Memories of Mary Beaudry: Creating an Interdisciplinary Historical Archaeology

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.

I first met Mary Beaudry in 1977 when she was a graduate student at Brown University, and I was a staff archaeologist for the Public Archaeology Laboratory at Brown. We would later share responsibility for the Lowell Archaeological Survey – she has the Boston University of Principle Investigator, and I was the Project Archaeologist for the Division of Cultural Resources for the Northeast Region of the National Park Service. The collaboration with Mary was among the most productive intellectual relationships I would have during my career. It was dynamic, stimulating and complicated at times. There are lessons from that collaboration that continue to serve as examples of best practices today. Along with a relationship that was filled with emotion, laughter, a shared love of music, and amazing productivity, the notion of interdisciplinary collaboration that helped to shape our work in Lowell remains a model for such work today.

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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