 My name is Colin Quinn and I'm a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology. So my research focuses on the organization of communities in mining districts in Romania. I chose U of M for one reason and that was the graduate student body. I felt that the colleagues that I was going to develop here were going to be lifelong friends and challenging me to become a better scholar and a better person. There's one thing that our program here at Michigan does and that's ask big questions. By being able to ask those big questions to get the support to answer those big questions, we can position ourselves to be much stronger candidates on the job market and to contribute more broadly outside of academia to larger questions and larger issues that are impacting our society today. I describe the way Rackham's funding has supported me as being there at all the critical junctures. My first pilot research, I had funding to be able to collect that data to make me eligible for the larger international grants. And so at every point it's been pushing me to become a better scholar within academia but also bringing that scholarship and engaging with a large community outside of academia. When I complete the dissertation, my hope is to be hired at an academic institution. I feel like I've got the skill set to be successful at any school from a teaching heavy liberal arts school to a top tier research one university. And I feel like I've developed that skill set here from both teaching and from research to be able to be a productive scholar at any kind of an institution. My name is Colin and I am Rackham.