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The Notre Dame - NMNH Internship Program in anthropology is exclusive for currently enrolled University of Notre Dame students for placement in summer internship positions at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. This program is administered and managed at the Smithsonian through the Research Training Program.

To learn more about this opportunity go to: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/rtp/other_opps/notredame.html

ANTHROPOLOGY - the study of the origins, physical characteristics, and cultural developments of humankind. The archaeological, ethnological, and physical collections of the NMNH Department of Anthropology include over two million specimens from all parts of the world. The skeletal collections number among the largest in the world and represent a variety of populations including hundreds of specimens of known age and sex of modern populations including the Terry Collection. A collection of fossil casts of early man and other primates is also available as part of the NMNH research collections. NMNH Anthropology staff conduct research and investigations in archaeology, archaeobiology, ethnology, linguistics, human origins, and physical anthropology.

For more information about the NMNH Department of Anthropology, including a complete staff listing and research initiatives, visit the Anthropology web site . 

Arnoldi   |   Billeck   |   Fitzhugh   |   Frohlich   |   Goddard   |   Hollinger   |   Hunt   |   Kaeppler   |   Laughlin   |   Loring   |   Merrill   |   Ortner   |   Ousley   |   Owsley   |   Potts   |   Rogers   |   Scherer  |   Smith   |   Stanford   |   Sturtevant   |   Taylor   |   Ubelaker   |   Van Beek   |   Zeder

Each advisor entry includes the following information:

Position title. Education history. Brief description of current research specialties.

Where appropriate, entries also include a sample ND research project description. In addition, some advisor entires include a listing other interns hosted, the projects they pursued, and the publication(s) co-authored by the student/advisor team.

If known, the annual availability is listed.

Curator, African Art and Ethnology. B.F.A. (1970) Bowling Green State University; M.A. (1975) Michigan State University; Ph.D. (1983) Indiana University. Research specialties: African ethnography with emphasis on visual and performing arts; identity formation; ideology and social organization; and ethnohistory; African Voices Exhibit. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Archaeologist. B.A. (1976) Queens College; M.S. (1980) University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Ph.D. (1993) University of Missouri. Research specialties: North American Archaeology, plains repatriation. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology, Repatriation.

Sample project:

Curator, North American Archaeology; Director, Arctic Studies Center. B.A. (1964) Dartmouth College; M.A. (1967), Ph.D. (1970) Harvard University. Arctic Studies Center. Research specialties: prehistory of eastern Canada and northeastern United States; circumpolar ethnology and archaeology; Arctic material culture; Arctic social science policy; cultural ecology of the North; ethnographic and prehistoric maritime adaptations; culture and climatology. European-Native contacts and transformations. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project: Study in Labrador and Baffin Island archeology; projects in museum science and exhibition on Viking and the Ainu culture of northern Japan, northern Russia and North Pacific studies.

Erica Guyer (1996) - project summary
Jennifer Quincey (1999) - project summary

Statistician, Physical Anthropology. B.A. (1973) University of Copenhagen; M.S. (1976), Ph.D. (1979) University of Connecticut. Research specialties: Middle Eastern skeletal biology; Arctic and Sub-Arctic skeletal biology; forensic anthropology; remote sensing; geophysical methods;and computed temography. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project: Hellenistic mortuary practices in northern Syria.

Senior Linguist, Anthropology (Linguistics). A.B. (1963) Harvard College; Ph.D. (1969) Harvard University. Research specialties: linguistics and North America; general linguistics including descriptive, historical, and theoretical; textual analysis, discourse, philology; Algonquian linguistics, and ethnohistory; Identity of Red Thunder Cloud. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project: Linguistic analysis using manuscript and printed materials on Native North American languages.

Sudha Arunachalam (2000) - project summary

Archaeologist. . Research specialties: Late prehistoric Midwest, Great Lakes, and Eastern Sectioned States, Repatriation, Archaeology. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology, Repatriation.

Sample project:

Donna Stewart (2002 RET) - project summary

Museum Specialist/Physical Anthropology Collections Management. B.A. (1980) University of Illinois; M.A. (1983), Ph.D. (1989) University of Tennessee. Research specialties: human variation, skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, human mummies of the world, dermatoglyphics. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Andrea Runyan (2002) - project summary

Curator, Oceanic Ethnology. B.A. (1959), M.A. (1961), Ph.D. (1967) University of Hawaii. Research specialties: social anthropology, material culture, art, ethnohistory, ethnoscience of Polynesia and Micronesia, and aesthetics and systems of knowledge. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Curator, Middle American Ethnology. B.A. (1956) Princeton University; M.A. (1959), Ph.D. (1963) Harvard University. Research specialties: ethnology of Mesoamerica, particularly of the Mayan groups, with special interest in mythology, religion, world view, ethnobotany, and linguistics; continuing research on the ethnography and linguistics of the Tzotzil of Zinacantan, Chiapas, Mexico. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Museum Anthropologist, Arctic Studies Center. B.A. (1973) Goddard College; M.A. (1984), Ph.D. (1991) University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Research specialties: Arctic and sub-Arctic ethnohistory and archaeology; Labrador; public policy in the circumpolar north. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Special Project: Archaeological Excavation and Survey in Labrador. The Arctic Studies Center conducts archaeological and ethnohistorical research with the Innu (Naskapi Indians) in northern Labrador. This is a "communiy anthropology" initiative that seeks a concordance between scientific research and the needs and interests of indigenous community members. My research focuses on conducting archaeological and ethnohistorical research with Innu students and colleagues in a remote wilderness setting of the barrenlands in northern interior Labrador.

Through this internship, the student will travel to Labrador to participate in an archaeological excavation and survey. Depending on the student's interests, specifically tailored research projects can either focus on interpretting archaeological materials excavated or conducting interviews with older Innu hunters to document their perspectives on history, wildlife, or landscape.

Students interested in this project should have a comfortableness with working in an exceptionally remote and challenging environment and a willingness to deal with mosquitos.

Curator, North American Ethnology. B.A. (1972) University of North Carolina; M.A. (1975), Ph.D. (1981) University of Michigan. Research specialties: ethnology with an emphasis on world view, religion, ethnobiology and ethnohistory of North American Indians, particularly Indian groups of western North America and the relationships between material and nonmaterial aspects of culture; Mexico-North / Mexico-Norte Project. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Curator, Physical Anthropology. B.A. (1960) Columbia Union College; M.A. (1967) Syracuse University; Ph.D. (1970) University of Kansas; D.Sc. (Honorary) (1995) University of Bradford, U.K.. Research specialties: physical anthropology; human biocultural adaptation; paleopathology; microevolution; health and disease in Medieval England; calcified tissue biology; Middle Eastern skeletal biology. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Carlos Bustamante (1995) project summary
Jessica Cafarella (1997) - project summary
Jamie Hodgkins (2002) - project summary
Tristan Kimbrell (1998) - project summary

Laboratory Director. BA (1985) University of Maryland, College Park; MA (1993) University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Ph.D. (1997) Univeristy of Tennessee, Knoxville. Research specialties: skeletal biology, estimating population affinities through skeletal measurements, three-dimensional morphometrics, computer programming and database programming. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Andrea Berger (2000) - project summary
Melanie Mann (2000) - project summary
Jessica Seebauer (2002) - project summary

* Considering hosting a ND student during the 2003 summer session.

Curator, Physical Anthropology. B.A. (1973) University of Wyoming; M.A. (1975), Ph.D. (1978) University of Tennessee. Research specialties: skeletal biology; forensic anthropology; historic populations in North America; North American Plains Indians; Polynesia. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Wanda Lewis (1998) - project summary
Maureen Shea (1992) - project summary

Curator, Physical Anthropology; Director, Human Origins Program. B.A. (1975) Temple University; Ph.D. (1982) Harvard University. Research specialties: paleoecology and evolution of early hominids; excavation and analysis of hominid sites (late Miocene through Pleistocene). Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Curator, North American Archaeology. B.A. (1976); M.A. (1982) University of Oklahoma; Ph.D. (1987) University of Chicago. Research specialties: Great Plains, Southeastern U.S., Mexico archaeology and ethnohistory, development of social complexity, culture contact. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Leslie Castellanos (1996) - project summary
Courtney Porreca (2001) - project summary

Anthropologist/Illustrations Researcher, Handbook of North American Indians Project. B.A. (1963) Syracuse University; M.A. (1968) Hunter College, City University of New York. Research specialties: visual anthropology and North America; still photographs of Native Americans.

Special Project: Handbook of North American Indians: The handbook of North American Indians is a 20 volume encyclopedia summarizing knowledge about Indians north of Mesoamerica, including culture, languages, history, prehistory, and human biology. Those volumes in print are California (1978), Northeast (1978), Southwest: Pueblo (1979), Subarctic (1981), Southwest: Non-Pueblo (1983), Arctic (1984), Great Basin (1986), History of Indian-White Relations (1989), Northwest Coast (1990), Languages (1996), and Plateau (1998), Plains (2001). Research is currently underway for the Southeast volume and will be starting this summer on the Environment, Population and Origins volume.

My interests are in visual anthropology, historical photography and North American Indians ethnology. My current projects include the publication of a book on Benedicte Wrensted (see web site: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/wrensted); completion of a web site for a new exhibit in the Natural History Museum on Red Cloud’s Manikin and His Uncle’s Shirt; publication of work by Alice C. Fletcher titled Life Among the Indians: Camping with the Sioux and Omaha, 1881-1882.

The intern will conduct research on individual photographs selected for the Southeast volume including discovery of who, what, where and when of the image. Each image is a mini research project. Bringing the historical context back to images is challenging and exciting research. Research products of the intern could include a paper on the methods or procedures of illustrating an encyclopedia; finding aid or paper on photographers/artists of Native American subjects; biographical paper on unlimited number of Indian women or men or a catalog of repository sources rich in visual resources on Indian subjects.

A second possible topic includes archiving picture material used in the published volumes; content analysis of images for future volumes from photographs not selected for publication. This project would give the intern experience in the publishing field as well as the archival profession.

No courses or background required. Anthropology or American History with interest in Native Americans is desired.

Curator, North American Archaeology; Senior Scientist; Director, Archaeobiology Program. B.A. (1968), M.A. (1971), Ph.D. (1973) University of Michigan. Research specialties: The origins of agriculture; plant and animal domestication; archaeology of North America; and the development of ranked societies. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Adam Freeburg (2002) - project summary

Curator, Paleo-Indian Archaeology. B.A. (1965) University of Wyoming; Ph.D. (1972) University of New Mexico. Paleo-Indian Program. Research specialties: archaeology of Paleo-Indians, especially in Western Sectioned States; Alaska paleontology. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Curator, North American Ethnology. B.A. (1949) University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. (1955) Yale University. Research specialties: ethnology with area emphasis on eastern North American Indians (especially Seminole and Iroquois), sixteenth-century West Indies, and topical emphasis on ethnohistory, history of anthropology and of ethnographic illustration,stereotyping, art and material culture, ethnoscience, linguistics and ethnobotany. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample projects: Organizing and cataloguing a large collection of photos of Florida Seminoles, with identifications from fieldwork in the 1950s and other sources. Improving catalog of books in office library. Updating and computerizing a descriptive catalog of illustrations of Eastern North American Indian topics pre 1860. Organizing and cataloguing a set of photographs of Iroquois False Face masks used in 1960s fieldwork on ethno-aesthetics.

Director, Asian Cultural History Program (and) Curator, Asia European Near Eastern Ethnology. B.A. (1975) University of California; M.Phil. (1977), Ph.D. (1980) Yale University. Research specialties: cultural anthropology and linguistics of Southeast Asia; ethnobiology; kinship and social organization; art and material culture; ecological anthropology; ethnography and languages of Indonesia, especially Maluku and Irian Jaya; virtual museums. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Maksim Yegorov (1998) - project summary

Curator, Physical Anthropology. B.A. (1968), Ph.D. (1973) University of Kansas. Research specialties: New World human skeletal biology; and forensic anthropology. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Cassady Yoder (1998) - project summary

One publication resulted from their collaboration:

• Yoder, C., D. Ubelaker, and J.F. Powell. 2001. Examination of Variation in Sternal Rib End Morphology Relevant to Age Assessment. Journal of Forensic Science. 46(2):223-227. - - ABSTRACT

Curator, Old World Archaeology. B.A. (1943) University of Tulsa; B.D. (1945) McCormick Theological Seminary; Ph.D. (1953) Johns Hopkins University. Research specialties: Near Eastern archaeology of the historical periods (ca. 3000 B.C. - A.D. 200), chiefly in Arabia, the Levant; methodology, demography,
all cultural artifacts; ancient and contemporary vernacular earthen architecture. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project:

Curator. A.B. (1975), M.A. (1978), Ph.D. (1985) University of Michigan. Research specialties: Animal domestication; origins of food production, environmental impact of early agro-pastoral economies in the Near East, subsistence resources in emerging complex societies, Near Eastern archaeology, zooarchaeology; Archaeobiology Program. Science Unit: Department of Anthropology.

Sample project: Analysis of faunal remains from three third millennium B.C. sites.

Lesley Gregoricka (2003 - NDP) - project summary
Colleen McLinn (1998) - project summary
Anastasia Poulos (2001) - project summary
Scott Rufolo (1995) - project summary & (1996) - project summary
Shanon Stackhouse (1998) - project summary