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Fund Information

This UM Crowdfunding project is part of a larger initiative to create an undergraduate anthropology travel fund for students to aid in the goal of participating in field schools within Canada and internationally. This fund will be used to help undergraduate anthropology students in upcoming field school opportunities like the University of Winnipeg’s collaboration with the Piapot First Nation (Treaty 4) archaeological field school in Saskatchewan, Canada, on May 2024 and the Slavia Foundation field school in Poland summer 2024.
Your contributions would enable undergraduate students in the anthropology department to study in their first-ever archaeology school and gain experience in hands-on archaeological work. Our anthropology students will be able to focus on multi-faceted challenges in archeology, such as wild boars disturbing human remains. Supporting students to attend field school initiatives will give them the necessary skills to apply the archaeological techniques of site surveying, exhumation of burials, identification and interpretation of remains to provide truth.

One of our UM anthropology students was recently accepted into a field school program!

Our UMASA (University of Manitoba Anthropology Student’s Association) Co-President, Dana Hernandez (third-year undergraduate student), was recently accepted into the Slavia Foundation’s Field School in Mortuary Archaeology. The opportunity to travel to Poland as an international anthropology student will encourage Dana’s learning in fieldwork methods, such as grave and burial excavation and documentation, data collection, and topographic survey, as well as identification, removal, and curation of skeletal remains. The Field School also offers nine academic credits for participation from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. These credits would go to further her educational career in Anthropology.

There are two summer sessions; Dana is registered for Session 1, which runs from June 24th to July 17th. She will work at a site called Gać, located in western Poland, with skeletal remains dating from the 14th to 16th centuries.

Supporting our anthropology students is helping them reach their academic goals. Your donations will directly fund field school expenses, such as Dana’s upcoming trip – including the tuition fee, housing, and travel costs. Your help will lessen the burden of the field school cost on undergraduates and their families while allowing them to experience an archaeological field.