I chose my major because I really like
history. I like being outside, I like
hands-on training, which I have gotten a
lot so far in my field of anthropology.
There are four fields, big fields, but
then you can do pretty much anything you
want within those. Anthropology has an
incredible amount of opportunity within
it. There are with, just within
archaeology, which is a section of
anthropology, there are 24,000 sites
in Iowa alone. My field that I really
want to focus on this archaeology, which
is doing the actual of digging. My next
opportunity is, if it's a field school
opportunity I have been looking so far
and there's one in Spain that is a
potential career goal for me. 306 was
cultural anthropology. Dealing with a
lot of how people, how people about the
process of doing an ethnography. So doing
a research project basically was is a
giant giant research project. So having a
thesis statement and everything and
putting in you know the time with
interviews with people, immersing
yourself in the culture that you're
trying to learn more about. 307 was
biological anthropology so I had Dr. Joel
Preetz who has been on National
Geographic, so she's a big deal, um, and
she did a lot of primatology, um, also
dealng with bone analysis as well and
sometimes there's forensics involved
with that too. We focused more on
primatology but there is, um,
anthropology 319, which is like added on
to that and you can do human skeletal
analysis with that. I also have volunteered
with Dr. Hill with some like excavation
stuff and he know, and he said that he
has and will be contacting students
because the DNR usually calls him for a
lot of things because one of the
sections of anthropology is cultural
resource management. We are going on a
dig and basically what that entails is, we're
doing a pedestrian survey so we are
walking one meter across and that's your
section and you just walk it until that
field is done and if you find anything
within that area they perform an
dig that goes further down. Joe Preetz is,
uh, she's a great professor, um, great
speaker, she has a great presence about
her, I really liked, I really liked the
class. I'm not focusing on primatology at
all, obviously, but I really enjoyed the
class. And also Dr. Hill has been
featured on National Geographic, he also
has written numerous articles that have
been published. So he is also very
knowledgeable in his field he is he's
considered one of the top experts in the
country with final analysis.
Professor Peggy Mook, she is a
classical archaeologist and I actually
went on a trip with her, I have taken two
classes with her that are Greek and
Roman architecture related and just
basically I mean she basically knows
everything about Greece from past
present to what's gonna happen even
there, she knows everything, so really
look up to her because she pretty much
is what I would like to be when I'm an
archaeologist. I've had her since
freshman year I met with her before when I
was a senior in high school. She gave me
everything I really needed to know. She
also provides me with field school
experiences and opportunities she also
tells me about all the anthropology club
related stuff so also get involved with that
stuff, she also sends out just a lot of
reminders about you know this is what's
going on in the field of anthropology
and you know this is what's coming up
and you know what this is a future
class you could potentially take that
you'd be really good at so I mean she's
not only that's her job I think but she
goes beyond it.
introducing yourself to your professors
from putting a name with a putting a
face with the name is incredibly
important if you don't ask in class ask
outside of class because it shows that
you are you're trying
