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New England African American Archaeology Lab

Publications

This collection contains open access and campus access to Master's theses, peer-reviewed articles and book chapters made possible through the Anthropology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

Bulger, Teresa Dujnic
2011 Personalising the Past: Heritage Work at the Museum of African American History, Nantucket. International Journal of Heritage Studies 17(2):136–152.

Bulger, Teresa Dujnic
2015 “The Character of a Woman:” Womanhood and Race in Nineteenth-Century Nantucket. In The Archaeology of Race in the Northeast, edited by Christopher N. Matthews and Allison Manfra McGovern, pp. 98–117. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Cacchione, Victoria A.
2019 Public Face and Private Life: Identity through Ceramics at the Boston-Higginbotham House on Nantucket. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 8(1–2):57–77.

Landon, David B.
2018 Turtle Feasts and the Commensal Politics of Food: Teasing Out the Flavors of African-American Foodways in New England. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 7(3):243–264.

Landon, David B., and Teresa D. Bulger
2013 Constructing Community: Experiences of Identity, Economic Opportunity, and Institution Building at Boston’s African Meeting House. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 17(1):119–142.

Lee, Nedra K.
2019 Boarding: Black Women in Nantucket Generating Income and Building Community. Transforming Anthropology 27(2):91–104.

Master's Theses

Cacchione, Victoria Anne
2018 There Are Among the Coloured People of This Place Remains of the Nantucket Indians: Identity through Ceramics at the Boston-Higginbotham House. Graduate Master’s Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Crawmer, John T.
2023 Spirits and Spirituality: Temperance and Racial Uplift in Nineteenth-Century Nantucket, MA. Graduate Master’s Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Fairweather, Sean A.
2023 Sisters and Stewards: Women and Community-Building at the African Meeting House on Nantucket, MA. Graduate Master’s Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Herzing, Lissa J.
2022 The Circle of Your Acquaintance: Early 19th Century Ceramic Symbolism and Constructions of Black Womanhood at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA. Graduate Master’s Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Jordan, Dania D.
2021 More Than Just a School: Medicinal Practices at the Abiel Smith School. Graduate Master’s Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Cacchione, Victoria Anne
2018 There Are Among the Coloured People of This Place Remains of the Nantucket Indians: Identity through Ceramics at the Boston-Higginbotham House. Graduate Master’s Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Lang, Erica A.
2023 Sartorial Practices and Daily Life: Examining Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century Boston. Graduate Master’s Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Muehlbauer, Jared
2021 Creating Community: Examining Black Identity and Space in New Guinea, Nantucket. Graduate Master’s Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Parker, Caitriona Mackenzie
2024 Recipes for Resistance: Examining the Reproduction of Indigeneity through Foodways at the Seneca Boston-Florence Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA. Graduate Master’s Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston.

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