A lot of scholarship being presented in the next week or so:
Drew Webster
“Ceramic Consumption in a Boston Immigrant Tenement”
Wednesday, May 18 @ 1:00 pm in M-1-503
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Katherine Evans
“Chase Home for Children: Childhood in Progressive New England”
Thursday, May 19 @ 10:00 am in M-1-503
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Janice Nosal
“‘Improvement the Order of the Age’: Historic Advertising, Consumer Choice, and Identity in 19th-Century Roxbury, Massachusetts”
Thursday, May 19 @ 1:00 pm in M-1-503
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Richard Roy
“The Martha’s Vineyard Experience: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Diet and Environment”
Monday, May 23 @ 12:00 pm in M-1-503
Dr. John Steinberg has been a Research Scientist at the Fiske Center since 2006. He received his PhD in Anthropology from UCLA in 1997. Before coming to UMass Boston, John taught at UCLA and California State University Northridge. He is interested in the economic problems of colonization, both in New England and across the North Atlantic. He uses GIS and shallow geophysics to study settlement patterns to understand broad trends over the landscape. In addition to John's New England work, he has been studying the settlement patterns of Viking Age Iceland. John is the director of the Digital Archaeology Laboratory at the Fiske Center.
