User:Anne McDermott

Hi, my name is Anne McDermott, born 1988, student of Anthropology and History at Iowa - my home state and where I intend to live out my life.

History is not only my field of study but also a hobby, especially Celtic History in which my ancestors were involved in many ways as you can see from my family name (I also have Mcleods and McDonalds among my ancestors). My parents and grandparents were too busy battling their way out of abject poverty to care very much about such things. I, standing on their shoulders and born to relative affluence, can afford to dig into the more distant past (and try not to be blinded by the supposed glories of some rather nasty events).

I am also very interested in alternate history, which I have to keep very separate from my university studies since some lecturers which I highly appreciate strongly frown at it. And I love fantasy very much (prefer Ursula LeGuin's worlds to Tolkien's).

I take an interest in political and social events, in the US and abroad (unlike the stereotype of Middle West people...) and have a strong tendency to side with the underdog (not that it is always easy to decide who that is, in every given conflict). I am in particular supportive of indigenous people everywhere, trying to save something from the mess which we Europeans made of their lives over the past five centuries (this I suppose tells you something about what kind of anthropologist I intend to be, if and when...).

I have only recently discovered Wikipedia and made some tryout edits, feel that I am now ready to register and try to make my mark.

That's all for now.

(I tried several times to put in my photo, did not work out. Will leave for later trying to master this pesky program...)