“All of Us Would Walk Together”: Dissertation Campus Archaeology Program

Recent Projects

Visit these links to see various projects and achievements relating to Public Engagement, Research, and Teaching. For my most recent projects, see the slideshow above.

Recent Posts

Since 2008, I have maintained a blog called "Dirt", which discusses my research, higher education, uses of social media in cultural heritage and public archaeology, teaching, and my social commentary on issues of gender violence.

Fixing My Email Problem

May 5, 2013 | 4 Comments
Fixing My Email Problem

About a year ago, I gave up entirely on “Inbox 0″. I found that I spent so much time trying to get my inbox to zero that I wasn’t spending my time doing things that mattered. So, I just stopped. At first, it was big relief. My new inbox zero was to make sure I ...

Day of Digital Humanities

Apr 8, 2013 | No Comments
Day of Digital Humanities

Hi all….Just wanted to alert you that today is Day of Digital Humanities, when digital humanists around the globe highlight their daily activities on the interwebs. MSU is hosting the event this year, and I’ll be contributing a few posts during the day over on the collaborative blog they have put up. You can also ...

A St. Mary’s Run

Feb 10, 2013 | No Comments
A St. Mary’s Run

These next two weeks I will be spending primarily in St. Mary’s City, trying to make a final push in the lab towards completing the analysis I need to do on the dissertation. This means long days in the lab, quick stops for dinner, and then back to the lab at night to look over ...

The Shaker Screen Video and FocusDesign Screens

Jan 27, 2013 | No Comments
The Shaker Screen Video and FocusDesign Screens

A few years ago, while I was still the Campus Archaeologist with the MSU Campus Archaeology Program, Chris Stawski and I were messing around with a FlipVideo camera on a tiny project located behind the MSU library. We had always wanted to get more into using video for our public engagement, but the time and ...

A Session on Digital heritage and archaeology at SHA 2013 in Leicester

Dec 18, 2012 | 3 Comments
A Session on Digital heritage and archaeology at SHA 2013 in Leicester

For this year’s Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, I am organizing a session called Digital Heritage and Archaeology: Applications of Web-based Technology for Community Engagement. The impetus for this session came from a number of directions. First, I was in the process of building a digital exhibit myself, and figured I’d have enough to contribute ...

New Posts at Walk Together Exhibit and Blog

Nov 1, 2012 | No Comments
New Posts at Walk Together Exhibit and Blog

A lot of my blog post efforts are being directed towards the new digital exhibit that I built with Historic St. Mary’s City, “All of Us Would Walk Together”. These posts are about the research that I’m currently undergoing, and will discuss historical research, archaeological analysis, and a variety of other things relating to the ...