STUDENT CONFERENCE

Recently 4 Psychology Majors, 2 Sociology Majors, and  2 other Clemson students ( all Anthropology Minors ) presented papers on their orginal research at the second annual SC Anthropology Student Conference sponsored by USC's Dept. of Anthropology.  For the conference, the students collected and analyzed ethnographic (qualitative) data, summarized them, and presented their findings to an audience of faculty, students, and parents.

The Psychology students and their projects were: Ayesha Owens (her family's rural Upstate Baptist church, her ANTH 403 Qualitative Methods project):  Theresa Troescher ( Native American myths and their reflection of cultural values); and Alan Boling and Nick Korn ( Nazi atrocity sites in the Czech Republic, based on their experiences with my Czech Study Abroad trip).

The Sociology students and their projects were:  Jessica Reinhardt (a biographical interview with Catawba master potter Keith Brown): and Brian Tull (the culture of male bodybuilders, his ANTH 403 project).

Other Clemson Anthropology students participating were Jay Watkins (Language and International Trade) - Jay's paper was on the impact of  tourism on Zapolecan Indiana in Mexico (from his Study Abroad trip there).  Jenny Virag (Biological Sciences) presented the preliminary results from her ANTH 403 project on the culture of exotic dancers.

Please consider participating in the next Anthropology Student Conference