Seventeen anthropology students presented a wide range of papers and posters at the April 5 IUP Scholars Forum. Topics ranged from coronavirus to shipwrecks and from equality to animal bones. The faculty and staff judges recognized four anthropology students with awards.
The IUP Scholars Forum brings students from across campus together for a day to share and celebrate research. It was excellent to see so much top-notch research and to feel the excitement as students explained the new knowledge they are working hard to develop.
Four Applied Archaeology Program Students Won Awards:
Sonja Rossi-Williams won the Women in STEM Award for Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation for “Indigenous Occupation Strategies in Eastern Pennsylvania: An Exploration of Changing Subsistence and Technological Practices in Watershed 03A.”
Amanda Telep won first place (graduate division) in the Sigma Xi Society competition for “An Archaeological Study of Structures of the Nineteenth Century.”
Mikala Hardie won the graduate Excellence in Data Analysis Award for “A Geophysical Survey of a Plantation Site in Baltimore County, MD.”
Bridget Roddy won third place (graduate division) in the Sigma Xi Society competition for “Using Ceramic Analysis to Reevaluate Competing Hypotheses of McFate and Monongahela Amalgamation at the Squirrel Hill Archaeological Site.”
Other Anthropology Presentations Included:
- Amanda Zaner, Jesse Gowin, Rania Rashid, Brittney Williams-Smith - Paranormal Appalachia: A study of the supernatural of Indiana County
- Victoria Albert - All Land is Sacred Land
- Jesse Gowin - Generation 'V': Mapping Coronavirus Related Issues and Factors in Pennsylvania.
- Callie Bland - Campus Equality: The IUP Campus Culture of Sexual Violence, Safety, and Risk
- Matthew Clark - Newport Socioeconomics
- Shannon Boyne - Investigating Village Organization at the Squirrel Hill site (36WM0035).
- Bridget Roddy - Using Ceramic Analysis to Reevaluate Competing Hypotheses of McFate and Monongahela Amalgamation at the Squirrel Hill (36WM35) Archaeological Site
- Luke Nicosia - Consumption Has A Cost: Using Ceramics to Compare Socio-Economic Variability Within and Between Flood Control-Affected Communities
- Arthur Townend - Barree Forge: A Pennsylvania Town
- Jacob Ulmer - Lead Composition Patterning using X-Ray Fluorescence to Analyze 18th-Century Musket Balls from Fort Necessity
- Patrick Spollen - Shipwrecks of the Lake Erie Quadrangle
- Zachary Meskin - Faunal Analysis of the Pockoy Island Shell Rings
- Cassidy Tech - A Spatial Analysis of Faunal Remains at the Pockoy Shell Rings
Much of this research is part of students’ undergraduate and graduate thesis research and has also been presented at regional and national conferences.