Research, Education, and Mitigation: Sometimes Successful Bedfellows

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Breaking Free from the (Institutional) Matrix: Archaeological Career Pathways In and Between Academia, CRM, Non-Profit, and Museum Spheres", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In advance of construction of a new dormitory on the University of Tennessee campus in 2024, UT and Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., worked together to document a Civil-War rifle trench and postbellum house lots. A finely-tuned choreography of efforts by UT, CRA, Tennessee SHPO, and engineering and building firms kept the project on-schedule while evaluating and meeting research priorities, providing student projects and a field school, and mitigating the project's impact. This paper discusses the process and findings of the project, along with thoughts on improving communication between parties with different priorities.

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• Breaking Free from the (Institutional) Matrix: Archaeological Career Pathways In and Between Academia, CRM, Non-Profit, and Museum Spheres   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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Individual & Institutional Roles

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