Resources & Grants
Congratulations to our 2008 Kessinger and Sutasoma Grant winners
Jessie Blumberg
Jessie will spend eight weeks this summer as an herbal apprentice to a Wise Woman Herbalist in Woodstock, NY. She will study holistic methods, traditions and philosophy with a woman-centered approach, and see how they fit into the world of nontraditional healing.
Rebecca Kuperberg
Rebecca will be working with Windows for Peace, an organization that creates avenues of self expression and self-representation for Israeli and Palestinian youth.
2007 Winners
Shashi Neerukonda
Shasha analyzed the stigma of HIV/AIDS among two groups in North
Philadelphia, African-Americans and African immigrants.
Caitlin Caven
Caitlin studied how gender influences comedic roles in improvisational
theater in New York City.
Resources
We encourage students to take advantage of the ethnographic video and film resources at McGill Library and in the Department of Anthropology, and the slide collection at Bryn Mawr College. In addition there are several collections of anthropological materials in the area,which students may take advantage of in doing projects, senior research, or for other academic interests.
Bryn Mawr College Department of Anthropology has a collection in Dalton 110 that includes over 50,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects from around the world. Highlights from this collection include: Pre-Columbian pottery and textiles; old world European archaeology; American Indian ethnography; North American ancient and historical archaeology; ethnography from the East Indies/ Australia/ New Zealand; and African art. The Collection is open from 9-5, Monday to Friday. Contact Tamara Johnston for more information or for an appointment: 610-526-5022 or e-mail: tjohnsto@brynmawr.edu
Students may also benefit from visits to the important material collections at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
Many anthropology majors choose
to deepen their understanding of a field area through junior year
study
abroad programs offered at
Haverford. Some choose to
conduct research for their senior thesis in conjunction with these
programs. Others carry out independent summer research projects, some
of which are funded through college fellowships such as the Wyatt
MacGaffey Fellowship in Anthropological Research, the Deborah
Lafer-Scher Internship, the Kessinger Family Fund,and the Sutasoma
Fund (see below). Students who plan to conduct field research in a
foreign language may acquire language training through courses
offered in the tri-college area or at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Kessinger & Sutasoma Funds
The Kessinger and Sutasoma funds are intended to promote student research, domestically and abroad. These funds do not pay for summer school, training at educational institutions, or placement organizations. Applicants may be affiliated with organizations, but these grants do not fund internships, in the sense that monies may not be used to pay the organizations where the student is interning. Funds from Kessinger and Sutasoma cover travel expenses, room and board, and some amount of supplies needed to complete the project. Sutasoma grants are intended to fund research projects. Kessinger grants are for public service, and proposals that link that service to intellectual pursuits are given priority.
Applications for Kessinger and Sutasoma funding must show a high degree of specificity about the applicant's project. What the student plans to do must be explicitly detailed. The application must include a complete literature review that includes scholarly materials on the place and topic which you propose to study. Applications must convey a good sense of the site where research is proposed and its significance to the project, and an informed research question or intellectual agenda that is linked to scholarship on that topic.
Kessinger Family for Community Service
Description: Established in 1989 to support individual students or groups of students undertaking commmuity service projects or internships either during the academic year or summer vacation
Eligibility: This internship is open to any Haverford first year, sophomore, or junior who has an interest in community service projects. There is a preference for international projects but domestic programs will also be considered. A candidate must demonstrate a high level of commitment to the work proposed, and indicate how the project will affect their longer term involvement (academic or practical) with community service work.
Amount: The fund usually supplies a stipend of $1000 to $5000 to assist with living and travel expenses associated with the project.
Deadline: March 19, 2008
Contact Person: Kathy McGee, 610-896-1008, kcmgee@haverford.edu
The Sutasoma Charitable Trust Fund
Description: Created in 1992 to support overseas student research in the social sciences and humanities, with a preference for social science research.
Eligibility: This internship is open to any Haverford first year, sophomore, or junior who has an interest in research abroad in a topic related to the social sciences. A candidate must demonstrate a high level of commitment to the work proposed, and indicate how the project is based in and will affect their longer term involvement (academic or practical) with the project topic. Students intending to do research in conjunction with a senior thesis or other major academic research project will be given preference.
Amount: The fund usually supplies a stipend of $1000 to $5000 to assist with living and travel expenses associated with the project.
Deadline: March 19, 2008
Contact Person: Kathy McGee, 610-896-1008, kcmgee@haverford.edu
The Kroeber Anthropological Society
The Kroeber Anthropological Society publishes articles in the general field of anthropology (and all its subdisciplines) which are of theoretical, descriptive, or practical interest. They welcome submissions by students, faculty, and professionals. For more information: http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~kas/submission.html
For other grant opportunities Center for Peace and Global Citizenship