Hawai‘i Archaeological Research Project

I was looking through the applications to the HARP program and I
noticed that they were still addressed to Dr. Graves. I was under
the impression that he transferred to a different university. Is
there a new person and address that I should mail the application to?
Also, I did not see any minimum requirements listed on the site. If
any exist, could you please email them to me? Thank you very much.

You’re right – he’s now at the University of New Mexico. However, HARP remains very much the same, including his leadership. Your paperwork comes to UH so that, pending acceptance, it can be processed here at our Outreach College. Dr. Graves (as well as Dr. McCoy) will still be in charge of all admissions. So for all intents and purposes: same person, same project, same address.

We have no “minimum” requirements (aside from undergraduate status or higher) – the onus is on the student to demonstrate how his or her past experience qualifies or indicates potential for benefiting from involvement with our project. This is reflected in our application by sections that ask you to list “relevant” coursework, as well as the essay. While some background in anthropology and archaeology is important, it’s more about the entire package. Remember, you’ll be competing against other undergraduates for the NSF-REU, most of whom probably don’t have a lot of “direct” experience with archaeology in Hawai’i. Be creative and tie what you do and are interested in to what you can read about our project on the website, in articles by Graves and others, and in the general literature for Hawai’i.