Uplands Archaeology in
the East
Symposium,
May 16-18, 2008
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Congratulations to Patricia Jacobs,
the 2008 Anthropology Dean's Scholar. |
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Radford University students in the Spring
2008 archaeology classes have been involved in archaeological
fieldwork at Arnheim, the home of Dr. John Blair Radford in
Radford. Click here to read about it:
Arnheim.
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Radford University
students Natalie Brooks, Brittony
Fitzgerald, Patricia Jacobs, Adam Richardson, and Jeffrey Wood
from the Spring 2008 Anthropology 493 "Practicum in
Anthropology" class are contributing to a
 University-Community-School
partnership in Place-Based Education at Floyd County High
School. High school students are interviewing local World War
II veterans and spouses with RU students as mentors,
grant-writers, and technical advisers. Alumna
Ashley Herwald (B.A.
Anthropology 2007) played an instrumental role as the project’s
co-coordinator and first mentor in Fall 2007.
 Based
on this project,
Anthropology students
Patricia Jacobs, Brittony Fitzgerald,
and Jeffrey Wood, along
with recent graduate Ashley Herwald
presented their work on the Radford University - Floyd
Community - Floyd County High School Partnership in
Place-Based Education Project at the Appalachian Studies
Conference at Marshall University in Huntington, West
Virginia. Students Natalie Brooks and Adam Richardson
contributed virtually to the presentation via a video
created by Brittony Fitzgerald. Molly Cox, Librarian at
Floyd County High School, joined in the presentation.
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Mt. View Cemetery Projects: |
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 Students in multiple Anthropology
classes were involved last year in the
RU service learning project
with the Mountain View Cemetery and five associated black
churches in Radford. RU Anthropology students were involved in the following activities:
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For the first phase of the project, students in Dr. Melinda
Wagner's Spring 2006 Anthropology of Religion class --
Jessica Baciu, Louis Campbell, Jinx Clark, Joshua De Reit,
Daniel DiMichele, Brittony Fitzgerald, Rachel
 Fortune,
Nicholas Fotenos, Ashley Garner, Christina Geraldi, Meredith
Gilmore, Morgan Hawkins, Ashley Herwald, Dustin Kia, Adam
Long, Ayan Mobley, Kassandra Nelson, Timothy Pruitt, Ashley
Raburn, Kerry Taylor, Christine Tutwiler, and Millisia Webb
-- recorded
interviews with eleven church members on videotape and also transcribed
them.
 
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The second stage of the
project -- the archaeological work -- is being carried out
on an on-going basis by students in Dr. Cliff Boyd's Archaeology classes.
They are doing
an archeological search for the cemetery’s boundaries and
hope to draft a visual chart that will assist our
understanding of who is buried in the cemetery. The
archaeological dig started in the bottom part of the
five-acre cemetery (known as the West, Rock Road) which is also the
oldest and in most disrepair condition. Contact
Dr. Cliff Boyd to find out more and get involved.
 ** The third stage of the project was an Applied
Anthropology project conducted by students in the
Spring 2007
Applied Anthropology
class:
Louis Campbell, Iris
Dickerson, Laura Hale, Morgan Hawkins, Ashley Herwald, Kelly
Phelan, and Lydia Rathbun.
The class gained hands-on applied
experience as a consulting team that worked collaboratively
with the community for three months to develop a set of
ideas and recommendations for revitalizing the Mountain View
Cemetery as a
community-oriented heritage site.
 The
Applied Anthropology team wrote a 116-page consulting report,
Mountain View Cemetery: Ideas and Recommendations,
which it presented to the Mountain View Cemetery Committee
in May 2007 (in photo to the left).
Click here to learn
more about the
Applied Anthropology project.
To find out more about the Mt. View Cemetery
Restoration Project, go to
http://srvlearn.asp.radford.edu/
and also contact the Mt. View Project coordinator,
Teresa Dickens, Assistant
Director for Service Learning.
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Congratulations to Anthropology major Morgan Hawkins,
Department of Sociology & Anthropology Dean's Scholar
for 2007.
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 The
Fall 2006 ANTH 411 Appalachian Cultures class worked
as a research team for the Floyd Migration Study directed by
Ricky Cox from RU's Appalachian Regional Studies Center and
Dr. Melinda Wagner. Students Brian
Ayers, Jessica Baciu, Sarah Baldino, Caitlin Edmonson,
Matthew Everhart, Brittony Fitzgerald, Rachel Fortune,
Patricia Jacobs, Travis Moye, Brian Richotte, William White,
and Katie Williams collected surveys at Floyd
County's 175th anniversary celebration and interviewed
Floyd citizens about their comings and goings in and out of
the County.
Melinda
Wagner’s ANTH 493 Practicum in Anthropology class --
Kathy Murphy,
Morgan Hawkins, Patricia Jacobs, Brittony Fitzgerald, and
Jessica Baciu -- continued
the Floyd Migration Study, analyzing the
interviews from ANTH 411 Appalachian Cultures class and
tabulating surveys conducted by Ricky Cox (RU's Appalachian
Regional Studies Center) from Floyd County's 175th
Anniversary Celebration.
 They
presented the results of
their
two-semester research in the symposium, “Arrivals and
Departures: In and Out Migration, Floyd County, Virginia,”
at the Appalachian Studies Conference at Maryville College
in Maryville, TN, March 23-25, 2007.
They also presented their findings at the 2007 Radford
University Undergraduate Forum and at the Jessie Peterman
Library in Floyd,
Virginia, April 15, 2007.
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 RU
ANTH majors Nathan Juarin
and Kenesha R. Moseley Beheler
developed a 30-minute documentary
video titled "Memories from the Mines: Life in the Coal
Mining Communities of the New River Valley" about coal
mining in the New River Valley of Virginia. It was presented
to the Coal Mining Heritage Association during Spring 2006
semester, shown at the RU Highlander Film Festival that
February, and shown at the Undergraduate Forum on April 25,
2006.
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Jason
Chambers – who graduated in Spring 2006 –
completed an internship with the regional State
Archaeologist in Roanoke and assisted in the investigation and
definition of an African–American cemetery on the property of
Virginia Tech. He also received an internal RU grant to
analyze collections of prehistoric ceramics from several sites
in Smyth County, Virginia. This research will lead to a
presented paper and publication.
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 Students in the Anth 493
class – Practicum in Anthropology –
Alex
Badillo, Justin Muller, Kathy Murphy, Keith Nunn, Sherry Tejada,
Scott Trent, and Donald White – made a 20-minute
video about the Appalachian Studies Association and the
Appalachian Studies Conference that was held at Radford
University in March 2005. Copies of the video, “Vital Words and
Vital Actions: Partnerships to Build a Healthy Place:
Appalachian Studies Association Conference 2005” were presented
to the Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) officers and office
manager and placed in the ASA archives at Berea College in
Berea, Kentucky. The students showed and discussed the video at
the Appalachian Studies Conference in March 2006 in Dayton,
Ohio. |
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