Welcome to my Academic Portfolio
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Portfolio Archive
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White Ribbon Award
Posted on August 11, 2010 | No CommentsEvery year, the MSU Sexual Assault Program holds an award banquet where they honor a department or program on campus that has been nominated as an advocate for sexual assault awareness. In 2010, they added an additional honor, creating the White Ribbon Award for a... -
Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention
Posted on May 15, 2010 | No CommentsFor two and a half years (2008-2010), I worked in the Department of Student Life at MSU on the development of a Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Program for incoming students. This work piggybacks on my collegiate experience working in male anti-gender violence programming,... -
Great Lakes THATCamp: Engaged Cultural Heritage Development, Archaeology, and Digital Social Media
Posted on March 22, 2010 | No CommentsFrom March 20-21, 2010, I participated in the Great Lakes THATCamp, an “un”-conference held at Michigan State University. The ticket to THATCamp is an idea, which is posted on the THATCamp blog (read more about how THATCamp works). You can view my idea about Engaged... -
SHA 2010 Conference Paper: From Slavery to Freedom: Developing a Model of Change at St. Mary’s City Manor
Posted on January 13, 2010 | 3 CommentsIn January of 2009, I presented a paper at the Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference in Amelia Island, Florida. It was a general paper, placed in the Contributions to New World African Diaspora Archaeology. Below is a video of the Keynote presentation, along with... -
SHA 2010 Poster: Archaeology, Social Media, and Community Engagement
Posted on December 23, 2009 | 3 CommentsFor the 2010 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, I co-authored a poster with Dr. Lynne Goldstein about how we were using digital social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr to engage various communities in our research with the Campus Archaeology Program. The poster... -
The Dirt Blog
Posted on November 12, 2009 | No CommentsFor many years, I have been blogging about archaeology, baseball, social issues, social media, and higher education at the Dirt Blog. It has switched locations numerous times, but has finally found a home at dirt.terrypbrock.com. This blog originally emerged as a way for me to... -
The MSU Campus Archaeology Program
Posted on October 29, 2009 | No CommentsOver the past two and a half years, I have served as the Campus Archaeologist for the MSU Campus Archaeology Program. This program was developed in 2008 to mitigate the construction work that occurs at Michigan State University, and to make sure that the Campus... -
Historic St. Mary’s City
Posted on October 29, 2009 | No CommentsOver the past two summers, I have worked at Historic St. Mary’s City, focusing on their 19th century slave plantation data. This data will be used over the coming years as the basis of my dissertation work. Historic St. Mary’s is an archaeological and living... -
College Hall Discovery
Posted on October 29, 2009 | No CommentsThis fall, the Campus Archaeology Program discovered the foundations of the first building built at Michigan State University while mitigating sidwalk removal underneath Beaumont Tower. The building was built in 1856, and was the first building to house the revolutionary teachings of Land Grant education.... -
Graduate Certificate in Community Engagement
Posted on October 29, 2009 | No CommentsThis year, I will be working towards graduate certification in Community Engagement with the MSU Office of University Outreach and Engagement. I also participated this fall at the Emergent Engagement Scholars Workshop at the National Outreach Scholarship Conference. These experiences are necessary for my application...