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Kathleen Deagan
Dr. Deagan's work focuses on the comparative, multi-scalar archaeology of the Spanish colonial period in the Americas. She has conducted excavations in St. Augustine, Florida since 1972, including the study of cultural syncretism among Spanish, Indigenous and African residents. Her approach involves the articulation of historic accounts with the archaeological remains in order to examine the influence of Indigenous customs and cooking in the Spanish colonies in the Americas. -
Theresa Singleton
Her areas of interest include historical archaeology, African diasporas, museums, North America and the Caribbean. She has studied enslaved peoples and the African diaspora in coastal Georgia and Cuba. She is a leading archaeologist applying comparative approaches to the study of slavery in the Americas. Singleton has been involved in the excavation of slave residences in the southern United States and in the Caribbean. -
Rosemary A Joyce
Her research in Honduras explored social histories and economic inequality among the Maya. She considers how archaeologists might combat the assumption that increasing inequality is inevitable. She also explores difference, identification, and the exercise of power within societies with an emphasis on intersectionality between gender, sexuality, and economic subordination. Joyce is also concerned with the ways her research is tied up in nationalism, cultural diplomacy, and cultural heritage. -
Matthew Johnson
Focusing on medieval and historical archaeology in Europe, his research includes analyses of castles, traditional houses, landscape, and an archaeology of capitalism. His collaborative Anglo-American project explored the Bodies castle and its surroundings as a living landscape of people of different social classes and identities. Places like Bodiam are best understood as a series of scales, ranging from the everyday actions through to their setting within global, postcolonial networks. -
Meredith Chesson
Chesson’s researches Bronze Age Italy where she investigates daily life in a small town to establish the material footprint of peoples’ everyday lives before Greek colonization in the 8th century BCE. Her interests center how human beings of the past and present construct and experience difference in their daily lives. She seeks to understand how people confront challenges and changes throughout their lifetimes by investigating peoples’ environments, material, and how they treat their dead.