Sociology 2018 Newsletter

SOCIOLOGY NEWSLETTER | Issue #3 4 Sociology and Anthropology on the Road In August of 2018, Dr. Stephen Perkins and a group of OSU students will escape the Okla‐ homa heat by travelling to North Dakota where they will hold a two‐week archaeological field school. While there, students will learn excavation techniques and assist in running geophysical remote sensing surveys of the Molander village site, a large Hidatsa tribal village located on the Missouri River that was recorded by Lewis and Clark. As part of the trip, they plan to tour relat‐ ed archaeological sites and museums and visit the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, home to members of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara). The research will be carried out in conjunction with Colorado’s PaleoCultural Research Group, and it is sponsored by the State Historical Society of North Dakota. This May, Dr. Monica Whitham and a group OSU undergraduate and graduate students will head to beautiful Taos, New Mexico for a two‐week course on the social meaning of “community.” The course will bridge the sociological study of community life with social psychology to better under‐ stand communities as socially constructed spaces imbued with symbolism, cul‐ ture, character, and meaning. While in Taos, the group will explore its rich histo‐ ry as an artist's colony as well as visit a number of other places of interest, in‐ cluding an ancient Native American pueblo, an off‐the‐grid community, and nearby Los Alamos, the “Secret City” that was home to the Manhattan Project. The course will be taught at the OSU‐affiliated Doel Reed Center for the Arts. Painting by George Catlin, 1830