Department Staff

All email addresses end with @monticello.org.

Beth Sawyer

Archaeological Analyst

B.A. William & Mary, 2005

E-mail: eclites

Leslie Cooper

Archaeological Analyst, Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery

B.A. University of South Carolina, 1998

E-mail: lcooper

Sara Bon-Harper

Archaeological Research Manager

Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999

Specializations: Archaeology of state and colonial cultures, epistemology of stratigraphic and artifactual recording and analysis, archaeological ceramics.

E-mail: sbonharper

Jillian E. Galle

Project Manager, Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2006
Specializations: Historical archaeology, African-American culture, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American material culture and architecture, craft production.
E-mail: jgalle

Don Gaylord

Archaeological Analyst

B.A. Rutgers University, 1998

M.A. University of Virgina, 2002

E-mail: dgaylord

Chris Mundy

Archaeological Analyst

B.A. Longwood College, 1991

E-mail: cmundy

Fraser D. Neiman

Director of Archaeology

Ph.D. Yale, 1990

Specializations: Historical archaeology, archaeological theory,

quantitative techniques, vernacular architecture.

E-mail: fneiman

Jesse Sawyer

Archaeological Analyst, Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery

B.A. University of Virginia, 1999

E-mail: jsawyer

Karen Y. Smith

Curator of Archaeological Collections

Ph.D. University of Missouri, 2009

Specializations: History of archaeology, artifact classification, archaeological chronology, archaeology of Eastern North America.

E-mail: ksmith

Derek Wheeler

Research Archaeologist

M.A. University of Virginia, 1996

Specializations: Historical archaeology of Virginia and Massachusetts

E-mail: dwheeler

All email addresses end with @monticello.org.

Consultants

Joanne Bowen

Curator of Zooarchaeology, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Zooarchaeology.

 

James Feathers

Director, Luminesence Dating Laboratory, University of Washington
Sediment dating.

Kandace Hollenbach

Research Assistant Professor, Laboratory Manager, Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Tennessee

Paleoethnobotony.

John Jones

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University
Pollen analysis.

Steven Keuhl

Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
Sediment Dating.

G. William Monaghan

Associate Research Scientist, Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University

Geoarchaeology.