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This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This dissertation explores the ethical self-cultivation of black Muslim youth in Philadelphia. Anthropologist Saba Mahmood describes ethical self-cultivation as a "specific sets of procedures, techniques, and exercises through which highly specific ethical-moral subjects come to be formed" (Mahmood, 2005, p.120). I consider this process as well as how it becomes racialized and gendered in the...
Lowering the Ladder and Raising the Bar: Fostering a Diverse and Inclusive Archaeology Through Public Archaeology (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As part of a public history site, Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeology department is in constant contact with visitors of all ages and backgrounds. This contact has revealed rising interest in archaeology and its place in historical research and social justice among young people. In 2015, we began a program that invited children to...
The Urban Archeology Corps: A partnership between Groundwork Anacostia and the National Park Service (2013)
The National Park Service has partnered with Groundwork Anacostia, a community-based environmental non-profit organization, on a heritage education work experience to introduce local youth to archeology. This paper draws on the outcomes of the work experience as a case study in federal/local partnerships in archeology outside a traditional field school model.
"We’re Engaging Youth, but are we Meeting the Needs of the Park?": Reexamining the first Four Years of the Urban Archaeology Corps (2016)
Four years ago the Urban Archaeology Corps was created through a partnership between the National Park Service Archaeology Program, National Capital Parks-East, and Groundwork Anacostia/DC. This summer youth employment program broke from NPS tradition, by employing youth to conduct archaeological excavations, historical research, and other cultural resources work, while emphasizing and valuing "youth voice" in the development of the program’s structure and the products the participants create....
When Archeology is the Vehicle, Not the Point (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Slow Archaeology + Fast Capitalism: Hard Lessons and Future Strategies from Urban Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning in 2012, the National Park Service has held Archeology Corps at parks across the country with youth-serving non-profit organizations. Not quite summer camp, nor field school, the Corps projects have used archeology as a vehicle to provide safe spaces for summer employment,...
Young Archaeologists Club: A Discussion of Archaeology Science Communication and Youth Education (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology in the Community:15 Years of Archaeology Service", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeology in the Community's (AITC) Young Archaeologists' Club (YAC) presents a free opportunity to introduce elementary school-aged children to the process of, and concepts used in, archaeology through interactive lessons. These lessons provide a vehicle to discuss a variety of topics specific to archaeology as...