My Collegial Interactions With Mary Beaudry

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Mary Beaudry was hired at Boston University in 1980, shortly after I was hired at University of Massachusetts/Boston in 1978. We became friendly colleagues, shared drives to conferences and worked together in several professional capacities, including as founding members of the women’s caucus that became the SHA Gender and Minority Affairs committee. I also contributed in substantial ways to Mary’s research by sharing ideas and sources. In addition, I invited Mary to co-chair the 1994 SHA symposium I organized entitled “What is Feminist Theory?” Our shared interests in household archaeology, social inequality and gender power dynamics led us both to contribute separate articles to 1) the 1984 issue on household archaeology in Man in the Northeast, 2) Equity Issues for Women in Archaeology (1994 AAA Archaeological Papers); and separate chapters in 1) the 1988 Chacmool Conference Proceedings (1989), 2) The Archaeology of Inequality (1991), and 3) Household Chores/Household Choices (2004).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• “Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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