New York State Museum

Faculty Member, Research & Collections Division

Curator of Historical Archaeology

About

I am an anthropologically trained historical archaeologist who works in post-Columbian history, what I term “modern-world archaeology.” My primary research interests lie in social theory, the archaeological analysis of social inequality, and the material conditions of modernity. My research activities concentrate on the dispossessed and overlooked in history, and to date I have investigated Native American (American Plains and Midwest) African (American South and Brazil), and Irish material conditions (Republic of Ireland). My main focus at present is Irish and Irish American cultural life in the nineteenth century.