How to get an ‘A’ in Field School
School is out, summer is here, and that means that all across the world, college students are getting ready for their first archaeological field schools. The field school means many things to many people: for some, it’s a way to get a bunch of credits completed, for others it’s an opportunity to find out if ...
A Request
This summer I have the pleasure of teaching an online Intro to Archaeology course for Michigan State University. As with most intro courses, the content is pretty basic, and the goal is to give students a chance to get a glimpse about what archaeology is, why we do it, how it is done, and if ...
Blogging…in Other Places
The past few months have led to some new opportunities for me to contribute to blogs in other places, many that are brand new blogs all together. I wanted to give you all a heads up, because if you’re reading this blog, you might want to be reading these other blogs, too. Gradhacker – I ...
How Student Affairs will make me a better Professor
Over the past two and a half years, I have worked in the Department of Student Life at Michigan State University, helping to coordinate the Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Program. Although my time spent working with the office diminished from 25 to 10 to 5 hours a week, I have learned a great ...
The Class I want to Teach
This semester, I’ve been enrolled in a course on college teaching, as well as doing the Graduate Engagement Certificate out of the Office of Engagement. Both experiences have me thinking hard about what type of teacher I hope to be, and also what kinds of courses I’d like to teach. This idea, although requiring a ...
Campus Culture and Teaching
A long while back, I wrote a blog post about my views on colleges as culture factories. Long story short, I believe that the process of attending a university or college is to shape and mold a student into an individual with certain types of skills and values that are specific to the institution that ...
The Job Description
I must say, it is not everyday that you randomly search for jobs in archaeology, and you find the . It is, of course, a double whammy when you’re not actually on the market. At any rate, here’s the job description: The department of anthropology at Connecticut College invites applications for a tenure-track position, at ...
on campus culture part II: being relevant
It just so happens that my post last week about understanding campus culture actually has some relevance to recent happenings at Michigan State University. As you all should know, our country has hit some troubled times in the past year, and our beloved Michigan…well, we’ve been recessing and depressing for about a decade now. This ...
on campus culture
I remember when I first came to MSU after receiving a degree from Kalamazoo College. I went to a professor’s office hour, and seemed surprised to see me – students didn’t come to his office hours; he tended to use that time to get extra work done. At K-College, it had been instilled since our first class, ...
Thinking about the future: Other Options for an Archaeologist
thoughts on what to do if I don’t end up becoming a professor…
