Fieldwork, Internships & Study Abroad

• Albright Knox Art Gallery
  
• Burchfield Penney Art Center
  
• Buffalo History Museum
• Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village
  
• Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper
  
• Child and Family Services 
  
• Crisis Services
  
• Darwin Martin House Complex
• Erie County Department of Health
• Erie County Medical Examiner's Office
  
• Family Justice Center
• Greater Buffalo United Accountable Healthcare Network (GBUAHN)
• International Institute of Buffalo
  
• Jericho Road Community Health Center
• Journey's End Refugee Services
• Museum of disABILITY History
  
• Neighborhood Legal Services
• Old Fort Niagara
• Olmsted Parks Conservancy
• People, Inc. 
  
• Preservation Buffalo Niagara
  
• Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

New York State

• New New York State, portal for internships throughout NYS agencies including:
                  -Division of Human Rights
                  -Council on the Arts
                  -Division of Criminal Justice Services           
                  -Office of Children and Family Services
• NYS Attorney General's Office
• NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)
• NYS Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Albany Region

• Adirondack Council - Clarence Petty Internship Program
  
• Albany Institute of History and Art
• Refugee and Immigrant Support Services of Emmaus (RISSE)

New York City Region

• American Museum of Natural History
• Brooklyn Museum
  
• GrowNYC
• Lower East Side Ecology Center
  
• Museum of the City of New York
• New York Historical Society
• SCO Family of Services
• SUNY Global Engagement Program  

Rochester Region

• Genesee Country Village and Museum
  
• Genesee Land Trust
• George Eastman Museum
• Memorial Art Gallery
• Monroe County
• Rochester Contemporary Art Center 
  
• Rochester Museum and Science Center
• The Legal Aid Society

Syracuse Region

• Everson Museum of Art

• American Anthropological Association: Summer Internship Program
• Center for Archaeology: Women in Archaeology Internship Program
• Earthwatch Institute
• National Parks Service
  
• Smithsonian: National Museum of Natural History
  
• Smithsonian: Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology
• The Carter Center

APY 338 - Field Research

The Department of Anthropology offers a 6-week field school experience at active survey sites in the Buffalo region. Offered in conjunction with Archaeological Survey, students interested in pursuing a Cultural Resource Management (CRM) career are encouraged to participate to learn methods and practices of this field.

• Adelphi University (Alaska): The field school will focus on the newly discovered Holzman site along Shaw Creek where multiple hearths, large mammal bones, stone tools, and a nearly complete mammoth tusk were found dating to the end of the Ice Age.
• Ancient Mediterranean Spain (Mallorca, Spain): In this program, students will join a team of American and Spanish archaeologists in order to engage with various landscape archaeological fieldwork techniques (mapping, 3D modeling) and other experiential ones such as sketching, photography/video, field note taking as part of the ongoing Landscape, Encounters, and Identity Archaeology Project. Offered through the University of Washington.
• ArchaeoSpain: Travel to Spain to excavate Roman settlements including a fortress, a city (Italica) in Seville, or a necropolis.
• Central Washington University (Washington): The CWU Forensic Anthropology Field School provides practical experience in recovery and handling of human remains by excavating a mock crime scene and laboratory methods of forensic anthropology through analysis of skeletal cold cases.
• CIFAS Field School in Ethnographic Research Methods (New York City): The 11-day field school offers training in the foundations and practice of ethnographic methods. The faculty works closely with participants to identify the required field methods needed to address their academic or professional needs.
  
• College Year in Athens (Greece): CYA offers summer and winter programs  with topics such as "Excavating the Aegean," "The Anthropology of Food in Greece," and "Illegal Antiquities".
  
• DANTA (Costa Rica): Offers summer field courses in Primate Behavior and Conservation and provides student experience working in tropical environments. 
• Institute for Field Research (worldwide): The Institute focuses on research-based experiences in historial archaeology, field archaeology and museum conservation and offers 43 field schools in 24 countries including Bulgaria, Ireland, South Africa, China, Jordan and Israel.
• Isla Mujeres Ethnographic Field School (Mexico): Learn ethnographic field methods on the Isla Mujeres, Mexico, located off the Yucatan coast in the Caribbean.
• Lubbock Lake Landmark (Texas): This landmark is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated National Historic and State Archaeological Landmark which contains evidence of almost 12,000 years of human occupation on the Southern High Plains.
• Maderas Rainforest Conservancy (Costa Rica and Nicaragua): The Conservancy offers programs in Primate Behavior and Ecology, Rain Forest Ecology, Spanish and Pre-Columbia Art History, and the Mayan World.
• McMaster University (Canada): The Archaeological Field School will take place on the north shore of the Cootes Paradise marsh within the property of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario.
• Off the Beaten Path (Malta, Mediterranean): Program is meant to give aspiring anthropologists an in-the-field representation of developing and conducting an ethnographic research project. Geared towards students interested in socio-cultural anthropology. 
• San Gemini Preservation Studies (Italy): Taking place at the Carsulae archaeological site in Italy, students have the opportunity to conduct archaeological survey of the site's buildings, such as the public baths, or learn about analyzying and restoring archaeological ceramics.
• Slavia Field School in Mortuary Archaeology (Poland): Provides a unique opportunity for students to practice bioarchaeology by learning archaeological excavation techniques and working with human osteological material in Drawsko, Poland.
• SUNY Origins Field School (Kenya): Since 2011, the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) has offered an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to participate in a field program in the Turkana Basin that exposes them to the sciences related to human prehistory with courses in Ecology, Geology, Vertebrate Paleontology, Paleoanthropology, and Archaeology. Participants work directly with leading scientists and do fieldwork at active hominin fossil localities and archaeological excavations.
• University of Wyoming (Wyoming): The fieldschool continues fieldwork at the La Prele Mammoth site in Converse County, Wyoming where students will learn careful excavation methods, screening, and mapping with a total station.  

The Lake Ohrid Archaeological Field School and study abroad program in Albania is being offered for the first time this summer (2023) through UB Study Abroad. The program will provide training in a variety of archaeological and paleoecological methods and a unique cultural experience through planned tours and excursions in the heart of the Balkans and on the Ionian Sea coast. We will stay on the UNESCO listed shoreline of Lake Ohrid in the idyllic town of Pogradec, and collaborate with other prominent universities such as Oxford and Cologne throughout the course of the program, giving students the chance to experience a variety of research traditions and build their academic networks.

Registration is closed for the Summer 2023. Please check back for details on next year's field school.

The program is open to students from all disciplines, but may particularly interest those studying Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Classics, Environment and Sustainability, Ecology, Cultural Heritage Management, Museology, Balkan Studies, or related fields.

Please see the PDF brochure for further details and direct any questions about the program to program director, Dr. Patrick Willett at pwillett@buffalo.edu, or the office of study abroad at studyabroad@buffalo.edu.

Location: Tarragona, Spain
Session: TBD

The department is excited to launch a new study abroad program, "Cultural Heritage: From classic ruins to living landscapes". Students will travel to Tarragona, Spain to engage with the historical, archaeological and cultural heritage of this region. Learning experiences will consist of lectures, guided field trips, visits to museums, and invited talks by local officials, heritage practitioners and scholarly specialists. Lectures will take place at the Catalan Institute of Classic Archaeology (ICAC), located in the heart of Tarragona’s old town.

Location: Grosseto, Italy
Dates: 5/28 - 6/21/2023

Offered by UB's Department of Classics, the Monteverdi Archaeological Field School takes place in the heart of Tuscany (Italy) in the Commune of Civitella Paganico (Grosseto). The medieval village was founded in the 13th c. CE. The field school excavations focus on a late Etruscan-Republican sanctuary and related vicus as well as on a deserted medieval village, along the middle valley of the river Ombrone. These sites represent a unique occasion to investigate economies in transition and settlement patterns in the territory of south Etruria. Courses are aimed at students, early career scholars and those passionate about archaeology, classics, art history, anthropology and cultural heritage management. No prior experience is required.

Visit UB's Study Abroad page for registration details.

The Experiential Learning Center is a resource specifically for students in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Undergraduate students may receive guidance from staff experts or simply use the space to research available internship, service-learning or study abroad opportunities, as well as scholarships and other funding sources.

The Experiential Learning Center
College of Arts and Sciences
810 Clemens Hall
North Campus

Email: cas-explearning@buffalo.edu