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

Audrey Dawson's dissertation research will tentatively focus on the "King of England's Soldiers," enslaved Africans and African-Americans who fought
with the British during the American Revolution in return for their freedom. When the British evacuated Savannah, GA, in 1782, this group was left behind. Confronted with re-enslavement, they took their weapons into the swamps north of Savannah. They lived in the swamps for approximately four years,
erecting at least two villages and growing numerous crops. Her research hopes to locate these villages and, through archaeological investigations,
address questions concerning the group and their culture.

Lisa Randle

Lisa Randle proposes to examine Francis Stiles Lightburn (Lightbourne) who owned Anchorage Plantation on Wadmalaw Island (Charleston County, SC)
during the early 19th century. Her plan is to perform an archeological examination of the "negro houses" identified on the 1805 plat.
By extension, she plans to tie him into the transatlantic slave trade through his kinship relationship with his brother,
Stiles Lightbourne in Guinea and other family members (in Bermuda, Savannah, Georgetown, etc.).

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.

Diane Wallman

Diane Wallman is joining us from Washington State University where she completed an M.A. on faunal analysis of historic sites in Missouri. She will be working on Caribbean sites for her Ph.D.

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.

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 will be teaaching at William and Mary in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009.

Current M.A. Students

Julia Clark-Spohn

Julia spent the field season of 2007 with me in Martinique and will hopefully be studying flotation samples from Crève Cœur for her MA thesis.

Lois Dowers

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

Lauran Riser

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".

Completed M.A. Students

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 is beginning 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 has entered the Ph.D. program 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. Neil is currently working toward a Ph.D. in the Anthropology Department at the University of Virginia and spent the summer of 2002 excavating in Tanzania. He is continuing to work in Benin for his Ph.D.

Part of the Guadelope 2002 Crew

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

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