Curriculum Vitae
Boston University Department of Archaeology 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 347 Boston, MA 02215 USA Born: 21 July 1976 (Providence, Rhode Island)
Professional Field: Anthropological archaeology. Area: Historical archaeology; heritage management; material culture studies. Principal Geographic Regions: New England; North America; British Atlantic World.
Anthropological archaeology (historical focus), colonial and post-colonial archaeology, archaeological curation, identity, agency, archaeological theory.
2007: PhD, Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, MA. Dissertation title: A Middling Gentility: Taste, Status, and Material Culture at the Eighteenth-century Wood Lot, Wanton-Lyman-Hazard Site, Newport, Rhode Island (advisor Dr. Mary C. Beaudry).
2000: MA (archaeological heritage management), Department of Archaeology, Boston University. Thesis title: Repatriation of the Stalling's Island Mound Collection: An Assessment of Human Remains and Funerary Objects in the Collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (advisor Dr. Ricardo J. Elia).
1998: AB, magna cum laude, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Thesis title: Out of the Silence: An Investigation of Mortuary Practices and Cultural Relations at the Waldo Farm Site in Dartmouth, Massachusetts (advisor Dr. Elizabeth Chilton).
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Fall 2005: Teaching Fellow, Anthropology 1130: Archaeology of Harvard Yard. Contributed to development of program and research design for this new class (25 undergraduate students). Served as field supervisor, lead weekly sections, graded field notebooks and papers, contributed to design/content of project website. Contributed as expert on New England historical archaeology.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH
Summer 2004, Summer 2005, Summer 2006: Part-Time Visiting Lecturer, Soc/Ant 180: Introduction to New England Historical Archaeology. Proposed, developed, and solo-taught class for the Sociology/Anthropology Department through the Division of Continuing Education (15 students, undergraduates and adult learners). Classes included lectures, field trips, quizzes, papers, in-class projects, a final exam, and class web page.
THE PRINCETON REVIEW (Newton, MA)
Aug 2003-Jan 2005: Instructor/Tutor, test preparation for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). Instructed students in content and test-taking strategies for verbal and math subjects (one-10 students; primarily adult learners).
SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY (Newport, RI)
Summer 2003: Adjunct Faculty, CHP390-01 Field School in Historical Archaeology: Wanton-Lyman-Hazard Site. Contributed to development of research design, served as field supervisor, gave two lectures, graded field notebooks (10 students, undergraduates).
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Spring 2003: Teaching Fellow, AR101 Introduction to Archaeology.
Spring 2003: Teaching Assistant, AR505 Remote Sensing in Archaeology.
Fall 2002: Teaching Fellow, AR100 Great Discoveries in Archaeology.
Spring 2001: Teaching Fellow, AR100.
Fall 2000: Teaching Fellow, AR100.
Spring 2000: Teaching Fellow/Lab Instructor, AR102, Introduction to Sciences in Archaeology.
Fall 1999: Teaching Fellow, AR100. Duties for these large (30-100+ undergraduate students, archaeology majors and non-majors) introductory classes included room prep, quiz and exam writing and grading, lab section leadership, office hours, web page maintenance, and solo lecturing (usually two lectures per semester).
Dec 2005-present: Senior Curatorial Assistant, Curatorial Department, Peabody Museum
of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Aug 2002-Dec 2005: Research Assistant, Curatorial Department, Peabody Museum. Sep 2000-Jun 2001: Curatorial Assistant, Repatriation Department, Peabody Museum. Mar 1997-Aug 2000: Research Assistant, Repatriation Department, Peabody Museum. Sep 1994-Mar 1997: Special Projects Assistant, Fogg Art Museum Fine Arts Library Visual
Collections, Harvard University. Jun-Sep 1996: Curatorial Assistant, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA.
Sep 2005- Jan 2006: Field Supervisor/Project Archaeologist, Anthropology 1130: Archaeology of Harvard Yard, Cambridge. Jun-Jul 2003, Jun-Jul 2004: Field Supervisor/Project Archaeologist, Wanton-Lyman-Hazard Site, Newport. Aug 2001-Oct 2001: Archaeological Technician, National Park Service, Longfellow National
Historic Site, Cambridge. Nov 2000: Project Archaeologist, Nathan and Polly Johnson House, New Bedford. Jun-Jul 2000: Intern, The Hermitage: Home of Andrew Jackson, Hermitage, TN. Jun 1999, Jun 2000: Crew, Royall House Project, Medford, MA. Jul 1999: Crew, Holden Chapel Excavation, Cambridge. Mar-May 1999: Project Archaeologist, Breakheart Reservation, Saugus, MA.
Aug 1996: Crew, Oxford University Archaeology Unit, Eton Rowing Lake Project, Maidenhead, England.
Oct 2005: Identifying and Interpreting Artifacts of Personal Adornment Workshop, 2005 Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, Trenton, NJ.
Jan 2003: Archaeological Illustration Workshop, 36th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Providence, RI.
Sep 1998-Jun 2002: Coursework in archaeological theory, history of archaeological thought, methods and history of historical archaeology, colonial archaeology of North America, material culture studies, industrial archaeology, documentary archaeology, archaeology of landscape, social theory and archaeology, colonial history of New England, architecture of Massachusetts, heritage management, archaeological laws and conventions, Department of Archaeology, Boston University.
Sep 2001: National Park Service ANCS+ catalogue standards training, Lowell, MA.
Sep 1999: George Miller Ceramics Identification Workshop, Department of Archaeology, Boston University.
Jul 1999: OSHA training in the excavation of arsenic/mercury contaminated deposits, Environmental Health and Safety Department, Harvard University.
Register of Professional Archaeologists. Society for Historical Archaeology. Council for Northeastern Historical Archaeology.
Mar 2006: Selected to present, Fourth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, Winterthur, DE.
Jan-Dec 2005: Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (Gr. 7234), The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.; for "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie?: An Archaeological Study of Middling Identities in mid-18th-century Newport, Rhode Island."
May 2005: Boston University Humanities Foundation Student Merit Grant, Angela J. and James
J. Rallis Memorial Award. Oct 2003: Student Paper Prize, Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology. Jun 2003-Jun 2004: Sarah Bradley Tyson Memorial Fellowship. Sep 1998-Jun 2003: Presidential Graduate Fellowship, Boston University. Jun 1995-Jun 1998: Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholar, Radcliffe College. Jun 1995-Jun 1998: John Harvard Scholar, Harvard University.
OUTREACH
Sep 2006-present: Archaeological Consultant, WHALE, New Bedford, MA.
Aug 2003-present: Mentor, Radcliffe Mentor Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA.
Sep 2002-Sep 2005: Education Committee Member, Department of Archaeology, Boston University.
Sep 1999-Sep 2001: Exhibits Committee Member, Department of Archaeology, Boston
University.
2006 "Articles too Tedious to Enumerate": The Appreciation of Ceramics in mid-18th-century Newport, Rhode Island. Northeast Historical Archaeology (in press; peer-reviewed journal).
2005 Faith and Practice at an Early-18th-century Wampanoag Burial Ground: The Waldo Farm Site in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Historical Archaeology 39(4):65-86 (peer-reviewed journal).
2005 Eighteenth-century Lives and Lots: The Wanton-Lyman-Hazard Site in Newport, Rhode Island. Context 18(1):8-9 (edited newsletter of research reports and news from Archaeology Department affiliates and alumni, published by the Center for Archaeological Studies at Boston University).
2001 Remote Sensing at the Nathan and Polly Johnson House, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Manuscript on file, Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston, MA.
2000 Repatriation of the Stalling's Island Mound Collection: An Assessment of Human Remains and Funerary Objects in the Collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. M.A. thesis, Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, MA.
2000 The Nathan and Polly Johnson House, New Bedford, Massachusetts (webpage).
1999 Description and Management Report: Historic Archaeological Resources at Breakheart Reservation, Saugus, MA.
1999 Industrial Architecture Survey of Cambridge, Massachusetts (webpage). (Undertaken for Boston University American & New England Studies class, AM780: Historic Preservation; research was groundwork for a planned published volume.)
1998 Out of the Silence: An Investigation of Mortuary Practices and Cultural Relations at the Waldo Farm Site in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. A.B. thesis, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
2007 Post-colonialism and the Middling Sorts: Challenging Narratives of Eighteenth-century Anglo America through a Domestic Site in Newport, Rhode Island. Paper to be presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology's 40th Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA. Organized session.
2006 Collaborative Study of an Historic Native-American Sash and an Associated Paper Label "Belt of Indian King Philip. From Col. Keyes" (co-author). Massachusetts Archaeological Society Spring Meeting, Worcester, MA. Invited paper.
2006 A Middling Gentility?: Status, Consumption, and Taste in a Newport, Rhode Island, Household, ca. 1720-1750. Fourth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, Winterthur, DE. Invited speaker.
2005 "Tolerably Furnish'd for an Ordinary Man": Implications of Franklin's Consumerist Critique. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, Trenton, NJ. Organized session.
2005 Co-organizer, Status and Material Culture in the Northeast. Session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, Trenton, NJ.
2005 The Other Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House: Recent Archaeology at a Forgotten Newport Home. Archaeology Day, sponsored by the Rhode Island Archaeological Society, Cranston, RI. Invited speaker.
2005 Widow Pratt's Possessions: Commerce, Kin, and Conflict in Early-18th-century Newport, Rhode Island. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology's 38th Annual Conference, York, England. Organized session.
2004 Maps and Archaeology: Landmaking in Boston. Massachusetts Archaeology Week. Department of Archaeology, Boston University. Invited speaker.
2003 "Articles too Tedious to Enumerate": The Appreciation of Ceramics in mid-18th-century Newport, Rhode Island. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, Lowell, MA. Organized session.
2003 Co-organizer, The Archaeology of 18th-century New England: Transformation, Creation, & Material Culture. Session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, Lowell, MA.
2002 After the Dig Open House. Event planning, presentation (The Waldo Farm Burial Ground in Dartmouth, MA); part of Massachusetts Archaeology Week. Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, MA.
2002 Meaningful Ambivalence: Mimicry and Appropriation in Late 17th- and Early 18th-Century Native Christian Burials in Southeastern Massachusetts. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology's 35th Annual Conference, Mobile, AL. Organized session.
Comparative Colonialism (specialty in post-medieval British colonialisms). Historical Archaeology of New England and the Atlantic World. Archaeologies of Identity. History of Archaeology and/or Archaeological Theory. Issues of Heritage Management, Museum Studies, Public Archaeology, and Repatriation. Historical Material Culture Studies and Artifact Identification. Field and Lab Methods in Archaeology. Archaeological Reading and Writing.