My interests in Material Culture and
Materiality are grouped generally into four topics
(in no particular order):
- Combining "scientific" materials analyses and interpretive anthropological material culture approaches to produce nuanced archaeological understandings of materials. In doing so, I provide materially-situated examples that can be used to interrogate the traditional academic divisions between scienceand humanities-based research questions and methodologies.
greene farm ice houe, 1782-present, Warwick, RI
- Materials use, transformation, and recirculation.
recirculating materials / tourist trap, Tunis
- Transformations in archaeological practice (past, present, and future) in response to technologies and media.
- Modern material culture and the archaeology of popular culture.
reconstructed trojan horse w/ "no smoking" sign on leg, Cannakale
