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Annual Newsletter 2012-13 Academic Year Number 28 December, 2013 Scholarship and Award Bestowed Michele Troutman, Epsilon of Pennsylvania advantage of chapter at The Indiana University of new learning Pennsylvania, received the XXXVIII National opportunities. I Lambda Alpha Senior Scholarship Award am a member honored by a check for $5000, a Charles R. of the Cooks Jenkins Certificate of Distinguished Achievement Honors College Award and a plaque. Her faculty sponsor is which features Francis Allard, Ph.D seminar-style classes with My interest in the world around me and how focus on critical societies develop and change through time thinking applied led me to undertake a major in anthropology to literature, Michele Troutman accepting the Charles the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Even science, R. Jenkins Award from Dr. Francis Allard before attending college, I have taken advantage philosophy, of opportunities around me to learn about history, and art. In my freshman year, I traveled local archaeology and to develop my field with my archaeology class to Belize to visit and analytical skills. While in high school, I Mayan sites, including some we had learned participated in the excavation of a few historic about in class. Also at this time, I was a student sites under the guidance of the local Society worker in the Archaeology lab where my for Pennsylvania Archaeology Chapter. As I responsibilities included the handling, labeling, learned more about local archaeology, I became washing, and sorting of artifacts recovered interested in the issue of how people lived at that from historic and prehistoric sites. Shortly time. Within the Archaeology Track at IUP, I after my freshman year, I was a student in my have been able to learn how to use the remains of department’s field school, participating in the material culture to provide insights into ancient excavation of a local Native American Site. It life ways. was while at this site that I began to develop an appreciation for prehistoric archaeology and In order to be able to know more about the specifically, lithic analysis. world around me, I challenged myself to excel academically from the onset and to take In fact, as I learned, the study of lithics cannot Continued on page 7 Dear Faculty Sponsor: The Lambda Alpha Newsletter is published annually (September) by the National Office of Lambda Alpha, at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. It is distributed to chapters of the Lambda Alpha Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society newsletter 2013 for Anthropology, and others who may be interested. The newsletter is posted on our web site: Contents http://cms.bsu. edu/Academics/ CollegesandDepartments/ Cover Anthropology/ Scholarship and Award Bestowed LambdaAlpha.aspx Page 3 Recognize Student Achievement Page 4 Editor: Scholarship and Grant Applicants Dr. Mark D. Groover National Executive Secretary for Lambda Alpha Page 5 Department of Anthropology New chapters Ball State University Our history Muncie, IN 47306-0435 [email protected] (765) 285-3567 Page 6 Feature article From the National Executive Secretary Page 7 Newsletter Compilation: Graduate Overseas Research Grants Barbara Di Fabio Administrative Coordinator for Lambda Alpha Page 8 (765) 285-5297 News from the chapters [email protected] Page 10 Sponsors and lifetime members Page 27 Lifetime Membership Certificates: Order form Alice Owens, Calligrapher Plymouth, Indiana Newsletter Design: Jeff Huffine Communications Huffine Design To better communicate among chapters, the National Office Hagerstown, IN 47346 would like all to join the LISTSERV by going to lambda_alpha@ If you have questions about listserv.bsu.edu and click join or leave list, enabling you to send a starting a new chapter or need chapter items, such as 3x5 message to those chapters that are subscribed. You may also want lifetime membership cards, or to link your web page to ours at: http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/ graduation stoles/pins, please CollegesandDepartments/Anthropology/LambdaAlpha.aspx contact Mrs. Barbara Di Fabio, Administrative Coordinator, at [email protected] , putting Lambda 2 Alpha your chapter name/state on the subject line. National Executive Council Dr. Mark D. Groover Dr. Marie Elaine Danforth National Executive Secretary Member of the South Department of Anthropology Department of Sociology & Anthropology Ball State University University of Southern Mississippi Muncie, IN 47306-0435 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5074 Dr. Peer H. Moore-Jansen, Dr. Elwyn C. Lapoint Editor in Chief Member for the Northwest Lambda Alpha Journal After close to 40 years serving on the National Executive Department of Anthropology Council, Dr. Lapoint has chosen to retire. Lambda Wichita State University Alpha greatly appreciates his dedication to our members. Wichita, KS 67260-0052 Dr. Faith R. Warner Dr. B. K. Swartz, Jr. Member for the East Emeritus National Executive Department of Anthropology Secretary Bloomsburg University 805 W. Charles St. Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301 Muncie, IN 47305 The executive council also includes the current national chapter student officers. Lambda Alpha Graduate Overseas Research Grants for 2012-13 went to: Jason Whitaker University of Texas, San Antonio – Gamma of Texas, faculty sponsor is Michael Cepek, Ph.D. $5998 Proposal: Household Economic Provisioning in the Mopan River Valley of Western Belize: A Case Study from the San Lorenzo Settlement Cluster My research project aims to better understand the dynamics of hinterland household economic provisioning during both the Late Classic and Terminal Classic period (A.D. 600-890) occupations of the San Lorenzo settlement cluster in the Mopan River Valley of Western Belize. Traditional archaeological explanations of ancient Maya economies posited weakly developed economic structure. These earlier explanations, however, are no longer widely accepted by archaeological scholars. Rather, the serious consideration of both hinterland datasets and the incorporation of various theoretical perspectives have enabled investigators to better understand the general structure of economies and how hinterland peoples provisioned for their daily needs within diverse ecological, political, and social settings within these tropical lowland settings. To achieve my stated research objective, I am employing the household perspective. Households are the smallest, most fundamental unit of organization within any given society. They directly articulate with and adapt to particular economic, ecological, and social settings; thus, they are ideal analytical platforms from which to examine ancient economic behaviors. Previous economic studies in the Mopan river Valley have significantly advanced our understanding of the intricacies of economic relationships in this region of the ancient Maya Lowlands. San Lorenzo, however, has not undergone intensive economic investigation. My research at this ancient settlement will contribute to our understanding of larger economic processes in both the Mopan River Valley and the Late Classic Maya world. Lambda 3 Alpha Scholarship and Grant Applicants XXXVIII NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD, SENIOR APPLICANTS: Rebecca Aaron University of Tennessee Alpha of Tennessee Laurel Appleton DePaul University Zeta of Illinois Carol Franco University of Nevada, Las Vegas Alpha of Nevada Ashley Houston University of Louisville Eta of Kentucky Chelsea Hunter Portland State University Beta of Oregon Brett Ostrum St Lawrence University Iota of New York Mariah Perkins Washington College Gamma of Maryland Ashley Remy New Mexico State University Alpha of New Mexico Jennifer Torres University of Florida Delta of Florida Lynn Walker Alma College Delta of Michigan Juliet Wiebe-King U. of North Carolina, Wilmington Eta of North Carolina GRADUATE RESEARCH GRANT APPLICANTS: Sherria Ayuandini Washington University in St. Louis Beta of Missouri Krista Billingsley University of Tennessee Alpha of Tennessee Marie Brault University of Connecticut Alpha of Connecticut Clarissa Cagnato Washington University in St. Louis Beta of Missouri Kenneth Chiou Washington University in St. Louis Beta of Missouri Michelle Eusebio University of Florida Delta of Florida Andrew Flachs Washington University in St. Louis Beta of Missouri Michelle Grocke University of Montana Beta of Montana Lisa Guidi Washington University in St. Louis Beta of Missouri Jieun Kim University of Tennessee Alpha of Tennessee Lynn Kim University of Texas, San Antonio Gamma of Texas Kristin Landau Colgate University Beta of New York Leah McCurdy University of Texas, San Antonio Gamma of Texas Tony Milanzi University of Kentucky Delta of Kentucky Mary Noell Texas State University, San Marcos Theta of Texas Anna Osterholtz New Mexico State University Alpha of New Mexico Molly Palmison Texas State University, San Marcos Theta of Texas Amanda Reinke University of Tennessee Alpha of Tennessee Heather Sawyer University of Kentucky Delta of Kentucky Nate Stanley Texas State University, San Marcos Theta of Texas John Willman Washington University in St. Louis Beta of Missouri Arielle Wright Washington University in St. Louis Beta of Missouri Lambda 4 Alpha Nine new chapters included in 211 chartered Zeta of Florida Tau of New York Lambda of Pennsylvania Eckerd College SUNY-Buffalo State Edinboro University Eta of Missouri Theta of Ohio Mu of Pennsylvania Saint Louis University Case Western Reserve Mercyhurst University University Sigma of New York Nu of Texas St. John’s University Delta of Oregon University of Houston Linfield College Our History