• Director, Historic Preservation and Community Planning Program, College of Charleston

During my twenty-five years of professional archaeological teaching and excavation experience I have worked in the United States, United Kingdom and sites across the Caribbean dating from the present to the Medieval (in Europe) and Contact Period (in the Americas). I specialize in 17th- and 18th-century archaeology and heritage management. With Nathaniel Walker I co-founded and currently direct our urban design graduate program, Community Planning, Policy and Design.

After completing my B.A. and M.A. at the College of William and Mary I worked for several years with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Department of Archaeological Research. During this period I took a Comparative Colonial Archaeology Class taught by Prof. Marley Brown III, Prof. James F. Deetz and Dr. Edward Cecil Harris that expanded my research vision well beyond Tidewater Virginia to include much of the Atlantic World. My fieldwork with Prof. Norman Barka introduced me to the island of St. Eustatius. The island became the focus of my doctoral research at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London where I examined the African Diaspora in the Atlantic World. The IoA is considered the top archaeology department in the United Kingdom.

In addition to co-editing the Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology with Prof. Basil Reid, I am the author of several book chapters, articles and monographs in professional and public journals and magazines. I established (in 2004) and Directed the St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research until I left St Eustatius in 2011. At SECAR, I taught hundreds of professional, student and avocational volunteers in courses on artifacts, excavation techniques and historical archaeology and building recording and preservation. Through my appointment in the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, I taught graduate courses in Historical Archaeology as well as undergraduates in the field.

Education
PhD University College London, Institute of Archaeology

M.A. College of William and Mary in Virginia, Anthropology/Historic Archaeology

B.A. College of William and Mary in Virginia, History and Government

International Fellow at Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello

Research Interests
My research interests include slavery and its impacts on societies, the origins of Capitalism within colonial economies, religious sites, vernacular architecture, heritage management, historic preservation and public archaeology.

• –present Director, Historic Preservation and Community Planning Program, College of Charleston

• 2005 University College London, PhD
• 1999 College of William and Mary, MA
• 1994 College of William and. Mary, BA (Government and History)

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA)

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