W&M Anthropology Graduate Student Collective

W&M Anthropology Graduate Student Collective AGSC is an organization run by current William & Mary Anthropology graduate students.

AGSC’s purpose is to promote the unification of the Anthropology Graduate student body, to promote good relations and communication between the graduate students and the Anthropology faculty, to provide an open forum for the presentation of scholarly research and discussion by the graduate students, to sponsor speakers of interest for the Collective and the Anthropology student body, to maintain t

ies with those graduate students who are engaged in research and fieldwork in distant locations, to provide moral and professional support to its members and to foster a healthy and effective learning and socializing environment.

Session proposal deadline is Dec 15!
12/11/2024

Session proposal deadline is Dec 15!

11/08/2024

TAG W&M
Williamsburg, VA. May 9-11, 2025.

Plenary Speakers for our Opening Ceremony are Dr. Michael Blakey, Dr. Krysta Ryzewski, and Dr. Paulette Steeves.

Submit your session now until Dec 15. As open sessions come in, we will make them available on our website for those interested to submit a paper. Stay updated at tag2025wm.com.

Individual paper submissions are also encouraged.

Check out this conference our department is hosting!
11/05/2024

Check out this conference our department is hosting!

Please join us Wednesday, Feb. 21 from 12-1 in Washington Hall for our first Brown Bag of the semester with 1 Year MA st...
02/19/2024

Please join us Wednesday, Feb. 21 from 12-1 in Washington Hall for our first Brown Bag of the semester with 1 Year MA student Julia Ashworth!

Please join us tomorrow, Oct. 11th at 12 in Washington 103 for a brown bag with Professor Jenny Kahn!
10/11/2023

Please join us tomorrow, Oct. 11th at 12 in Washington 103 for a brown bag with Professor Jenny Kahn!

Our second feature today for Va Arch Month for the day is one for the fellas 😉Diogo Oliviera, 2nd year PhD student, is a...
10/27/2022

Our second feature today for Va Arch Month for the day is one for the fellas 😉

Diogo Oliviera, 2nd year PhD student, is an Africanist archaeologist. He usually spends his research time in Mozambique.

During this fall semester, the former Fulbright Student Scholar is working an internship at Jamestown, Va with Preservation Virginia. He is analyzing a collection of Portuguese ceramics which is helping further understand the international dynamics of trade at early Jamestowne. See photo three for an example of the Portuguese faience ceramics he is working with.

Thanks for sharing, Diogo!

We’re continuing to highlight Va archaeology at W&M Anthropology. Here’s the latest feature for Va Arch Month! Victoria ...
10/27/2022

We’re continuing to highlight Va archaeology at W&M Anthropology. Here’s the latest feature for Va Arch Month!

Victoria Gum, a 2nd year MA student, has been working in Virginia archaeology for about seven years. 

“My first archaeological experience was the William & Mary field school at Colonial Williamsburg, and since then I have worked all around Tidewater Virginia, most recently at Colonial Williamsburg.

Some of my favorite work has been at the First Baptist Church and Custis Square sites. In addition to excavating at Custis Square, I was able to work with an assemblage of delftware teabowls and test a method of dating them based on their decorative features.

At the First Baptist site, I am proud to have been a part of a community-driven excavation working to bring a silenced history back to light and help put history back into the hands of the community.”

Thanks for sharing with us, Victoria!
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Photo captions from V. Gum: 
1 -  Victoria’s first archaeological work (2014) at the Bray School site in Williamsburg
2 - Three English delftware teabowls from Custis Square in Williamsburg. For more information, see https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/living-history/research-spotlight-delftware-teabowls/
3 - Stained glass window fragments from the First Baptist Church in Williamsburg
4 - Victoria and fellow W&M graduate Lauren McDonald, M.A. 2022 (left) in Tyvek suits during burial excavation at the First Baptist Church.

Check out our next Va Archaeology Month [week] feature! L. Chardé Reid (PhD Candidate) is a historical archaeologist wit...
10/26/2022

Check out our next Va Archaeology Month [week] feature!

L. Chardé Reid (PhD Candidate) is a historical archaeologist with over twelve-years of experience in collections management, geographic information systems (GIS), compliance review, cultural resource management, and engaged archaeology.

Her doctoral field work is based in southeast Virginia, where she works alongside members of a local African American descendant communities in Newport News, VA and Williamsburg, VA to explore the lives of their 17th-century ancestors. She investigates the relationship between archaeological knowledge production, racialization, memory, and restorative justice in Tidewater Virginia. Chardé’s master’s thesis research explored the complex relationship between making African Diaspora history and culture visible at Historic Jamestowne, which was recently published in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

Previously, Chardé served as the Assistant Archaeologist of D.C. for seven years. Her community-engaged and interdisciplinary research has been recognized several times, most recently with the National Park Service’s Appleman-Judd-Lewis Regional Award for Interdisciplinary Stewardship Team (2020).

Thanks for sharing, Chardé!

Here is our first Va Archaeology Month [week] feature! Cathrine Davis (right), 5th year PhD Candidate, is currently work...
10/26/2022

Here is our first Va Archaeology Month [week] feature!

Cathrine Davis (right), 5th year PhD Candidate, is currently working with her Assistant Michelle Bouquet (left) to illustrate key diagnostic lead cloth seals from Jamestown. Cathrine is currently writing her dissertation on textile importation to Early Jamestown (1606-1630).

“My working diss title is "Though many have scarce raggs to covr their naked bodyes": Investigating Textile Importation to England's first permanent colony at Jamestown through Lead Cloth Seals (1606-1630).”

Check out this cool example Cathrine sent over in photo 3. “This is one of the personal seals we have from the site.” 📷: Cathrine Davis, Courtesy Jamestown Rediscovery.

Thanks for sharing, Cathrine!

Whoops! Here we are close to October’s end, and we haven’t talked Va Arch yet. This week, we’re highlighting archaeology...
10/24/2022

Whoops! Here we are close to October’s end, and we haven’t talked Va Arch yet.
This week, we’re highlighting archaeology our Anthro grads are doing here at home in Virginia to celebrate. Stay tuned throughout the week to see what we’ve got going in our own backyard.

Tomorrow @ 5:30pm- Sutlive Book Prize Lecture Featuring the 2022 Winner, Dr. Akinwumi Ogundiran of Uni of North Carolina...
10/19/2022

Tomorrow @ 5:30pm- Sutlive Book Prize Lecture Featuring the 2022 Winner, Dr. Akinwumi Ogundiran of Uni of North Carolina. In-person in Washington Hall 201 or by zoom. Please join us! 😊

Today some current AGSC members and W&M Anthro alumni were able to volunteer at the 2021 Bacon’s Castle Archaeology Day ...
09/25/2021

Today some current AGSC members and W&M Anthro alumni were able to volunteer at the 2021 Bacon’s Castle Archaeology Day event! We love it when our students get involved in the community and share their work with the public.

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