Independent Study Projects

Below, in chronological order, are ISP projects sponsored by Professor Baram. Please use the listing for ideas for ISPs as well as the breadth of the professor's interests.

January 2023

Archaeology and Heritage Interpretation at a National Park (6 students)

Gamifying History

Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida: Human Rights, Tribal Sovereignty, and the Law.

Reflections of Manatee (exploratory internship)

January 2022

Monumental Decisions: Reconciling Confederate Commemorations in our Present and Future Possibilities (co-sponsored with Professor Brain; 3 students)

January 2021

Interdisciplinary Research into Climate Change on the Florida Gulf Coast (co-sponsored with professors Diaz-Almeyda, Gilchrist, Oberle, and Farmer-Toro; 11 students)

January 2020

Newtown Alive Internship

Historic Spanish Point Internship

Streets of Paradise Internship

Shell Tools of Sarasota County

January 2019

An Ethnographic Exploration of Turkish Cuisine

Research in Florida Archaeology

Readings in Heritage Studies (2 students)

Racism and Rising Sea Levels in Sarasota (4 students)

January 2018

Experimental Archaeology: Atlatl (5 studnets)

Early 19th Century Material Culture (5 students)

A Landscape Study of Overtown

Introduction to Climate Science Study

Backpack Exploration of Indigenous Arkansas

January 2017

Museology: Exhibiting Florida Archaeology (11 students)

History of the Gaza Strip

Ecologies, Performance, and Material Culture

January 2016

On Research Leave

January 2015

Heritage Interpretation of the Campus Historic Mansions (3 students), co-taught with Brendan Goff

Jerusalem Policy & Politics

Practicum in Public Health - Sarasota Community Needs Assessment (3 students)

January 2014

Racialized Landscapes of Sarasota (2 students)

Gender and Diversity Center Revamp Project (4 students, co-sponsored with Sarah Hernandez)

Persian Cultural History and Arabian Nights

Anthropology of Morocco

Moroccan Perceptions: A Literacy and Anthropological Approach

NATO and the Turkish Military

January 2013

Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology (16 students taught by Maranda Kles-Almy)

Internship on Archaeological and Environmental Education

Internship in Architectural Preservation

All Faiths Food Bank Internship

Performances of Archaeology

Ataturk and his Creation of Modern Turkey

India's Third Gender

January 2012

Internship at the All Faiths Food Bank in Sarasota

Survey of the Pre-Columbian Mounds of West Central Florida

Chinese Ethnicity and Inequality Annotate Bibliography

Helen Keller

Historic Photography

Internship and Research with the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP)

Internship at SPARCC

Israel and Palestine through Film

Literature Review of Japanese History and Culture

Neot Semadar Field Experience: An Examination of Communal Life in Israel

Palestinian Literature in a Modern Social Context

Race in American Popular Medias

Ruskin Heritage Database

January 2011

Archaeological Laboratory Methods

Flint Knapping and Ethnoarchaeology (3 students)

Representing the Past

Conversations about Family History and Heritage

Anthropology of Wine

Anacostia Museum Internship Experience

Norwegian Metal in a Global Context

Summer 2010

World War II Interment and POW Camp Archaeological Field School in Hawaii

January 2010

Documentary Radio & Audioethnography ("group ISP" run by Sam Greenspan; 6 students)

Survey of the Myakka River

January 2009

Agriculture and Social Complexity

Anthropology of Emotions

Archaeological Travels and Readings in Egypt

Beer and Barley in Mesopotamia

Beth Hatefutsoth: Examining the Message of the Jewish Diaspora Museum

Heritage, Commemoration, and Israeli National Identity

Imaging Israel

Internship at Crowley Museum

Internship at Nordic Heritage Museum

Origins of Zionism

Re-Recovered Roots: Heritage and Israel

Social Services in Israel, How Have They Changed

Ulpan Akiva

Summer 2008

Captivity and Community in Early New York: Field School in Archaeological Methods

Jerusalem Images

Sight and Sound: Documentary Studies in New York City

January 2008

Introduction to Museum Studies ("group ISP" with 8 students), co-taught with Valerie Bell of South Florida Museum

Israel Photo-journal (2 students)

Representation and Experience at the Holy Land Experience (2 students)

Anthropology and Gender (2 students)

An Introduction to Visual Anthropology

Writing Archaeology

Anthropological Study of Kinship

Dalits in Modern Indian Society

Sushi as a Global Trend

Summer 2007

Ethnographic Field School at Northwestern University

Zooming in on the McEmpire

Investigation of Social Work in Tanzania

January 2007

Critical Race Theory

The Anthropology of Marx and Foucault

Politics of the State of Israel

The Israel Experience

The Livnot Experience

Visual Representations of Ancient Israel

Navaho Witchcraft

Introduction to Archaeology

Analysis of French, Italian, and Spanish Cultural Stereotypes

January 2006

Museum Internship: Little Salt Spring Exhibit at the Sarasota County History Center (5 students)

Gender, Heritage, and Border Crossing: The Scholarship of Ruth Behar ("group ISP" with 10 students), co-taught with Miriam Wallace and Sonia Labrador-Rodriguez

Masada

Cultural Geography of Israel

Theoretical and Philosophical Concerns for Ceramics

January 2005

Visual Anthropology (3 students)

Representing the Colonial Encounter

Images of Morocco

Egyptian Artifacts in Late Bronze Age Canaan

Study of the Yom Kippur War/October War

Gender, Folklore, and Kabala

Walls of Israel

Museum Internship at the Ringling Museum of Art

Summer 2004

Excavations on Cyprus

Race, Ethnicity, and Collective Memory

January 2004

Grand Tours ("group ISP" with 7 students), co-taught with Professor Wallace

Coexistence

Healing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

West African Kinship Study

Museumology at the Sarasota History Center

January 2003

Public Archaeology in Sarasota: Excavations at Little Salt Spring ("group ISP" with 6 students)

Anthropology and Education

Arctic Studies Overview

Biblical Archaeology

Summer 2002

The Anthropology of Style

Archaeological Field School at Annapolis

Archaeological Field School in Northwest Florida (2 students)

Excavations in Italy

January 2002

Historical Preservation in Sarasota County: Preserving the Rosemary Cemetery ("group ISP" with 8 students)

Journalism Seminar in Israel

January 2001

Archaeology Month Exhibit for Sarasota County ("group ISP" with 4 students)

Pre-Industrial Technology

Study of Irish History and Archaeology

History within Oral History: Shonone Interviews

Readings in Food and Culture

Readings in Ecology, Development, and Anthropology

Western Bargaining Study

Ethnographic Films: Explorations in Race and Gender

Summer 2000

Presentations of the Viking Past in Denmark

Archaeological Field School on Malta

Archaeological Field School at Colonial Williamsburg

Educational Goals among Mexicans in Sarasota

January 2000

Architectural History Internship at the John Ringling House

The Work of A.B. Yehoshua

Kibbutz Ulpan

Psychoactive Plants: A Searchable Database

Readings in Ethnobotany

Ethnographic Interviews in Sarasota

Female Genital Mutilation: Emic versus Etic Perspectives

Creative Photography

January 1999

Archaeological Excavations at Ein Gedi, Israel (group ISP for 5 students)

Hebrew Conversation

Mound Survey in Florida

Landscape Photography

Internship at the South Florida Museum

Reading Vine Deloria

Readings on the Anthropology of Tourism

January 1998

Ethnography on a Jewish American in the 1920s and 1930s

Ethnography of Grandparents in Rural Florida

Photography and Visual Anthropology

Beginning Arabic

Archaeological Dig in Ein Gedi, Israel

Ethnography of the MARTA - Observations as a Passenger