NEW SUMMER INTERNSHIPS FOR CONTINUING STUDENTS
AT HARVARD COLLEGE–ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS--
PRESTIGIOUS NEW BLISS SUMMER RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS
NOW OPEN FOR SUMMER 2012 !!
Behavioral Laboratory in the Social Sciences: Geospatial Analysis of Roman and
Medieval civilization
Professor McCormick’s well-established team (several undergraduate and graduate
students, a post-doc GIS from CGA, McCormick and the other editors) are
building the internationally acclaimed web-based research and teaching tool
Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations http://darmc.harvard.edu.
Each BLISS fellow will work under the team's guidance to create and experiment
with exploiting one or more new geodatabases and make it available on the web;
the fellows are named as the cartographers responsible for their geodatabase
and can be first to analyze the data they create. Geodatabases under
consideration for development: the archaeological record of late Roman Gaul;
all surviving Latin books written before 800 AD and their movements; coin
hoards from Charlemagne's empire; etc. McCormick’s team begins and concludes
each summer with a conference and festive lunch in which they present their
projects and ideas. This project gives undergraduate fellows a substantive
opportunity to learn what it is like to be an archaeologist/historian working
at the cutting edge of the interface of the sciences and the humanities.
Required background of the candidate: Some knowledge of Roman and/or medieval
history/archaeology; enjoyment of computers, internet, XL and e-resource
searching; the more familiarity with Google Earth and/or GIS the better (CGA
runs short training courses frequently); reading knowledge of French, German or
Latin would be a great advantage, but not indispensable. Enjoyment of supportive
team atmosphere.
DEADLINE February 27: FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT “Research
Opportunities/BLISS” at http://undergrad-research.harvard.edu
In the interest of increasing casual conversation and student-faculty / faculty-faculty interaction among members of the Harvard community who are engaged in archaeology, we are instituting a casual, optional, agenda-free lunch gathering to take place Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Bauer Center Cafeteria from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm.
Each of these days there will be at least ONE Harvard anthropologist/archaeologist there having lunch, and hopefully anyone who it otherwise unoccupied will make it a habit of occasionally dropping by.
For this semester, graduate students in the archaeology program of Anthropology will be saving a place on each of these days. Mondays, Bridget Alex will be there. On Tuesdays it will be Jeff Dobereiner, and on Thursdays, Max Price. Please join us and pass this on to anyone who might be interested.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Rowan Flad
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
New York Times article on the latest research at Ashkelon, Israel.
The Standing Committee on Archaeology (SCA) of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, promotes the study of the human past by connecting the dispersed community of faculty, curators, research associates, and students across Harvard’s schools, divisions, and departments. After more than a century of evolution, archaeology at Harvard has developed nodes of intellectual strength, most notably in the Archaeology Program of the Department of Anthropology and in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography. Elsewhere in FAS, archaeologists have homes in The Classics, History, History of Art & Architecture, Human Evolutionary Biology, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Study of Religion, and the Harvard University Museums. Other departments have recently featured visiting scholars, lecturers, and/or doctoral dissertations involving archaeology or material culture, including African and African American Studies, Medieval Studies, and East Asian Languages & Civilizations. Harvard’s Divinity school includes scholars who use the material record of the past to study ancient belief systems. The new analytical methods and research questions utilized by this broad community have evolved in such a way that the historical division into schools, divisions, and departments increasingly inhibits the asking and answering of critical questions about the human past. The SCA creates a cross-disciplinary and trans-departmental home for this community of self-identified archaeologists and other scholars whose research and teaching is informed by the physical remains of antiquity.
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