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Ph.
D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Education
Admitted
to the Ph.D. Candidacy, February 27, 2008
M.A.
in Anthropology, December 2005
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
B.A.
in Anthropology, May 2003
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Suma Cum Laude
Interdisciplinary Honors
Dissertation
Title
Continuity
and Change among the Mocama, 1450-1702
M.A.
Paper Title
Searching
for Fort Caroline: New Perspectives
Senior
Thesis Title
Religious
Contrasts in Mortuary Behavior and Cultural Ideology of
Nineteenth Century Cemeteries in St. Augustine, Florida
Positions
Held
Teaching
Assistant/Athletic Tutor
January 2009-May 2009 Academic Teaching Center ANT 3620 Language and Culture Dr. Winifred Cooke, Supervisor University of Florida Gainesville, Florida
Teaching Assistant
August 2008-December 2008
ANT 2140 Introduction to World Archaeology
Dr. Steven Brandt, Instructor
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Field Supervisor/Teaching
Assistant
May 2008-July 2008
Fort George Island Field School
Dr. James Davidson, Principal Investigator
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Teaching Assistant
January 2008-May 2008
ANT 3162 Aztec Civilization
Dr. Susan Gillespie, Instructor
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Teaching Assistant
August 2007-December 2007
ANT 2301 Human Sexuality and Culture
Dr. Elizabeth Guillette, Instructor
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Field Supervisor/Teaching
Assistant
May 2007-July 2007
Fort George Island Field School
Dr. James Davidson, Principal Investigator
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Teaching Assistant
January 2007-May 2007
ANT 4273 Anthropology of Law
Scott Catey, Teaching Associate
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Teaching Assistant
August 2006-December 2006
ANT 3930 Race and Racism
Scott Catey, Teaching Associate
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Laboratory Analyst
July 2006-December 2006
Florida Museum of Natural History
Dr. Kathleen A. Deagan, Supervisor
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Teaching Assistant
January 2006-May 2006
ANT 3930 Race and Racism
Scott Catey, Teaching Associate
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Research Assistant
September 2003- December 2004
Dr. Jerald T. Milanich
Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville, Florida
Research Assistant
September 2002-December 2002
Dr. Robert Thunen
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Features Writer and Lead
Photographer
1999-2001 Campus Voice Student Newspaper
Florida Community College at Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida
Recent
Presentations
Rebecca A. Gorman
2008 Continuity
and Change at the Spanish Mission San Juan del Puerto (1587-1702),
Fort George Island, Florida. Paper Presented at the Southeastern
Archaeological Conference. Charlotte, South Carolina, November
2008.
Rebecca A. Gorman
2008 Archaeology
at the Mission San Juan del Puerto: Past, Present, and Future.
Paper Presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology
Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 2008.
Rebecca A. Gorman
2007 Symposium Co-Chair
entitled Re-Assessing the Archaeology of Fort George Island,
Florida: 1587-2007. Symposium Presented at the Southeastern
Archaeological Conference. Knoxville, Tennessee, November
2007.
Rebecca A. Gorman
2007 Fort George
Island was their Mission: Archaeology at the Spanish Mission
San Juan del Puerto – Past, Present, and Future.
Paper Presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference.
Knoxville, Tennessee, November 2007.
Rebecca A. Gorman
2007 Dredging
up the Past: Revisiting the Search for Fort Caroline and Fort
San Matheo. Paper Presented at the Society for Historical
Archaeology Conference. Williamsburg, Virginia, January 2007.
Rebecca A. Gorman
2006 Dredging
up the Past: Revisiting the Search for Fort Caroline and Fort
San Matheo. Paper Presented at the Southeastern Archaeological
Conference. Little Rock, Arkansas, November 2006.
Rebecca A. Gorman
2006 Fort Caroline:
New Perspectives. Paper Presented at the Florida Anthropological
Society Meetings. Stuart, Florida, May 2006.
Rebecca A. Gorman and Geoffrey
DuChemin
2004 Burning
Down the House: Site Formation of Pole and Thatch Native Structures
through Fire. Paper Presented at the joint Southeastern
Archaeological Conference and Midwest Archaeological Conference
Meetings. St. Louis, Missouri, October 2004.
Thunen, Robert L. and Rebecca
A. Gorman
2004 Looking
for Fort Caroline: The 2004 Field Season and Beyond.
Paper Presented at the joint Southeastern Archaeological Conference
and Midwest Archaeological Conference Meetings. St. Louis,
Missouri, October 2004.
Gorman, Rebecca A., Lori
Bayler, Mark Kinnan, and Christy Seamon
2002 Reaching
the Summit: Completing an Honors Thesis. Paper Co-presented
at the National Collegiate Honors Conference. Salt Lake City,
Utah, October 2002.
Gorman, Rebecca A.
2002 Religious
Contrasts in Mortuary Behavior and Cultural Ideology of Nineteenth-Century
Cemeteries in St. Augustine Florida. Poster Presented
at the National Collegiate Honors Conference Poster Session.
Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2002.
Gorman, Rebecca A.
2002 Religious
Contrasts in Mortuary Behavior and Cultural Ideology of Nineteenth-Century
Cemeteries in St. Augustine Florida. Poster Presented
at the University of North Florida’s Honors Symposium
Poster Session. Jacksonville, Florida, April 19, 2002.
Invited
Lectures and Seminars
Rebecca
A. Gorman 2007 Archaeology
at the Mission San Juan del Puerto: Past, Present, and Future.
Lecture presented at the Talbot Islands Citizen Support Organization
"Friends of Talbot Islands State Parks" Annual Meeting.
Ft. George Island, Florida, October 27, 2007.
Rebecca
A. Gorman and Geoffrey DuChemin 2004
New Approaches to Old Problems. Invited Seminar.
Burning Down the House: Site Formation of Pole and Thatch
Native Structures through Fire. Paper Presented at the
Joint Southeastern Archaeological Conference and Midwest Archaeological
Conference Meetings. St. Louis, Missouri, October 2004.
Technical
Reports
Thunen,
Robert L., Keith Ashley and Rebecca A. Gorman 2004 Archaeological
Survey for the National Park Service at Fort Caroline National
Memorial and Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Jacksonville,
Florida. Summer 2004.
Field
Experience
2008
Field Supervisor. The University of Florida Field School under
the direction of Dr. James Davidson. San Juan del Puerto,
Fort George Island, Florida. Summer 2008.
2007
Field Supervisor. The University of Florida Field School under
the direction of Dr. James Davidson. San Juan del Puerto,
Fort George Island, Florida. Summer 2007.
2005
Assistant Archaeologist. The University of Florida Field School
under the direction of Dr. Kathleen Deagan. Fountain of Youth
Park, St. Augustine, Florida. Summer 2005.
2004
Field Supervisor. Archaeological Survey for the National Park
Service at the Spanish American War Fortification (8DU124),
Jacksonville, Florida. November 10-13, 2004.
2004
Field Supervisor. The University of North Florida Archaeological
Field School. Archaeological Survey for the National Park
Service at Fort Caroline National Memorial and Timucuan Ecological
and Historic Preserve, Jacksonville, Florida. Summer 2004.
2003
Assistant Archaeologist. Archaeological Survey for the National
Park Service at Cedar Point. Summer 2003.
Outreach
and Service
2008
Florida State Parks Jax Parks Get Out There Archaeology
Booth. Ribault Club, Fort George Island, Florida. March 30,
2008.
2008
Charles H. Fairbanks Scholarship Fund Committee Member.
2008
37th Annual Charles H. Fairbanks Armadillo Roast Host and
Primary Organizer. Austin Carey Memorial Forest, April 5,
2008. Department of Anthropology, University of Florida. Gainesville,
Florida.
2007
Archaeology at the Mission San Juan del Puerto: Past,
Present, and Future. Lecture presented at the Talbot
Islands Citizen Support Organization "Friends of Talbot
Islands State Parks" Annual Meeting. Ft. George Island,
Florida, October 27, 2007.
Awards
and Grants
2009
Wen-Hsiang Chai Scholarship Recipient
Winner
of the 2006 Florida Anthropological Society Student Paper
Competition: Fort Caroline: New Perspectives.
Paper Presented at the Florida Anthropological Society Meetings.
Stuart, Florida,
May 2006.
University
of North Florida Outstanding Anthropology Student Award, May
2003.
The
Association for Gravestone Studies Oakley Certificate of Merit,
February 2003.
Research
Interests
- Intersocietal Interaction
- Contact and Colonialism
- Early Contact Period of the Southeastern U. S. and Circum-Caribbean
- Mission Period of the Southeastern United States
- The French and Spanish in Florida
- Historic Period Aboriginal and European Ceramic Analysis
Memberships
-
Society for Historical Archaeology
- Society for American Archaeology - Southeastern Archaeological Conference
- Florida Anthropological Society - Florida Anthropology Student Association
- Golden Key Honors Society
