Harvard Students

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Adam Stack (above), a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student in the Department of Anthropology, believes the "Cast in Bronze" workshop has transformed his approach to teaching. "The class gave me a whole new array of ways to use objects, and not only bronze objects, in discussion and lab sections in class," he said.

“One of the great things about doing this kind of hands-on experience, the same as fieldwork, is that it challenges you to think about materials or a subject in an entirely new way,” Blier said. “As teachers and scholars, it’s important that we provide as many opportunities as possible to get students into the realm of challenging what they know about their field of study, and finding new ways of looking at objects or cultures.” - source link here.