Stand by the Gray Stone: GIS and Spatial-Temporal Applications at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery

Summary

This is an abstract from the "There and Back Again: Celebrating the Career and Ongoing Contributions of Patricia B. Richards" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

I am immensely grateful to have had Dr. Patricia B. Richards as a professor, supervisor, and mentor throughout my academic pursuits. Her long and distinguished career has been exemplified by a fierce and unwavering focus to provide her students with the tools needed to successfully apply advanced archaeological methods and research schemes to a variety of topics. Her innovative approach has always accepted new techniques and practices that continue to drive a scientific approach to Midwestern archaeological studies. This paper will highlight some of the ways in which Dr. Richards has successfully applied GIS spatial technologies to the study of historic cemeteries. Spatial-temporal studies at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MCPFC) have been to applied to numerous collaborative research projects. Understanding space and place follow an intellectual legacy that began early in her graduate school career at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has been continually adopted in strategic ways by her students and colleagues.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• There and Back Again: Celebrating the Career and Ongoing Contributions of Patricia B. Richards   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38301.0