From Barbies to Bones: Celebrating Dr. Patricia B. Richards's Legacy

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.

As the daughters of archaeologists, we’ve lived on, worked at, and visited scores of archaeological sites across the Midwest. Cumulatively, we’ve been witness to nearly every decade of Patricia B. Richards’s career. Our mother’s revolutionary ability to seamlessly merge her roles of mother and archaeologist gave her daughters an extraordinary gift: not only did she let us into her professional world, she made us feel deeply at home there. We slept on cots in her office, her students and colleagues became our friends, we did homework in her lab or in the front row of her classes, we did data entry, we did fieldwork, we cleaned and sorted, we edited. In doing so she deeply influenced our personal and professional identities. In honor of our mother’s retirement, we share our favorite memories of our time spent with her in the field and the lab. This paper not only celebrates her impact on the field of archaeology but serves as a reminder of the strength found in being a woman, a mother, and a mentor.

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): 38865.0