Mary C. Beaudry: The Missing Virginia Years, 1972 to 1980

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.

Biographies of Mary Beaudry's career usually begin in Virginia, where Mary was an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary. There, Mary's interest in archaeology was born when she volunteered on a project for the late Norman Barka at Maycock's Point. Mary left Williamsburg for Brown University in 1972, preparing her dissertation on colonial probate inventories. The biographical narrative continues, and then, bam!-- it's suddenly 1980 and Mary has been offered a job at Boston University. Missing from these accounts is Mary's work in Virginia from 1972 until she left for Boston and her impact on an emerging generation of archaeologists, not much younger than Mary herself. We share our experiences as Mary students during these missing years.

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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