Below, in chronological order, are ISP projects sponsored by Professor Baram. Please use the listing for ideas for ISPs as well as the breadth of the professor's interests. January 2022 Monumental Decisions: Reconciling the Confederate Commemorations in our Present and Future Possibilities January 2021 Interdisciplinary Research into Climate Change on the Florida Gulf Coast Wish More Autoethnographic Study of Identity January 2020 Newtown Alive Internship Historic Spanish Point Internship Streets of Paradise Internship Shell Tools of Sarasota County January 2019 An Ethnographic Exploration of Turkish CuisineResearch in Florida Archaeology Readings in Heritage Studies (2 students) Racism and Rising Sea Levels in Sarasota (4 students) January 2018 Experimental Archaeology: Atlatl (5 studnets)Early 19th Century Material Culture (5 students) A Landscape Study of Overtown Introduction to Climate Science Study Backpack Exploration of Indigenous Arkansas January 2017 Museology: Exhibiting Florida Archaeology (11 students) History of the Gaza Strip Ecologies, Performance, and Material Culture January 2016 On Research Leave January 2015 Heritage Interpretation of the Campus Historic Mansions (3 students), co-taught with Brendan Goff Jerusalem Policy & Politics Practicum in Public Health - Sarasota Community Needs Assessment (3 students) January 2014 Racialized Landscapes of Sarasota (2 students) Gender and Diversity Center Revamp Project (4 students, co-sponsored with Sarah Hernandez) Persian Cultural History and Arabian Nights Anthropology of Morocco Moroccan Perceptions: A Literacy and Anthropological Approach NATO and the Turkish Military January 2013 Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology (16 students taught by Maranda Kles-Almy)Internship on Archaeological and Environmental Education Internship in Architectural Preservation All Faiths Food Bank Internship Performances of Archaeology Ataturk and his Creation of Modern Turkey India's Third Gender January 2012 Internship at the All Faiths Food Bank in Sarasota Survey of the Pre-Columbian Mounds of West Central Florida Chinese Ethnicity and Inequality Annotate Bibliography Helen Keller Historic Photography Internship and Research with the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP) Internship at SPARCC Israel and Palestine through Film Literature Review of Japanese History and Culture Neot Semadar Field Experience: An Examination of Communal Life in Israel Palestinian Literature in a Modern Social Context Race in American Popular Medias Ruskin Heritage Database January 2011 Archaeological Laboratory Methods Flint Knapping and Ethnoarchaeology (3 students) Representing the Past Conversations about Family History and Heritage Anthropology of Wine Anacostia Museum Internship Experience Norwegian Metal in a Global Context Summer 2010 World War II Interment and POW Camp Archaeological Field School in Hawaii January 2010 Documentary Radio & Audioethnography ("group ISP" run by Sam Greenspan; 6 students) Survey of the Myakka River January 2009 Agriculture and Social Complexity Anthropology of Emotions Archaeological Travels and Readings in Egypt Beer and Barley in Mesopotamia Beth Hatefutsoth: Examining the Message of the Jewish Diaspora Museum Heritage, Commemoration, and Israeli National Identity Imaging Israel Internship at Crowley Museum Internship at Nordic Heritage Museum Origins of Zionism Re-Recovered Roots: Heritage and Israel Social Services in Israel, How Have They Changed Ulpan Akiva Summer 2008 Captivity and Community in Early New York: Field School in Archaeological Methods Jerusalem Images Sight and Sound: Documentary Studies in New York City 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 |
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