The Lux Project

Today's post is by graduating History/Classics/Education student Kaitlyn Gilfillian. I've had the pleasure of teaching Kaitlyn in several classes and working closely with her on Lux stuff. She is a true model of what University of Winnipeg students can accomplish and how they contribute to their communities (she's also a busy volunteer in addition to her studies). She will be an excellent teacher and we all can't wait to see what she'll accomplish at the head of her own classroom! Congratulations on your graduation, Kaitlyn! I started volunteering for the Lux Project from the beginning because I was excited to see our collection in the anthropology lab. From the very beginning Dr. Funke talked about the possibility of creating curriculum and worksheets for the project to make it more accessible for school-aged children and to make our research more accessible to the public. At this time, I was in my fourth year of five in the education program at the universit

*Although the blog has been very quiet this last year, the Lux Project hasn't. We've been in the lab looking at Egyptian funerary objects, giving public talks, visiting archives in the UK, making worksheets for school children learning at home due to COVID-19 (available here:  https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/classics/the-lux-project.html ) , and doing research from home.       Since we can't travel these days, let's hear from one of our most enthusiastic and productive volunteers, Anya Ingram, on her experience taking part in her first archaeological dig in sunny Portugal. Since Anya is a geography major, she brings a very useful set of skills to her archaeological research and demonstrates just how important it is to take an interdisciplinary approach to any research project. Her post also expresses one of my favorite things about teaching and leading a project like Lux: the excitement of discovery and of piecing together the ancient past bit by bit.  This summer from th