Greetings. This is Jewel. For two weeks I got the opportunity to work on an Ethnographic Assessment and Overview on St. John and Hassel Islands in the US Virgin Islands in conjunction with the National Park Service and the University of South Florida. While a member of the USF project…
Student participants, Jewel Cumberbatch and Shermiga Emilcar, interview each other about their Summer 2016 Heritage REU experience on St. John, USVI.
My name is Shermiga Emilcar and I am here on St. John, USVI working on an Ethnographic Project on the island. I am connected with this project in that although I am not an anthropologist yet, I am getting hands on experience by working on this project. By talking to…
Greetings. My name is Jewel and I am currently working on an Ethnographic Assessment and Overview in St. John and Hassel Island in the US Virgin Islands in conjunction with the National Park Service and the University of South Florida. I am very passionate about this project because I am…
The USF Heritage Lab would like to congratulate USF Honors College undergraduate, Alauna Martinez, a Biomedical Sciences major, for winning an Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award for her presentation at the 2016 Undergraduate Research and Arts Colloquium! Her thesis advisor is Dr. Antoinette Jackson and Ph.D candidate Kiersten Downs is…
Congratulations to USF graduate student Eric Koenig, who won the 2015 Valene Smith Tourism Poster Competition, sponsored by the Tourism and Heritage TIG, at the recent SfAA meeting. His poster was entitled, “Tourism Development, Fishing, and Heritage Conception: Exploring Pathways to Sustainable Heritage Tourism on the Placencia Peninsula, Belize.” The…
My dissertation research explores the role of technology in the construction of heritage as a cultural resource at the community level. Specifically, I focus on the use of intergenerational geocaching (i.e., a type of high-tech treasure hunt) through an examination of a preservation project in the urban community of Sulphur…
Dr. Jackson’s article on intangible cultural heritage and the Nicodemus Community was featured on the homepage of Anthropology News Online! You can now read it at https://heritagelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/AnthropologyNewsMarch2014JacksonArticle.pdf.
On October 13, 2013, the Tampa Bay Times ran a story about improvements to east Tampa retention ponds. Many of the changes can be attributed to community engagement and collaboration between USF Anthropology, Engineering, and Geography faculty and students. Sarina Ergas, Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator, Dept. Civil & Environmental…
Congratulations to USF graduate student, Iyshia Lowman, for her recently published report by the National Park Service entitled, Jim Crow at the Beach: An Oral and Archival History of the Segregated Past at Homestead Bayfront Park. Charles Lawson, NPS Cultural Resource Manager, Biscayne National Park, Florida, who funded the study…