Dr. Cailín Murray
<b>Department: </b>Anthropology<br><b>Research Area: </b>Cultural Anthropology and Ethnohistory, Native American and Settler ethnohistory, environmental ethnohistory, Food ethnohistory
Department: Anthropology
Research Focus: Cultural Anthropology Ethnohistory, Native American and Settler ethnohistory, environmental ethnohistory, Food ethnohistory
Potential Student Project(s):
Seeking two students for the Teacher Scholar program, Fall Semester 2025. Students will assist Dr. Cailín Murray, Associate Professor of Anthropology, in researching and curating artifacts held within the Department of Anthropology’s teaching collections. Duties will include conducting research on specific objects, completing accession reports about each object, and assisting in the creation of exhibits for two of Anthropology’s exhibit spaces.
Attributes/skills/background sought in undergraduate:
Comfortable with library and archival research (in BL and online); Interest in 19th and early 20th century Midwestern/US cultural and environmental ethnohistory; would like to learn and apply ethnohistorical research methods.
Mentoring Plan:
The student scholar will work 5 hours per week and this includes meeting with me for one hour per week about the project or working with me in Archives and Special Collections, BL for 1 hour per week. The student will be conducting primary and secondary research pertaining to indigenous and settler colonial food histories in Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. I will be training them in ethnohistorical research methods and analysis. I will also mentor them through the process of developing their own project based on my data to create an academic poster entry for the Student Conference.
Contact: 765-285-3568, BB 317