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Undergraduate Studies - Research Opportunities / Internships
The Anthropology Department offers undergraduate students many opportunities to work with professionals in the field. The experience of field work lends perspective to, and a broader understanding of, the concepts and skills taught in coursework.
Summer 2008 Ohio Valley Archaeology Fieldschool, 15 ANTH 473 & ANTH 773
Upper Basin Archaeological Research Project at the Grand Canyon Arizona; Headed through UC by Alan Sullivan; please contact alan.sullivan@uc.edu for more information.
Programme for Belize Archaeological Project, Belize, Central America; and the Maya Research Program in Blue Creek, Belize; Headed through UC by Vern Sacrborough, please contact vernon.scarborough@uc.edu for more information.
Opportunities occasionally change from year to year, please contact your advisor for other current research opportunities. The Institute for Global Studies and Affairs additionally offers study/ research opportunities to students. Field Opportunities outside the University of Cincinnati:
Arizona State University offers The Ohio Hopewell Craft Production Project at Seip Mound, Ohio.
The Archaeological Institute of America posts world-wide field work opportunities.
The American Anthropological Association posts current field school opportunities and internships. Please take a look.
The Center for Social Well Being is a non-profit Peruvian-based research and training institute offering a three-week summer program with courses in ethnographic field methods and languages (Spanish and Quechua). Program dates are June 12- July 2, 2005 and the deadline for application is March 15. Contact phammer@wayna.rcp.net.pe for more info or click on the link for their web site.
Earthwatch provides volunteer opportunities for students in archaeology, cultural studies, global change and world health.
Also see the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Volume Bulletin #22 entitled "Passages: The Ethnographic Field School and First Fieldwork" for information about doing fieldwork.
New field opportunities continuously become available, please contact your advisor or department faculty for current research or internship opportunities.
