We are extremely pleased to announce that as of June 22, 2009, Pamela Mayne Correia has joined the academic staff of the Department of Anthropology as our new Faculty Services Officer. In her first few years as FSO, Pamela will expand her role as Curator of several of our collections to help bring the Department into compliance with incoming Museums and Collections Services guideliness and will increasingly move into research and teaching. Be sure to ask her about some of the exciting directions this research (some in collaboration with fellow departmental scholars) may take!
As you may know, Pamela has been our Osteology Technologist for over eighteen years and offers a wealth of professional skills and knowledge of collections' management, osteology curation, and teaching in biological and forensic anthropology. She has conducted and/or participated in research in the areas of curation of bone materials and analysis of cremated bone. She was the driving force in the successful creation of the Anthropology Exhibit. Over the course of her time with us, Pamela has taught introductory and senior level courses (101, 110, 209, 309 and 390 to name a few), as well as assisted in the instruction of forensic anthropology (494). She provides laboratory instuction in junior and senior level biological anthropology and has implemented a volunteer program which enlists several student volunteers each year. Pamela's commitment to service to the broader community is also impressive. She has developed and implemented outreach programs for local schools, offered short courses and lectures to Search and Rescue, Edmonton Police Service (EPS), and fire investigators, and has consulted in numerous cases for the RCMP, EPS, and the Archaeological Survey.
We would like to thank the Faculty of Arts for their support and assistance in getting this position established and funded. We are extremely fortunate to have an academic colleague of Pamela's calibre in the Department. We welcome her into this new academic role and look forward to the next decades working with her in this new capacity.