My grandparents used to bring me to
museums all the time so that's really
what drove me into museums and I sort of
I fell in love with them.
One of the moments that I realized I wanted to do
anthropology was when I was walking
through Briggs and on one of the
professor's doors it said 'The purpose of
anthropology is to make the world a
safer place for diversity' and that's
really why I got into it.
Winter term of this year I was working
on my capstone which was the first ever
like Museum Studies capstone I did an
exhibition using the Anthropology
collections that we had and Professor
Peregrine, Professors Inslee and then
Professor Brenda Jenike they were all
very helpful and all very supportive.
So it was an exhibition that was the wonder
and resonance of Lawrence University
collections and the ideas of wonder and
resonance came from a reading that I was
doing in one of Bentham Deef's classes.
And it was self curated, self designed,
self researched, everything was done by me.
I wanted to present research and to
make exhibitions to educate the public
to sort of show people that diversity is
out there and it's very important and
that it's something we should embrace.
