Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
As places of scholarship, universities and colleges are widely regarded as definitive authorities on the subjects of history and archaeology; however, the very campuses of these institutions offer great potential for scholarship and opportunities for community engagement. Through a combination of public archaeology events, community stakeholder engagement, digital media, field schools and field methods classes, public lectures, and social media, campus archaeology contributes to a deeper, more nuanced understanding of these schools and their pasts. Participants in campus excavations, ranging from faculty, staff, and students, to alumni and the larger local community, take an active role in contributing to the body of knowledge about their own institutions the ways that these stories are told. This session brings together case studies of archaeology done on campus lands that have illuminated facets of the daily life for students, faculty, and staff at universities and colleges across North America.
Other Keywords
Public Archaeology •
campus archaeology •
underground •
Chinese •
Urban Archaeology •
Racism •
Urban Growth •
Outreach •
Overseas Chinese •
survival
Temporal Keywords
Late 19th Century •
19th-20th Century •
1850-1920 •
1870-1920 •
1855-1950s •
1850s - 1925 •
Early 1880s - 1925
Geographic Keywords
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) •
Delaware (State / Territory)
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Archaeology in the Arboretum: Exploring the Evidence of the Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters Site on Stanford University’s Campus (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Stanford’s Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters (ACLQ) Project seeks to use archaeological evidence, alongside documentary and oral historical data, to better understand the daily lives of the Chinese workers at Leland Stanford’s Palo Alto Stock Farm and, later, at...
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Chinese Brown Glazed Stonewares from CA-MNT-104 H and Stanford University’s ACLQ (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the Chinese Brown Glazed Stoneware (CBGS) ceramic depositions found at the Chinese fishing village of Point Alones near Monterey Bay, California. Point Alones was the site of the Chinese village where now Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine...
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Defense and Concealment of Migrant Chinese Homes: A Case Study of Surviving Racialized Violence in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century California. (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning in the early to mid-nineteenth century, Chinese migration to California surged, resulting in a legally-precarious labor force that built the First Transcontinental Railroad as well as universities such as Stanford. Archival evidence and cultural materials...
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Missoula Historic Underground Project: Urban Archaeology, Landscape, and Identity (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The American West’s urban undergrounds are laced with mystique and lore. Well-known historic undergrounds exist throughout the American West in cities such as Portland, Pendleton, Seattle, Boise, and Butte. Tales exist of secret underground passages to houses of...
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Stories Written in Stone (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When Leland and Jane Stanford bought the Mayfield Grange property in 1876, it was as a country home. Little was done to the house that had been built by George Gordon in 1864 until 1888, after the death of their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., when extensive...
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Translating Campus Archaeology Research into Public Outreach (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A main tenet of the Michigan State University (MSU) Campus Archaeology Program is communicating our research to the larger MSU community and surrounding area. Since the inception of the program that began from an archaeological field school on MSU’s campus in 2005,...
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Writing|Righting the History of Missoula’s Recent Past: Reflecting on the Outcomes of Intense Public Archaeology amid Extensive Growth (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Missoula Historic Underground Project (MHUP) started with a request from the local Historic Preservation Office in 2012 to see if we archaeologists at the University of Montana (UM) could address local lore by systematically investigating Missoula's underground...