Happy spring! The semester is moving quickly past us. I am sure you are all looking forward to more spring-like weather as much as I am! Faculty members in the department have been busy this year developing new course offerings. Ask your advisor about the newest classes and when they will be offered.

Congratulations to our departmental College of Liberal Studies Student Excellence awardees: Emily Lovison-Anthropology, Spencer Kawell-Archaeology, Yolana Ngandali-Archaeology, Linh Nguygen-Sociology, and Lizbeth Remrey-Sociology.

Congratulations to Dr. Nick Bakken, winner of the 2014 SAPA (Students Advocating for Potential Ability) most accessible faculty member award!

Are you having trouble figuring out what you want to do when you graduate? We encourage all our students to talk with any member of the faculty about career paths and career planning. We are happy to guide you toward experiences and opportunities that will help you explore possible career options. In addition, please take advantage of all UW-L has to offer with regard to career development.

Are you graduating? Please keep in touch with us. We would love to hear from you. We are collecting “testimonials” for the department webpage from recent graduates. We would like to hear what you are doing (graduate school, work, etc.) and have you give a brief description of how your experience at UW-L helped prepare you for post-baccalaureate life. Please email us at socarcdept@uwlax.edu. We encourage you to make use of the many materials we have posted on our departmental website.

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Spring 2014

Sociology Student Earns Spot in Top Program

Sociology student, Christian Wendland, will be spending 8 weeks this summer as an intern in the Summer Enrichment Program in Health Management and Policy (SEP) at the University of Michigan. SEP is the number one program of it’s kind in the country and is designed for undergraduate students interested in eliminating racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities. According to the SEP web site, over 400 students have participated in the program and most have gone on to receive graduate training in public health, health management, medicine, dentistry, business, law, and other fields. Christian was also accepted into Columbia University’s summer enrichment program in New York.

In addition to the many accolades he has earned as an undergraduate at UW-L, Christian is also a McNair Scholar and recently completed his sociology honors project which was funded by an Undergraduate Research Grant. His faculty mentor is Dr. Laurie Cooper Stoll.

Left: Christian Wendland presents his research at NCUR in Kentucky, 2014.

Congratulations to all of our students in Archaeology/Anthropology who will be graduating this spring and summer! Please keep us posted as you begin a new chapter of your life. We enjoy hearing from you and passing along news about your lives to faculty and students in the department.

Anthropology/Archaeology faculty have given a number of public presentations during the spring term. I’d like to highlight the topical and geographic breadth of these presentations, which reflects the wide range of diversity that faculty bring to the classroom in our programs of study here at UW-L. On Feb. 13, in his talk entitled, “The Rise and ‘Expansion’ of Tiwanaku Civilization in the Bolivian Andes,” Dr. McAndrews discussed his long-term research in Bolivia as part of the MVAC lecture series. Dr. Anderson gave another lecture in this series on March 4, entitled, “Howard Carter and the Search for Tutankhamen.” In mid-March, Dr. Liz Peacock was invited to discuss the current political crisis in Ukraine, the region of her research, on a panel that was widely attended by La Crosse community members as well as UW-L students and faculty. Dr. Jessi Halligan gave the keynote lecture at MVAC’s Lithic Materials workshop, an event that drew many participants from not only

Wisconsin but from the entire Upper Midwest. Professor Walder presented the results of her Master’s thesis on April 10th in her talk entitled, “India's Oldest Stone Inscriptions.” Dr. Arzigian and Dr. Stevenson presented their lecture, “From Under the Streets to Front-Page News: Archaeological Investigations of an Ancient Village in Onalaska,” at the Onalaska Public Library in March as well as at the Minnesota Historical Society on April 19. Dr. Hippert presented the ethnographic context of Nicaragua and moderated the film, “La Yuma,” shown as part of a film festival hosted by UW-L’s Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS). In March at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dr. Her co-presented the results of a new research project examining Hmong masculinities and gender relations. And at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 14th, Dr. Grillo presented, “How Pots Kill Cattle: Ethnoarchaeological Research on the Material Culture of Mobile Pastoralism in Samburu, Kenya.” If you haven’t already, I recommend you attend faculty research presentations and public events to get a better sense of how anthropologists and archaeologists contribute to our respective communities.

In the first few months of 2014, MVAC staff has continually interacted with the public through a variety of venues both on and off campus. In January and February alone, MVAC staff provided 23 presentations to over 635 individuals with over 110 individuals visiting the lab. From January through March, MVAC was involved in a wide range of public outreach activities including:

offered three public lectures at UW-L with over 175 people attending provided numerous presentation in area classrooms a number of school groups, UW-L classes and individuals have toured the Archaeology Laboratory hosted the Lithic Materials Workshop and reception – drawing over 120 people from four states coordinated MVAC’s annual Artifact Show at Valley View Mall where over 5,000 people stopped to visit with MVAC staff

and thirteen area collectors staff interacted with over 75 individuals and collectors via e-mail, Facebook, phone and in person to answer questions and

help identify artifiacts MVAC’s website (over 1,800 hits) and Facebook pages were well visited MVAC has been cited numerous times in UW-L and local media 33 volunteers were involved in the Lithic Materials Workshop and the Artifact Show

This is my last ANT/ARC Corner column for a while, since I will be on sabbatical for the 2014-2015 academic year. During this time, I will be conducting 8 months of ethnographic research on household food security and identity in the Dominican Republic. Next year, our programs in Archaeology/Anthropology will be in the good hands of Dr. Anderson, who will serve as the Section Coordinator of Archaeology/Anthropology. We wish you all a restful and productive summer and look forward to you sharing your experiences with us!

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Archaeology/Anthropology Corner

THE OCCASIONAL

SPRING 2014

Congratulations to Lizabeth Remrey, Linh Nguyen, Samantha Gregory and Christian Wendland for presenting their research findings at UW-L’s Undergraduate Research Day.

Lizabeth (Lizzie) Remrey: “The Causes and Correlates of Adult-Onset Offending: Early Versus Late Risk Factors.” In the fall, Lizzie will be enrolling in the Criminology Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Linh Nguyen. "Discovering the Importance of Physical Attractiveness Among College Students." In the fall, Linh will be enrolling in the Sociology graduate program at the University of Louisville.

Samantha Gregory. “Adolescent Sexual Debut, Religiosity, and Depression.” In the fall, Samantha will be enrolling in the Master’s of Social Work program at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Christian Wendland. “The Ingredients of Success: A Positivistic Approach to Black Students Graduation at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.” Christian will graduate next year and plans to pursue a graduate degree in public healthcare management.

Last, the Sociology section is pleased to have two new faculty joining us this coming fall: Julia McReynolds-Pérez and Adam Driscoll.

McReynolds-Pérez is completing her Ph.D. from UW-Madison specializing in Medical Sociology and Sociology of Economic Change and Development. Her dissertation, Pharmaceutical Abortion and the Democratization of Reproductive Choice in Argentina engages with the medical sociology literatures on medicalization, pharmaceuticalization, embodied health movements, the medical profession, the women's health movement, and issues of reproduction. In the fall, she will be teaching SOC 225, Section 3: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and SOC 420: Health Care and Illness.

Driscoll is completing his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. The title of his dissertation is: “A Cross-National Analysis of Agricultural Dependency, Industrialized Food Production, and Their Impacts on Environmental Outcomes.” Driscoll’s interests include Environmental Sociology, Global Social Change and Development, Social Movements, Sociology of Food and Agriculture along with Technology in Society and Culture. In the fall, he will be teaching SOC 200, Section 2: Foundations of Sociological Analysis and SOC 110, Section 5: The Social World.

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Sociology Corner

Dr. Peacock’s Research on Ukraine both Timely and Important

As a linguistic anthropologist who has done research in Ukraine since 2003, Dr. Peacock participated in several public discussions on the current crisis in the country this past semester. These included a public forum, “Crisis in the Ukraine,” organized by the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (March 11), and a discussion during the Festival of Languages sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages (April 3). Dr. Peacock also presented her paper, “Diagramming the Nation: Socioeconomic Class Differences and Language Attitudes in Two Secondary Schools,” at the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (March 27). While in Madison, Dr. Peacock also gave a guest lecture on the role of anthropology in interpreting the significance of Maidan and the secession of Crimea.

This semester, Dr. Peacock also chaired a panel of undergraduate research, “Ethnographies of American Youth Subcultures,” at the Central States Anthropological Society conference in Normal, IL (April 11).

Finally, Dr. Peacock has been awarded a CLS Small Grant to fund summer research in the Ukrainian-American community in Chicago, titled “Diaspora Youth Envisioning the Homeland: Performing Ethnic Identity among Ukrainian-American Teenagers.”

PUBLICATIONS

Visher, Christy and Nicholas Bakken. Forthcoming 2014. “Reentry Challenges Facing Women with Mental Health Problems.” Women and Health.

Hippert, Christine, Emma Bremer, Rileigh Van Driessche, Hana Tanberg, Mitchell Running, and Angela Rooker. 2014. “From Local Fields to School Lunch Lines: Multiple Stakeholders’ Experiences with a Farm 2 School Project.” Practicing Anthropology 36(1): 11-16.

Stoll, Laurie Cooper. 2014. “Constructing the Color-Blind Classroom: Teachers’ Perspectives on Race and Schooling.” Race Ethnicity & Education.

PRESENTATIONS

Kruse, Lisa. 2014. "Defining Reality Television as a Practice of Surveillance." Presented at the North Central Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Cincinnati, OH.

Kruse, Lisa. 2014. “Authenticity Construction in the Reality Television Viewing Process.” Presented at the North Central Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH.

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Sociology and Political Science Students Assess Food Insecurity Among La Crosse Senior Citizens

Faculty Kudos

THE OCCASIONAL

On February 25th, Sociology and Political Science students set out to administer surveys measuring food insecurity and nutrition among La Crosse senior citizens. Students in Dr. Carol Miller’s SOC 414, Policy & Society, volunteers from SOC 350, Social Research Methods II and Dr. Jeremy Arney’s POL 494, Senior Capstone scattered about La Crosse to administer the surveys to senior housing residents and attendees at the senior nutrition sites. Within approximately two hours, 68 surveys were completed.

The data they collected have been aggregated with data from nutrition sites in Holmen and Onalaska and show that most of the senior citizens surveyed were not food insecure. Those who do not attend the senior nutrition sites for daily lunches are more likely to be food insecure than those who do. Not surprisingly, senior citizens with incomes below the federal poverty level were more likely to be food insecure. Additional analyses of these data will be conducted, along with the data collected through a mail survey that was sent to 2,000 local senior citizens, and results will be provided to the La Crosse County Aging Unit to help them assess programmatic needs.

Student Kudos

Bakken, Nicholas, Whitney Gunter, and Christy Visher. 2014. “Reentry and Spirituality: The Impact of Belief on Desistance from Drug Use.” Presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA.

Hippert, Christine. 2014. Presented background information on Nicaragua and moderated a discussion of the film, “La Yuma,” for the Institute for Latin American Studies Film Festival.

Hipper, Christine. 2014. “Online Course Demonstrations: Field Work Assignment in an Online Class.” Presented at the CATL Teaching Workshop.

Stoll, Laurie Cooper and Terry Lilley. 2014. “Rape Myth Acceptance in a ‘Post-Gender’ Society.” Presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Omaha, NE.

Stoll, Laurie Cooper and Terry Lilley. 2014. “Exploring UW-L Undergraduates’ Attitudes Toward Rape and Sexual Assault.” Presented at a colloquium series sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department.

Stoll, Laurie Cooper, Terry Lilley, and Kelly Pinter. 2014. “The Effects of Gender-Blind Sexism on Rape Myth Acceptance.” Presented at the Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Winter Meeting, Nashville, TN.

Cassandra Philippon received a $1000 Undergraduate Research Grant. Dr. Dawn Norris is her primary mentor and Dr. Bill Zollweg is co-mentor on this project.

Samantha Gregory will begin the Master of Social Work program at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - in fall.

Mackenzie Miller presented a paper at the UW-Milwaukee Anthropology Student Symposium, and won the Visiting Presenter Paper Prize for her paper on Tremaine Pottery Dating. She is presenting this paper also at the UW-L Celebration of Research and Creativity.

Yolona Ngandali gave a paper at the 2014 NCUR conference on GIS Analysis of Social and Spatial Interactions of Australian Aboriginal Peoples in NW Northern territory, Australia Before and After European Contact. The meeting is at the University of Kentucky April 3-5. She is presenting this paper also at the UW-L Celebration of Research and Creativity. Yoli, as a McNair Scholar, is also giving a paper at the 2014 Society for American Archaeology program on Public Archaeology: Visualizing Wisconsin's Prehistory with Digital Media. The meeting is in Austin Texas April 23-27. She is presenting this paper also at the UW-L Celebration of Research and Creativity.

SPRING 2014

Archaeology/Anthropology Yolona Ngandali: “Contact Period Rock Art: GIS Analysis of Social and Spatial Interactions of Australian Aboriginal

Peoples in Northern Territory, Australia” AND “Visualizing Wisconsin’s Prehistory with Digital Media” Hayden Troy: “Wisdom of the Ancients” Casey Hintz: “Examination of the Relation Between Spatial Organization and Social Stratification at Kuhun” Madeline Leines: “Animal Cemeteries and Roman Egypt: A Spatial Analysis of the Ibis Cemetery in Cemetery E, Abydos,

Egypt” Taylor Brehm: “Social Stratification Amongst Non-Elite Housing of Grid 12 at El’-Amarna, Egypt” Erik Anderson: “Viking Swords and Their Social Significance” Emily Lovison: “Identity and Social Organization in the Nasca Valley, Peru” Mackenzie Miller: “Oneota Pottery in the La Crosse Region: The Tremaine Site” Terri Beal: “Analyzing Late Prehistoric Oneota Shreds and Clay Sources by using X-Ray Diffraction in the La Crosse

Savanna Terrace Region” Amanda Jones: “Oneota Faunal Analysis: Reconstructing Diet and Seasonality at Tremaine” Isaac Vroman: “Isolated Oneota Human Remains” Amanda Fink: “What Do the Bones Say? Skeletal Analysis of the Nineteenth Century Burials at Voegtly Cemetery,

Pittsburgh”

Sociology Christian Wendland: “The Ingredients of Success: A Positivistic Approach to Black Students Graduation at the University

of Wisconsin-La Crosse” Lizabeth Remrey: “The Causes and Correlates of Early vs. Late Onset Criminality: A life Course and Self Control Theory

Analysis” Linh Ngugen: “Discovering the Perceptions and Importance of Physical Attractiveness among College Students” Laura Anderson: “Societal Indicators and Human-Water Relationships”

This past February, Dr. Nick Bakken received the award for Most Accessible Faculty/Academic Staff from Students Advocating Potential Ability (SAPA).

Dr. Christine Hippert has been awarded a sabbatical year for 2014-2015. She will be conducting ethnographic research on food security and identity in the Dominican Republic. We look forward to hearing about Dr. Hippert’s findings!

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13th Annual College of Liberal Studies Evening of Excellence

Students Impress at Undergraduate Research Day

Dr. Hippert and Dr. Bakken Receive Awards

On the evening of April 29, CLS held it’s annual Celebration of Excellence. Five students in the Sociology and Archaeology Department received awards for their many accomplishments as students at UW-L. Congratulations, honorees! From left: Lizzie Remrey (Sociology), Spencer Kawell (Archaeology), Emily Lovison (Anthropology), Yolona Ngandali (Archaeology), and Linh Nguyen (Sociology)

Summer Course Spotlight SOC 330 Social Psychology - online June 23 thru July 11, 2014. The overriding objective of this course is to explore and begin to develop an explanation for human behavior that combines the individual explorations of psychology and the social structural explorations of sociology. We will emphasize how social structure shapes human behavior, and how individuals create social structure and leave openings for social change. The goal is to use social psychology to help us better understand each other and our selves.

Back Matter

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ARCHAEOLOGY

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Dr. Peacock discussing the recent political events in the Ukraine.

MVAC table at the Artifact Show at Valley View Mall.

Lithics Workshop Reception

Dr. Halligan’s lecture at the Lithics Workshop