What are they saying? Where are they now?
Read about what past Saint Mary's Anthropology students are doing post graduation.
What are they saying?
Meghan McCandless ‘07
My "life after Saint Mary's" has been interesting, to say the least. I am in Japan teaching English and have been having a pretty unique experience of it. I came with Nova, I arrived in Osaka in September and they went bankrupt in November. I became aware of the situation two weeks before my flight. I decided to go anyways because I had been planning on it and expected the potential bankruptcy to take a few more months but it collapsed sooner than anyone expected.
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Amanda Schramm ‘06
I've been working at a new job with Napa (California) Emergency Women's Services since last September. We work mainly with victims and survivors of domestic violence, and there are a lot of things that fall under our little umbrella. I had been volunteering with them for most of this past summer, and then found out about a job opening in September. So I applied, and got the job! I'm working now as a case manager at the emergency confidential shelter. I love it so far because I get to work directly with the clients and children, which can be exhausting sometimes of course, but typically ends well in them finding new housing and moving on to start a new life free of violence.
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Carrie Beth Goldbeck Nunes, '99
At Saint Mary’s, I majored in sociology with a concentration in anthropology. I was drawn to cultural anthropology because of a fascination with other ways of life, and loved reading ethnographies of various cultural groups around the world. It was 10 years ago this summer that I got my first taste of anthropological fieldwork, when I traveled to Scotland with Dr. Kate Shoupe, after having been awarded a SISTAR grant to examine the social meaning of traditional dance. Finally I had the chance to experience another culture firsthand, and because it was Dr. Shoupe’s geographical focus, she had prepared me for what to expect. I will never forget that summer, as it was the springboard to more anthropological pursuits.
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Sarah Orr Lehman, ‘96
I graduated from St. Mary's in 1996 with a BA in Anthropology; it was not only my academic interest, but a passion I pursued outside classroom as well. Just after graduation, I joined the Madaba Plains Project, an archeological investigation of ancient Ammon, Moab and Edom in the present day country of Jordan, which is a program of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI. Working in the Middle East I got to experience many cultural aspects of the society, especially concerning disability, thus prompting a career move into the disability field.
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Angie Everett Drews, ’94 -- back to graduate school!
Hello from Eastern Illinois University! I am well into my studies now and it is hard to find much free time at all. My program in Historical Administration began on August 20, 2007. It is super intense but I am really enjoying my classes, the professors and my fellow students. I am also working at the Tarble Arts Center as my graduate assistantship, the art museum on campus, and that has been fun, as well. My first week of work we had a black tie gala event celebrating the art center's 25th anniversary.
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Where are they now?
2007
Megan McCandless, ’07 (SDM Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology)
Teaching English as a second language in Japan.
2006
Melissa Medich, ’06 (History major, Anthropology minor)
Pursuing graduate study in Anthropology for a Master’s degree at Ball State University and working as graduate assistant in the office of international study.
2005
Megan R. McGee, ’05 (French major, Anthropology and ICS minor)
Pursuing graduate study at the University of Denver for a Master’s degree in International and Intercultural communications.
Christina Schmidl, ’05 (SDM: Classical Cultures)
Completed a Master’s degree in archaeology at the University of Missouri, Columbia, in May 2007. Her thesis wss: Ars Coquinaria: A Study of Early Roman Cooking Wares and their Uses.
2003
Katie Bacone, ‘03
Enrolled in the School of Library and Information Services at Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Member of Motus Dance Theatre.
2000
Allison Trdan, '00 (Anthropology major, Environmental Studies minor)
During her time at Saint Mary's, she traveled abroad with the Semester Around the World program. Upon completion of the Americorps program, she pursued a master's degree in Education at Binghamton University. Currently pursing a collaborative master's degree in Anthropology and Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto. Has taught Kindgergarten, Second and Third grade in Ithaca, NY and traveled abroad to Greece to work as the assistant to the curator at the Archaeological Museum. During her time in Greece, she also volunteered as an English teacher to women and children war-refugees from Africa and Middle East nations.
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