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Field School Opportunities

Yearning for a challenge or taste of the exotica and anxious to get your anthropological feet wet, or simply desirous of keeping up your skills? Opportunities to gather expertise in actual research settings abound. Watch this column for ideas on ways to to enhance your career and have something to really write home about this summer.

Current Field School Opportunities

Field School Resources

It is important to begin looking early in the spring semester for a summer field school or internship. Application deadlines range from mid-March to early May. It is advisable to ask for references well in advance of these deadlines. To get you started on your search for the perfect field school or internship, the National Association of Student Anthropologists has provided the internet addresses of some field schools and internships, as well as a list of websites that will aid you in your search.

• Summer field school in Mexico; U of California, Santa Barbara, and U of Queritaro, Mexico: http://www.id.ucsb.edu/
• Ethnographic field school; South Bend, IN (U Notre Dame), contact M Murphy: martin.f.murphy.1@nd.edu
• Ethnographic field school at Ensenada, Mexico; Arizona State U, Michael Winkleman: http://www.asu.edu/clas/shesc/projects/bajaethnography/

• National Museum of American History offers a variety of internship positions: http://www.si.edu/research%2bstudy
• Appalachian State U offers internships with various government organizations in Southwest archaeology and physical anthropology: http://www.anthro.appstate.edu/intern.html

• The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) - http://www.archaeological.org - publishes a list of worldwide field schools. Contact Susanna Burns, AIA publications manager (617/353-8708, susannab@bu.edu).
• Center for American Archeology located in Kampsville, IL offers a field school who's mission is to discover and disseminate the unwritten story of earlier Americans' lifeways, accomplishments, and changing natural environment. http://www.caa-archeology.org/
• Passports in Time; US Forest Service (800/281-9176); and Earthwatch (800/776- 0188, http://www.earthwatch.org).

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