Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised
Andrew Agha (2020) [current position: Field Director, New South and Associates, Stone Mountain, GA.]: Shaftesbury's Atlantics.
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Brandy Joy (2020) [current position: Project Archaeologist, Versar, El Paso, TX]: Freedom and Food: Transformations and Continuities in Foodways Among the People Who Labored at Stone Plantation, James Island, South Carolina During the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries.
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Meagan Conway (2019) [current position: Archaeologist, Logan Simpson Environmental Consulting, Salt Lake City, UT]: A Choice to Engage: Selective Marginality and Dynamic Households on the 18th-19th Century Irish Coast.
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Lisa B. Randle (2018): East Branch of the Cooper River, 1780-1820: Panopticisim and Mobility.
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Katherine (Kelly) Goldberg (2018) [current position: Instructor, Department of Anthropology, U of South Carolina]: That Diabolical Traffic: Archaeological Explorations of the Nineteenth Century Slave Trade in Coastal Guinea.
William D. Stevens (2016) [current position: Deputy Coroner, Richland County, South Carolina]: Enslaved Labor in the Gang and Task Systems: A Case Study in Comparative Bioarchaeology of Commingled Remains.
Audrey Dawson (2016) [current position: Instructor, Midlands Technical College, SC.]: Sifting through the Sand: Adaptive Flexibility in the Middle Archaic Occupations of the Sandhills Province of South Carolina.
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Kevin Fogle (2015) [current position: Research Associate, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology , Univ. South Carolina]: Beyond Ideals: Proslavery Reforms on a Nineteenth-Century Cotton Plantation.
Diane Wallman (2014) [current position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Univ. South Florida]: Negotiating the Plantation Structure: An Archaeological Investigation of Slavery, Subsistence and Daily Practice at Habitation Crève Coeur, Martinique, CA. 1760-1890.
Catherine Losier (U Laval 2012) [current position: Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland]: Approvisionner Cayenne au cours de l’Ancien régime: Étude archéologique et historique de l’économie et du réseau commercial d’une colonie marginale, la Guyane (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles).
[Provisioning Cayenne During Old Colonial Regime: Archaeological and Historic Investigation of a Marginal Colony Economy and Commercial Network, French Guiana (17th- 18th- century).]
Jakob Crockett (2011) [current position: Archaeologist, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas]: "A Democracy of Goods": An Archaeology of Commodity Landscapes in Columbia, South Carolina, 1870-1930.
Steven Smith (2010) [current position: Director of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Univ. South Carolina]: Archaeological Perspectives on Partisan Communities: Francis Marion at Snow's Island in History, Landscape, and Memory.
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Heather Gibson (Syracuse University 2007) [Current position : PI, SWCA Environmental Consultants, Pasadena, CA.] Daily practice and domestic economies in Guadeloupe: An archaeological and historical study.
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Peggy Brunache (University of Texas 2011) [Current position : Lecturer, University of Dundee, Scotland.] Enslaved Women, Foodways, and Identity Formation: The Archaeology of Habitation La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe, circa Late-18th Century to Mid-19th Century.
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Myriam Arcangeli, (Boston University 2012) For Water, Food, Tables, and Health: The Colonial Ceramic Culture of Guadeloupe, French West Indies.
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Ph.D. Dissertations Co-supervised
Master's of Arts Theses supervised
Brandy Joy (2016): A Study of Material Diversity in the Carolina Colony: Silver Bluff, Yaughan, Curriboo, and Middleburg Plantations.
Kelly Goldberg (2014): Identifying Identity: An Investigation of the Complexities Interpreting Archaeological Results of an African American Lowcountry Site.
Brooke Kenline (2012): Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery in the Rural Antebellum South.
Brooke Brilliant (2011): Colonoware, Creolization, and Interactions between African Americans and Native Americans during the Colonial Period in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
Helena Ferguson (2011): Reconnecting the Physical and Cultural Landscapes at the Hampton-Preston Mansion in Columbia, South Carolina.
Lisa Randle (2009): Overlooking the African American Landscape Along the East Branch of the Cooper River, Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1783-1820.
Jessica Lauran Riser (2009): Beyond the Fence at the MANN-SIMONS SITE (38RD1083), Richland County, South Carolina: An Exploration Into Urban Tenant and Landowner Material Culture in the South.
Lois Ann Dowers (2008): Marbles Lost and Found: Children and the Material Culture of Marbles.
Kevin Fogle (2008): Unlocking the Household: Ceramic and Stratigraphic Analyses as Keys to Developing Discrete Chronological Occupation Sequences for an Eighteenth Century Plantation.
Rebecca Ann Barrera (2005): The Impact of Site Formation Processes, Method and Theory: Inter-site Comparisons of 16th Century Spanish Santa Elena and St. Augustine.
Melissa Diana Boling (2005): A Contextual Study of Expedient Glass Tool Use by European and African Americans at Late 18th - Early 20th Century Historic Sites in the Southeastern United States and Caribbean.
Jakob Crockett (2005): Consumption and Identity: The Archaeology of a Nineteenth-Twentieth Century Urban, African American Neighborhood (38RD1083) in Columbia, South Carolina.
Lauren Michele Davis (2005): The Enslaved African Experience in Guadeloupe, French West Indies: Material Culture Analyses of Assemblages from La Mahaudiere and Grande Pointe Habitations.
Audrey Dawson (2004): Une Île du Sucre: Preliminary Investigations into the Economic Activities of the Inhabitants of Les Portlands, Anse-Bertrand, Guadeloupe, French West Indies.
Katrina Small Epps (2004): Intra-Regional Interaction in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
Stephen Lenik (2004): Historical Archaeological Approaches to Afro-Cruzan Identity at Estate Lower Bethlehem, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Margaret Tyler (2004): The Schumann/Alexander House: Archaeological Investigations of 31FY1085.
Peggy Brunache (2001): West African Landscapes and Material Culture: An Archaeological Investigation on Intrasite Variation at Savi, Benin.
Sarah Morby (2000): Pritchard's Shipyard: A Landscape Analysis of South Carolina's Largest Colonial and Antebellum Shipyard.
Neil Norman (2000): Through the Medium of the Vessel: An Ethnoarchaeological Investigation of Ritual Earthenwares in Southern Benin, West Africa.
Current Ph.D. and M.A. students
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Christina Brooks (PhD in progress)
Brandy Joy (PhD in progress)
Andrew Agha (PhD in progress)
Elizabeth Clay (PhD in progress)
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