Chair Joseph proposes anthropology pipeline for African burial grounds; Rothman responds
Chair Joseph asks whether Rothman does anthropology work beyond Uganda. Rothman says she travels to study monkeys and apes and colleagues work in Iceland and Madagascar. Joseph proposes a CUNY pipeline for bioanthropology and African burial ground research in New York City, and Rothman says students and CUNY anthropologists would be interested.
Any of your travel abroad do any anthropology work?
Other than Uganda, do you do anthropology work anywhere else?
I actually travel to other places, but not with students, to study monkeys and apes, yes.
But other people in my department do additional anthropology work, specifically in Iceland and Madagascar.
So other, you know.
We need you here in New York.
I told you I want to create a pipeline for young students to do anthropology, bioanthropology study as we continue to discover more and more African burial grounds in the city.
I told you I have one in my district that I'm looking.
To create a pipeline through CUNY to study more.
So mine is big.
It was there since 1600.
The city built on it twice.
It was desecrated.
So now we're looking to memorialize it, but we also want to make sure we're testing the soil, making sure we find out what was there before, similar to the one they just found in Harlem and the one in Van Cortlandt.
So we want to make sure that the anthropology and the work, the pipeline comes from SUNY.
So I'm looking forward to talking to you and creating a partnership and a pipeline for young people to...
To know that this career, this field also exists.
And that was one of the things when we talked to young people, they're like, well, I didn't know that was a career.
Yeah, I think that'd be wonderful.
And I think the students would really enjoy it and they'd be just thrilled to participate.
And I know that other CUNY anthropologists would be interested for sure.
So let's have a conversation.
Thank you so much.
Thank you very much.