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Gallery Session
Reviewed by: Society for Visual Anthropology
Primary Theme: Anthropocene
Undergraduate students are an increasingly important element in the production of anthropological knowledge. In its best form, undergraduate research can be seen as an apprenticeship, wherein the novitiate is granted a partnership and some degree of agency in pushing the boundaries of and crossing into new frontiers of shared knowledge. Collaboration with undergraduate students in research is one of the important ways we can facilitate innovation within our discipline. Their research breaks down classroom/research boundaries, focuses on the importance of experiential learning, and exploits the naiveté and vigor of students not yet indoctrinated into paradigmatic complacency. Undergraduate students can be agents and partners in reshaping the landscape of anthropology. The importance of undergraduate research and scholarly activity is underscored both in financial support by federal-level agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Institutes of Health, and the growing number of faculty-student collaborations in anthropology departments across the globe. Through their engagement, undergraduate students challenge current boundaries and present their findings in the inter-disciplinary medium of visual posters to enrich anthropological inquiry into the human experience. Students are especially encouraged to present on topics that link to this year’s theme of “Resistance, Resilience, Adaptation” to explore the pressing issues facing our discipline and our world and to demonstrate how a focus on change can be a positive force for groundbreaking anthropological research, new forms of cultural understanding, scientific awareness, and global empathy.
Deb Rotman
Associate Professional Specialist
University of Notre Dame
Kumeri Bandara
Student
Harvard University, University of Oxford
Nicole Smith
University of Michigan
Anne Sherfield
University of Michigan
Rachael Heller
Student Assistant
Humboldt State University
William Wadsworth
Graduate Student
University of Alberta
Lauren O'Connell
University of Notre Dame
Cheyenne Danforth
Depaul University
LeAnna Chard
Central Washington University
Sumita Strander
Dartmouth College
Ashley Lee
Chapman University, Sociology Department
Valentina Sedlacek
Dartmouth College
Hayley Nelson
Chapman University
Jason Rico-Goulet
DePaul University
Esme Trahair
Harvard College
Micaela Hoadley
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Alyssa Theurer
Student
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
David Wiegn
Brown University
Emily Grutz
DePaul University