Is college worth it? That seems to be the question of our generation. In November, panelists on the CRM archaeology podcast discussed getting into graduate school. A college degree is considered necessary for work as a CRMer, but an increasing number of CRMers are getting graduate degrees. There are good […]
Keywords: cultural resource management, archaeology, higher education, Doug’s Archaeology Hashtags: #archaeology, #CRMarch, #higherlearning, @succinctbill, In November, Doug Rocks-MacQueen wrote the post, “With each passing year your degree means less and less and less and less……..” This post analyzes data collected for the report “Archaeology Labour Market Intelligence: Profiling the Profession, […]
A few weeks ago, I received a lot of input from other female archaeologists because of some comments I made about Episode 18 of the CRM Archaeology Podcast. Nearly all of these comments were negative (including the ones from my non-archaeologist wife). Every female CRM archaeologist I’ve spoken to thought […]
One morning, I woke up to an email from the Doug’s Archaeology RSS feed. As I brushed my teeth in my dark bathroom, I read his post about the Blogging Carnival he’s spearheading in anticipation of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) session “Blogging Archaeology, Again.” (FYI: I’m going to […]
Last week, I was listening to the Episode 20 of the CRM Archaeology Podcast (Women in Archaeology, Part II). In the first few minutes of the podcast, the panelists were discussing how acknowledging the prevalence of male privilege in CRM archaeology could give way to a larger discussion of other […]
This week, I finally started a massive open online class (MOOC) called “The Future of Storytelling” on iversity. So far, the course has exceeded my expectations. Engaging content. Great videos and illustrations. Good recommended readings and projects. It is well produced and much better than the online courses I remember […]
While working for a well-known CRM archaeology firm, I was forced to take part in some of the most worthless meetings I’ve ever witnessed in my life. I won’t name where this took place, but many of you will immediately know the company once I describe the situation. At least […]
In a previous post on health and safety overload in CRM archaeology, I recapped how a certain archaeologist I know was forced to bring a life vest and inflatable raft to the desert in order to work on a project. This was due to a permutation of an Army Corps […]
I remember the first time I gave a presentation at a major archaeology conference. In 2005, I traveled to York, United Kingdom to give a speech at the Society for Historical Archaeology conference on what would become the focus of my MA thesis. The conference was during the first week […]
I vacillate between anger and sadness for the people that do compliance heritage conservation or cultural resource management work for free. I understand we all need a way to break into the market. We all want to find jobs doing archaeology or architectural history or ethnography. I also recognize that […]
