Ph.D. in either sociology or anthropology is required. This is a joint appointment in sociology and anthropology, and it also involves teaching a capstone course in an Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies program and advising majors in the IDLS program. Review of applications will begin January 10 and continue until the position is filled. Candidates should send a letter outlining their experience and qualifications, a vita, evidence of teaching effectiveness, one reprentative publication or paper, and three letters of reference to Mary Lou Wylie, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, MSC 7501, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807. During the summer of 2001 the Oklahoma Historical Society, the P.A.S.T. Foundation and Indiana University are offering a 3-credit underwater archaeology field school dealing with the Red River Steamboat Wreck.
Credit is available for both graduate and undergraduate students.
The Oklahoma Historical Society, in conjunction with the P.A.S.T. Foundation and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, will be excavating Oklahoma's first historic shipwreck site during the summer of 2001. Much of the wreckage, which lay buried and preserved under an Oklahoma pasture until the river shifted, is now visible at low water, including portions of the hull, steam engine, and the paddlewheel. Application dealine is May 1, 2000. The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project will once again be conducting archaeological research within various caves in Belize, Central America this coming summer. The Western Belize Regional Cave Project is designed as an introduction to the fundamental approaches to the practice of speleoearchaeology.