Courses

New College of Florida is the State of Florida’s legislatively-designated honors college for the liberal arts. Teaching responsibilities include courses and tutorials, supporting student January intersession projects, and supervising honors theses - my offerings are below, listed chronologically. 

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I taught at New College (New College of the University of South Florida, then New College of Florida) from Fall 1997 to Spring 2023. Never easy and seemingly a major crisis or three each academic year and there never were enough resources to support the academic program let alone research.  In all, it was a good 25-year run thanks to bright, motivated undergraduates.  To end my classroom career, I got to teach two courses that mattered the most to me to close out academic year 2022-23.  Below is the history of my courses, with the recent versions of courses including their syllabi and, the most recent, the videos for the mini-classes that are the hallmark of how students get to choose courses - by seeing/hearing/meeting their instructors and getting to ask them questions, it was a grand experiment in student-centered undergraduate education

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Chronological listing of courses (in italics) and tutorials/independent reading projects (usually for an individual student unless noted otherwise) I have taught at New College, by semester:

Spring 2023 Courses

• Archaeology of Florida Syllabus; Mini-class (13 minutes) Fantastic Florida 

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective Syllabus; Mini-class (18 minutes) Eternal Return? 

• Pottery Analysis

Fall 2022

• Introduction to Archaeology, Mini-class Video 

• Colonial Encounters, Mini-class Video 

• Internship: Elling O. Eide Center Archival/Historical Research

• Internship: Reflections of Manatee, Inc. - Museum Studies in a Digital World Internship

• Internship: MARA Studio + Gallery

Spring 2022

• Assigned Research Leave

• Thesis Tutorial (3 students)

Fall 2021 (COVID in person semester)

• Heritage: History and the Past Today  Mini-class Video 

• Method and Theory in Archaeology Mini-class Video 

• Organic Gardening Tutorial (10 students, co-sponsored with Professor Delon)

• Heritage Interpretation

• Movies, Power, and the Politics of My Generation

• Introducing Anarchist Values into Florida Environmentalism

Spring 2021 (COVID remote learning semester)

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Ancient North America 

• Food Heritage

• Organic Gardening Tutorial (12 students)

• Observational Brownfield Analysis and Connections to COVID-19 Outcomes

• Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Internship

• Sarasota Native American Film Festival Internship

• Reflections of Manatee Internship (Sarasota-Manatee Arts & Humanities Program)

Fall 2020 (COVID remote learning semester)

• Tourism: Culture, Power, Place https://youtu.be/ERkmxUvFBh4 

• COVID-19 Community Internship

• Reflections of Manatee Internship

• Indigenous Tourism

• Reading Marx

• Environmental Health and Local Solutions Literature Review

Spring 2020 (COVID Remote Learning after Spring Break)

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Archaeology of Florida

• Thesis Tutorial (3 students)

• Sarasota Tourism

• Research into Israeli Popular Culture

• Internship Leadership in Action: Rosh at Camp Tavor

Fall 2019

• Heritage: Telling Stories of Our Past

• Method and Theory in Archaeology

• Thesis Tutorials (3 students)

• Middle Eastern Marriage Customs

• Representing Monsters of the Anthropocene

Spring 2019

• Landscapes: Past and Present

• Colonial Encounters

• Ethnography of Activism

• Studies in Tradition

• Thesis Tutorial

• Continuing Research in Florida Archaeology (Internship with the Sarasota County Archaeologist)

Fall 2018

• Survey of Archaeology

• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

• Arts and Society

• Representations and Exhibits

• Digital Archaeology

• Florida Archaeology

• Survey of Gender and Sexuality in Florida

• Museology: Theory and Practice

• Thesis Tutorial (2 students)

• Commodification of Culture

• Internship: Jewish Federation of Sarasota/Manatee

Spring 2018

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Heritage: History and the Past Today

• Thesis Tutorial 

• Preserving Regional Heritage: Community Beautification of a Historic Home (5 students)

• VR Archaeology  (4 students)

• Readings in Cultural Heritage Imagining 

• Pop Culture in Hong Kong 

• UN Internship

Fall 2017

• Discover SRQ: History, Archaeology, Heritage  https://youtu.be/Sp5WQshi9fI 

• Ancient North America

• Urbanization and Identity in SRQ

• Rendering Landscapes: Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage

• Archaeological Illustration

• Advanced Readings in Anthropology of Tourism

• Florida Archaeology and Sea Level Rise

• Internship: WFUNA

• Virtual Reality Community Project (5 students)

Spring 2017

• Historical Archaeology 

• Tourism: Culture, Power, Place 

• Caribbean Tourism in Anthropological Perspective

• Digital Heritage (3 students)

• Thesis tutorials 

• United Nations Association Internship

Fall 2016

• Landscapes: Past and Present

• Heritage: History and the Past Today

• Representing Witches

• Internship at Girls, Inc.

• Heritage Interpretation Practicum at Phillippi Estate Park (second mod)

• Arab Feminist Theory (second mod)

Spring 2016 

• Method and Theory in Archaeology

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Florida Archaeology Exhibit (12 students)

• Ethnographies of the Middle East (2 students)

• Applying Landscape Archaeology to Carceral Spaces

Fall 2015

• Assigned Research Leave

Spring 2015

• Landscapes: Past and Present

• Thesis Tutorial (6 students)

• Community Heritage Awareness and Management Program at Phillippi Estate Park (5 students)

• FPAN/NCPAL Internship

• Heritage Studies

• Heritage Interpretation

Fall 2014

• Survey of Archaeology

• The Colonial Encounter: Culture, Power, Place

• Heritage Interpretations

• Public Archaeology

• Advanced Research in Florida Archaeology

• Thesis Tutorial

• Landscapes of Public Health

• History and Anthropology of Hawaii

• FPAN/NCPAL Internship

Spring 2014

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Historical Archaeology

• Thesis tutorial (4 students)

• Historical Reenactment (5 students)

• Exhibiting History (2 students)

• ArchaeoMalacology

• Advanced Research in Sarasota Archaeology

• Florida Public Archaeology (FPAN Internship)

• Internship: Maternally Yours Rosemary Birthing Center

Fall 2013

• Archaeology of Florida

• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

• Heritage Interpretation Practicum (10 students)

• Thesis Tutorial (2 students)

• Advanced Research in Archaeology (2 students)

• Advanced Research in Educational Outreach

• Florida Public Archaeology (FPAN Internship)

• Heritage and History of St. Augustine

Spring 2013

• Landscapes: Past and Present

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Thesis Tutorial (5 students)

• Archaeology of Ancient Native North America

• Heritage Tourism at Warm Mineral Springs

• Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Internship

• Internship in Historical Architecture

• Internship at Planned Parenthood

Fall 2012

• Ancient North America

• The Colonial Encounter: Culture, Power, Place

• Anthropological Ethics (6 students)

• Preserving Regional Heritage: Civic Engagement (11 students)

• Advanced Research in Historical Archaeology

• Internship at Maritime Museum

Spring 2012

• Heritage: History and the Past Today

• Historical Archaeology

• Preserving Regional Heritage: Practicum in Artifact Analysis (14 students)

• Thesis Tutorial (6 students)

• Ruskin Heritage Database

• Historic Preservation of Sarasota School of Architecture

• Gender in the Middle East

• Internship at Historic Spanish Point Florida

• Radical Strands in Anthropological Theory

Fall 2011

• Method and Theory in Archaeology

• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

• Archaeological Laboratory Methods (6 students)

• Anthropological Ethics (6 students)

 Spring 2011

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Ancient North America

• Thesis Tutorial (4 students)

• Anthropology of Tourism and Development (2 students)

• Technology of Ancient Florida (2 students)

• Marxist Archaeology

 Fall 2010

• Survey of Archaeology

• The Colonial Encounter

• Anthropology of Heritage

• Preserving Regional Heritage: Mapping a Pioneer Settlement

• African Diaspora Archaeology

• Ottoman Port-Cities

• Teaching the Past

• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

• Anthropology of Israel

• Globalizing Commodities

• Thesis Tutorial

 Spring 2010

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Historical Archaeology

• Preserving Regional Heritage: Survey of the Galilee Cemetery in Sarasota (10 students)

• Thesis Tutorial (3 students)

• Material Culture Studies

 Fall 2009

• Assigned Research Leave

 Spring 2009

• Ancient North America

• The Colonial Encounter

• Thesis Tutorial (5 students)

• Archaeology of Ancient Synagogues (2 students)

 Fall 2008

• Heritage: History and the Past Today

• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

• Archaeology of Islam

• Presentations of the Israeli Past

• Immigrant Studies

• Anthropology of Germany

• Dialectics of Archaeology

• Method and Theory in Archaeology (3 students)

• Reading Project on the Anthropology of Genocide

• Reading Project on the Anthropology of Slavery

• Internship at South Florida Museum

 Spring 2008

• Historical Archaeology

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective 

• Practicum in Public Anthropology: Building Public Archaeology at New College (5 students)

• People and Cultures of Israel/Palestine (2 students)

• Thesis Tutorial (2 students)

 Fall 2007

• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

• Method and Theory in Archaeology

• Race and Representation

• Anthropology of Food

• Anthropological Ethics: the Margaret Mead Debates

• Anthropology of South Africa

• Thesis Tutorial

• Internship at Historic Spanish Point (3 students)

 Spring 2007

• Heritage: History and the Past Today

• Archaeology of the Holy Land

• Thesis Tutorial (2 students)

• Post Colonial Studies

• Advanced Readings in Heritage (2 students)

• Anarchism and Anthropology - a critique (2 students)

• Texts in Middle Eastern Archaeology

• Representations in Archaeology

• Documentary on an Archaeologist

Fall 2006

• Survey of Archaeology

• The Colonial Encounter

• Visual Representation for a Public Archaeology (3 students)

• Middle East Archaeology (2 students)

• Ancient Egypt

• Thesis Tutorial

• Ethnography of Ethiopian Jews

• Texts as Artifacts

• Irish Anthropology

• The Folklore of Henry Glassie

 Spring 2006

• Historical Archaeology

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Israel through its Films (4 students)

• Israel through Ethnographies

• Edward Said on Palestine

• Middle Eastern Medical Anthropology

• Directed Research: Interpretation in the National Park Service

• Advanced Anthropological Workshop

• Thesis Tutorial (4 students)

Fall 2005

• Heritage: History and the Past Today

• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

• Advanced Study in Archaeological Theory

• Advanced Study in Ethnicity

• The Anthropology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• Environmental History of Israel

• Israel's Wars 1948-1956

• Representing the Holy Land

• Anthropology of Consumption

Spring 2005

• Ancient North America

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Challenges for African Women (9 students, taught with Professors Wallace and Hernandez)

• An Anthropological Study of Tea

• Teaching Archaeology to Kids

• Gender and Anthropology

• Travels in Culture and Class (2 students)

• Thesis Tutorial (3 students)

 Fall 2004

• The Colonial Encounter

• Archaeology of the Holy Land

• Marketing Heritage

• Advanced Research in Historical Archaeology

• Current Debates in Biblical Archaeology

• Looking for Angola - Public Education

• Israel: History and Politics

• Thesis Tutorial

• Facilitating Thesis (2 students)

• Malinowski, Benedict, and Levi-Strauss

 Spring 2004

• Historical Archaeology

• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

• Method and Theory in Archaeology (3 students)

• Thesis Tutorial (4 students)

• History of Ancient Egypt

• Middle Eastern Healing

• Writing Tutorial

• Contemporary Native Americans

Fall 2003

• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

• Method and Theory in Archaeology

• Reading Ethnographies (2 students)

• Anthropology of Development

• Anthropology of Peace

• Advanced Research in Historical Archaeology (2 students)

• Archaeomalacology

• Thesis Tutorial 

Spring 2003

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• North American Prehistory

• Thesis tutorial (6 students)

Fall 2002

• Survey of Archaeology

• The Colonial Encounter

• Advanced Readings in Historical Archaeology (4 students)

• Anthropology and Identity (2 students)

• Readings on Israel and Palestine

• Archaeology of Africa 

• Archaeology of the Calusa

• Archaeological Analysis Practicum 

 Spring 2002

• Archaeology of the Holy Land

• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

• Feminist Archaeology

• Historical Archaeology of Plantations

• Consuming Heritage

• Ottoman Palestine and Its Legacy

• Ethnicity and Nationalism

• Presenting Sarasota's Past (2 students)

• Thesis Tutorials (3 students)

 Fall 2001

• Assigned Research Leave

 Spring 2001

• Historical Archaeology  

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Presenting Sarasota's Past (3 students)

• Archaeological Ethics

• Thesis tutorials (8 students)

Fall 2000

• The Colonial Encounter

• North American Prehistory

• Method and Theory in Archaeology (4 students)

• Advanced Readings in Physical Anthropology

• Archaeological Approaches to Identity

• The Grand Tour

• Thesis tutorial:  Ethnographic research

 Spring 2000

• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

• Method and Theory in Archaeology

• Material Culture

• Cognitive Archaeology

• Introduction to Archaeology

• Subaltern Voices

Fall 1999

• Archaeology of the Holy Land

• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

• Peoples and Languages of India

• Archaeologies of Gender

• Method and Theory in Archaeology

• Introduction to Archaeology

• Constructing Japan (co-sponsored with Professor Tegtmeyer Pak of Political Science)

• Nationalist Myths, Legends of People, Imagined Communities

• Kibbutz Ulpan

• Teaching Archaeology to Kids

• Internship at Project Otzma

 Spring 1999

• Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

• Historical Archaeology

• Folklore

• Historical and Social Context for Israel/Palestine

• Cuban Ethnography

• Visual Anthropology

• Ethnography in Israel

• Native American Studies

• Beginning Hebrew

• Internship at the South Florida Museum

• Russian Peasantry

• New England Gravestones

 Fall 1998

• The Colonial Encounter

• Survey of Archaeology

• Race Issues and Ethnography

• History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• History of Zionism

• Beginning Hebrew

• Survey of the Caribbean (co-sponsored with Professor Hernandez of Sociology)

 Spring 1998

• Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East

• Archaeology of the Middle East

• Archaeology of New England Gravestone

• Ethnographies on Mobile Peoples

• South American Ethnographies

• Archaeology of Cyprus

• Beginning Arabic

 Fall 1997

• Historical Archaeology

• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

• Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire

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