Visit to the National Palace
By: Andrew Califf We visited the grand National Palace and Ivonne Miranda Tapia, the director of Nicaragua’s Institute for Culture, gave us a tour. [...]
A Day in Granada
By Andrew Califf and contributions by Jerry Walter, Simone Judea Muhammad, Philip Hutton, Anna Brown and William Robison. Geoff McCafferty’s IFR team arrived in [...]
The Story Artifacts Tell: “Calcophones” at the Italy: Incoronata Field School
By Dr. Giulia Saltini Semerari, Research Affiliate at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan & Co-Director of Italy: Incoronata The plateau [...]
From the Textbook to Reality: Exploring Japanese Internment through Artifacts & the People Who Remember Them
My name is Kylie Dillinger, and I’m a senior at the University of Denver majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Emergent Digital Practices. I [...]
What Did IFR Students Find This Year?
From US-CO:Amache: “My favorite artifacts, and the ones that excite me the most, are those that tell a story. One [...]
The Gallina Phase: Hillbillies or Hippies?
By Gary Chandler, 2019 Field School Student from New Mexico: Puebloan Rebels of The Southwest Have you ever tried putting together a [...]
How Field School Made Me a Researcher
I’m Julian Gonzalez, a Psychology major and Anthropology minor studying at California State University, Los Angeles. When I expressed to my professor that I [...]
Updates from the Field 2019
Summer is here, and our field season is in full swing! From museum studies to primatology to indigenous archaeology, IFR students are engaged in [...]
An Interview with Dr. Mark Harrison
Meet Dr. Mark E. Harrison, Ecologist at the Borneo Nature Foundation and Director of our Indonesia: Peat Ecology field school. The program is based in [...]
Combining My Passions in Anthropology and Communications: An Inside Look at My Internship with the IFR
My name is Marisa Saldaña, and I am a senior at the University of La Verne majoring in Communications with an emphasis in Public [...]