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Dr. Shawn Bubel
Shawn completed her undergraduate degree at the 免费福利资源在线看片 in 1995. She taught archaeology summer courses at the 免费福利资源在线看片 in 1997 and became faculty in 2000. In addition to teaching at the 免费福利资源在线看片, Shawn operates field schools in Israel and Alberta. Her areas of research include geoarchaeology, near eastern archaeology, pre-contact plains archaeology, and historical archaeology.
Shawn discusses the collegiality she experiences amongst faculty and students at the 免费福利资源在线看片.
The full audio interview will be made available online in late 2017. For more information please contact the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge Archives. (mike.perry@uleth.ca)
I am in the Geography Department, which I love. 听I teach archaeology classes but I also do research that combines both geographical techniques and of course archaeological methods, right? 听It is perfect for me, I felt that it was always the best fit. 听I couldn鈥檛 ...听lots of people are like ...听oh, not to me.听听But I am sure that they think a big research institute where you have tons of resources and great labs. 听And sure, yes,听that鈥檚 fancy an听that鈥檚 great but me being in the department that I am and getting to have that mix between the two, from the very beginning, even as an undergraduate student.
But, certainly from the very beginning of having a position in the department, I have always felt that I am fortunate to be in such a mixture of great colleagues that are doing lots of different things in geography and archaeology. 听But then to be surrounded by people in the History Department, because we are next door to them. 听And Women鈥檚 Studies and NAS (Native American Studies) just down the other way. 听Right? 听And there is such a great collegiality I guess, and openness to other sorts of ways to do your research and to do different research trajectories. 听And of course I have my colleagues in the Chemistry and Biology Departments who I am constantly knocking on their door. 听Clearly, this morning and my email to John Eng in the Chemistry Department was 'please help me extract some phytoliths from Matrix.' 听And听that is good, right? 听And it has been like that since the beginning I would say. 听And it just continues to grow.
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(Interviewed by Diane McKenzie)
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