PROF. KENNETH G. KELLY
Dr. Kenneth Kelly is an anthropological archaeologist who studies the impacts of the Colonial Encounter in settings as diverse as slave trade sites on coastal West Africa, and Caribbean sites of forced labor. In Africa, Dr. Kelly has directed excavation projects in Benin and Guinea, where they focused on the settlements and settings where European and American slave traders interacted with Africans. In the Caribbean, Dr. Kelly has directed projects investigating the lives of enslaved laborers on sugar plantations in Guadeloupe and Martinique. Continuing his investigations of the Revolutionary period in the French West Indies, he is now exploring other regions in the French colonial world. He has recently begun a project exploring the ways in which architecture is used in creating a sense of place and identity in the temporary camps of Black Rock City at the Burning Man festival in Nevada.