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Updated: 5 April 2004 Applicants | Semi-finalists | Finalists | Participants In this, the second year of the University of Notre Dame - National Museum of Natural History Internship Program in Anthropology a total of fifteen (12) applications were received for consideration by the application deadline of 1 March 2004. Application documents were submitted through the NMNH Research Training Program on-line application and information management web system. A pre-screening was conducted 4 March 2004 to eliminate from further consideration applicants not eligible to participate in this program. Beginning 5 March 2003, faculty at the University of Notre Dame, Department of Anthropology evaluated each semi-finalists application and selected four (4) finalists. Finalist applications have been forwarded to a Smithsonian review panel for final consideration and placement. After careful review, two (2) students will be selected on 2 April 2004 for an internship appointment during the summer of 2004. The final selection panel, composed of members from the NMNH Department of Anthropology Executive Committee, will consider recommendations from host Smithsonian advisors as well as project focus consistent with the Department's research goals and priorities. Students not selected for a position this year will be encouraged to apply again next year or consider other internship opportunities at the Smithsonian. Many Smithsonian staff are seeking student volunteers to assist them with various aspects of their research and collections management. If interested in a volunteer/non-paid internship position, visit the Volunteer Internship page for more information. Notre
Dame - NMNH Andrew Gaudreau | Kathryn Musica The Notre Dame - NMNH Internship Program in Anthropology initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is an opportunity for two currently enrolled University of Notre Dame undergraduate students to spend ten weeks during the summer of 2004 participating in an internship with a Smithsonian anthropologist. Students will partner with a Smithsonian anthropologist to investigate an anthropological research topic or engage in the daily activities of one of our anthropological units pr laboratories as well as join in a series of lectures, workshops, demonstrations, and behind-the-scenes tours. This program is being hosted at the National Museum of Natural History in partnership with our Research Training Program (RTP). University of Notre Dame - National Museum of Natural History Internship Program in Anthropology
agaudrea@nd.edu
Mr. Gaudreau is interested in the Caribbean, and hopes to conduct research either in Haiti, Martinique or Guadaloupe (studying Haitian migrants) during the summer of 2005. He is also interested in transnationalism and would like to investigate these research opportunities while studying in Angers, France during the 2004-2005 academic year. He has received the U.S. Marine Corps Distinguised Athletic Award in May 2002 and was the Princeton Book Award Winner in June 2001. He helped established the Notre Dame Leadership Training Program, a program focused on sustained regular interaction with youths to foster leadership and interpersonal skills. On the personal side:
Title:
Rastafari
Voices: From Yard to Nation
Project Summary: The Anthropology Collections & Archives Program manages and makes accessible the ethnology, linguistic, archaeology, and physical anthropology collections of the Smithsonian’s Department of Anthropology. This includes the resources of the National Anthropological Archives and the Human Studies Film Archives. I am a cultural anthropologist who has worked with Rastafari communities in Jamaica, the Eastern Caribbean, Panama, South Africa, Ethiopia and the United States for the past 24 years. During the past 10 years my work has focused on the globalization of Rastafari lifeways as they have moved beyond the shores of the Caribbean. This process of globalization has included the development of Rastafari as a traveling culture disseminated by Elders and members of an emergent Rastafari intelligentsia. I studing this processs, I am interested in the intersections between the popular aspects of Rastafari culture (e.g., reggae music) and its varied, but more spiritually rooted traditions that evolved under conditions of colonial containment in Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean. The intern will assist me in identifying and transcribing audiotape and videotape recordings that are part of my own archive of Rastafari materials. This work is part of the preparation for an exhibit entitled “From Yard to Nation: The Globalization of Rastafari” that is to be mounted in the National Museum of Natural History within the next 18 months. Work will include:
During the course
of the 10 week internship, the intern will have the opportunity
to accompany me to a number of Rastafari community meetings in Washington,
D.C. and engage with local community members if he/she so desires. University of Notre Dame - National Museum of Natural History Internship Program in Anthropology
kmusica@nd.edu
Ms. Musica academic career began in the hard sciences (physics and chemistry) and she spent the summer of 2002 working at the Vitreous State Laboratory at Catholic University. The VSL has received wide recognition as one of the outstanding university centers for the study of glassy materials, doing research in both the fundamental properties of glasses and in applications in such areas as fiber optics, mechanical properties, and nuclear waste treatment. Ms. Musica worked in the lab that is responsible for developing and testing glass that will encapsulate the nuclear waste from the Hanford Site in Washington. Last summer, Ms. Musica volunteered at the Smithsonian (NMNH) in the Department of Anthropology initializing the enormous task of digitizing the museum’s collection and storing the photos on CD in anticipation of making the entire collection available on the internet as a virtual museum. For her contribution, Ms. Musica focused mainly on pottery from the American Southwest, learning about its characteristics and the cultures that produced it as well as how to best photograph it. On the personal side:
Title: Museum Sculptures of Native Americans Project Summary: The Repatriation Office was established in 1991 at the National Museum of Natural History to implement the repatriation requirements in the National Museum of the American Indian Act (Public Law 101-185) passed in 1989 and amended in 1996. The central mission of the Repatriation Office is the inventory, documentation, and assessment of cultural affiliation of NMNH collections impacted by the legislation. The Repatriation Office works primarily with Native Americans and Native Hawaiians to provide information about the collections and to respond to requests for repatriation of human remains and cultural objects. The Physical Anthropology Division Collections Management curates over 30,000 human remains, anatomical specimens and non-skeletal materials such as busts, molds and paper records. From
the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century,
hundreds of facial casts were taken of living individuals of different
ethnic groups and these casts were used to make life-sized busts
or sculptures for the museum. This project will focus on the sculptures
of Native American individuals from the Plains region of North American.
Archival and museum records will be used to assemble information
on the names and histories of the individuals who were cast and
to ascertain the historical context in which the casts were made.
Notre
Dame - NMNH
Internship Program in Anthropology List of Finalists 2004
Notre
Dame - NMNH Semi-finalists: 7
Notre
Dame - NMNH Total Applications Received: 12
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