The Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology is an intensive four-week training program that will teach graduate students how to use museum collections in research, incorporating Smithsonian collections as an integral part of their anthropological training.

Support from the Cultural Anthropology Program at NSF will cover full tuition and living expenses for 12 students each summer.

Where: Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC

When: June 29 – July 24, 2009

Application date: March 15, 2009

For full information and application materials: http://anthropology.si.edu/summerinstitute