Graduate Students

Graduate Students currently working with me and those who have in the past

Guadeloupe 2002

Current Ph.D. Students

Peggy Brunache

Peggy Brunache is completing her dissertation at the University of Texas investigating foodways and
creole culture using archaeological data from Habitation La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe.

Jakob Crockett

Jakob Crockett is working on the Mann-Simons African American Project. The Mann-Simons African American Archaeology Project seeks to understand
the material strategies employed by the diverse African American community to negotiate the historically complex and challenging world of the urban South.
Primary data is drawn from documents, oral histories, and archaeological excavations at the Mann-Simons site (38RD1083), a collection of nineteenth and twentieth century intact and extinct urban, middle-class African American households in downtown Columbia, South Carolina. As the first archaeological investigation of an African American owned site in Columbia, this project offers a unique opportunity to contribute to our understanding of African American culture and identity on local and regional scales.

Audrey Dawson

For my dissertation, I am going to excavate a site known as Indian Springs. It is located on Comingtee Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina; historic sources suggest that this spring was the location where Native Americans would camp and sell their pottery to the enslaved laborers. After locating the site and collecting a sample of colonoware from it, I would also like to collect a sample (100+ sherds) from 10 or more plantation sites along the Cooper River and clay samples from a variety of locations throughout the Cooper River Drainage. Compositional analysis (most likely a variety of different tests) would then be conducted on this sample. The goal would be two fold 1) to see if clay sourcing could provide information on exchange networks and movement of people across the landscape in terms of colonoware from Cooper River plantations and 2) excavations at Indian Springs will hopefully be able to provide information concerning culture contact between the Native Americans and enslaved laborers as shown through material culture (i.e. the pottery).

Kevin Fogle

Kevin Fogle is working in the Society Hill area of South Carolina looking at 19th century plantation life. In particular his research will try to examine intra-community relations among enslaved laborers, focusing on social and physical boundaries at the household level. His dissertation project is entitled: "Boundaries of Enslaved Life: Archaeology of a 19th Century Plantation in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina".

Lisa Randle

Lisa Randle’s dissertation study critically assesses the relative utility of panoptical model as applied to plantation archaeology. Her dissertation project is entitled: “Surveillance and Control along the East Branch of the Cooper River, Berkeley County, South Carolina”. Building on previous work of Leland Ferguson and David Babson (1986) and implementing GIS viewshed analyses it moreover considers the role of social order in the landscape of the East Branch of the Cooper River in Berkeley County, South Carolina.

Steve Smith

Steve Smith’s Ph.D. will be in Historical Archaeology; his dissertation topic will involve an archaeological analysis of Francis Marion’s partisan campaign from August of 1780 to September 1781. A working title is: “The archaeology of Partisan Warfare: Francis Marion’s Campaign of 1780-1781.” Using a combination of historical and archaeological data, Smith will attempt to locate and survey archaeologically the camps and battlefields associated with Marion’s campaign, and will develop and test a series of research questions regarding the archaeological components of these sites.

William Stevens

Bill is involved in an ongoing multidisciplinary project studying the remains of enslaved African Americans from a rice plantation in Georgetown, SC. He is beginning dissertation research that will confront questions surrounding the differences of the health and disease experiences of African slaves within the Caribbean context and that of the southern plantation system. His research areas are bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and historical archaeology.

Diane Wallman

Diane Wallman is joining us from Washington State University where she completed an M.A. on the faunal analysis of an urban slum from 19th century St. Louis, Missouri. For her Ph.D. research, she will be examining faunal materials recovered from Habitation Crève-Coeur in Martinique to investigate foodways. By studying the subsistence practices of the slaves at Crève-Coeur, she hopes to address the extent to which the enslaved communities managed the everyday risks inherent within the plantation structure through their subsistence practices. Her dissertation project is entitled: "Foodways, Risk Management and Identity: A Zooarchaeological Investigation of Subsistence at Habitation Crève Cœur, Martinique".

Completed Ph.D. Students

Heather Gibson
(Ph.D. 2007)

Heather Gibson completed her Ph.D. dissertation "Daily Practice and Domestic Economies in Guadeloupe: An Archaeological and Historical Study"
in July, 2007, for the Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University. She is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Neil Norman
(Ph.D. 2008)

Neil Norman completed his dissertation for the University of Virginia based upon work
he conducted in the hinterland of Savi, Bénin in Spring 2008. He is teaching at William and Mary in Spring 2009. He was awarded the Society for Historical Archaeology Dissertation prize in January 2009.

Current M.A. Students

Emily Bikowski

Emily is analyzing Paleoethnobotainical remains recovered from Habitation CrèveCœur.

Hélena Ferguson

Completed M.A. Students

Lauran Riser

(MA 2009)

Lauran is interested in landscape and the ways in which it illuminates transformations of social relationships and identity. She is exploring these transformations through material culture as well as interviews from living descendants and neighbors. The tentative title of her thesis is: "Mann-Simons African American Archaeology Project: Exploring Social Relations Temporally and Spatially through a Comparison of Material Culture from the Marion Street Lots".

Lois Dowers

(MA 2008)

Lois completed her MA Thesis which focuses on children in the archaeological record through the material culture of toy marbles

Kevin Fogle

(MA 2008)

Kevin completed his MA in Spring 2008, using ceramic crossmending and stratigraphic analysis to identify unique occupational sequences across an 18th century plantation complex at Montpelier, Virginia. He began the Ph.D. program in Fall 2008.

Rebecca Barrera

(MA 2005)

Rebecca Barrera wrote her MA Thesis comparing Spanish ceramics from the 16^th century sites of Santa Elena, in South Carolina, and St. Augustine, Florida.

Melissa Boling

(MA 2005)

Melissa Boling completed her MA Thesis studying worked glass artifacts from South Carolina, Tennessee, and the Caribbean.

Jakob Crockett

(MA 2005)

Jakob Crockett studied archaeological material excavated from Mann-Simons house,
a free African American home in Columbia, S.C.

Lauren Davis

(MA 2005)

Lauren Davis completed her MA Thesis comparing artifacts found on two slave village sites in Guadeloupe to explore the relationship
of proximity to urban centers on the assemblage.

Maggie Tyler

(MA 2005)

Maggie Tyler completed her MA Thesis studying an outlying African American and European American structure in Salem, N.C.

Audrey Dawson

(MA 2004)

Audrey Dawson worked with me in Guadeloupe during the summer of 2002, 2003, and returned as a field director in 2004.
She completed her MA Thesis on plantation settlement patterns in Guadeloupe.

Katie Epps

(MA 2004)

Katie Epps worked with me in Guadeloupe during the summer of 2002, and has now completed her thesis examining a structure
located on Stono Plantation, James Island, South Carolina.

Steve Lenik

(MA 2004)

Steve Lenik also worked with me in Guadeloupe, and wrote his thesis on the identification of a historic site on a sugar plantation in St. Croix, U.S., Virgin Islands. He is now a Ph.D. student at Syracuse University, and plans to begin a dissertation project on Dominica, the island between Guadeloupe
and Martinique in the Caribbean.

Peggy Brunache

(MA 2001)

Peggy Brunache finished her Thesis, which focused on identifying public vs. private space in the elite districts of Savi in May 2000. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in African Diaspora Graduate Program in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and is continuing to work with me in Guadeloupe.

Sarah (Morby) Chicone

(MA 2000, Museum Certificate 2001)

Sarah Chicone completed her MA Thesis on Pritchard’s Shipyard, a Colonial industrial site near Charleston in May 2000. Sarah used her Museum Certificate (2001), working as a museum exhibit researcher for Christopher Chadbourne and Associates, a museum exhibit design firm in Boston, MA, for several years. She recently completed her Ph.D. at SUNY Binghamton, continuing her specialization in Historic Archaeology.

Neil Norman

(MA 2000, Museum Certificate)

Neil Norman completed his MA Thesis focusing on an ethno archaeological study of ritual pottery in Southern Benin, in May 2000. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in 2008.

Part of the Guadelope 2002 Crew

(From left to right) Katie Epps, Audrey Dawson, Peggy Brunache, Raina Croff

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