Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2022
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration," at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
This session focuses on the ways that we collaborate on campuses and beyond. This is not simply teaching archaeology in the classroom, but practical education for our students, partnering with community stakeholders, and transforming archaeology into a community-based, activist scholarship. We must challenge the traditional dynamic of archaeology in which the professor is seen as the “gatekeeper” of the past thereby reducing communities and students to “labor.” Students and community stakeholders have deeply rooted connections to the past. As presented in this session, community-based activist projects on campuses deal with an array of issues; including, unwilling administrations, the potential for “embarrassing” histories to be uncovered, and often historically strained relationships between the university and the surrounding communities. We believe that by extending ourselves outside of our departments, we not only further embed ourselves into the campus community, but also make archaeology more relevant as a craft.
Other Keywords
Archaeology •
Local History •
Race •
Public Archaeology •
Urban Renewal •
Urban •
African American •
industrial •
3D scanning •
conflict
Geographic Keywords
Florida •
Mid-Atlantic •
IN •
Eastern US •
Oulu, Northern Finland •
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United States of America, Mid-West
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Ben Franklin’s Mastodon Tooth, Frederick Douglass’s Arrow Point, and a Deadeye from a Revolutionary War Shipwreck: A Decade of Historical Archaeology in the Virtual Curation Laboratory (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL) was formally established at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in August 2011 using funding from a Department of Defense (DoD) Legacy Resource Management Grant and a partnership with Marine Corps Base Quantico (MCBQ). The impetus for this cooperative project led by...
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Documentary Archaeology and African American Heritage in Central Florida (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Florida figures prominently in the history of African American archaeology. Emerging perspectives continue to deepen our understanding of plantation and maroon sites. However, a multiplicity of historical African American sites exist in the state. This article explores initial findings of a collaborative...
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The Landscape of Black Placelessness: African American Place and Heritage on the Postwar Campus (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the ways African-American history is effaced and distorted on an urban university campus. We focus on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), which sits where an African American community was displaced by the University and state after World War II. The...
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The past is changing – archeology, university, and the town of Oulu, Northern Finland (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper we will examine the community role of the archaeology in Oulu University has changed during the last decades. The Oulu University archaeology program used to organize fieldworks in several, mainly, prehistoric sites in northern Finland, however, these were not community-based projects. Today,...
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Race and Reconciliation: Public Archaeology and History in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina. (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although not directly connected to slavery, the Francis Marion University (FMU) campus is located on a former plantation where people were enslaved and their descendants lived as tenant farmers. An interdisciplinary team of community members, students, and scholars are collaborating to uncover the history...
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Sorting Through the Trash of Michigan State’s Spartan City: Preliminary Perspectives on the Materiality of the late Post-war Campus (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This talk will explore the history of temporary post-World War 2 veteran student and family housing on Michigan State University’s campus through archival documents and archaeological materials. It will consider how material culture recovered from a trash dump with artifacts dating from the early 1940s to...
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When the Community Becomes the Classroom: A Decades Long Partnership with the Parker Homestead-1665 (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Parker Homestead in Little Silver, NJ, housed the Parker family from 1665-1995. It is the perfect setting for thoughtful conversations about Elusive and Enduring Freedoms. For example, the site sits just 20 miles from the famed Monmouth Battlefield, in a county that saw plenty of other skirmishes and...