Purpose of the Lecture Series:
Designed for former ECU anthropology students to share their expertise and experiences to current anthropology students who are preparing to graduate or who are anticipating to graduate in the next few years. We hope this new lecture series creates more of a constructive, practical dialogue between recent ECU anthropology graduates with current ECU anthropology majors on more of the issues related to being a professional anthropologist and the challenges of getting employment or furthering one’s anthropology academic career.
Lisa Leone’s talk highlighted five major issues:
1. Period of Adjustment to Daily Working Conditions
2. Uses Skeletal Training from Forensic Anthropology course
3. Prepare for Graduate School Early
4. Find the Right job that fits your training and preferences
5. Available Internships
At the end of her lecture, I presented Lisa with the final Award which states:
“To acknowledge your professional achievements and to give appreciation for graduating from our East Carolina University Anthropology Department.”
Throughout her talk and afterwords, Lisa had a number of questions from students wanting to know if her job is similar to how medical examiners are portrayed by the media and television. She emphasized that her job does have its unsual events but mostly it is fairly routine medical examinations. Way to Keep it Real Lisa!