such as the Adobe Creative Suite and ArcGIS. I
believe the graduate students should be approached directly to ask about their needs. They especially seem to be in
need of updated computers.
Dr. Moretti-Langholtz and I also discussed the possibility of having a language lab affiliated with the American Indian
Resource Center. Such a lab would be useful for undergraduate and graduate students studying Native American/First
Nations languages. It could include computer stations for practicing aural comprehension and oral expression. It could
also house a library devoted to Native American/First Nations linguistics.
4) What kind(s) of teaching space do you need?
For the near future, I am able to use the college’s lecture halls and seminar rooms. At a later stage I would like to have a
lab space that would allow students to work hands-on with artifacts, maps and invertebrate remains (i.e. space to
“spread out”). I would also like students to have access to computers, tablets, scanners and software such as ArcGIS and
the Adobe Creative Suite.
5) Describe any interdisciplinary projects or other activities that involve resource sharing with other units.
At the moment, I am involved in no such projects. However, my joint appointment with American Studies may lead to
interdisciplinary projects. The proposed College 200 courses may also open opportunities for interdisciplinary teaching
and research.
Curtis Moyer
Archaeologist
1) What are your requirements for office, storage, research, and equipment space?
My current lab is sufficient in square footage, but lacks effective environmental controls and floods regularly. I need
additional student microscopes for my lab course.
2) If you are an ethnographer how would you use an ethnographic lab? What are your space needs in such a lab?
NA
3) State the number of graduate students you are advising and their space needs.
Currently none. I only advise MA students, so no space needs are implied.
4) What kind(s) of teaching space do you need?
See question 1.
5) Describe any interdisciplinary projects or other activities that involve resource sharing with other units.
None at the moment.
Neil Norman
Archaeologist
1) What are your requirements for office, storage, research, and equipment space?
This is somewhat difficult to answer in the abstract, but I would request lab and storage space equal to what
“we” have at present. Fred and I share WASH 109; which, we are reorganizing to maximize storage space. Moving
forward, I plan on equipping our lab with a digital microscope, photo scanner, and grinding wheel to process ceramic
samples. I also occasionally use low concentration acid washes to check for shell tempering. A fume hood would be
useful to facilitate this type of analysis
2) If you are an ethnographer how would you use an ethnographic lab? What are your space needs in such a lab?
Ethnoarchaeogical mapping exercises, transcription, material culture classification and analysis.
3) State the number of graduate students you are advising and their space needs.
4 Graduate students each in need of a 3.5’ x 8’ lab bench and three large storage cases.
4) What kind(s) of teaching space do you need?
Lab equipped similar to #1, lecture hall, seminar room
5) Describe any interdisciplinary projects or other activities that involve resource sharing with other units.
Maggie Walker paper project that started in WASH 109
Bray School excavation (in partnership with the Lemon initiative and members of the History and English Department
faculty)