Our museum logo: Created by one of our ownThe NKU Museum of Anthropology logo (the Mesoamerican Indian with the parrot) is a familiar sight to all NKU anthropology students. But do you know who designed the logo? The original design was created by an unknown Mesoamerican Indian as part of a stamp. Professor James F. Hopgood, the museum's Director, re-designed it into the museum logo. It was, however, James N. Gaulin, a 1979 winner of the Outstanding Student in Anthropology Award, who produced the large logo that still hangs in the museum. The logo may look and feel like stone, but Jim Gaulin used plywood with multiple layers of black paint. Jim was a double major in anthropology and art, but Jim Hopgood still had doubts that any artist could make plywood look like stone. For what seemed like weeks, Jim Gaulin worked in the Landrum anthropology lab, applying coats of black paint and then working the layers down with steel wool, only to apply more coats of paint and more steel wool. About fifty coats of black paint later, the logo had the look and feel of stone. Check out what other alumni are doingWhere have they been, and where are they now?Bahamas Canada Congo Costa Rica Egypt France Germany Ghana Guatemala Holland Indonesia Israel Italy Japan Kenya Malaysia Mexico Nepal Nicaragua Pakistan Papua New Guinea Philippines Scotland Senegal Singapore South Africa Spain Tanzania Thailand Trinidad
Those are just a few of the foreign countries in which our NKU anthropology alumni have lived and worked. Our latest data show that within the United States most of our alums live in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana, but multiple numbers of our grads also live in California, Florida, Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Additional individual alumni live in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, and American Samoa. What are they up to?What do all these anthropology grads do for a living? Well, some are or have been in graduate school, with graduate degrees ranging from the MA to the MS, MALS, MPA, MLS, MBA, JD, MD, and PhD. Among the graduate schools NKU anthropology alumni have attendedAmerican University of Cairo Ball State University Case Western Reserve University Clarion University College of William and Mary DePaul University East Carolina University Eastern New Mexico University Florida Atlantic University Miami University Northern Kentucky University Union Institute and University University of Cincinnati University of Hawaii Kent State University University of Kentucky University of Missouri University of Montana Portland State University University of South Florida University of West Florida University of Wisconsin at Madison University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee University of Wyoming Xavier University
Our jobsMost of the others either work in archaeology or applied anthropology (including environmental fields). The third largest group of NKU anthropology grads works in law enforcement or some area of the legal system as police officers, attorneys, court workers, and crime scene investigators. The next largest category is education, including everything from survival school instructor to special needs teacher to home schoolers to community college and university professors to a high school athletic director to an education administrator; followed by the health fields with at least one physician, four nurses, and one emergency medical technician; and librarians. The "other" category includes careers in art, photography, travel, aviation, computer science, business, banking, politics, and farming. We also have a flight attendant, a park ranger, a factory foreman, two missionaries, a couple of stay-at-home moms, and a few writers. What are you up to with your anthropology degree?
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