Critical Public Archaeology

Camille Westmont is the postdoctoral fellow in historical archaeology in the Department of Southern Studies at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She received her doctorate in anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Introduction: In Pursuit of a Critical Public Archaeology

V. Camille Westmont



Part I: Work with Communities



Chapter 1. Aiming for Anti-Racism: Policies and Practices of a Publicly Engaged Archaeology Department

Mary Furlong Minkoff, Terry P. Brock, and Matthew B. Reeves



Chapter 2. Legacies of Shame, Legacies of Hope: Community Archaeology at a World War II Japanese American Internment Camp

Jeffery Burton and Mary M. Farrell



Chapter 3. Archaeology as Performance: Reanimating the Portland Wharf Landscape with Critical Public Archaeology

M. Jay Stottman



Part II: Advancing Methods



Chapter 4. Towards a Critical Archaeological Museum

Monika Stobiecka



Chapter 5. “You can’t replant old trees”: The Combined Approach of Memory and Public Archaeology to Reinvestigate Court Housing in Liverpool, UK

Kerry Massheder-Rigby



Chapter 6. Archaeological Narratives as Critical Public Archaeology: Illuminating the Realities of Past and Present Forced Prison Labor through Story

V. Camille Westmont



Chapter 7. Expanding Critical Archaeology in the Digital Age: Building User Interfaces and Sharing the Assemblages of Archaeology in Annapolis Across the Globe

Adam Fracchia



Part III: Situating Critical Archaeology



Chapter 8. Public Archaeology through the Lens of Historiography

Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen



Chapter 9. Public perceptions of archaeology in the museum

Chiara Zuanni



Conclusion: Critical Public Archaeology in Context

Suzie Thomas