I am a PhD student in Historical Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology. My training and research draws on historical archaeology, ethnohistory, and public humanities/museum studies to explore interests in community, identity, race, memory, myth, landscape, and the social uses of space. I am currently working on a dissertation focusing on the social networking of interethnic Native American hamlet communities in eighteenth and nineteenth century southwestern New England.

Interests

• Approaching "community": archaeologically, conceptually
• Material Culture and Materiality
• Public: Humanities, History, Archaeology
• Museum Studies
• northeastern North America, particularly southern New England

Ongoing Research

• Dissertation: Rooted in Movement: Native Community-Keeping Practices in 18th and 19th century southwestern New England
• Fort Island: a 17th century Native fort on Block Island in the Long Island Sound
• Cocumscussoc (Smith's Castle), North Kingstown, RI

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