Graduate Program Faculty
Currently, faculty members in the Graduate Program in Historical Archaeology have ongoing field and research projects in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Mexico, and California, and outside the U.S. in Iceland and Oaxaca, Mexico. The graduate program has active laboratories devoted to general artifact processing, wet lab facilities, flotation, paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology, microscopy, remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems, archaeological conservation, and historic artifact type collections.
More details about the participating faculty members can be found in the Graduate Handbook or on the Anthropology Department website, but below is a brief summary:
Amy E. Den Ouden (PhD, University of Connecticut), Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Author of Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for Reservation Land in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut.
David B. Landon (PhD, Boston University), Senior Scientist in the Fiske Center, Associate Director of the Fiske Center
Author of Feeding Colonial Boston: A Zooarchaeological Study.
Stephen A. Mrozowski (PhD, Brown University): Professor of Anthropology; Director of the Fiske Center
Author of The Archaeology of Class in Urban America.
Co-author (with Mary Beaudry and Grace Ziesing) of Living on the Boott: Historical Archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts.
Stephen W. Silliman (PhD, UC-Berkeley), Associate Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Program Director
Author of Lost Laborers in Colonial California: Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma; Co-editor (with Martin Hall) of Historical Archaeology.
John M. Steinberg (PhD, UCLA), Senior Scientist in the Fiske Center
Director of Skagafjordur Project in Iceland.
Heather B. Trigg (PhD, University of Michigan), Senior Scientist in the Fiske Center
Author of From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico.
Judith Francis Zeitlin (PhD, Yale University), Associate Professor of Anthropology
Author of Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec.