Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories

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.