UMass Boston

Faculty & Staff

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 Ecuador. 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.

  • Daniela Balanzátegui, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  • Christa Beranek, Research Scientist I for the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  • Douglas Bolender, Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  • David Landon, Associate Director of the Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  • Nedra Lee, Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  • Stephen Mrozowski, University Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  • Stephen Silliman, Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  • John Steinberg, Research Scientist II for the Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  • Heather Trigg, Research Scientist II in the Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

Other Fiske Center Staff

  • Dennis Piechota, Archaeological Conservator of the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  • Virginia Popper, Anthropology Department, College of Liberal Arts