Vassar College Anthropology Department

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ANTH 235: Historical Archaeology of American Identity, led by Professor Ryan Rybka, visited Rhinebeck, NY for an archaeology excavation recently!

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We are buzzing about this student field trip with the Environmental Anth course to Hudson Valley bee supply

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Big congratulations to the amazing Professor Candice Lowe-Swift and the incredible Professor Erendira Rueda for receiving an Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges award. Learn more about this incredible achievement here: https://t.co/yF3j48yCJo

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🎁 OCEL Toy Drive! 🎁
We’re helping collect toys for OCEL’s annual drive to support families this holiday season! Drop off new, unwrapped toys (especially for ages 11-16) by December 12th—there’s a box set up by the office of Deanna Johnson-our amazing Administrative Assistant.

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check out their Instagram @lamisa.events or visit their website at https://t.co/NUyczWxaBI. Big thanks to the Lamisa Events LLC team for sharing this experience!

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Recently, Professor Swift hosted Charisse Ledres from Lamisa Events LLC in her Food Cultures of the Diasporas class. Charisse and her assistant prepared a traditional breakfast feast that would be served in a Filipino household. For more info, check out this thread

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Excited to share this interview with the wonderful Professor Louis Römer in the Dutch Caribbean newspaper

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If you have anything you would like us to post, feel free to feel free to contact us! We would love to hear about it!!

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I also learned new ways to conduct fieldwork, reflect reflexively and translate that into my writing, study how my senses affected my relationship with observation, write an effective character sketch, write using thick descriptions, write ethnographic vignettes, and create ---

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--- ethnographic poetry. I thoroughly enjoyed my work in Malta and will translate everything I learned into my future anthropological work." - Olivia Bragitikos.

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Through this program, I had the chance to develop my social confidence and independence through conducting fieldwork around Gozo as we interacted with the town and the people.

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"Getting to spend 10 days in Gozo, Malta through Off the Beaten Page was an experience that I’ll forever be grateful for. Off the Beaten Page is an anthropological research program that focuses on ethnographic writing.

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Check out this thread with the amazing photographs from Olivia Bragitikos taken during their extraordinary research project!! read more here- https://t.co/PuPIYBxcjr

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@ISUArtsLetters Hello from the Vassar Anthropology department! We would love to check out your escape room to use as an inspiration for our own. If you could please email me my email is [email protected]

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Two Year Postdoctoral Appointment in Bioarchaeology

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The Anthropology department is going to have a teatime with our visiting professor of Linguistics, Rebecca Dinkel! Prof. Dinkel will talk about her work with Mesoamerican languages, her path to linguistics, and linguistics in the liberal arts. Tomorrow in the Anthropology lounge!

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Please join us!

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Our department Fall Social is happening tomorrow at 4:30! Come join us in Blodgett 101!