I am a fourth year grad student in Anthropology, in beginning dissertation stages. My research draws on historical archaeology, ethnohistory, and public humanities/museum studies to explore interests in community, materiality, identity and heritage, race, memory, myth, and the social uses of space. For the foreseeable future, I'm working through these ideas in and as they relate to my dissertation research, a project which focuses on the social networking of interethnic Native American hamlet communities in eighteenth and nineteenth century southern New England.

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Week 2: Eisenstein, E.L. (Parts 1 & 2)