Category Archives: field trips

Accompanying students to Beijing

Posted on May 10, 2019 by ericrossacademic

During the Spring 2019 semester I participated in the latest edition of AUI’s International Field Seminar, accompanying nine students to Beijing. The international Field Seminar is a semester-long undergraduate course that deals with an array of social and cultural issues … Continue reading →

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Notes from the field, January 2018 in Senegal

Posted on February 26, 2018 by ericrossacademic

I have just returned from a week of field work in Senegal. While I have often done field work there, this time was different. First, I was joined by two other researchers for a team excursion. My two companions de … Continue reading →

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An emotional day for me at IFAN-CAD in Dakar

Posted on January 5, 2018 by ericrossacademic

I’m in Dakar this week, on the first leg of a field excursion through Senegal. Today I gave a presentation at the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire-Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal’s premier research institute affiliated to Université Cheikh Anta Diop. The presentation … Continue reading →

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Just published, a study of shrines at Moroccan archaeological sites

Posted on April 24, 2017 by ericrossacademic

A long time in the pipeline, a co-authored study of shrines at archaeological sites has at last been published. Fifteen years ago, in the Spring of 2002, I teamed up with Said Ennahid, an archaeologist and colleague at Al Akhawayn … Continue reading →

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The annual Interfaith Alliance excursion down Oued Tizguit

Posted on September 4, 2016 by ericrossacademic

To greet the new academic year with an appropriate mix of fun and purpose, AUI’s Interfaith Alliance organized an excursion down the Tizguit valley from campus to the village of Zawiyat Sidi Abdesslam. The Interfaith Alliance is one of the … Continue reading →

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Attending a geography conference in Ankara

Posted on June 1, 2015 by ericrossacademic

I have spent the break between the Spring and Summer semesters in Turkey. First, I attended a geography conference in Ankara, after which I was invited to Konya to give a presentation. This year’s EuroGeo Conference was held in Ankara. Yes, … Continue reading →

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Visiting restoration projects in Fez

Posted on March 28, 2015 by ericrossacademic

As the semester progresses, I continue to take the Moroccan Cultural Heritage class into the field (for previous class trips, check these posts on the cave houses of Zawiyat Sidi Abdesslam and on Volubilis). On Saturday 28 March we toured … Continue reading →

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Presenting Volubilis, ancient capital of Berber Morocco

Posted on February 16, 2015 by ericrossacademic

The second field trip in my Moroccan Cultural Heritage course (the first was to the cave houses of Zawiyat Sidi Abdesslam) was to Volubilis, Morocco’s premier archaeological site. All too often, in school textbooks and in tourist guidebooks, Volubilis is … Continue reading →

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Visiting the cave houses of Zawiyat Sidi Abdesslam

Posted on January 31, 2015 by ericrossacademic

This semester, exceptionally, I am teaching two graduate courses. One is a course on Moroccan cultural heritage. It is designed to be a hands-on exploration of how this country’s cultural heritage, material and tangible, fits with various types of development. … Continue reading →

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Hiking in the Middle Atlas

Posted on January 26, 2014 by ericrossacademic

Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane is relatively isolated from the mainstream flows of Morocco’s social, political, cultural and economic life. Yet, as far from the country’s “core” as it may be, Ifrane is centrally located and provides many opportunities for … Continue reading →

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