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Shucking Oysters in Bushwood, Maryland
This weekend, Ashleigh and I spent the three days in Bushwood, Maryland, celebrating my cousin’s wedding. Bushwood is a small rural town located in St. Mary’s County’s seventh district. Which, if...
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Some Travelin’ Music Please
This week will see me on the road twice: once Sunday coming back from St. Mary’s, and again tonight, heading back to St. Mary’s for a meeting and presentation. The trip is about three hours along...
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It’s Fall, Y’all.
So, I put together a playlist inspired by the changing of the leaves, which is starting to happen here in Virginia. It will accompany me while I get started on my Colonial Williamsburg African American...
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New Posts at Walk Together Exhibit and Blog
A lot of my blog post efforts are being directed towards the new digital exhibit that I built with Historic St. Mary’s City, “All of Us Would Walk Together”. These posts are about the research that I’m...
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A Session on Digital heritage and archaeology at SHA 2013 in Leicester
For this year’s Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, I am organizing a session called Digital Heritage and Archaeology: Applications of Web-based Technology for Community Engagement. The...
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The Shaker Screen Video and FocusDesign Screens
A few years ago, while I was still the Campus Archaeologist with the MSU Campus Archaeology Program, Chris Stawski and I were messing around with a FlipVideo camera on a tiny project located behind...
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A St. Mary’s Run
These next two weeks I will be spending primarily in St. Mary’s City, trying to make a final push in the lab towards completing the analysis I need to do on the dissertation. This means long days in...
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Day of Digital Humanities
Hi all….Just wanted to alert you that today is Day of Digital Humanities, when digital humanists around the globe highlight their daily activities on the interwebs. MSU is hosting the event this year,...
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Fixing My Email Problem
About a year ago, I gave up entirely on “Inbox 0″. I found that I spent so much time trying to get my inbox to zero that I wasn’t spending my time doing things that mattered. So, I just stopped. At...
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On Slave and Tenant Quarters and the Importance of Naming
For the past seven years, I have been conducting my dissertation research on two former slave and tenant quarter at Historic St. Mary’s City. One of the buildings, a duplex quarter, still stands,...
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Dark Sky: Predict the Weather while in the Field
One of the most difficult judgements that is made during an archaeological excavation never has to do with the ground: it always has to do with the sky. Is it going to rain? When is it going to rain?...
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Automating my Dissertation Backup with Keyboard Maestro
One of the greatest horrors for all PhD students is the fear of losing your dissertation through some sort of computer disaster. We’ve all heard the stories, or perhaps suffered the consequences of...
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Digital Humanities 2013 Conference: Digital Archaeology Session
A month ago, I attended the Digital Humanities Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska. I was asked by Dr. Ethan Watrall to be a part of his session on Digital Archaeology, and to present on the development...
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Why Blog?
A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to participate in a wonderful session at the Society for American Archaeology organized and chaired by Colleen Morgan, everyone’s favorite archaeology blogger....
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Below the Bottom: Historical Significance, Archaeology, and Public Engagement...
Last month, Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones announced his plans for the development of a currently under-utilized part of Richmond’s downtown called Shockoe Bottom. The centerpiece of the project is a...
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The Integrated Plantation Landscape: SHA2014 Session
This coming January, I will be taking part as a co-organizer in a session at the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) meetings in Quebec City, Quebec called The Intersecting Plantation Landscape...
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My Next Step: The Montpelier Foundation
Last week, I accepted a position at Montpelier as the Research Archaeologist. I’m very excited about the opportunity, and looking forward to working with Dr. Matt Reeves and the wonderful staff at...
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Before It’s Too Late: An Education Symposium on the History and Archaeology...
Over the past few weeks, I have been working with a local advisory committee to put together a symposium in Richmond addressing the historical importance of Shockoe Bottom, the area where the mayor has...
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Richmond Archaeology: An Update on Shockoe Bottom and RVArchaeology
A great deal has happened since I last wrote about Archaeology, Shockoe Bottom, and the Ballpark to move our City towards a better relationship with its archaeological and cultural resources. A lot...
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Eleven Books that Helped Me Survive Grad School
So, you’re just starting graduate school and are overwhelmed. You don’t know what to do, how to prepare, what to say, or what to expect. You’re nervous about your coursework, the workload, unsure...
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