Annual Scholar Symposium (2) – To be rescheduled at a later date
By
2019 Scholarship Recipients
Saturday March 28, 2020
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
at
Sylvan Oaks Library
6700 Auburn Boulevard
Citrus Heights, CA 95621

Three scholarship recipients from 2019 will present on their research.
Program

1:00 – Set up
1:15 – “Field excavation at Scladina, Belgium” by Sarah Foley
2:15 – “Ethnographic/ethno historical analysis of social identities of women in Sonoma County between 1900 and 1945” by Bee Thao
3:15 – “Historic Native American village excavation in Northern Sierras” by Jonathan Garcia
4:00 – 4:30 – Clean up
Sarah Foley
Sarah graduated from University of California, Davis in 2020. She is preparing for graduate school by attending a field school at Scladina, Belgium and volunteering with excavations at Régismont-le-Haute, France. The scholarship offset expenses for the field school.

Jonathan Garcia
Jonathan graduated from Sonoma State University in 2019. He used the scholarship to attend a Chico Archaeological Field School. This field school involved the excavation of a historic Native American village in the Northern Sierras in California.

Bee Thao
Bee is a master’s student at Sonoma State University. She has had several years of professional experience in cultural resource management with exposure to Asian American archaeological cultural materials and sites. In 2019 she conducted an ethnographic/ethno historical research project on how Chinese, Japanese and Filipina women in Sonoma County created and maintained multiple social and cultural identities between 1900 and 1945. She used the scholarship to offset expenses associated with oral history interviews of Asian American woman.