Christine A Hastorf

CHRISTINE HASTORF, University of California, Berkeley, California, received a Global Initiatives grant to aid collaborative research on “Inclusivity and Ethics in Archaeological Training: The ARF Field School.” Funding went to support seven of the ten student participants in the pilot Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) Field School, which took place during the summer of 2022. The program is designed to expand the number and diversity of people pursuing archaeological careers by providing archaeological training for students underrepresented in the discipline. Most archaeological field school opportunities are located far away and are costly, making the necessary training they provide inaccessible to many students. The ARF Field School follows a different model, providing this training as a commuter-based program and offering stipends to student participants to make the program feasible as summer employment. Over six weeks, students from several universities in the San Francisco Bay Area trained in archaeological survey, mapping, photography, and excavation, as well as artifact analysis, data analysis and visualization, public speaking, and community engagement.