Spring 2008
Courses:
Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
Tutorials:
Practicum in Public Anthropology: Building Public Archaeology at New College (5 students)
People and Cultures of Israel/Palestine (2 students)
Thesis Tutorial (2 students)
Previous courses/tutorials and ISPs below
Courses and tutorials/independent reading projects taught at New College, by semester:
Fall 2007
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Method and Theory in Archaeology
Race and Representation
Anthropology of Food
Anthropological Ethics: the Margaret Mead Debates
Anthropology of South Africa
Thesis Tutorial
Internship at Historic Spanish Point (3 students)
Spring 2007
Heritage: History and the Past Today
Thesis Tutorial (2 students)
Post Colonial Studies
Advanced Readings in Heritage (2 students)
Anarchism and Anthropology - a critique (2 students)
Texts in Middle Eastern Archaeology
Representations in Archaeology
Documentary on an Archaeologist
Fall 2006
Visual Representation for a Public Archaeology (3 students)
Middle East Archaeology (2 students)
Ancient Egypt
Thesis Tutorial
Ethnography of Ethiopian Jews
Texts as Artifacts
Irish Anthropology
The Folklore of Henry Glassie
Spring 2006
Historical Archaeology
Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
Israel through its Films (4 students)
Israel through Ethnographies
Edward Said on Palestine
Middle Eastern Medical Anthropology
Directed Research: Interpretation in the National Park Service
Advanced Anthropological Workshop
Thesis Tutorial (4 students)
Fall 2005
Heritage: History and the Past Today
Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
Advanced Study in Archaeological Theory
Advanced Study in Ethnicity
The Anthropology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Environmental History of Israel
Israel's Wars 1948-1956
Representing the Holy Land
Anthropology of Consumption
Spring 2005
Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
Challenges for African Women (9 students, taught with Professors Wallace and Hernandez)
An Anthropological Study of Tea
Teaching Archaeology to Kids
Gender and Anthropology
Travels in Culture and Class (2 students)
Thesis Tutorial (3 students)
Fall 2004
The Colonial Encounter
Archaeology of the Holy Land
Marketing Heritage
Advanced Research in Historical Archaeology
Current Debates in Biblical Archaeology
Looking for Angola - Public Education
Israel: History and Politics
Thesis Tutorial
Facilitating Thesis (2 students)
Malinowski, Benedict, and Levi-Strauss
Spring 2004
Historical Archaeology
Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
Method and Theory in Archaeology (3 students)
Thesis Tutorial (4 students)
History of Ancient Egypt
Middle Eastern Healing
Writing Tutorial
Contemporary Native Americans
Fall 2003
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Method and Theory in Archaeology
Reading Ethnographies (2 students)
Anthropology of Development
Anthropology of Peace
Advanced Research in Historical Archaeology (2 students)
Archaeomalacology
Thesis
Tutorial
Spring 2003
Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
North American Prehistory
Thesis tutorial (6 students)
Fall 2002
Survey of Archaeology
The Colonial Encounter
Advanced Readings in Historical Archaeology (4 students)
Anthropology and Identity (2 students)
Readings on Israel and Palestine
Archaeology of Africa
Archaeology of the Calusa
Archaeological Analysis Practicum
Spring 2002
Archaeology of the Holy Land
Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
Feminist Archaeology
Historical Archaeology of Plantations
Consuming Heritage
Ottoman Palestine and Its Legacy
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Presenting Sarasota's Past (2 students)
Thesis Tutorials (3 students)
Fall 2001
Research Leave
Spring 2001
Historical Archaeology
Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
Presenting Sarasota's Past (3 students)
Archaeological Ethics
Thesis tutorials (8 students)
Fall 2000
The Colonial Encounter
North American Prehistory
Method and Theory in Archaeology (4 students)
Advanced Readings in Physical Anthropology
Archaeological Approaches to Identity
The Grand Tour
Thesis tutorial: Ethnographic research
Spring 2000
Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
Method and Theory in Archaeology
Material Culture
Cognitive Archaeology
Introduction to Archaeology
Subaltern Voices
Fall 1999
Archaeology of the Holy Land
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Peoples and Languages of India
Archaeologies of Gender
Method and Theory in Archaeology
Introduction to Archaeology
Constructing Japan (co-sponsored with Professor Tegtmeyer Pak of Political Science)
Nationalist Myths, Legends of People, Imagined Communities
Kibbutz Ulpan
Teaching Archaeology to Kids
Internship at Project Otzma
Spring 1999
Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
Historical Archaeology
Folklore
Historical and Social Context for Israel/Palestine
Cuban Ethnography
Visual Anthropology
Ethnography in Israel
Native American Studies
Beginning Hebrew
Internship at the South Florida Museum
Russian Peasantry
New England Gravestones
Fall 1998
The Colonial Encounter
Survey of Archaeology
Race Issues and Ethnography
History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
History of Zionism
Beginning Hebrew
Survey of the Caribbean (co-sponsored with Professor Hernandez of Sociology)
Spring 1998
Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
Archaeology of the Middle East
Archaeology of New England Gravestone
Ethnographies on Mobile Peoples
South American Ethnographies
Archaeology of Cyprus
Beginning Arabic
Fall 1998
Historical Archaeology
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire
Independent Study Projects (ISPs):
January 2008
Introduction to Museum Studies ("group ISP" with 8 students), co-taught with Valerie Bell of South Florida Museum
Israel Photo-journal (2 students)
Representation and Experience at the Holy Land Experience (2 students)
Anthropology and Gender (2 students)
An Introduction to Visual Anthropology
Writing Archaeology
Anthropological Study of Kinship
Dalits in Modern Indian Society
Sushi as a Global Trend
Summer 2007
Ethnographic Field School at Northwestern University
Zooming in on the McEmpire
Investigation of Social Work in Tanzania
January 2007
Critical Race Theory
The Anthropology of Marx and Foucault
Politics of the State of Israel
The Israel Experience
The Livnot Experience
Visual Representations of Ancient Israel
Navaho Witchcraft
Introduction to Archaeology
Analysis of French, Italian, and Spanish Cultural Stereotypes
January 2006
Museum Internship: Little Salt Spring Exhibit at the Sarasota County History Center (5 students)
Gender, Heritage, and Border Crossing: The Scholarship of Ruth Behar ("group ISP" with 10 students), co-taught with Miriam Wallace and Sonia Labrador-Rodriguez
Masada
Cultural Geography of Israel
Theoretical and Philosophical Concerns for Ceramics
January 2005
Visual Anthropology (3 students)
Representing the Colonial Encounter
Images of Morocco
Egyptian Artifacts in Late Bronze Age Canaan
Study of the Yom Kippur War/October War
Gender, Folklore, and Kabala
Walls of Israel
Museum Internship at the Ringling Museum of Art
Summer 2004
Excavations on Cyprus
Race, Ethnicity, and Collective Memory
January 2004
Grand Tours ("group ISP" with 7 students), co-taught with Professor Wallace
Coexistence
Healing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
West African Kinship Study
Museumology at the Sarasota History Center
January 2003
Public Archaeology in Sarasota: Excavations at Little Salt Spring ("group ISP" with 6 students)
Anthropology and Education
Arctic Studies Overview
Biblical Archaeology
Summer 2002
The Anthropology of Style
Archaeological Field School at Annapolis
Archaeological Field School in Northwest Florida (2 students)
Excavations in Italy
January 2002
Historical Preservation in Sarasota County: Preserving the Rosemary Cemetery ("group ISP" with 8 students)
Journalism Seminar in Israel
January 2001
Archaeology Month Exhibit for Sarasota County ("group ISP" with 4 students)
Pre-Industrial Technology
Study of Irish History and Archaeology
History within Oral History: Shonone Interviews
Readings in Food and Culture
Readings in Ecology, Development, and Anthropology
Western Bargaining Study
Ethnographic Films: Explorations in Race and Gender
Summer 2000
Presentations of the Viking Past in Denmark
Archaeological Field School on Malta
Archaeological Field School at Colonial Williamsburg
Educational Goals among Mexicans in Sarasota
January 2000
Architectural History Internship at the John Ringling House
The Work of A.B. Yehoshua
Kibbutz Ulpan
Psychoactive Plants: A Searchable Database
Readings in Ethnobotany
Ethnographic Interviews in Sarasota
Female Genital Mutilation: Emic versus Etic Perspectives
Creative Photography
January 1999
Archaeological Excavations at Ein Gedi, Israel (group ISP for 5 students)
Hebrew Conversation
Mound Survey in Florida
Landscape Photography
Internship at the South Florida Museum
Reading Vine Deloria
Readings on the Anthropology of Tourism
January 1998
Ethnography on a Jewish American in the 1920s and 1930s
Ethnography of Grandparents in Rural Florida
Photography and Visual Anthropology
Beginning Arabic
Archaeological Dig in Ein Gedi, Israel
Ethnography of the MARTA - Observations as a Passenger
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology - Fall 1999