Ithaca College

From March 7 through 9, five faculty members in the Department of Anthropology (Jack Rossen, Brooke Hansen, Paula Turkon, Dave Turkon, and Lisa Paciulli) accompanied 19 students to the Northeastern Anthropological Association's annual meeting at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Eighteen of the students presented papers on a wide range of topics, from Cayuga archaeology, the Lost Boys of Sudan, integrating alternative medicine into free clinics, and primatology, to gender paradoxes and political movements in South Asia.

Two of the sessions were organized and facilitated by faculty members. Many of the students were from the Anthropology Capstone class, where professional presentations are required as part of the skill-building component of the course.

The trip was funded by the Educational Grant Initiative, the Diversity Awareness Committee, the provost's office and the anthropology department's Fitchen Fund. A bulletin board of the trip with pictures and the conference materials can be found in the first floor hallway of the Gannett Center.

Asia Session, Denise Nuttall, organizer and discussant
"Beyond Orientalism: Undergraduate Research in South Asian Ethnography"
Kristi Corrado: "Dalit's Status in Indian Health Care System"
Anthropology major, senior

Allyn Underwood: "Dichotomous Views of Indian and Western Astrology
Anthropology major, Native American studies minor, senior

Sam Raymond: "Gender Hierarchy in Tibetan Buddhism"
Double major in anthropology and politics major, English minor, senior

Hy Huyn: "India's Gender Role Paradoxes"
Anthropology major, senior

Nghi Phan: "The Dalit Power Movement and Religion"
Anthropology major, junior

Linsday Pehmoeller: "Revisiting Sita: The Influence of the Ramayana on Modern Hindu Women"
Anthropology major, sophomore

Individual Papers and Faculty Sponsors

Melahat Bernis Ozses (Jack Rossen): "The Lambda Movement: A Turkish Tale of Socio-Political Change"
Anthropology major, psychology Major, senior

Ceren Kabukcu (Jack Rossen): "Cayuga Archaeology through a Botanical Lens: Food, Social Change, and Culture"
Anthropology major, economics major, senior

Christine Gorman (Jack Rossen): "Style, Dress Code, and Resistance in a Catholic High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania"
Anthropology major, senior

Alicia Thomas (Brooke Hansen): "The Ithaca Free Clinic: A Unique Integrative Approach to Free Health Care"
Anthropology major, senior

Kathleen Woods (Dave Turkon): "Facilitating Sudanese Refugee 'Cow Project' to Raise Scholarship Money through Participatory Action Research"
Anthropology major, sophomore

Zachary Williams (Dave Turkon): "How Cows May Facilitate Community Development among Sudanese 'Lost Boys' Refugees"
Anthropology major, junior

Primate Session, Lisa Paciulli, Organizer and Discussant: "Captive Nonhuman Primate Research within the Framework of an Undergraduate Primate Behavior and Ecology Course"

Gabrielle Montanez: "Handedness and Unimanual vs. Bimanual Feeding in Captive Siamangs (Hylobates syndactylus) at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo (Syracuse, New York)"
Double major in anthropology and writing, senior

James Viola: "Captive Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus) Positional Behavior at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, New York"
Environmental sciences major, anthropology concentration, senior

Russell Gongwer: "Nearest Neighbor Tendencies and Social Interactions among Captive Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, New York"
Anthropology major, senior

Sara Holmes: "Adult-Infant Interactions in Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, New York"
Environmental studies, senior

Michelle Jennings: "Activity Budgets of Captive White-handed Gibbons (Hylobates lar) and Black-and-White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata) at the Seneca Park Zoo, New York"
Anthropology major, senior

Kristin Sabbi: "Effects of Visitor Crowd Size on the Behavior of Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at the Philadelphia Zoo"
Cinema and photography major, anthropology minor, senior