AUDREY DAWSON
EDUCATION INFO:
2001—B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology, West Virginia Univeristy
2004—M.A. in Anthropology, University of South Carolina
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Archaeology
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Historical Archaeology especially African Diaspora in Caribbean and SE United States; cultural resources management; GIS in archaeology; landscape; sampling strategies.
THESIS TITLE:
Thesis: Une Île du Sucre: Preliminary Investigations into the Economic Activities of the Inhabitants of Les Portlands, Anse-Bertrand, Guadeloupe, French West Indies.
THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Kenneth G. Kelly (chair)
Dr. Christopher Ohm Clement
Dr. Janina Fenigsen
DISSERTATION RESEARCH/PROJECT:
My dissertation research will tentatively focus on the “King of England’s Soldiers” and group of maroons that lived in the Savannah River swamps from approximately 1782-1787. Pursuing this topic depends of the results of the preliminary fieldwork.
ADVISOR:
Dr. Kenneth G. Kelly
PAPERS/POSTERS PRESENTED:
Nov 2005 - “Connecting the Dots: Making Sense of the Historic Postholes Identified at the Johannes Kolb Site, 38DA75.” 2005 Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Columbia, South Carolina.
July 2005 - “Preliminary Investigations into the Economic Activities of the Inhabitants of Les Portlands, Anse-Bertrand, Guadeloupe, French West Indies.” 21st Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology. Trinidad and Tobago.
Feb 2004 - Poster, Archaeological Society of SC Annual Conference.
Sept 2002 - “My Summer Fieldwork Experience.” University of South Carolina Department of Anthropology Colloquia.
CONFERENCES ATTENDED:
SAA 2000— Philadelphia, PA
SAA 2001— New Orleans, LA
WV Archaeological Society Annual Conference 2001—Charleston, WV
SHA 2003—Providence, RI
SHA 2004—St. Louis, MO
Clovis in the Southeast 2005—Columbia, SC
SEAC 2005—Columbia, SC
ASSC 2002-2007—Columbia, SC
PUBLICATIONS:
2007 - Dawson, Audrey R., Christopher Ohm Clement, and Deborah A. Keene
Archaeological Research at Sixty-One Sites, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Technical Report by the Applied Research Division of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina. July 2007.
2006 - Clement, Christopher Ohm and Audrey Dawson
Archaeological Testing at 13 and 15 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Technical Report by the Applied Research Division of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
2004 - Dawson, Audrey R.
Rapport préliminaire sur la prospection pédestre d’une partie de la commune
d’Anse Bertrand, Guadeloupe. Bilan. Direction Régional des Affaires Culturelles: Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe.
2001 Dawson, Audrey R.
An Internet Spatial Multimedia Approach to Recording and Exploring the Urban Historical Geography of the Wharf District, Morgantown, WV. Available at http://ark.geo.wvu.edu/wharf/dawson/index.html. Project for the West Virginia University Regional Research Institute Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program. National Science Foundation Grant No. 9300445.
FELLOWSHIPS:
2003 - The Ceny Walker Graduate Fellowship from the Richard L. Walker Institute of International Studies to fund M.A. or Ph.D. field research conducted outside of South Carolina and/or the United States.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC)
Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists (COSCAPA)
Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA)
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
Archaeological Society of South Carolina (ASSC)
The International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (IACA)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
EMAIL:
dawsonar@gwm.sc.edu
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