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Undergraduate Departmental Representatives
The Undergraduate Departmental Representatives (UDR) program is designed to open avenues of communication between undergraduate majors and departmental faculty. UDRs serve as student representative(s), organize events for majors, and provide feedback to the department. More information on the UDR program can be found on the website of the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
2007 - 2008
| Aviva Cormier ’09 | acormier@brandeis.edu |
| Donielle Lavintman ’09 | dcl189@brandeis.edu |
| Jacob Lazar ’09 | jlazar@brandeis.edu |
| Jill Seplowitz ’08 | jilsep@brandeis.edu |
We are your 2007-2008 Anthropology UDR's and we are here to field your questions and concerns about the department from a student's point of view. Please use us as a resource for questions about requirements, professors, upcoming events and anything else anthro related.
Check out the Anthropology Events page for a listing of upcoming activities. First up: the Anthropology Picnic on September 8th!
Read below for a little bit of information about the UDRs.
Aviva Cormier is an Anthropology major on the archaeology track, with a History minor and a Latin American and Latino Studies minor. She is particularly interested in ceremonial and hydrological features within rural settlement areas of the Classic Maya. She has just returned from an archaeological field school in Belize focusing on rural Maya settlements. She also dreams of underwater archaeological adventures and of wandering through Chaco Canyon while being stunned by the wonders of archaeoastronomy. Don't hesitate to email her or track her down on campus to ask about her adventures in Central America or anything else Anthropology or Archaeology related.
Donielle Lavintman is double majoring in Anthropology and Studio Art. She is primarily interested in the application and importance of art within cultural anthropology. She recently returned from India where she spent part of the summer living at an Ashram and receiving certification as a yoga instructor. Donielle will spend the spring '08 semester studying abroad in Indonesia on an anthropology-based program which incorporates both Balinese arts and culture. She writes " I am always available to answer any questions you might have regarding the anthropology department, major/minoring in anthropology, or anything else you might want to talk about. Don't hesitate to contact me...even when I am in Bali!"
Jacob Lazar, a member of the Midyear class of 2009, is a little
surprised to find that he's picked the same major that his dad did.
Aside from studying Linguistic Anthropology, he is (at least right
now) pursuing an English major, as well as minors in Women's and
Gender Studies and Secondary Education. Jacob has worked with
Breakthrough Miami teaching Anthropology to middle school students,
so don't hesitate to ask him about well, anthropology in schools! Or
any other anthropology questions you may or may not have.
Jill Seplowitz's interest in people led her to pursue a major in Anthropology at the end of her sophomore year. A year later, she allowed her passion for exercise and health to flourish by becoming a certified group fitness instructor, and picked up a second major in Health: Science, Society, and Policy. Hiking in