Resources for Anthropology Concentrators

The following resources have been identified by Hampshire students, staff, faculty and alums, and compiled by students at the Career Options Resource Center. This is one of several Resource Guides geared towards students in popular concentrations. It is by no means a comprehensive list.

Internship Opportunities

 * The National Museum of Natural History’s Research Training Program
 * http://www.nmnh.si.edu/rtp
 * Ten-week undergraduate summer program which offering opportunities for students to pursue meaningful projects with research scientists in biology, geology, and anthropology.


 * Archaeology Fieldwork Resource
 * http://www.archaeologyfieldwork.com
 * This website serves as a message board for archaeology-related jobs and internships.


 * The Archaeological Institute of America
 * http://www.archaeological.org
 * The AIA’a database lists classes and programs designed to offer field experience.


 * Action Without Borders
 * http://idealist.org
 * News and resources for cultural anthropologists and activists interested in nonprofit work.

Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants

 * Archaeology, Anthropology and History Scholarships
 * http://www.archaeolink.com/archaeology_anthropology.htm
 * This website offers links to many financial aid programs and scholarship sites in Australia, the UK, US and Canada, including scholarships for summer programs and volunteers.


 * The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
 * http://www.wennergren.org
 * WGF aims to advance research about humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation, and to foster an international community of research scholars in anthropology. Grants are usually awarded for graduate and post-doctoral research.


 * The National Security Education Program
 * http://www.borenawards.org/
 * The NSEP is a unique opportunity for US undergrads to study abroad. NSEP focuses on regions, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to US national security.

Resources for Minority Students

 * Association of Black Anthropologists
 * http://www.associationofblackanthropologists.org/
 * Founded to make known in all forums that people studied by anthropologists are not only objects of study but active makers and/or participants in their own history.


 * Association for Feminist Anthropology
 * http://www.aaanet.org/sections/afa/
 * The AFA was founded in 1988 to foster development of feminist analytic perspectives in all dimensions of anthropology; to facilitate communication among feminist anthropologists and between them and feminist scholars in other related fields.

Highly ranked Anthropology Programs at American Universities

 * University of Michigan
 * University of Chicago
 * University of California Berkeley
 * Harvard University
 * University of Arizona
 * University of Pennsylvania
 * Stanford University
 * Yale University

Faculty and Staff Contacts

 * Michelle Bigenho, Associate Professor of Anthropology, mbigenho@hampshire.edu
 * Interested in folklore, national identity and ethnographic method.


 * Margaret Cerullo, Professor of Sociology, mcerullo@hampshire.edu
 * Interested in gender and sex in transnationalism.


 * Elizabeth Conlisk, Associate Professor of Health Science, econlisk@hampshire.edu
 * Interested in public health and epidemiology.


 * Sue Darlington, Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, sdarlington@hampshire.edu
 * Interested in Buddhism and society, environmental studies, human rights, and Southeast Asia and Tibet.


 * Marlene Fried, Professor of Philosophy, mfried@hampshire.edu
 * Director of Civil Liberties Public Policy Program (CLPP), long-time activist and reproductive rights advocate.


 * Alan Goodman, Professor of Biological Anthropology, agoodman@hampshire.edu
 * President of the American Anthropological Association, interested in social inequality and health.


 * Frank Holmquist, Professor of Politics, fholmquist@hampshire.edu
 * Interested in African and Third-World Development.


 * Amy Jordan, Assistant Professor of African-American History, ajordan@hampshire.edu
 * Interested in African-American history, women’s studies, Black rural culture and welfare history.


 * Michael Klare, Five Collge Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, mklare@hampshire.edu

President of the 5-College PAWSS program, interested in military relations.


 * Kristen Luschen, Assistant Professor of Education Studies, kluschen@hampshire.edu
 * Interested in schooling, female adolescent sexuality and pop culture.


 * Flavio Risech-Ozeguera, Associate Dean of Multicultural Education and Associate Professor of Law, frisech-ozeguera@hampshire.edu
 * Interested in the legal process, immigration policy, and US-Mexico relations.


 * Falguni Sheth, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory, fsheth@hampshire.edu
 * Interested in feminist, political, and legal philosophies and the philosophy of race.


 * Barbara Yngvesson, Professor of Anthropology, byngvesson@hampshire.edu
 * Interested in transnational families and the global migration of children.

Other Opportunities

 * Dialogues on Diaspora Conference Call for Papers
 * http://www.associationofblackanthropologists.org/Papers.html
 * The Association of Black Anthropologists accepts papers from students, scholars, and activists for their annual conference. See website for location, theme, deadline, and guidelines.


 * Harold K. Schneider Student Paper Prize Competition
 * http://nautarch.tamu.edu/anth/sea/awards.htm
 * The Harold K. Schneider Prize Competition is a student paper competition established by the SEA to encourage new scholars in the field of economic anthropology.

Organizations to Know

 * The American Anthropological Association
 * http://www.aaanet.org
 * The AAA is the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United States, and the world's largest professional organization of individuals interested in anthropology. This website has tons of information about careers, grants, and funding as well as information for minority students and organizations of interest to undergraduate and graduate students.


 * The American Museum of Natural History
 * http://anthro.amnh.org/
 * The AMNH is located in New York, NY. The Division of Anthropology is dedicated to the study of human culture and biology. The collections include more than 500,000 objects from cultures in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Greater North Pacific region.


 * The Archaeological Institute of America
 * http://www.archaeological.org
 * The AIA is North America’s oldest and largest organization devoted to archaeology, with over 8,000 members belonging to 102 local societies in the US, Canada, and overseas.


 * The American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Inc.
 * http://www.theabfa.org/
 * The ABFA was organized in 1977 to provide a program of certification in forensic anthropology, and is analogous to the certifying boards in various medical specialties and scientific fields.


 * The American Association of Physical Anthropologists
 * http://www.physanth.org
 * The AAPA is the world's leading professional organization for physical anthropologists. Its annual meetings draw more than a thousand scientists and students from all over the world.


 * The National Museum of Natural History
 * http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/cm/index.htm
 * Located in Washington, DC, the NMNH is home to 189 professional natural history scientists. The Physical Anthropology department houses the Terry collection, one of the largest and most well-documented human skeletal collections in the world.

Books at the Career Options Resource Center

 * Great Jobs for Anthropology Majors by Blythe Camenson
 * Great Jobs for Sociology Majors by Stephen Lambert
 * Peterson’s Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences