Recent Student Work
Project: Honors Thesis (2021): An Archaeological and Spatial Exploration of Yard Use at the Oval Site, Stratford Hall Plantation: A Mid-18th-century Mixed-Use Site on the Northern Neck of Virginia
Author: Delaney Resweber
Project: An Archaeological Analysis of a Possible Slave Quarter on the Little Falls Plantation. Poster Presentation for the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference 2020 and the UMW Research and Creativity Day 2020.
Authors: Lillian Kyett Salamone, Kathleen Keith, and Lawrence King
Courses: Field work conducted by students in HISP 207, American Archaeology (Spring 2018 and 2019). Analysis conducted in HISP 471, Artifact Analysis (Fall 2019). Presentation completed in URES 197, Undergraduate Research (Spring 2020).
Project: An Archaeological Survey in Search of the Village of Quiyough. Paper Presentation for the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference 2020 and the UMW Research and Creativity Day 2020.
Authors: Rick Altenburg, Claire Ross, and Madalyn Sadler
Courses: Field work conducted by students in HISP 471, Worlds Collide: Virginia 1619 in partnership with the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia (Spring 2019). Analysis conducted in HISP 471, Artifact Analysis (Fall 2019). Presentation completed in URES 197, Undergraduate Research (Spring 2020).
Project: Script for the permanent exhibition “For the People Had a Mind to Work” A Century of African American Education in Spotsylvania County planned for John J. Wright Educational and Cultural Center in Spotsylvania, Virginia
Author: group work
Course: HISP463, Museum Exhibitions (2019)
Project: Health and Hygiene at Sherwood Forest Plantation (44ST615): Civil War and Postbellum. Article based on the 2018 Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference Student Paper Prize Winning Presentation.
Author: Shannon Bremer
Courses: Field work conducted by students in HISP 467, Field Methods in Archaeology (Summers 2015-2017). Analysis conducted in HISP 491, Artifact Analysis (Fall 2017). Presentation and article completed in URES 197, Undergraduate Research (Spring 2018).