Brooklyn College Anthropology Club

This Thursday! Join us for pizza and learn more about the Anthropology major.

Anthropology Majors and Minors!
Join the Anthropology Club this Thursday, October 31, at 12:30 to learn more about archaeological field schools. Senior anthropology major Chloe Combs will talk about her summer field school experience excavating in northern Scotland.

There will be pizza!!!

Hey Everyone!
The info session for the India Study Abroad trip will be held this Thursday, October 3rd in room 3305 William James Hall!!
Feel free to contact the anthropology club or Professor Antoniello for more information.

Join us at our general interest meeting and welcome back party on Tuesday, September 17 from 12:15-2 pm in 3305 James!

Check it out! A group of Brooklyn College Anthropology students who attended the AAA meeting last November featured on the AAA page!

Now is the time to give AAA membership a try! New professional, student, associate, and/or retired members can receive 10% off their dues. Email members @ americananthro . org to get your special discount code.

Happening NEXT TUESDAY! Join Anthro Club for our last event of the semester - there will be lunch, cake, and awards!!!

The Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at Brooklyn College is offering an Urban Anthropology Field School during the first summer session.

ANTH 3470 Archaeological Field School: Urban Anthropology Project
Lower East Side, New York City
June 4-29, 2018-Summer Session I
6 credits, 9am-3pm, Monday through Friday
Co-taught by Professors Britt and Schiller

To register, visit: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/admissions/summer.php

For more information contact:

Dr. Naomi Schiller: [email protected]

Dr. Kelly Britt: [email protected]

Course description:

The Lower East Side is in the midst of a major new wave of gentrification and waterfront development. How do class, race, gender, and migration status intersect to shape the way that residents approach the threat of extreme weather and rising seas? How do residents, planners, and policy makers understand the relationship between human action, gentrification, and climate change and how do they work to influence development to preempt weather related disasters that threaten both lower and upper income residents? How has the historical development of this section of New York city, shaped the way people respond to climate change? What can it we learn from the material culture people left behind? These questions will be at the heart of exploration of this urban anthropology field school, which will combine both ethnography and archaeological field methods.

The course will prepare students with foundational ethnographic and archaeological methods. Students will explore the history and contemporary struggle for space and survival through a variety of modes of engagement such as films, walking tours, museum visits, community board meetings, and archaeological collection analysis. By end of course students will have a grounding in the following topics:

Environmental and cultural history of the LES
Archaeological collections reflecting the residential changes of the community
Coastal Resiliency
Gentrification/Displacement
Climate change and sea level rise
Urban planning and policy

Summer 2018 | Brooklyn College Brooklyn College's summer session is a great opportunity for you to earn additional credits toward your degree and accelerate your path to graduation, or to enhance and expand your education by exploring new areas and fields.

HAPPENING TOMORROW! Bring your resumes :)

Anthropology Club will be having a workshop with the Magner Career Center THIS THURSDAY in 533 NE from 12:30-2:00pm!

Anthropology Club will be having a workshop with the Magner Career Center THIS THURSDAY in 533 NE from 12:30-2:00pm!

This Saturday, March 24th, folks from all over NYC will gather for a "sibling march" as part of the March For Our Lives movement. Join Anthropology Club TOMORROW during common hours for a sign making and organizing event to prepare for the march.

If you have time, swing by! If you don't, make time! This is your chance to get involved, take a stand, and be a part of something so important.

Anthropology Club is having elections! Stop by our meeting NEXT TUESDAY to learn how to run for a position!

Join Anthropology Club this Thursday to celebrate NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY DAY!

There will be an Anthropology Club meeting THIS TUESDAY during common hours! Stop by to meet other students and for some pizza!!!

Check out this piece featuring Senior anthropology major Gabrielle Powell!!

"Anthropology has completely changed the kinds of questions I’m asking and how I’m critical of what I’m seeing and hearing and doing in the world. I think it’s helped me to grow as a person. It’s to a point that everything I see I say, “Who did this? Why did they do this? What were their experiences? What are they trying to tell me? There is so much going on the world right now, why is this relevant? Why did I say that? What am I doing? What does it mean?" Really breaking that down has helped me to be open to other kinds of people and their experiences."

Brooklyn College | Senior Gabrielle Powell on Why Anthropology Makes Her Question Everything In an ongoing series we interview students to get their perspective on current events, issues, and their Brooklyn College experience.

The Department of Anthropology and Archaeology announces a Spring 2018 course, "Special Topics in Anthropology: Africa and the Americas" ANTH3010 taught by Professor Rahman.

The course meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11am to 12:15pm. There are seats still available in this course.

Course description:

Thinking through the intersections of Islamophobia and anti-Black racism, this course looks as the racialization of and within global Muslim communities. In the US, a nation-state with an origin story that includes the freedom from persecution for religious beliefs, how can we make sense of multiple so-called "Muslim bans"? Hate crimes, state surveillance and
institutionalized racial violence towards Muslims has been on the rise within minority-Muslim communities in the West. Yet, the "othering" of Muslims in the West is not new.

To make sense of the contemporary moment, we trace practices of racializing Muslims dating back to the Crusades. Further, much less discussed are processes of racialization within global Muslim communities. Black Muslims make up about one third of the American Muslim
population yet their presence is erased in popular representations that depict and affirm Muslims as exclusively Arab or Asian. Black Muslims are also marginalized on a global scale, with little acknowledgement that Africa is likely the only continent with a Muslim majority, and that roughly one-sixth of the global Muslim population resides in sub-Saharan Africa. Using methodological and theoretical tools of anthropology, we will try to understand racialization as it operates on and within global Muslim communities.

We examine Black Islam through histories of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa and within the Black diaspora in the Americas, showing how black conversion to Islam has historically inspired social, economic, cultural, and political activism in the U.S., Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa.

Exciting and amazing new opportunity for Anthropology students shared by professor Naomi Schiller! Check it out everyone!

https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/bordercommunity/about/index.html

The Immigration and Border Community – Research Experience for Undergraduates, is a unique opportunity to learn social science research methods while collaborating with local organizations to conduct in-depth research about the unique challenges faced by border communities in the Paso del Norte region of southern New Mexico, El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.



The U.S. Mexico border is currently at the center of political controversy, one that has threatened to further disrupt border cities that were once closely integrated. Immigration is an important part of the Paso del Norte region and the increase in border enforcement has significant impacts not only on those passing through the border, but those who live here as well. This is a unique opportunity for undergraduate students to learn social science research methods through hands-on collaboration with local organizations about border enforcement and its impacts on immigrants and border communities.



Work will be fully funded by the National Science Foundation and is an excellent opportunity for students interested in pursuing a graduate degree or a variety of career paths. By collaborating closely with organizations already involved in advocacy for civil and human rights, such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Border Network for Human Rights, your work will have a greater impact. Sample topics include:

The impacts of repealing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)Alleged abuse and mistreatment of migrants and community members by law enforcementAsylum seekers in the borderlands: Access to due process and basic human rights“Know Your Rights” campaignsThe history of community organizing and leadership development in the borderlands

Successful applicants will spend 10 weeks in the El Paso/Las Cruces/Ciudad Juárez region during the summer (May 21-July 28, 2018). Positions are fully funded by the NSF. Students will receive a stipend of $5000 and meal expenses. In addition, students traveling from outside the region will receive accommodation and $500 towards their travel expenses. We will also have several excursions, including a one-week intensive field-trip through the Arizona/Sonora borderlands.

For more information please contact Neil Harvey, (575) 646-3220, [email protected] or Jeremy Slack, (915) 747-6530 [email protected]

About The Immigration and Border Community – Research Experience for Undergraduates, is a unique opportunity to learn social science research methods while collaborating with local organizations to conduct in-depth research about the unique challenges faced by border communities in the Paso del Norte re...

Anthropology in Color at NYU

This one-day symposium for advanced undergraduate students of color (juniors and seniors), and those with a BA or MA who are considering pursuing a Ph.D., introduces them to NYU faculty and graduate students from all four sub-fields of anthropology (cultural, biological, linguistic and archeological), who will discuss doctoral training in anthropology. The symposium features a workshop to demystify careers in the academy, a workshop on preparing a successful application, and smaller topical discussions of specific areas of research.

This is a part of NYU’s Anthropology Department initiative to increase the diversity of its students and faculty. All symposium events are free and meals are provided, but no travel funds are available.

Applicants to the symposium can either nominate themselves or be nominated by a faculty member at their current or past institution. Please note that we do NOT ask for letters of recommendation as a part of the application, only for contact information for potential faculty referees. Application due date: Thursday, February 1, 2018 by midnight.

Please use this link for further information and application instructions:

https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSeua8q0x2gZ96krK…/viewform…

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"Watched," the short documentary about the undercover cop who spied on Muslim students at Brooklyn College for four years will be screened THIS THURSDAY at 12:30 in Woody Tanger Auditorium. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Professor Jeanne Theoharis from the Political Science department and Aviva Stahl, the journalist who uncovered the story.

Anthropologist Leith Mullings will be giving a talk at the CUNY Graduate Center THIS THURSDAY!

In this talk, Dr. Leith Mullings will explore the current context of racism and briefly review the principal findings of a recently concluded collective research project carried out by RAIAR, a network of scholars and activists in seven countries, committed to challenging racism against African descended and indigenous people. The focus of the presentation will be the U.S., where there is significant intensification of the movement to normalize white supremacy and misogyny. Mullings will examine the resistance, with emphasis on the Movement for Black Lives. She will conclude with discussion of the importance of international solidarity and the pleasure, potential and pitfalls of activist scholarship.

Leith Mullings: Engaged Scholarship in Dangerous Times Leith Mullings: Engaged Scholarship in Dangerous Times: Racism, Gender and Social Movements in the Americas

Join us TOMORROW at 12:30 in SUBO Alumni Lounge!

We are having a General Interest meeting on October 5th! Pizza will be served!

We are having a General Interest meeting on October 5th! Pizza will be served!

CALLING ALL BROOKLYN COLLEGE ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENTS!

The 2017 AAA Conference will take place in Washington, DC from Wednesday, November 28 to Sunday, December 3rd. A group of anthropology students from Brooklyn College will hopefully be attending this year's conference, with the possibility of the cost being subsidized by the club budget and Academic Club Association. Please fill out this form if you're interested in attending: https://goo.gl/forms/YuyS9JknUGwk9ZBA3

If you want to learn more about the annual meeting check out the AAA website: www.americananthro.org

Additionally, you can volunteer at the conference and get 100% reimbursed: http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=14758&navItemNumber=566

American Anthropological Association Conference Interest Form

The “Carrie Hunter-Tate Award” honors the memory of this former officer of the National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA). Carrie energetically devoted her time and talents to NASA until her untimely death in 1995. To honor the spirit with which she dedicated herself to the profession of anthropology, NASA has established the “Carrie Hunter-Tate Award,” to be bestowed upon student anthropologists with similar enthusiasm for service to the profession.

The judgment criteria for this award are split equally between academic and professional achievements. The award provides $500 to assist with travel expenses to the 2017 AAA conference as well as a reimbursement of basic conference registration fees.

Eligibility:
All anthropology students who are members of the National Association of Student Anthropologists (excluding currently elected or appointed NASA Officers) are eligible. Non-members may apply for the Carrie Hunter-Tate, but must join NASA prior to receiving the award if selected. Attendance at the conference is required for this award.

Undergraduates, graduates, and all international students are encouraged to apply.

Applications are due July 21st - see the link below for more details!

https://studentanthropologists.wordpress.com/the-carrie-hunter-tate-award/

www.studentanthropologists.org

Hello Everyone,
Anthropology club and the Anthropology Department is hosting a guest speaker event on Tuesday May 9th, Common Hours in 3305 James Hall.

Prof. Nutsa Batiashvili will be speaking about her research and upcoming book about divided nations, a topic extremely pertinent to our current political climate.

Prof. Nutsa Batiashvili : My talk will revolve around the topics I discuss in my upcoming book “The Bivocal Nation: Memory and Identity on the Edge of Empire” (Palgrave Macmillan). The book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood, and its principal purpose is to explain division and polarization as a form of imagining that is configured in the culture and framed by historicity. This is what bivocality signifies - two distinct, at times opposing discursive voices through which nationhood is articulated - voices that are grounded in a culturally common symbolic field. I offer ethnographically grounded analysis of the ways in which Georgians make use of these voices in the critical discourse on the nationhood. By understanding cultural semantics behind discourses that cut through several social layers of the nation-state and are simultaneously locked in the geopolitical contingencies of postcolonial geography, I offer a new constellation of conceptual terms for understanding modern forms of nationalism and nation-building in the marginal or liminal landscapes of the globe between the ‘Orient’ and the ‘Occident.’

***Apologies in advance for any cross-postings***

Hi all,

The Department of Anthropology and Archaeology has compiled a short-list of candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Urban Archaeology beginning Fall 2017.

The candidates will be visiting the Department this week - Dr. Kelly Britt on February 15, Dr. Jessica Maclean on the 15th, and Dr. Alexander Keim on the 16th.

They have all been asked to give a class lecture and a job talk. Class lectures will take place on Tuesday and Thursday during Professor Turley's Urban Archaeology class at 9:30 and during Professor Chester's Human Origins class on Wednesday also at 9:30.

The job talk/department lecture will be at 12:30 in the departmental seminar room. Anyone interested is more than welcome to attend! Come meet a future professor and colleague in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology!

Snacks will be served and a brown bag lunch will follow.

"Do you have an interest in marine archaeology or African art? Maybe you’re looking for a productive way to spend your summer getting hands-on experience working in anthropology as well as in an office environment. Whatever your career goals may be, the AAA internship program provides two exceptional students with the opportunity to spend a summer earning valuable work experience and living in Washington, DC."

http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/01/27/aaa-summer-intern-program/

AAA Summer Intern Program | Anthropology-News Do you have an interest in marine archaeology or African art? Maybe you’re looking for a productive way to spend your summer getting hands-on experience working in anthropology as well as in an office environment. Whatever your career goals may be, the AAA internship program provides two exceptional...

Hello fellow anthropology majors and enthusiasts! Hope you all had a great winter break. We, the executive board of the BC Undergraduate Anthropology Club, would like to announce our first General Interest Meeting:

BC Undergraduate Anthropology Club
General Interest Meeting
Seminar Room in Anthro Dept
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
12:30-1:30 P.M.

Come join us for our first interest meeting! Meet fellow anthro students, and learn about opportunities for research, internships, study abroad and more. See you there!

One day symposium for potential Ph.D. program applicants at NYU!!

The symposium features a workshop to demystify careers in the academy, smaller topical discussions of specific areas of research, and an evening roundtable on current events relevant to anthropology.

This is a part of NYU’s University-wide initiative to increase the diversity of its students and faculty. All symposium events are free; a limited number of travel scholarships are available. Applicants to the symposium can either nominate themselves or be nominated by a faculty member at their current or past institution.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUqP07IuGxn__oKSJ3GhHfZcoNWcPHxUMP0YzAXlPI8TP9Bg/viewform

Anthropology In Color at NYU Symposium Application 2017 Anthropology in Color is a one day research and mentoring symposium sponsored by the NYU Department of Anthropology for potential Ph.D. program applicants of color. The application deadline is Monday, February 13, 2017. The workshop is open to undergraduate students, BA and MA graduates with an inte...

The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) is the student section of the American Anthropological Association founded in 1985 to address graduate and undergraduate student concerns and to promote the interests and involvement of students as anthropologists-in-training. A network of students from all four fields, NASA directly addresses issues that are of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students - their listserv is a great resource for information on internships, fellowships, graduate school, fieldwork programs, career opportunities, as well as announcements for conferences, field schools, workshops and symposia. Join now if you aren't on the Listserv! (Instructions in link below)

https://studentanthropologists.wordpress.com/studentresource/listserv/

Listserv Joining the NASA Listserv is easy, all you have to do is click here then hit “subscribe” and/or email [email protected] to join. NASA has been working hard on making it easier…

Our discussion of how to resist the Trump Agenda continues tomorrow.

Teach-In and Workshop
Beyond Racial Liberalism with Professor Lawrence Johnson
Thursday, December 1st, at 12:30pm
2127 Ingersoll Hall

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Dear Brooklyn College community,

Please consider signing this petition urging President Anderson to declare Brooklyn College a sanctuary campus.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfB1uhGcHP11lM_uNjc81xUxLdOG8kuYP8DeTfHN0uDbIiyPA/viewform?c=0&w=1

In making this request to President Anderson, Brooklyn College is joining a national movement of colleges and universities refusing to collaborate with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Here is a map of committed and petitioning campuses across the country.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=36.35352782639353%2C-98.16750560727525&hl=en&z=4&authuser=0&mid=1LcIME474-lYWbTf_xQChIhSSN30

And here is a short article that provides some history of sanctuary spaces and why they matter: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/sanctuary-cities-campuses-trump-immigration-deportation

Petition: Let's make Brooklyn College, CUNY as a Sanctuary Campus November 23, 2016 Michelle Anderson, President Dear President Anderson: As you are aware, CUNY-Brooklyn College is a place of higher learning for numerous undocumented students from various world regions. Many were brought here as children; their parent(s) migrating under dire economic conditions. M...

The Long Movement Against Police Brutality in New York City
Professor Clarence Taylor
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
2:15 to 3:30 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium
Brooklyn College Student Library

15-20 students needed in a citizen science project and filming for a PBS documentary at Brooklyn College, on Monday, October 10th (Columbus Day)!

"Interested in learning how to monitor mosquito larvae genera and species that can transmit Zika and West Nile Virus? Then, participate in a one-day workshop at Brooklyn College on Monday Oct. 10, 2016 on Columbus Day (college is closed).

What is happening: Colleagues and I (Rebecca Boger) have recently received funding for the development of an app for your mobile device (smartphone or tablet), to collect photos and environmental data for mosquito larvae. As part of this app, optical recognition software is being developed. When the app is finalized, citizen scientists will download the app, take photos, collect other data, and submit. The optical recognition software for the photos will be the first check on data quality – those that are incorrectly identified (i.e., not a mosquito larvae) will be rejected while others that pass will go to the next level of validation.

Connection with PBS Documentary: We have the exciting opportunity to become part of a PBS documentary showcasing citizen science projects that will be aired on PBS next spring! While the workshop is taking place, it will be filmed as we sample for mosquito larvae in neighborhoods around Brooklyn College.

How you can participate: If you can commit to one full day, 10 -5 on Monday, Oct 10, then send an email to [email protected]. Please provide your full name, whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student, your email address, and your major.

Preference will be given in the order that inquiries are made.

I look forward to working with you!

Rebecca Boger
EES "

Volunteer opportunity at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History!

Message from Charles Jabour, Volunteer Coordinator, Margaret Mead Film Festival 2016:

"Volunteering is a great way to get into the festival, engage with the filmmakers, and experience the various films and events over the weekend of October 13-16th. We ask volunteers to help us either before the festival with promotion and quality checking the films and during the festival with ensuring a positive patron experience."

Students who are interested may sign up by visiting this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAJbtQUL7_QUIUAKVdkiq2BNVded6GgAtyUvVVWe1BRh8DIw/viewform

Don't miss out!!

Margaret Mead Film Festival Volunteer Application The Mead seeks reliable, kind and enthusiastic film fans for the annual Margaret Mead Film Festival which will take place at the American Museum of Natural History on October 13th - 16th. Apply to volunteer for the Margaret Mead Film Festival by filling out the information below. Applicants will be…

Come see Dr. James Blair speak about Tracking Penguins, Stalking Petroleum: The Politics of Marine Ecology in the South Atlantic!!

Monday, September 19th, at 9:30 A.M.
Woody Tanger Auditorium in the Brooklyn College Library