UMD Anthropology Department Presentations at SHA

Attending the Society for Historical Archaeology's 2014 conference this week? Many of UMD Department of Anthropology's own are presenting. For more information about the conference or to search the complete program, visit the sha2014.com.


Schedule of Department Presenters:

Wednesday, January 8, afternoon

Dr. Mark Leone
7:10-8:30 pm
Session: What Were the Questions That Counted in Maritime Cities?
Presentation: A Modern Archaeology for Quebec City



Thursday, January 9, afternoon

Megan Springate
1:30-3 pm
Panel: Discussing the Future of Feminist Historical Archaeology

Matthew Palus
3:30-5 pm
Session: Archaeologies of the Written Word: Examining the Importance of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Literature
Presentation: "Sometimes paths last longer than roads": William S. Burroughs for an Archaeology of Modernity

Benjamin Skolnik
3:30-5 pm
Session: Archaeologies of the Written Word: Examining the Importance of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Literature
Presentation: Archaeologies of Conflicting Ideologies: Frederick Douglass as a Contemporary Post-Colonial Thinker

Tracy Jenkins and Stefan Woehlke
3:30-5 pm
Session: Archaeologies of the Written Word: Examining the Importance of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Literature
Presentation: Free Black Perspectives in Easton, Maryland

Kathryn Deeley
3:30-5 pm
Session: Archaeologies of the Written Word: Examining the Importance of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Literature
Presentation: "The Talented Truth": Exploring the Writings of W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington in Annapolitan Archaeology 

Mary Furlong
3:30-5 pm
Session: Archaeologies of the Written Word: Examining the Importance of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Literature
Presentation: Understanding African American Archaeology and Archaeological Education in Washington, DC through the Influences of Booker T. Washington


Friday, January 10, afternoon

Patricia Markert
1:15-5:15 pm
Session: Archaeologies of Memory and Identity
Presentation: Voices Not Lost: An archaeology of the past and present Timbuctoo, New Jersey


Saturday, January 11, morning

Michael Roller 
8:30-11:45 am
Session: Labor and Plurality: Excavating the Political Economy of Identity
Presentation: Modernity and Community Change in Lattimer No. 2: The American 20th Century seen through the archaeology of a Pennsylvania Anthracite shanty town

Beth Pruitt
10:45 am
Session: Intersecting Landscapes, Part II
Presentation: Intersections of Place, Landscape and Spirit at Wye House


Saturday, January 11, afternoon

Megan Springate
1:30-5 pm
Panel: Queer Forum: Queer Scholarship and Queer Experience

Dr. Stephen Brighton
3:30-5:45 pm
Session: Community Education and Public Engagement
Presentation: When there is no "X" to mark the spot: Questioning the Validity of the Archaeologist, Community Collaboration, and the Study of Transient Immigration Labor

Stephen Woehlke
3:30-5:15 pm
Session: Archaeologies of Removal
Presentation: White Washing an African American Landscape: A Look at "Self-Deportation" Strategies in 19th Century Virginia

Adam Fracchia
3:30-5:15 pm
Session: Archaeologies of Removal
Presentation: Worth(less): Value and Destruction in a Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Quarry Town

Camille Westmont
3:30-5:15 pm
Session: Archaeologies of Mining and Industry
Presentation: From Homespun to Machine Made: The Rise of Women Wage-Earners in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region