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Dutch Treat

By Erin Furman

From Africa to Iceland and back, senior anthropology major Kelly Goldberg is slowly working her way around the globe, taking advantage of every opportunity to put herself ahead of her peers.

Two years ago, Goldberg worked with the anthropology department to begin communications with an African school located in Toga. This past summer, she then traveled to Toga with three other students and two Hofstra professors to help set up an exchange program with the Toganese school. Then in the fall, four Toganese students and two professors traveled here. "We visited places around here, both on Long Island and in the city," said Goldberg.

On campus, Goldberg is the Assistant Director of the anthropology lab in Davidson Hall and President of the Anthropology club. In the lab, she works to wash, analyze and catalogue artifacts collected from a site in Huntington and overseas anthropology students seeking extra credit for one of their classes.

She also assists professors in researching various assignments. "I guess you could say I'm a research assistant," said Goldberg, "though that's not all I do."

Goldberg has worked as a Teacher's Assistant for several anthropology classes, as well a six-credit summer course in which students excavate artifacts from a former slave plantation in Huntington. These are the same artifacts that she cleans and studies in the anthropology lab.

Outside of the anthropology department, Goldberg works as a Resident Assistant in Vander Poel Hall, is a section leader in the Pep Band, was the co-founder of the Outdoors Club and works as an intern in the Center for Civic Engagement. Within the CCE, she helps plan a variety of political events on campus. "We were very active around the time of the debate and election," she said.

After her May graduation, Goldberg is keeping her options open. "I'm not going to grad school right away because I am not sure what I want to specialize in," said Goldberg, who is interested in both cultural anthropology and several branches of archeology. "Right now, the tentative plan is to teach French to Middle School students in New Hampshire for a few years until I figure that out."

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