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Robert Borofsky (2002)
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Overview

Anthropologically Connected Programs
Focused on Public Issues & Outreach

Departmental & Inter-Departmental Programs
3

Centers, Institutes, Schools, and Museums
with Anthropology Faculty that Emphasize Public Outreach

5

(For an explanation of the program categories, click here)

Degree to Which Individual Anthropology
Faculty Involved in Public Outreach

Percentage of Full-Time Faculty Cited
Five or More Times in LexisNexis Database for
Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals

10% (of 20 faculty)

Breakdown of How Full-Time Faculty Cited
12 cited 0 times, 6 cited 1-4 times,
2 cited 5-20 times,
0 cited more than 20 times

(For details of how data collected, click here)

Percentage of Full-Time Faculty Listed as Having
Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach

10% (of 20 faculty)

List of Full-Time Faculty Members

Cautions for Interpreting the Data

Data on Anthropologically Connected
Programs Focused on
Public Issues and Outreach

Note: The following descriptions are quoted directly from the specified websites and/or related webpages within the past two years. Editorial changes, where made, involve shortening a description's length, smoothing textual transitions, or clarifying particular points. For an explanation of the program categories, click here.

Departmental & Inter-Departmental Programs

European Study Abroad Program

The European Field Studies Program supports anthropological study of Europeby providing graduate and Honors undergraduate students with classroom instruction, a discussion forum, and a supervised field training experience in Europe. UMass students have conducted fieldwork on festivals in the Azores, Northern Ireland's marching season, radio journalism in Bratislava, folklore and Archaeology in the outer Hebrides, immigrations and emigrations in Istanbul, women's issues in East Germany, collective farms in Romania, ethnicity in the Trentino, tourism in Basque area.tunity to link theory and practice (or academic and real world experience).

The UMass Alliance for
Community Transformation (ACT)

UACT is a unique partnership of UMass students, faculty and members of grassroots community organizations.  They work together to design programs that build community, promote social and economic justice, advance cross-cultural understanding and serve the educational and civic objectives of our Land Grant University.   It strives to engage in work that transforms classrooms, institutions, communities and its participants by rejecting the constraints of the conventional classroom and by making the roles played as students, teachers, citizens and activists more seamless.

Latin American, Caribbean, & Latino Studies
Graduate Certificate

The Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies offers an interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies in conjunction with a disciplinary master's or doctoral degree program. Overseen by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Executive Committee, it is intended to certify competency in area and language studies. An opportunity for graduate students to pursue interdisciplinary studies, the Graduate Certificate contributes to training in internationalism, multi-culturalism, and foreign language competence.

Centers, Institutes, Schools and Museums with Anthropology Faculty that Emphasize Public Outreach

Center for Public Policy and Administration

The Center engages in scholarly and applied research affecting regional, national and global challenges, facilitates ongoing exchange among policymakers, scholars, and citizens, while offering innovative teaching and applied learning opportunities to students. An ever-widening circle of community residents, government decision-makers, non-profit leaders, and local officials are finding CPPA to be an accessible resource for relevant research and analysis. Areas of research include: Education Policy, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy, Family, Gender and Social Policy, Health Policy, Housing and Urban Policy, International and Comparative Policy, Law and Dispute Resolution, and Politics and Governance.

Forensic Anthropology Services

Forensic Anthropological Services in the Department of Anthropology is a fee-based unit that provides the State Medical Examiner's Office and law enforcement agencies with the expertise they require in the identification of human remains.

UMass Archaeological Services

Archaeological Services is an archaeological consulting service within the anthropology department, specializing in all phases of cultural resource management projects. Its specialties include archaeological and historical background research and field testing, site examination, and data recovery for historic and prehistoric sites. During the last two decades, Archaeological Services has completed more than 300 research projects throughout Massachusetts, the other New England states, and in New York.

Natural History Museum

The Museum has collections of fish, dry skeletal materials, herbs, invertebrates, and mammals.  It also has a collection of vascular plants in the Holyoke range as well as a collection of botanical specimens from the Deerfield area.

Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts

Historic Deerfield is a museum of New England history and art within the carefully preserved 330 year old western Massachusetts village of Deerfield. Each year thousands of visitors come to Deerfield to see a collection of 18th and 19th century houses and the Flynt Center of Early New England Life filled with some of the great decorative arts treasures of early America.  The Anthropology Department conducts cooperative projects with the museum.

Data on Individual Anthropology
Faculty Involved in Public Outreach

List of Full-Time Faculty Included

Elizabeth Chilton
Ralph Faulkingham
Jean Forward
Laurie Godfrey
Krista Harper
Julie Hemment
Bridgette Holt
Arthur Keene
Elizabeth Krause
Mitchell Mulholland
Enoch Page
Robert Paynter
Ventura Perez
Oriol Pi-Sunyer
David Samuels
Lynnette Sievert
Michael Sugerman
Alan Swedlund
Jacqueline Urla
Martin Wobst

Note: Please click on the hotlinks below each individual's name for specific details regarding that faculty member's public outreach. The names of the faculty are listed as they were searched in the LexisNexis data base. For details of this process and how faculty, if they wish, can explore whether additional citations exist through the inclusion of middle initials and names, click here.

Elizabeth Chilton

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 1, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Ralph Faulkingham

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Jean Forward

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Laurie Godfrey

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 3, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
Yes - click here for details

Krista Harper

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Julie Hemment

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Bridgette Holt

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Arthur Keene

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Elizabeth Krause

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Mitchell Mulholland

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 1, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Enoch Page

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Robert Paynter

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 3, Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
Yes - click here for details

Ventura Perez

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 1, Magazine & Journal Citations 1

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Oriol Pi-Sunyer

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

David Samuels

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 1

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Lynnette Sievert

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Michael Sugerman

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Alan Swedlund

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 3, Magazine & Journal Citations 4

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Jacqueline Urla

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 2, Magazine & Journal Citations 3

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]

Martin Wobst

Citations in the LexisNexis Database
Newspaper Citations 0 , Magazine & Journal Citations 0

Significant Accomplishments in Public Outreach
[none specified to date]


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