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The Social Scientist
The Newsletter of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Marshall University
One John Marshall Drive, Smith Hall 727, Huntington, WV 25755 Phone: 304-696-6700 Web: http://www.marshall.edu/dosa
Volume 1, Issue 4 Spring 2021
Message from the Chair
Welcome to The Department dedication, and resiliency complete your class
of Sociology and over the last few weeks. I requirements. You did well!
Anthropology at Marshall think it’s safe to say that For those moving on, we wish
University. nearly all of us are you all the best. For those
experiencing “screen fatigue” returning, we look forward to
Wow, what a time to be a or some form of physical and seeing you back in the class-
social scientist?!? Think or emotional exhaustion from room this Fall.
about it...with all of the increased screen time. I can’t
challenges and changes we thank our faculty, staff, and For all of us, the end of the
are faced with today as a students enough for their spring semester is a time for
result of the coronavirus willingness to adapt to these remembrance. We take stock
pandemic, there simply is no changes in both learning, of where we came from, and
better time to study social instruction, meetings, and have a moment to think
interaction (or distancing as club events. Hopefully the about where we are going, as
the case may be), family, the Fall 2021 semester will see we pursue the future with
workplace, race relations, us return back to the hope. May your future be all
politics, aging, public health, classroom with minor that you hope for, and may it
or the role that religion or adjustments and as the be sprinkled with love and
sports, leisure, and recreation number of people vaccinated friendship.
have in society. Social continues to climb and we
scientists are well positioned reach herd immunity.
to explore these topics and
more! To our majors, minors, and
graduating seniors, we offer
As we come to the end of yet our most sincere
another virtual semester, congratulations! Many of you
allow me to take a minute to were juggling additional Kristi M. Fondren
thank our department family and work Professor and Chair
faculty, staff, and students for responsibilities, or the loss of fondren@marshall.edu
all of their hard work, an income, while trying to 304-696-2795
Fall 2021 Courses
Don’t forget to follow us
on social media!
Twitter: @soc200MU
(Sociology@Marshall)
Instagram: sociolo-
gy_marshall
Facebook:
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204476642901794/
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Trail Magic or Gig Economy? The Wars Within, The Wars Without
Trail Angel Culture on the Connecting Veteran Students at MU with Veterans
Pacific Crest Trail throughout the State
Follow Dr. Kristi Fondren’s summer The program, led by co-directors Robin Riner and Christina
research thru-hike here Franzen, aims to help military veterans, active duty military,
(http://www.trailjournals.com/HQtieandT and members of the public reflect on contemporary war and
urkeyB/) as she explores trail angel its aftermath by making connections among three primary
culture, and the giving and receiving of
conflicts: the civil war between Pompey and Caesar, the
trail magic, on the PCT.
Vietnam War, and the Global War on Terrorism. There will
be a variety of public talks associated with the program held
Leadership changes to Sociology
throughout the year, featuring speakers including Karl
Graduate Program Marlantes and Massimo Pigliucci.
Congratulations Dr. Donna Sullivan, our The program involves three stages:
new Graduate Program Director! The previous A three-day preparatory program, held August 18-20, 2021
GPD, Dr. Marty Laubach (thank you Marty),
on Marshall’s campus, for student veteran discussion leaders.
will be on Sabbatical this Fall working on a
database to index an archive of newsletters
A semester-long seminar for veteran and non-veteran
and journals of the American Neopagan move- students at Marshall University.
ment from the 1980s as it was institutionaliz- Five public discussion groups for veterans and the general
ing into its current form. The archive will be public, in which participants will read sections of Civil War
housed in the research collections at Marshall and engage in sustained discussion about the text, drawing
and the database will be placed studying how connections to their own experiences. Two of the groups
ideas were exchanged among groups in the will involve veterans and military friends and families, three
formation of a community identity. of the groups will be veteran-only.
From Our Archaeological and Ethnographic Collection
Our Department of The piece was
Sociology and Anthropology the subject of a
houses an archaeological capstone
and ethnographic collection, project by our
items from every continent anthropology
and from all ages, going student,
back thousands of years ago
Ms. Michelle
to the present.
Young, in the
Pick a place and a time, and Spring of 2019.
the odds are we have Above: The papyrus
something to show you! She was aided by
a world-renowned
One treasure: An early 6th papyrologist from restored, and translated
Century papyrus from the University of the document. He
Egypt, a tax roll from Cincinnati, subsequently published
Herakleopolis, shedding Dr. Peter van an article in an
light on a small Graeco- Minnen, who international journal on
Egyptian town and its our treasure.
reformatted,
inhabitants.
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Paris Fairfax
Outstanding Undergraduate in Sociology (academic)
Abi Taylor
Outstanding Undergraduate in Anthropology
(academic)
Matthew Adkins
Outstanding Undergraduate in Sociology (service)
Gara Fleming
Congrats to our Spring Outstanding Undergraduate in Anthropology
2021 Graduates (service)
Claire Joswick
Abi Taylor Emily O’Neal
Outstanding Graduate (academic)
Gara Fleming Grace Weekley
Claire Joswick
Kate Bostic Jesseka Bush Outstanding Graduate (service)
Paris Fairfax Claire Joswick Allen Ross
Outstanding Graduate (teaching)
Faculty Highlight: Dr. Brian Hoey
Dr. Brian A. Hoey is a 300,000 citizens in a nine- “This book is
professor of anthropology and county region, and the response remarkable in
associate dean of the honors to the emergency, which so many ways”,
college. His collaborative amplified distrust that was said Angie
venture, titled I’m Afraid of That already well-seeded in the area. Rosser,
Water: A Collaborative executive
Ethnography of a West Virginia “...exceptional in capturing director, WV
Water Crisis, recently received how people felt about the Rivers. “It does
the Weatherford Award for best water crisis.” - judges, more than
books about Appalachia. Weatherford Award authentically
document the lived experiences
In the book, of the water crisis; it carries an
Dr. Hoey and Award monies for this prize will empowering effect for the
colleagues be donated to the West Virginia people of Appalachia in seeing
capture a Rivers Coalition, a non-profit that their stories reveal shared
broad series of that serves the statewide voice struggles for visibility and
stories about for water-based recreation and justice. It reminds us that within
the 2014 clean, drinkable rivers. The our stories is the power to co-
chemical spill book’s royalties will also be create the world we want to live
that donated to West Virginia in.”
contaminated Rivers.
the water of Congratulations Dr. Hoey!
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Student Highlight: Claire Joswick
The Sociology and Anthropology sociology. As victims of trafficking ences between sex work and sex
Department in the College of have been wrongly prosecuted in trafficking, and concluded with
Liberal Arts at Marshall University the past due to a lack of knowledge what officers can look for when try-
has been home to me for quite between the two institutions, I felt ing to identify victims or traffickers.
awhile now. I received my as if this was an issue that needed
Bachelor’s degree in sociology at to be discussed with West Virginia As I reflect on my time at Marshall,
Marshall University in 2015, and I law enforcement officers. While sex I can say that the department of
will be receiving my Master’s degree work is legal in Nevada, as well as sociology and anthropology provided
in sociology at Marshall University withing other countries, sex me with the education and the
this coming May 2021. These two trafficking is illegal in every preparation I needed to apply for
degrees revolving around learning country. Numbers of human sex and accept a position as an
social constructs and studying the trafficking cases in West Virginia intelligence analyst at The Depart-
behavior of societies created a fire are not nearly as high as those of ment of Homeland Security’s Fusion
within my heart to fight for people California or New York, but West Center located in Charleston, WV.
who are unable to fight for them- Virginia still accounts for some of The purpose of West Virginia
selves. This drive for wanting to the largest familial sex trafficking Fusion Center is to collect, inte-
understand and help those who cases in the grate, evaluate, analyze, and dis-
need it most led me to my main USA. It can be seminate information and
area of interest and research. For assumed that intelligence to support local, state
the past five years through under- anywhere there and federal agencies in detecting,
graduate and graduate school I is prostitution, preventing, and responding to
have studied human sex traffick- the likelihood of criminal and terrorist activity. The
ing, otherwise known as modern- sex trafficking WVFC co-locates representatives of
day slavery. The severity of this is very high, these agencies to share information
issue is that human trafficking whether the and to facilitate joint efforts to
comes in as the fastest growing victims know prevent and solve crimes to protect
global crime, with the USA being they are being citizens. I am extremely fortunate
one of the top countries purchasing trafficked or to have had the education to qualify
victims. not. me for such an established role in
keeping West Virginians safe.
Holding the title as a graduate Through this
student and law enforcement educational
officer, I had the opportunity to training I was Claire Joswick
educate law-enforcement on the able to educate officers on human
differences of these topics as a part trafficking in general, the specific MUPD Officer and Sociology
of my Problem Report requirement types of trafficking that there are Graduate Student
within the graduate program in including sex trafficking, the differ-
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