Meet the Faculty Sessions

This year, the department's GEC (Yang, Jamieson, Yellowhorn and Farmer) have decided to launch a test run for an initiative, “Meet the Faculty”, for our graduate students.

The “Meet the Faculty” is designed to provide an opportunity for the graduate students to get to know each of our faculty members better, in a friendly and informal way where faculty members will share their personal perspectives on different fields and different aspect of archaeology and biological anthropology, and more importantly, their journey from being a graduate student to a faculty member at SFU.

Each week, one faculty member will come and talk with the graduate students, speaking for about 20-30 minutes and then leaving 20-30 minutes to address questions from the graduate students.  The event will not only get the faculty and the graduate students better acquainted with each other, but also serve as ice-breaking session for more interactions in the future.

The GEC hopes all of our faculty members will be able to participate.

Ideas on what you could say include, where you received your education, highlights of your graduate school experiences, your research areas, projects you are working on, what you like and/or dislike about what you do, why you chose to become a professor, and other archaeological related jobs you have done before coming to SFU, any quotes, tips and anything else that you would like to share with the students. 

The “Meet the Faculty” sessions will take place from 12:30 to 1:30 in SWH 9152 on desired Mondays (before and with the existing Graduate Proseminar which follows from 1:30-2:30 in SWH 9152).

Please see the attached sign-up sheet, and let me know of your desired time slot.

The first session with Dongya Yang will take place this Monday, so please try to make it out for this event.

A reminder that you are all invited to the proseminar that takes place following the Meet the Faculty sessions.  The Archaeology Graduate Student Proseminar is a weekly meeting which allows for the graduate students to get together and discuss their research progress and challenges, learn from other students experiences and set goals to meet for future meetings.  While Proseminar meetings will be held weekly, additional Guest Speaker Proseminar meetings will be held where a speaker is invited to lead a presentation and discussion on topics deemed important by the Archaeology graduate student cohort during the regular Proseminar meetings.

For more information you can contact the organizing committee at arch-proseminar@sfu.ca