Monthly Archives: December 2013

Blogging Archaeology: December

Posted on December 29, 2013 by JB

This month’s blogarch theme is the good, the bad and the ugly of blogging. I have a spectacularly short attention span since I’m saturated with holiday sugar, so I’m going to break the topic down as simply as possible. In … Continue reading →

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Palpable Anatomy: The Anatomical Snuffbox

Posted on December 24, 2013 by JB

A few weeks ago I defended my dissertation proposal. I’ve attended a number of these public defenses in the past, and they inevitably go well – graduate students present engaging and exciting new research, their peers ask pertinent questions, and … Continue reading →

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Teaching Tools: How to set a curve

Posted on December 10, 2013 by JB

Training in graduate student instruction covers a multitude of topics: how to encourage  an inclusive pedagogical atmosphere, how to facilitate discussions of socially controversial topics (which sadly, in this country, include the theory of evolution) and how to avoid having inappropriate … Continue reading →

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Bring out your dead: navigating the ethics of displaying human remains in museums

Posted on December 1, 2013 by JB

In the past two months I’ve attended two lectures on the topic of human remains in museum collections. The talks were part of a University of Michigan lecture series titled It’s Alive! Rediscovering Institutions of Living Collections.  I found the … Continue reading →

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