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Anthropology seeks candidates interested in the post of Director. We are soliciting applications from individuals with academic qualifications that would allow them to be appointed to the tenured rank of Full Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Candidates will have demonstrated significant experience in dealing with the kinds of national and international research and educational programs, both public and University level, that the University Museum has conducted and will continue to pursue, as well as experience in administration. The new Director will possess the institutional vision and interpersonal skills necessary for the well-being of the Museum. The successful candidate will also demonstrate significant fundraising achievements and planning abilities.
the SPECIAL ISSUE ON LATIN AMERICAN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Anthropology seeks candidates interested in the post of Director. We are soliciting applications from individuals with academic qualifications that would allow them to be appointed to the tenured rank of Full Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Candidates will have demonstrated significant experience in dealing with the kinds of national and international research and educational programs, both public and University level, that the University Museum has conducted and will continue to pursue, as well as experience in administration. The new Director will possess the institutional vision and interpersonal skills necessary for the well-being of the Museum. The successful candidate will also demonstrate significant fundraising achievements and planning abilities.
As state and private anthropology departments compete for student enrollment, those involved with hiring in cultural resource management (CRM) are typically less than satisfied with the training students are receiving in academic programs. Two field schools, offered by the Pennsylvania State University and Juniata College, serve as examples of the successful pairing of undergraduate courses in applied anthropology with significant local archaeological projects. The involvement of non-profit organizations helps to further cohesion and integration of the projects by providing stable platforms for networking and mentoring. With this new approach to education, students are empowered because of the training and trust instilled in them through participation in experiential learning, making them qualified candidates for the practical roles that archaeologists serve in the 21st Century. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anthropology seeks candidates interested in the post of Director. We are soliciting applications from individuals with academic qualifications that would allow them to be appointed to the tenured rank of Full Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Candidates will have demonstrated significant experience in dealing with the kinds of national and international research and educational programs, both public and University level, that the University Museum has conducted and will continue to pursue, as well as experience in administration. The new Director will possess the institutional vision and interpersonal skills necessary for the well-being of the Museum. The successful candidate will also demonstrate significant fundraising achievements and planning abilities.
Chapter 9. Working in Museums as an Archaeological Anthropologist
Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 2008
Working in Museums as an Archaeological Anthropologist T he value of training in anthropology is clear when we consider the experience of archaeologists working in museums. Considering the fact that the reality today for the majority of archaeologists is, and prospects for the future will be, employment outside the academy, the experience of working in museums as an archaeological anthropologist deserves special attention. In this chapter, I draw both on my own experience as a museum curator and administrator and on the published literature concerning museums and cultural heritage to argue that museum archaeologists, whatever the setting in which they work, are anthropologists in the broadest sense of that term. Academically trained archaeologists are not employed uniformly, or even primarily, in research positions in academic museums. Instead, they may be found in a range of museums: government operated, academic, or private. Art, folk art, natural history, history, and living history museums all may hold archaeological objects in their collections and interpret them for their audiences. My own experience includes work in academic anthropology museums, in regional history museums outside the United States, and in both academic and public art museums. In any of these settings, archaeologists may be employed in a number of different roles, and their perspectives will need to change depending on the role they play and the perspectives of others with whom they negotiate the meaning of archaeological things. In this, anthropologically trained archaeologists need to draw on skills in participant-observation and the analysis of social organization that are characteristic of the broader discipline. Museum work engages archaeologists with multiple stakeholders who have diverse interests in curated materials. Most archaeologists working in museums spend much, if not a majority, of their time negotiating the use and interpretation of collections with other stakeholders. Some kinds of stakeholders easily spring to mind,
ACADEMIC ARCHAEOLOGY IS PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY
W e feel confident speaking about the state of academic archaeology today because we teach public archaeology. The University of South Florida (USF) was the first in the nation, in the 1970s, to offer a graduate degree, the M.A. in Public Archaeology, a term originally understood to mean cultural resources management and contract archaeology as part of applied anthropology but also including public education, historic preservation, and museology. We have trained many students who ended up in academia, but many more CRM professionals who work for (and have founded) private firms and public agencies in Florida and throughout the U.S. Our graduates dominate professional archaeology in the state, making up a large proportion of the Florida Archaeological Council, including the present and several past presidents. We hope we are filling important needs and passing on the message that there is no big difference between "research" archaeology and "contract" or "CRM archaeology"; there may be different emphases and different kinds of reports or budget and time limitations, but all archaeology must be done to professional standards, and all archaeology today is public archaeology. A similar view was expressed last June at the World Archaeological Congress (http://wwhw.american.edu/wac5/) when Brian Fagan said that all archaeology is cultural resources management.
The Past Meets the Future at the Utah State University Museum of Anthropology
Utah Archaeology , 2011
We discuss the founding, growth, and future of the Utah State University (USU) Museum of Anthropology (MOA). In 1963, Dr. Gordon Keller launched what would later become the MOA in the basement of USU’s historic Old Main building in an effort to share archaeological collections with students and to facilitate learning outside the classroom. Subsequently, other professors donated or otherwise transferred the fruits of their anthropological labors to the growing museum’s holdings, as did members of the Cache Valley community. The museum now houses ethnographic and archaeological collections from around the world, a few of which we highlight in this paper, together with examples of our public programming. We weave into our discussion the stories of two historic USU spaces and their roles in the MOA’s evolution: the museum’s current home in the south turret of the Old Main building and the USU Horse Barn-cum-Art Barn, which is the soon-to-be renovated new facility for a much-expanded MOA.