Recommendations
I found the Summer School an excellent way to network and to forge ties with professors from foreign universities. I also really enjoyed my time in Gozo too, it was an unforgettable experience. (Sean O’Dubhghaill, National University of Ireland at Maynooth, Ireland)
The facilities that we stayed in during the trip were amazing. They were spacious, clean, and provided us with all the amenities of a good “base camp” for doing research. I want to make sure the staff know I did have a wonderful experience at the 2008 summer field school. I learned a lot about how to conduct fieldwork and that there is no one right way to go about it. I learned to expect the unexpected and to learn from it, and not to form images myself of what I think a situation will be like before I experience it. I also learned a lot about myself and how I respond in these situations. I am grateful to those who I could share this experience with, both staff, fellow students, and citizens of Gozo. I would like to thank everyone involved in the organization of the field school, and I hope that other students will be able to have similar beneficial experiences there in years to come. (Greta Kliewer, Kansas State University, USA)
By the end of the few weeks I enjoyed having come up with data on my own for once and not relying on any other previous secondary or even primary sources. I always knew that I did have someone to talk to if I needed help. (Brian Rosenblatt, Union College NY, USA)
The international character of the Malta Summer School made it a great learning experience for me. Being there, side by side with others doing their research improved my knowledge and insight of Maltese as well as of other cultures. I guess one of the things i will miss most of my Gozo experience, are the conversations on the roof terrace of mostly unexperienced anthropologists, like me, sharing their impressions of the day. These talks helped me deepen research questions and more than once provided me with new ways of approaching and understanding things. The Summerschool meant a lot for the way I feel about myself as a starting anthropologist. I am grateful to everybody who participated in my experience and to the staff for creating the opportunity to network, find out myself in the field and exploring my possibilities. These were lessons I could not have learned at home. (Marjan Moris, University of Leuven, Belgium)
The summer school was amazing. I learned so much about the culture, anthropology, but mostly about myself. It was life changing. Thank you so much to all of you. (Laura Jarvis, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA)
The Malta Summer School was precisely what I needed to bridge my experiences from college to my expectations for graduate school. To some extent, the program is an opportunity to prove whether you will sink or swim as a scholar and researcher. If you swim, you will leave the field school with the confidence and aptitude necessary for advanced fieldwork in anthropology. And the water is great. (Sara Rich, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
I went into it not really knowing what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised with the freedom we were given to go off on our own research-related tangent and follow our specific goals instead of being tied down to a fixed daily schedule. In addition, the professors (and all of the staff on the trip) helped create a really relaxed atmosphere which I very much appreciated. To sum it up, the fieldschool was awesome and I am very grateful to everyone who took part in organising the school and making it such a fun experience for me. (Rhys Bainham, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
I loved my Gozo experience. I loved having the opportunity to get into the field for the first time while having access to several other anthro people to share my successes and failures with on a day to day basis. I learned a lot about myself in the process and so I take away from it an overall feeling of appreciation and gratitude for the experience and I am really glad that I was a part of it. (Jessica Hopper, University of Wisconsin, USA)
I went into the fieldschool blind, with no idea what I was doing in cultural anthropology. And I'm leaving it, more confident and with ideas of what I'd like to do with my studies in the future. I think the experience gained and the questions the trip answered for me, are exactly what I needed. (Amy Kordeck, Indiana University Northwest, USA)
First of all, I want to say that, the summer school was the exact learning opportunity I was looking for to feel confident with my chosen field of study. I think if more students catch wind of this learning opportunity this summer school will grow every summer. I found the summer school was what one wanted it to be, you got what you put into it. (Jessica Gergely, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)
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