Anthropology
Engaged Anthropology
Engaged Anthropology takes what you’re learning in your courses and puts it into practice through internships, research, study away, winter term, career exploration, and beyond.
Here’s a sampling of recent projects, field experiences, and post-graduate destinations for anthropology majors.
RISE at Oberlin
Research. Internships. Study Away. Experiential Learning.
Ways Anthropology Majors Rise
Research
- Religion and Re-Articulations: Exploring Health-Seeking Behavior of Diabetes Patients from the Jamestown and Ushertown Districts, Ghana
- What’s in a Neanderthal: A Comparative Analysis
- Codeswitching in Hiaki Conversational Discource: An Evaluation of Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame Model
- The Los Angeles Beat Scene: Using MIDI Tracing as a Framework for Transcription, Analysis, and Creation
- Eat me/Drink me: Lewis Carroll’s Alice as Canonical Commodity
- Anthropological History of LGBT Organizing in Malawi
Internships
- Ascentria Care Alliance, Immigration Legal Assistance Program, Worcester, Mass.
- National League of Cities, Washington, DC
- Village Education Program, Otavalo, Ecuador
- Researcher, PBS/BBC/Wellcome Trust, London
- Media intern, Center for Community Health Promotion, Vietnam
- Planned Parenthood intern, New Mexico
Study Away
- Social Change in Central America: Exploring Peace, Justice, and Community Engagement, Central America
- Denmark International School DIS, Study Abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Border Studies Program, Tucson, Arizona (and Mexico)
- Arts and Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon
- Gallaudet University (unique Oberlin Exchange Program)
Experiential Learning
- Oberlin College Ethnographic Collection: curation and exhibition opportunities
- Archaeology Laboratory
- Linguistics Laboratory
- Arts Education Program at Grafton Correctional Facility
- Deaf signing research in Nepal
First Destinations of Recent Anthropology Majors
- Graduate Schools:
- MA in development studies, University of Wellington, New Zealand
- MA in human nutrition/ dietetics, Boston University
- MA in food studies, Chatham University
- PhD in education and anthropology, College of William and Mary
- JD at UCLA Law School
- Positions:
- Fulbright Fellow, Austria
- Shansi Fellow, India
- Analyst for National Human Genome Research Institute
- Monitoring and Evaluation Office, Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria
- Instructor, Bay Area Discovery Museum
- Community programs coordinator, Seattle YMCA
- Institutional giving coordinator, International Center of Photography
- Museum interpreter, Paul Revere House