Co-Principal Investigator, May 2004 - Present
Greene Farm has been a dynamic site of interaction, invention, habitation, cultivation, and exchange for at least 5,000 years BP. The Greene Farm Archaeology Project (GFAP) is a collaborative undertaking involving archaeological research, historical preservation, material culture specialists, historians, environmental scientists, and artists. I have been a Principal Investigator and co-designer of the project since its beginning in 2004. GFAP is a long term interdisciplinary research project that aims to understand the cultural landscape and undocumented histories of Greene Farm beginning with the initial European settlement in 1642. The ownership of the farm by only two families since 1642 provides unparalleled access and contexts for research opportunities. During the colonial period, Rhode Island was an anarchist backwater populated by Native Americans and European colonists. Many of the colonists were dissenters, religious eccentrics, rebels, and criminals. The excavated material from Greene Farm depicts a hybrid colonial environment that stands in stark contrast to other British and Puritanical colonies.

Carr Estate, Little Bay, Montserrat, West Indies
A 17th-20th century plantation site and enslaved laborers' village. Project directed by Boston University, University of Tennessee, and the Montserrat National Trust.

Project Team Member, December 2006 - Present
Responsibilities include: conducting and designing site survey and mapping, excavation and recording, laboratory processing, GPS digital data processing, and conservation of iron finds.

Archaeometallurgical Analyses of Colonial Ironmaking Materials

Researcher, October 2006 - Present
Material analyses of ironworking artifacts and byproducts from excavated from colonial Rhode Island assemblages. Conducted at Yale University Kline Geology Laboratories, with Dr. Robert Gordon.