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ANTHROPOLOGYInside

Chair’s Corner 1-2Alumni Updates 3-4From a Plane to Varanasi 5-6Anthropology Department Remodel 6On Divesting From Teaching 7CAP Updates 8Faculty Research and Teaching Updates 9-12Student Research on Independent Elders in China 13Student Achievements 14-16

Faculty News & Updates 4-11

Student Achievements 12-14

Greetings as we present another newsletter forthe Anthropology Department at theUniversity of Vermont! We welcome you toview photos of students and faculty doingresearch, the graduation ceremonies, and ourlobby renovations; to read updates fromalumni on their education, jobs, and families;to mourn those we’ve lost; and to congratulateDr. Rob Gordon on his retirement.

Coming out of our successful AcademicProgram Review, we have been implementingsome advising initiatives in the department tobetter serve our students. We instituted twoone-credit “proseminar” courses tailored tostudents needs at various points in theircollege career: ANTH 105: Introduction to theAnthropology major is designed to help newmajors in Anthropology thoroughlyunderstand the discipline, get the most fromtheir major, and plan wisely for academic andcareer goals. ANTH 205: Advanced Proseminar:Next steps in Anthropology is for Anthropology

majors ready to apply their knowledge and skillsets to graduate school and/or their careers. Tohelp students with common interests tostructure the major and highlight some of ourareas of strength, we also unveiled three foci toconcentrate the major: Archaeology andHeritage Management, Global Health, andSocial Action. These, of course, do not replacethe general anthropology major, which servesthe majority of our students well.

We are also very happy to announce a greatopportunity coming to Burlington this spring.We are working with Burlington’s Fletcher FreeLibrary who will host the Exploring HumanOrigins: What Does it Mean to Be Human?http://bit.ly/2eOEoH9 traveling exhibitionfrom the Smithsonian’s National Museum ofNatural History from February 18 to March 17.In advance of the exhibit, I hosted a teachertraining in the department in October. Thismonth, we also brought a hands-on exhibit on

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Chair’s CornerThe view from Williams Hall

Chair Deborah Blom

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Chair’s Corner (Continued)

human origins to the Third Annual FamilyS.T.E.M. Night http://bit.ly/2grt5G7 at WinooskiMiddle and High School, thanks to the help ofour students, Emma Rosen, Allison Bauza, andAden Haji. It was great fun!

In our continued efforts to improve our facilities,we have two great pieces of news. We were ableto use funds that we received from facultyteaching in the summer to renovate the lobby andmake it a student-friendly place to work, whichhighlights the work that we do collectively asfaculty and students.

As many of you know, our other big dream is tobe able to provide hands-on trainingopportunities in the department with an updatedseminar/laboratory teaching and learning space.We have learned that the 5th floor space inWilliams traditionally occupied by the ArtDepartment’s dark room will be transferred toAnthropology to renovate if we can gatherenough funds. If there was ever a better time tocontribute to the College in the name of thedepartment http://bit.ly/2grlF5P now would beso appreciated, whether you would like to honorDr. Robert Gordon’s retirement or give a tributein honor or in memory of any other individual oroccasion that made an impression on you here,such as Dr. Jim Petersen, who long desired toexpand into that space which was right next tohis office.

More than anything, we value our relationshipswith you. As always, we love to hear news fromour alumni and ask you to send updates to shareas many of your classmates have done here. Inthe meantime, we invite you to sit back and enjoythese pages and see what we have been up to andwhat we are planning for the future.

October Teacher Training for Exploring Human Origins exhibit (above and below)

Emma Rosen, Allison Bauza, and Aden Haji at the 3rd

Annual S.T.E.M. night (left and above)

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Alumni UpdatesMatthew Claeys ’11 (pictured below) recentlygraduated with an M.A. in African Studies fromthe Institute of African Studies, University ofGhana. Matthew was awarded the KwameNkrumah Award for Top Performing Student inhis class. His research focuses on the perceptionsand treatment of mental health in Ghana as aprism to understand the failure of human rightsin African societies. His study shed new light onthe healing practices and beliefs of Islamicmalams, traditional healers, and self proclaimedChristian prophets in Ghana, who are allincreasingly being incorporated into a mentalhealth system that stresses community-basedcare. For his original research Matthew won a AirMaroc Student Travel Award from the AfricanStudies Association of America, with which hespent time in Morocco and the Western Sahara.Matthew has resettled in Burlington, Vermontwith a determination to share his passion forAfrican cultures, travel and story telling. He canbe reached at mtclaeys@gmail.com.

Contributed by Miranda Appelbaum, Class of ’04, Assistant Director, Accessibility and Guest Services for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

While I don’t work in the field any more,anthropology had a huge part in me finding mycareer path. During my junior year at UVM, I dida field school through University of NorthCarolina Chapel Hill in Peru and fell in love withmaterial culture and the stories they tell. Iinterned at the Fleming Museum, researchingEgyptian objects, and just after graduating in2004, I interned at a historic house inMassachusetts, labeling objects in the collectingand designing and leading tours.

All of those experiences contributed to pursuingmy MA in Museum Studies at NYU, where Iinterned at the Brooklyn Museum on a NativeAmerican Tipi exhibition, and finally landed atthe Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, designingand leading programs for students. While there, Ifocused on programs to make the museum moreaccessible for people with disabilities, after fiveyears there, I took my experience in accessibilityto a new venue, Lincoln Center for thePerforming Arts. My firm belief that our culturalinstitutions have incredible opportunity to createcommunity, teach us about our world and makeconnections between cultures all stems from mycourses in UVM’s Anthropology Department,and in my current role, I am focused on how toensure people with disabilities can have thoseopportunities.

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Alumni Updates, ContinuedMark Agostini, ‘12, was accepted to the Ph.D.program in archaeology at Brown University.

Shelby Carter, ‘16, was accepted to the M.A.program in Anthropology at Brandeis University

Camille Clancy, ’15, was accepted to the dualPhysician Assistant/Masters in Public HealthProgram at Northeastern University

Claire Eaton, ’11, was accepted to the M.S.program in Natural Resources with a focus inEnvironmental Conservation at the University ofNew Hampshire.

Katherine Golde, ‘15, was accepted to the M.Sc.program in Medical Anthropology at theUniversity of Edinburgh.

Katie Hoadley, ‘15 was accepted to the M.A.program in Museum Studies at the University ofDenver.

Shayna Lundquist, ’13, was accepted to the Ph.D.program in archaeology at the University ofKentucky

Elizabeth (Lednicky) McLeod, ’12, was acceptedto Medical School at the University of Vermontafter receiving her M.S. in Forensic Anthropologyfrom Boston University in 2015.

Annika Nilsson, ‘14, was accepted to the M.A.program in Social Sciences at the University ofChicago.

Corrie Roe, ‘14, was accepted to the M.A.program in Museum Studies at New YorkUniversity and is working with the NYU Institutefor the Ancient World

Emily Shea, ‘15, was accepted to the Ph.D.program in Environmental Chemistry at theUniversity of California, Davis.

Andrea Sheldon, ‘13, was accepted to the Mastersin Public Health Program at Columbia University

In Memory of Ross WhitlockContributed by Rich Hart, ’11

Friends and members of the UVM family, it iswith great sadness that I inform you that one ofour own, Ross Whitlock (Class of 2010), haspassed away recently in Buena Vista, CO. Rossstarted his time at UVM as an Art major, a subjectthat he had much love for, and often sold hiswork for side money. During his junior year, hediscovered his second love: Anthropology.

I can recall several times he would return to ourroom after an Anthro lecture and recount thelesson with a childish glee. There is no doubt inmy mind that Ross took the lessons that helearned in Anthropology and applied them to hiswork with kids. Most recently working with theBoys and Girls Club, but a long time employee ofCircus Smirkus, Ross thoroughly enjoyed helpingout children, and I can't think of someone bettersuited to show children that it is okay to be anindividual and pursue who you are, as Ross wasunapologetically himself.

Perhaps, Ross' embrace of his own quirkiness is apart of what made him an endearing person, but Ihave to figure his intellect, wit, and occasionallycutting tongue also played into that. So, it is withsad thoughts and happy memories that we mustbid Ross goodbye. A scholar, a writer, an artist,and a good friend, the world is a sadder placewithout Ross Whitlock.

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From a Plane to VaranasiContributed by Geneva Morley, ‘16

I have been backpacking around India with mybest friend, Monique, since the beginning ofOctober. We have been to Delhi, Agra, Jaipur,and Candolim Beach in Goa. I am writing thisfrom a plane on my way to Varanasi. OnNovember 1st we will fly to Thailand where wewill spend the entire month of November.Writing about all of my experiences in the past 3weeks would be nearly an impossible task, andfrankly I'm still too busy to reflect properly, butI'm happy to share a few new perspectives thatI've gained since landing in Delhi at 2am onOctober 4th.

First, I've learned that I absolutely have to trustpeople here. It's literally the only way to getaround. This was a scary realization considering Ispent the entire year leading up to this tripfielding questions and making promises tovarious people about how I'm going to be safe,not trust strangers, and never be alone. The truthis, I trust many strangers daily, sometimes I amalone (although never for too long), and I ambeing safe, but I don't wear my money belt, and Idefinitely don't carry my pepper spray (but I dostill have it - don't freak out Dad). It's been areally important realization to understand thatthe world is not actually out to get me. Sure,people stare at us, but that's because we stick outin all ways and look nothing like the other billionpeople in this country. I'd probably stare too. Inthe same breath, I'd also like to explain that I'mnot ignorant to the reality of crime and danger inIndia. Many of the Indians that we've met havewarned us with terrible stories and statistics, butthey are always giving us tips on how to be safeand aware, and they are always thankful that wewere not scared away by these stories and thatwe made the decision to travel through theirbeautiful country.

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Learning how to cook aloo gobi in Jaipur, Photo contributed by Geneva Morley

In each of the cities that we have spent time in,we have made local friends who have shown usthe cool nightclubs, fed us the best food,answered our endless questions, and taught usthe best ways to stay safe (we know somefighting words in Hindi). I have also noticed inmy travels that not all foreign travelers have donethis, and as a result, some of them have hadnegative experiences. I cannot emphasize enoughhow much better your travel experience will be ifyou just ask someone who lives in that place whatyou should be doing, eating, or being aware of.

Anthropology also taught me that because of ourfavorite tool of cultural relativism, certain actionsand situations can mean entirely different thingsin different contexts. For example, when peopleapproach us trying to bring us places or show usthings, we initially assumed that they were tryingto trick us, con us, kidnap us, etc. Being womenalone and in a vulnerable position in our ownculture means that we not to engage with, trust,or least of all follow or accept transportation fromstrangers.

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From a Plane to Varanasi, Continued

In our culture, people don't just do things for you.There's always a catch. In India, however, wequickly learned that our cultural frameworksdidn't apply. Most people here feel that it is theirduty as humans to help one another out inwhatever way they are capable of. Even the tuk-tuk drivers give small bills to beggars, and manypeople make regular visits to orphanages or othercharities to give food, time, or money. Giving isconsidered necessary in order to receive. This isexactly why we felt safe following a random manat 6 am through the crowded streets of Old Delhi,or why we allowed a woman, who approached uson the street in Jaipur, to take us back to herhouse to teach us how to cook and wear saris.These people want to help us and welcome us,because of the belief that in turn we will help andwelcome others when we have the ability to doso.

Bird's eye view of the Main Bazaar in New Delhi, Photo by Geneva Morley

UVM Anthropology Department Gets Remodeled

Thanks to the hard work and good taste ofMargaret Gilman, the fifth floor of Williams Hallis looking better than ever with new paint,furniture, and research posters. See below for thebefore and after photos!

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On Divesting From TeachingContributed by Professor Emeritus, Rob Gordon

It’s been a tremendous transition moving toemeritus status made all the more easy by thetruly impressive and touching comments many ofyou made which have been placed in a folder andis a document I shall treasure, certainly morethan the official citation in its fancy ratherostentatious frame. Quite frankly I often learntmore from students than from many of mycolleagues, if only because students must countas the most exotic sub-culture I have everencountered! Please accept this blanket thanks. Iam truly humbled!

More seriously, if any of you are visiting eitherBurlington, DC or Bloemfontein, please look meup (if I’m around that is!). Perhaps I shouldexplain the DC bit. Our FTPs (Future Tax Payers,aka Grandchildren) reside in Bethesda and theidea is to spend at least part of the year there butVermont will remain our main base. Indeed I loveleaving Vermont, just to anticipate returning!

This note is being written from Bloemfonteinwhere I spend at least three months every year.Currently I’m teaching third year studentsethnographic techniques and we all seem to beenjoying it tremendously despite the rathersombre topic we are focusing on, namely ‘TheAfterlife of Death’ dealing with questions likewhy do funerals cost so much and why doWhites prefer to be cremated while Blacks wantto be buried in their natal homesteads? Not totalk about the messy inheritance issues!

All jobs come with certain ritual obligations. Whowould have thought I would be into cross-dressing here in Bloemfontein: Who would haveimagined me in a tuxedo performing?

Lighting a candle to honor my ancestor spirits at a pilgrimage site in the Free State. A joyous schlepp in the company of some wonderful colleagues with meditative

overtones.

Generally though I much prefer my dress forbeing a peripatetic—and that gift voucher mycolleagues gave me to the Outdoor Gift Exchangehas certainly come in handy! Been using it to goon various pilgrimages.

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Consulting Archaeology Program (CAP) Updates

Contributed by: John Crock, CAP Director &Associate Professor of Anthropology

CAP was involved in lots of exciting archaeologyin Vermont over the last year including work on anumber of interesting Native American sitesdating from the Late Archaic to Late Woodlandperiods (ca. 6,000-500 B.P.) as well as a couple ofearly Colonial era sites dating to the late 1700s.Much of the program’s work over the last yearwas conducted as part of regulatory reviews forpublic utility projects including studiescompleted in advance of new solar farms andnatural gas pipelines.

UVM CAP field crew excavates a preContact Native American site in Addison County.

One really interesting site dates to the late 1790sto the early 1800s when much of Vermont wasstill considered the frontier in terms of wildernessand European Contact with Native Americans.CAP archaeologists uncovered a deep cellar, theremains of a chimney built from handmadebricks, ceramics from the period and coins fromIreland, England, Connecticut andMassachusetts. The material culture from the sitewill make for an interesting winter of lab workand help us to reconstruct what appears to havebeen the residence of a country doctor.

Irish (Hibernia) coin, c. 1781 excavated by the UVM CAP from a historic site in Addison County.

Vermont Archaeology MonthThis year’s archaeology month included anotherHyperarchaeology event where audiencemembers were treated to five minutepresentations by archaeologists working aroundthe world. Department faculty membersDeborah Blom, John Crock, Scott Van Keuren andJess Robinson all delivered exciting, lightning-fastlectures to a rowdy crowd of enthusiasts.

4th Annual James B. Petersen LectureDr. Wetherbee Dorshow, ’89, presented thisyear’s Petersen lecture during VermontArchaeology month. He discussed his ongoingresearch with University of New Mexicocollaborators at Chaco Canyon. Using fine-grained topographic maps generated fromairborn LiDAR (laser scan), they have generated ahydrologic model that can be used to test varioushypotheses about water control and agriculture atthe Chaco Canyon World Heritage site.

Alumni notesAnthropology and CAP alums that are heading tograduate school this year include ShaynaLundquist, ’13, who is starting a Ph.D. programin archaeology at the University of Kentucky andKatie Hoadley, ‘15 who started an MA programin Museum Studies at the University of Denver.Geographic Information Systems (GIS) continueto be a critical part of every stage of archaeologyand UVM students are taking advantage oftraining opportunities on campus and at thegraduate level. Paige Brochu ’15 is working parttime at UVM’s spatial lab and applying tograduate school hoping to use GIS to help solvehealth problems. Mike Eichorn ’04 is working onfinishing his MA in GIS at the University of Utah,and Warren Rich, ’08, CAP research supervisor,just started an MA program in GIS at theUniversity of Washington.

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A Full Research Agenda for Dr.Steinberg

Professor Jonah Steinberg continued, in the pastyear, his research on space, segregation, race, andthe Roma people in Europe, particularly asregards processes of expulsion, and he hasbecome involved in a museum effort focused onthe topic. This work was funded with generousawards from the Holocaust Center and theHumanities Center.

Dr. Steinberg also carried on with the work forhis book based on his India research, A Garland ofBones: Child Runaways and Postcolonial India, undercontract with Yale.

In April, Drs. Steinberg and Manetta welcomedAnthro department baby Ananya. Dr. Steinbergalso had the pleasure of seeing Anthro gradAmelia Garrison in Marseille, where she wasgetting ready to start a teaching position andpossibly to help Jonah with his work from afar.Amelia spent the day with Dr. Steinberg,exploring field sites and communities and usingher fantastic ethnographic skills. See the picsincluded here!

Rethinking Regional Identities in the Ancient Southwest

Dr. Scott Van Keuren presented research at tworecent conferences this year. A posterpresentation at the Society for AmericanArchaeology annual meeting in Orlandoexamined the production and circulation of anunusual Ancestral Pueblo pottery type inArizona. He co-presented a paper entitledPrésence Mogollon and Salinas Pueblo Identities atthe annual Mogollon Conference in Las Vegas.The paper challenged archaeologists to rethinktheir approach to regional identities in the ancientSouthwest. In addition to his regular teachingload, he developed two new specialized coursesthis past academic year (Archaeology of Disasterand Ruins). The ruins course was profiled in arecent issue of Vermont Quarterly(https://goo.gl/odPZIJ). His upcomingpublications include chapters in the OxfordHandbook of the Archaeology of the AmericanSouthwest and The Strong Case Approach inBehavioral Archaeology (Utah University Press). Hecontinues to work on a manuscript for hisforthcoming book with AltaMira Press (entitledCeremony in the Ancient Southwest).

Professor Jonah Steinberg, in Marseille, above

Amelia Garrison, Class of ‘16 (Global and Regional Studies) in Marseille, France,

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A Productive Summer for Professor Manetta

Professor Emily Manetta had a productivesummer, preparing presentations on the syntax ofSouth Asian languages for two internationalconferences (the 9th annual Days of SwissLinguistics in Geneva and the InternationalConference on Hindi Studies at INALCO inParis).

She also completed the final touches on her co-edited volume The Formal Syntax, Semantics, andMorphology of South Asian Languages (with AyeshaKidwai), in which she has also has a contributingchapter. The volume was released the first weekof September.

Emily is also enjoying staying in touch withalumni who participated in the fall 2016Advanced Proseminar as they land their firstpost-college jobs, prepare graduate schoolapplications, and head off on travels around theworld.

During fall 2016 Emily is on parental leave; theManetta-Steinberg family was thrilled to welcomea baby girl, Ananya, in April.

Global Health Focus in the Anthropology Major and Minor at UVM

The Global Health Focus in Anthropology hasbeen growing quickly since formalization as atrack in spring 2015. Coordinated by ProfessorJeanne Shea, the focus currently has 10 majorsand 7 minors -- an amazing group of bright,creative, hard-working students dedicated toworking for health and well-being with attentionto sociocultural and biosocial variation andsocioeconomic disparities!

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This spring the first set of students in this focuswill be graduating. One of our seniorAnthropology majors in the global health focus,Nicole Walch, has already been accepted into theMaster’s in Public Health at UVM. We welcomealums working in medical or psychologicalanthropology or global or public health to be intouch about what you are doing today!

UVM anthropology faculty were among thosewho nominated medical anthropologist Dr. PaulFarmer to the Aiken Lecture Series Committee,and we were delighted when the committeeextended an invitation and he accepted. Professorin the Department of Social Medicine at HarvardMedical School and founder of the NGO Partnersin Health, Dr. Farmer delivered his distinguishedlecture on global health on November 3rd at IraAllen Chapel.

Professor Mares Hard at Workon Her First BookThis summer Professor Mares completed theproposal and introduction for her first book,entitled The Other Border: Sustaining Farmworkersin the Dairy Industry. Now under contract with theUniversity of California Press, this book presentsa dynamic ethnographic portrait of the Latino/afarmworkers who labor in Vermont’s dairyindustry, illuminating the complex and resilientways these workers sustain themselves and theirfamilies as they simultaneously uphold the state’sagricultural economy.

Vermont is widely seen as an agrarian utopiawhere socially responsible brands like Ben andJerry’s and Cabot Cheese have flourished andwhere the local food movement has taken firmhold of the consumer imaginary and purchasingpower. Even within this supposed agrarianutopia, migrant workers working and living inthe state’s shadow worlds to sustain industrialfood production continue to experience everydaymarginalization, discrimination, and struggles inaccessing their most basic needs. The Other Borderseeks to tell this story.

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Using Ethnography to Study Aging, in China and Vermont!

Professor Jeanne Shea has been enjoying aproductive year of study aging in both China andVermont!

Upcoming publication: Jeanne Shea and YanZhang, “Ethnography of Caregiving of Elders byElders in Shanghai, China,” Ageing International,in press.* (Focused on older neighbors, seniorvolunteers, and elderly spouses engaged ininformal eldercare in China.)

Recent conference presentations:“Spousal Caregiving among Elderly Couples inShanghai: Social Arrangements and PersonalMeanings,” paper presented at the Society forEast Asian Anthropology at the ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong, June 19-22, 2016.“Meanings of Spousal Caregiving among OlderAdults in Shanghai,” presentation at Aging andEldercare Workshop as part of the WashingtonUniversity Global Aging Initiative Grant,Shanghai, June 16-18, 2016.

Recent Field Research:Senior Volunteering in China: This June, Jeannewent to Shanghai and Hong Kong for a month offield research on senior volunteering to launchher three-year project on Societal Use of OlderAdult Volunteers to Support Community-BasedAging in Place. This project is supported bythe UVM Faculty Research Support Award/JoanSmith Award. While in Shanghai, Jeanne hadthe chance to meet up with Adviseeand Anthropology major Cara Zhuang who wasconducting her senior thesis research there onaging in community context.

Wake Robin Project: In collaboration with UVMPsychology Professor Lynne Bond and UVMSocial Work Professor Jackie Weinstock, since fall2015 Jeanne has been involved in a researchproject entitled Community-Based ParticipatoryOral-History Research on the OrganizationalHistory and Community Culture ofWake Robin Life Care Community (Vermont).

In Spring 2016 seven UVM students had theopportunity to get a taste of archival research,participant observation, interviewing,transcribing, and analytical coding in conjunctionwith this project, including six Anthropologystudents: Cara Zhuang, Sasha Kedzie, MaddyHunt, Andie Gould, Nicole Walch and ShelbyCarter. This year Shelby is studying in the M.A.program in Anthropology at Brandeis University.

Some of the two dozen faculty and students participating in the Shanghai Workshop on Aging and

Caregiving in East Asia, June 2014, left to right Professors Katrina Moore (UNSW), Jeanne Shea

(UVM), and Priscilla Song (WUSL), Photo: Jeanne Shea

Some participants in the Fudan University Workshop on Aging and Caregiving in East Asia at the conference site in Tianzifang in Shanghai. Prof. Shea center front.

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Archaeological Research in Bolivia

This summer Deborah Blom traveled to Bolivia tocontinue with data collection for her NSF-fundedproject investigating childhood in the ancientTiwanaku state (ca. AD 500-1100). She alsoreturned to the eastern lowlands, in Santa Cruz,to report on the ~100 Formative period burials(ca. 300 BC-AD 200) to the Asamblea del PuebloGuaraní (APG) and the Ministerio de Culturas yTurismo in Santa Cruz and La Paz. She alsopresented a paper at the Universidad CatólicaBoliviana “San Pablo” in La Paz, Bolivia.

She was also invited to the by Dean EnriqueFarfán, PhD of the Universidad CatólicaBoliviana "San Pablo" in Tarija, Bolivia to examinethe bones of the “Hombre de San Luis,” whichare some of the earliest remains (ca. 6740 yearsago) from Bolivia and are held in the MuseoPaleontológico. While there Dr. Blom presented aconference on her work

Since the last newsletter, Dr. Blom also presentedthe results of her work in other venues, including:

A paper entitled Formation and Transformation ofIdentities in the Andes: The Constructions ofChildhood among the Tiwanaku at the AnnualMeeting of the Society for American Archaeology

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Early Childhood Health and Status in TiwanakuSociety, co-authored with UVM graduates EmilyA. Shea, James P. Allen and Katherine M. Goldeat the Annual Meeting of the AmericanAssociation of Physical Anthropologists, as wellas at the Congreso Nacional de Arqueología inLima, Peru.

Photo Below: Dr. Deborah Blom with the director of the Museo Paleontológico, Freddy Paredes

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Student Research on Independent Elders in China

Contributed by Cara Zhuang, Class of 2017

I had the opportunity to spend this past summerconducting ethnographic research onindependent elders in Shanghai, China. I wantedto better understand the circumstances underwhich these older adults are aging with theirspouses independently in their own homes in thisurban environment, specifically by looking attheir social relationships and spatialsurroundings. Over the course of two months, Ispent hours collecting data on a group of oldercouples ranging in age from 71 to 92,interviewing them about their family and friendsand observing the ways they functioned in theireveryday lives within their domestic space.

As I became acquainted with these elderlycouples and their lifestyles, I was fascinated byhow their circumstances and experiences reflectchanging traditions in Chinese culture. I foundthat their success in maintaining theirindependence and satisfaction with their livingsituation was less attributed to the support oftheir adult children—an assumption I had basedon previous conventions of eldercare—and moreon their relationship with their spouses andfamiliarity with the surrounding community.

Professor Shea met up with UVM senior Cara Zhuang in Shanghai where Cara was doing her senior thesis research on aging in place in a local neighborhood

community; note kitschy T-shirt in background with President Obama depicted in retro Maoist garb with

caption Oba-Mao serving the people, Photo: Cara Zhuang

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These findings attest to how aging in place can bevaluable for elders in Shanghai. Population agingis a global issue, but China is one of the world’smost critical cases. In the wake of the one-childpolicy, China is facing a demographic crisis inwhich the country’s elderly population is muchlarger than the generations following. With thelimited availability of care-providing youngeradults, elders are forced to consider other livingarrangements and sources of support for theaging process. Through my research, I hope tocontribute to the scholarly conversation of howelders in China can comfortably age in the spaceof their own homes and retain theirindependence for longer.

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Student Achievements2015-2016

We would like to congratulate thefollowing graduating students from theUVM Anthropology Department:

Victoria Antonucci, Hayley Aydelott, Mae

Barron, Olivia Bartelheim, Julian

Benayoun, Cassidy Cabrera, Shelby

Carter, Robin Davenport, Andrew

Gambardella, Grace Gaskill, Greta Goltz,

Madeleine Hunt, Sasha Kedzie, India

Krawczyk, Catherine Lang, Avery

Lavalley, Caleb Lenderking-Brill, Erin

Lucey, Steven Matthews, Kendall

McElroy, Jessie Melincoff, Clare Miller,

Hannah Minkoff, Geneva Morley, Alison

Peek, Josh Polefka, Frances Russell, Hope

Sama, Meghan Schauster, Olivia Sorci,

Madison Stearns, Adam Sullivan, Sofia

Sullivan, Madalyn Walker, Heather Ward,

Anna White, Richard Witting

2016 Recipients of the James B. Petersen Archaeology Award: Andrew Gambardella and Avery Lavalley

This award is named for Dr. James B. Petersen, aUVM graduate who later returned as a facultymember and Chair of the Department ofAnthropology. Jim's enthusiasm for all thingsarchaeological is legendary, leading to substantialintellectual contributions to the archaeology ofthe Northeast, the Caribbean, and Amazonia. ThePetersen Award is presented to the graduatingsenior with a sub-disciplinary focus onArchaeology, who best exemplifies Jim’s passionfor archaeology.

2016 Recipients of the George Henry Perkins Award for the Outstanding Senior: Olivia Sorci and Andrew Gambardella

This award is named for George Henry Perkins, aUVM faculty member in Geology and later Deanof the College of Arts and Sciences. Perkins iscredited with teaching one of the first formalcourses in Anthropology at an Americanuniversity. The Perkins Award is presented to thegraduating senior who has demonstratedsuperior intellectual commitment toAnthropology during the completion of theirdegree.

2016 Recipients of the W. A. HavilandMedal for Outstanding Achievement in Anthropology: Olivia Bartelheim and Richard Witting

A Mayanist archaeologist by training, WilliamHaviland served UVM for more than 30 years asa faculty member and Chair of the Department ofAnthropology. Bill’s career was characterized byhis desire to apply anthropological perspectivesto modern social problems. The Haviland Awardis presented to the graduating senior who bestexemplifies Bill’s commitment to findingsolutions for real-world crises through the use ofanthropological perspectives.

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Presentations and Posters at UVM Student Research Conference, Advised by Anthropology Faculty

Annalena Barrett, Implications of U.S. AgriculturalSubsidies. Advisor: Luis Vivanco

Rory Clancy, The Middle East in Non FictionGraphic Literature. Advisor: Luis Vivanco

Julianna Fedrizzi, Making Something FromNothing: Exploring Food, Transition, andGlobalization in Post-Socialist Poland. Advisor:Teresa Mares

Sammie Ibrahim, Beyond temporariness: Urbanrefugee camps as a sustainable solution todisplacement?Advisor: Luis Vivanco

Hailey Klein, An Anthropological look at RefugeeChildren in Hungary.Advisor: Luis Vivanco

Natalia Korpanty, The Economic Interests of theIsraeli-Palestinian Conflict. Advisor: Luis Vivanco

Jessie Mazar, Seeds sent from home: farm workergardens and food access in Vermont. Advisor: TeresaMares

Posters:

Corey Atkins, Advertising Adversity: Marketing inthe Industry of Voluntourism. Advisor: LuisVivanco

Sara Burrous, Understanding the relationshipbetween homelessness and mental health. Advisor:Luis Vivanco

James Cullen, A Shifting Media Landscape and ItsEffect On Public Opinion. Advisor: Luis Vivanco

Duncan Donnay, Achieving Governance EnhancingInstitutional Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa. Advisor:Luis Vivanco

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2015 Departmental Honors Recipients in Anthropology:

Olivia Bartelheim, Shelby Carter, AndrewGambardella, Greta Goltz, India Krawczyk,Olivia Sorci, Adam Sullivan

The Department of Anthropology awardsdepartmental honors to our top students. Thecriteria include a cumulative GPA of at least 3.55and a GPA in anthropology courses of 3.75.Students graduating with honors wear ourdistinctive maroon and silver honors cordsduring the commencement ceremony.

Honors Theses Advised in Anthropology, 2016

Julianna Fedrizzi, Making Something FromNothing: Exploring Food, Transition, andGlobalization in Post-Socialist Poland. Advisor:Teresa Mares

Nathaniel Fuchs, Vaccination Regulation andRelationships: The implementation of scientificfindings in real world settings. Advisor: JeanneShea.

Kendall AnnMcElroy, Partners in Health to Sociosen Salud: Collaborations in Community-basedTreatment in Lima, Peru's Multidrug-resistantTuberculosis. Advisor: Benjamin Eastman

Kishan Patel, Brazilian Perspectives on the 2014FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.Advisor: Benjamin Eastman

Adam Sullivan, Professionalism of PerformingMusicians in Burlington, Vermont. Advisor:Benjamin Eastman.

Office of Undergraduate Research Awards:

Madalyn Walker (Mini Grant)

Nicole Walch (Public Impact Research Award)

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Presentations and Posters at UVM Student Research Conference, Advised by Anthropology Faculty, Continued

Nathaniel Fuchs, Vaccination in Vermont: Theeffects of provisional admittance and exemptions.Advisors: Jeanne Shea, Dale Jaffe, BeverleyWemple

Olivia Gotaski, Artistic Activism by Women inIran. Advisor: Luis Vivanco

Tracy Guion, Child Soldier Demobilization andRehabilitation Programs: An Analysis of Strategies,Effort and Effectiveness. Advisor: Luis Vivanco

Darnell Holmes, Water Symbolism in The AncientInca City of Machu Picchu. Advisors: Scott VanKeuren, Luis Vivanco

Avery Lavalley, The Relevance of Modern DisasterArchaeology. Advisor: Scott Van Keuren

Steve Matthews, Shattering the Ice Ceiling:America’s Oldest Humans and Evidence for a CoastalMigration. Advisor: Scott Van Keuren

Jessica Nunez, YouTube: a tool that has facilitatedthe freedom of expression and it's effects on Socialmedia. Advisor: Luis Vivanco

Leah Rogstad, Son Jarocho as a Pathway toSolidarity and “Convivencia” in Montreal, Canada.Advisor: Luis Vivanco

Maureen Scanlan, The Anthropology of Beer: CraftBreweries and Hop Farming in the Northeast.Advisor: Scott Van Keuren

CONGRATULATIONS TO

OUR 2015-2016 GRADS!