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August 2007-October 2009:  Appointed by Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe to the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, a body that is to plan, develop, and carry out programs and activities appropriate to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War era and encourage the development of programs that ensure the commemoration results in a positive legacy and has long-term public benefits. Elected Vice President of the ACWSC in April 2008.

 

July 2007-present:  Served as Associate Editor for Historical Archaeology for the The SAA Archaeological Record, the newsletter for the Society for American Archaeology.  Responsible for soliciting and vetting content relevant to historical archaeology, organizing thematic issues of the newsletter and overseeing the “Recent Past” column.

 

July 2006-present: Served on the Publication Committee of the Arkansas Archeological Survey (publications include the Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series, Report Series , Technical Series, and Popular Series).

January 2006-present: Served on the Society for Historical Archaeology, Academic and Professional Training Committee as the Continuing Education Coordinator (responsible for coordinating the workshops conducted at the annual meetings) and as a judge on the Society for Historical Archaeology Student Paper Prize Subcommittee.

November 2003-present: Co-owner & Moderator for the African-American Archaeology Group, an on-line group for the discussion of the archaeology of the African Diaspora in the New World. Current membership 280 (AAArch).

January 2003-present.  Served on the Society for Historic Archaeology, Inter-Society Relations Committee (South Central Historical Archaeology Conference representative).

August 2001-December 2002. Served on the editorial board of Text, Practice, Performance, the journal of the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, University of Texas at Austin.

 

April 2000-January 2006.  Served on the Society for Historic Archaeology, Inter-Society Relations Committee (African-American Archaeology Network representative).

 

August 2000- August 2001.  Served on the Graduate Studies Steering Committee of the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.

 

August 1999-present: Occasionally provided peer reviews to Southeastern Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, the Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series, Arkansas Archaeologist, and manuscript reviews to the University of Arkansas Press and the University Press of Florida.

technical skills
    • Familiar with IDRISI, ArcGIS, GRASS, and other basic GIS software
    • Extensive Total Station & GPS mapping experience.
    • Web development & systems administration experience
    • Relational database construction and management
    • Basic drafting (manual and CAD)
    • Field and laboratory direction, laboratory system design and organization
research interests
    • Archaeology of the Mid-South, Central and Lower Mississippi Valley, and the greater Southeastern US
    • Race, ethnicity, gender, ideology, power and resistance in historical and prehistoric archaeology
    • The politics of identity and the socio-political aspects of archaeology
    • Landscape archaeology
    • 19th & 20th century historical archaeology: including tenant/small-scale farming, industrial sites, urbanization, rural communities and depression-era relief agencies 
    • Popular & public culture of the American South
    • Historical anthropology
    • Management issues and cultural resources
    • Technology, society & anthropology
    • GIS & on-line applications in archaeology

 

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