Advocacy and Archaeology

Kelly M. Britt, PhD, RPA is Assistant Professor of Urban Archaeology at Brooklyn College whose research focuses on community-based historical archaeology of urban spaces. She completed her PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2009 and spent seven years at FEMA as their Regional II Archaeologist before joining Brooklyn College.

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Foreword

Margaret Purser



Preface

Acknowledgments



Chapter 1. PANYC: The Why, The Then, and The Now

Joan H. Geismar



Chapter 2. “Cursed Be He that Moves My Bones”: The Archaeologist’s Role in Protecting Burial Sites in Urban Areas

Elizabeth D. Meade and Douglas Mooney



Chapter 3. Digging Truth: Archaeology and Public Imagination in Shockoe Bottom

Ana Edwards



Chapter 4. Seneca Village Interpretations: Bringing Collaborative Historical Archaeology and Heritage Advocacy to the Forefront and Online

Meredith B. Linn, Nan A. Rothschild, and Diana diZerega Wall



Chapter 5. Right to the City: Community-Based Urban Archaeology as Abolitionist Heritage

Kelly M. Britt



Chapter 6. “Think Like an Historical Archaeologist”: Moving Beyond the Primary Source Document in K-12 Education

Elizabeth Martin



Chapter 7. “DIVERS[]S” and the Political Legacies of an "Experience-Exhibition"

María Fernanda Ugalde and O. Hugo Benavides



Chapter 8. American Apotheosis: Confronting Exceptionalism in the (Re)Production of National Identity

Diane F. George



Conclusion: Commentary

Christopher N. Matthews



Index