Coming Up: Field School

I received my syllabus for my summer field school at James Madison's Montpelier about a week ago and I have been frantically (although I don't know why) getting things ready for the trip. It's a 20 hour drive, so I'm also trying to figure out how to time my arrival and where in the heck I'm going to stay half way through. We have a pre-field school homework assignment that is due when we first get there that I haven't even started on, but I think it will be fairly easy since it is mainly reading. I'm really excited to get my hands in the dirt and to begin what I hope will be a long career!

End of the Semester...

Today was my last day of the Spring semester at the University of Oklahoma! My internship at the Museum of Natural History in Norman ended great and I learned a LOT about archaeological collections and NAGPRA. I also ended my Human Osteology and Pathology class with an A. On June 24, I begin my field school at James Madison's Montpelier in Orange, VA. We will be excavating the south yard kitchen, enslaved dwellings, and two smokehouses. I am also doing an independent studies class in the fall with Dr. Lesley Rankin-Hill on the historically black towns in Oklahoma. I am starting now looking up cemeteries on find-a-grave.com.