a sample of internships highlighting diversity and quality
During the Fall of 2017, I conducted a research internship at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF), a component of the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State (FACTS). My research consisted of analyzing the effects of burial age on disturbances seen on the ground surface. The results of this research will help bioarchaeologists determine the… Continue Reading Alexis Baide, Forensic Anthropology Research Facility
Last summer I interned at Museo de las Americas (Latin America Museum) in Denver, Colorado. I had the opportunity to assist all staff in their departments: Education, Public Relations, Grant Writing, and Collections. In the second week of my internship, after they found out that my interests truly lay in Collections and that I had… Continue Reading Amelia Dall, Museo de las Americas
Archaeology with the National Park Service: A Summer of Cultural History at Grand Canyon National Park Mission of the National Park Service: “The National Park Service preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations” (http://www.nps.gov/aboutus/index.htm). In the summer of 2015, I completed… Continue Reading Anna Provenzano, National Park Service at Grand Canyon National Park
Internship at the Prehistory Research Project: Lithic & Faunal Analysis During the Spring semester of 2016, I interned at the Prehistory Research Project. The Prehistory Research Project is the Gault School of Archaeological Research (GSAR) project headquarters at Texas State University. GSAR is a nonprofit created in 2006 in an effort to conserve and properly… Continue Reading Ashley Eden Hill, Gault School of Archaeology
I worked on two projects during my internship. First was The Morton Shell Mound in Iberia Parish, Louisiana where I organized and repaired storage boxes, and where I sorted, identified and tagged human skeletal remains. The second one was at Mississippi State Asylum Cemetery Project in Jackson, Mississippi where I transcribed patient intake and discharge… Continue Reading Curry Blaha, Morton Shell Mound – Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum