CSU Todos Santos Center: Student, faculty reflections 22 Dec, 2020
Professor Shane Macfarlan teaching elementary school students about local prehistory at Albergue Escolar Todos Santos, Summer 2019.
“I can say definitively that if it weren’t for the CSU Todos Santos Center’s presence, I would not host a learning abroad field school in Mexico,” said Shane Macfarlan, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Utah. “It was something I always wanted to do.”
For Macfarlan, the CSU Todos Santos Center eliminated the guesswork of where and how to house students, and provided necessary infrastructure and community connections to support his goal of creating the Culture, Ecology, and Sustainability Field School a two-week course designed for students to examine the intersection of culture, history, and ecology within the Baja California Sur region, with the town of Todos Santos as a case site.