{"id":513,"date":"2013-06-28T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/?page_id=513"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:38:28","slug":"newsletter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropology News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Loring \u201cDanny\u201d Danforth wins the 2021 Faculty Award for Outstanding Community-Engaged Work<\/strong><\/a>
May 6, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Nudi \u201923 and Coach Malik Hall win MOVE: 2021 Community Partner Award for Outstanding New Initiative by the Harward Center<\/strong><\/a>
May 1, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah McKenzie wins a 2021 Student Award for Outstanding Community-Engaged Academic Work<\/strong><\/a>
May 7, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah McKenzie wins a Watson Fellowship<\/strong><\/a>
April 8, 2021
Hannah McKenzie \u201921 has received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, a prestigious grant that supports a year of international exploration for graduating U.S. college seniors…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Maistrellis<\/strong><\/a>
August 27, 2018
After graduating from Bates in 2008, I worked as a program coordinator for the international public health organization Jhpiego, in Baltimore, MD. While there, I supported the implementation of community based maternal health services in Afghanistan, and HIV education and prevention programs in Botswana. This work taught me that I really wanted to expand upon\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s happening with Prof. Elizabeth Eames<\/strong><\/a>
August 27, 2018
Elizabeth Eames \u00a0 Since our last newsletter, I have added to the department\u2019s curriculum a short term unit called Global Maine: Documentary Production in Community.\u00a0 In an intense five weeks, students explore the ethics of ethnographic filming while acquiring both videography and editing skills.\u00a0 \u00a0In addition, since the last newsletter, Mellen published The Politics of\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valerie Wicks<\/strong><\/a>
August 27, 2018
I live in Portland, Maine and work as a plaintiffs\u2019-side employment and civil rights attorney at the law firm Johnson, Webbert & Young. The work is extremely rewarding, particularly now, when there is much-needed attention on workplace issues like sexual harassment. I\u2019m happy to be back in Maine after stints in Michigan and New York\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Standiford<\/strong><\/a>
August 27, 2018
Sarah Standiford \u201997 lives in South Portland Maine and works as the State Campaigns Director for Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund\u2026living the nomadic work lifestyle but grateful to be rooted in Maine with her husband of 17 years, Jeff Fetterer. At PPFA, she manages the team of campaign strategists who\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melody Alschuler<\/strong><\/a>
August 27, 2018
I am in my first year of the Sara S. Sparrow Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience\u00a0in the McPartland Lab and the Yale Developmental Disabilities Clinic at the Yale Child Study Center. \u00a0 Best, Melody Alschuler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexa Adams<\/strong><\/a>
August 27, 2018
After graduating from Bates in May, I spent the summer leading a backpacking trip in Europe for high school students. \u00a0In September, I drove across the country and ultimately landed in Portland, Oregon where I have been working part-time and studying to take the GREs. \u00a0Starting in January, I will begin an apprenticeship working and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A note from Prof. Danforth<\/strong><\/a>
<\/strong>August 27, 2018
In 2012 I took a Short Term Unit to Saudi Arabia, which was one of the most exciting things I have done in my career at Bates. It changed the direction of my scholarly career. I spent the whole next year writing a book about Saudi Arabia and my experiences there. It included chapters about\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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