Student Work
- AN380: In Egypt as Ethnographers Zine: Students who attended the COP27 (The United Nations' 27th annual summit on climate change) created projects based on their own interests in climate related issues. Each student presents their projects in their own creative way, for example: some use poetry, art and interviews.
- FYE AN 208: Anthropocene Zine: Students wrote about their experiences during their Block 1 trip to Crestone/Baca and produced a zine including drawings, photos, and short essays. Read the zine here.
- Feminist Last Naming Project: A product of student/faculty collaboration, the "Feminist Last Naming Project" addresses patrilineal naming practices in American culture and explores alternative naming practices. The general goal is to intervene in women feeling erased as their names - and some would claim their identities - "disappear" through patrilineal (patronymic) naming practices. Through interviews, the group identified a variety of non-traditional or feminist-influenced naming practices, including women keeping their natal surname, families or children taking hyphenated names, families or individuals creating new surnames, queer naming practices, double surnames, wives taking their husbands' names, natal names becoming middle names, and other international naming practices.
- Student Exhibit: "No More Bhopal" Thesis Show. Senior anthropology major Ruthie Markwardt designed, constructed, and opened a thesis exhibit calling attention to the continuing impact of the world's largest industrial disaster. The disaster occurred on December 3, 1984, when a Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked more than 30 tons of toxic gases in a residential area. Thousands have died, and many more continue to suffer from the lasting effects of the gases. Ruthie's exhibit highlights the suffering of the people of Bhopal today, and the lack of accountability from the company.
- Class Activity: Colorado College's advanced seminar "Anthropology 326: Religion and Ritual" spent a week in the San Luis Valley performing team fieldwork on conceptions of sacred place, and the potential impact of natural gas drilling on local spiritual practice.
- Class Activity: AN 318 Archaeology of Colonial Entanglements. The final project for this course required the students to design and curate a museum exhibition on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 in the Coburn Gallery. Students were also required to provide museum tours to school children, between the ages of 4 and 5, and CC Professors and Students. Check out the Museum Catalogue that was created by the students in the course. A photo gallery of the tours and exhibition space is also available.
- Class Activity: AN 317 The Anthropology of Place-Making. One of the final projects for this course was to create a new book-length guide to the Colorado College Campus and the surrounding area. The essays in the guide explore ideas of space and place, how people move through campus, and issues of the past and present in the daily lives of students, faculty, and staff on campus. One of the creative projects for the course included a time-lapse video of informal path-walking across the CC campus.
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Last updated: 01/26/2023