SHA 2026 Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Mobility
Detroit, Michigan | January 7-10, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Brule A & B |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
SYM-378T: The Ambivalence of Emptiness Location: Brule A & B Chair: Guido Pezzarossi, Syracuse University Chair: Alanna Warner-Smith, American University Discussant: Michael Roller, N/A Violence through Absence: Examining the Effects of Colonial Emptying on Archaeological Practice 9:15am - 9:30am Cartographic Emptiness: Analyzing Representations of the Brothertown Indian Nation 9:30am - 9:45am Performing Femininity on the Frontier: (In)Visibility and Isolation in the Domestic Life of Susan Hempstead Gratiot at a Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin Homestead 9:45am - 10:00am Exhausted Bodies 10:00am - 10:45am 15min presentation + 30min discussion Designed to Empty: A Quarantine Station at the Turn of the 20th Century Gallops Island, Boston, MA 10:45am - 11:00am Empty Promises: Railroad Capitalism and Toxicity in the First Gilded Age 11:00am - 11:15am Hope and Despair at the Recycling Center: An Ethnoarchaeological Analysis 11:15am - 11:30am Disposed: The Long-term Afterlives of Industrial Waste 11:30am - 12:00pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Where There’s Smoke, There’s A Smoke-free Campus: Discourses of Emptiness and Materialities of Heteropic Smokescapes On A College Campus |
| 9:00am - 11:30am |
SYM-345T: The Hassanamesit Woods Project: The Next Generation Location: Brule A & B Chair: Stephen Mrozowski, University of Massachusetts Boston Discussant: Stephen Mrozowski, University of Massachusetts Boston The Hassanamisco Nipmuc Landscape of Keith Hill, Grafton, Massachusetts 9:15am - 9:30am Land Use and Management through Palynology at Hassanamesit Woods 9:30am - 9:45am Micromorphology At The Augustus Salisbury and Deb Newman Sites 9:45am - 10:15am 15min presentation + 15min break The Archaeology of the Betty Sampson/Deborah Newman Homesteads 10:15am - 10:30am Putting the Brakes on the Blackstone: Water Dispossession in 18th and 19th century Nipmuc Homelands 10:30am - 10:45am From Farm to Fable: Working Towards a Comprehensive History of New England Farmsteads 10:45am - 11:00am Baring the Sole of a Site: Shoemaking and Documentary Archaeology at the Hassanamesit Woods Augustus Salisbury Site, Grafton, MA 11:00am - 11:30am 15min presentation + 15min discussion Industrialization Uncorked: 19th-Century Working-Class Experiences at the Hassanamesit Woods Augustus Salisbury Site, Grafton, MA |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
SYM-420T: Twenty Years and Counting: Michigan State University's Campus Archaeology Program Location: Brule A & B Chair: Stacey L. Camp, Michigan State University Discussant: Stacey L. Camp, Michigan State University 15min intro + 15min presentation Michigan State at Mid-century: Developing Approaches to the Postwar Campus 2:00pm - 2:15pm X-Radiography and Its Applicability to MSU's Campus Archaeology Program 2:15pm - 2:45pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion On Solid Foundations: Excavations, Outreach, and Collaboration at Michigan State College's First Observatory |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
SYM-318T: Revisiting the Old Socorro Mission State Historic Site, Socorro, Texas Location: Brule A & B Chair: Bradford M. Jones, Texas Historical Commission Discussant: Rick Quezada, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo 15min intro + 15min presentation Excavating the Archives: An Examination of the Historiography of Old Socorro Mission, Texas 3:30pm - 3:45pm Archeological Investigations and Future Direction at the Old Socorro Mission 3:45pm - 4:00pm Reexamining Socorro Mission Through Faunal Analysis and Interpretation 4:00pm - 4:30pm 15min presentation + 15min discussion Some If by Land, None If by Sea? A Comparative Look at Imported Pottery from the Old Socorro Mission State Historic Site |
| 9:00am - 10:45am |
SYM-269T: Artifacts are Enough: Interpretative Approaches to Historic Material Culture Location: Brule A & B Chair: Richard Veit, Monmouth University “Though many have scarce raggs to covr their naked bodyes:” Utilizing Lead Cloth Seals to Interrogate Textile Importation, Use, and Maintenance at Jamestown, Virginia (1606-1630) 9:15am - 9:30am Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: Gift and Commodity Exchange in the Golden Age of Piracy 9:30am - 9:45am Navigating Economic Uncertainty: Archaeological Evidence of Coin Counterfeiting in the British Virgin Islands 9:45am - 10:00am Dragons in America (Updated): Industry and Innovation in Edgefield, South Carolina 10:00am - 10:15am Gunflints Galore: An Antebellum Mystery on the Borderlands of Baton Rouge 10:15am - 10:30am Mobility at Different Scales – The Origins of Glass Containers from the Market Street Chinatown 10:30am - 10:45am The Material Culture Of Opiates in the 18th-20th Century Western World: An Overview |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
SYM-185T: Predicaments and Progress in Public Archaeology Location: Brule A & B Chair: Sara Ayers-Rigsby, Florida Public Archaeology Network Chair: Audrey B. Andrews, University of Nevada, Reno Why Is the Exhibit Closed?: NAGPRA and Public Archaeology 1:45pm - 2:00pm Protecting Tiipu Sonyahapu - Collaborative Heritage Preservation at the Place that Breathes and is Alive 2:00pm - 2:15pm Tulip Fever: Heritage, Hegemony, and Community in Holland, Michigan 2:15pm - 2:30pm Citizen Science and the Coastal Archaeology of Shell Middens in Ireland 2:30pm - 2:45pm One Goal, Under Dirt: A Guide to Archaeological Field Schools, Employment, and Career Building |
| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
GEN 08 T: Oral History and Community Memory Location: Brule A & B Chair: Eleanor Breen, Alexandria Archaeology Kaūmana Springs "Wilderness": Memory, Erasure, and Archaeology of a Forgotten Landscape in Hilo, Hawaiʻi 3:15pm - 3:30pm Back Buildings and Kitchen Dwellings: Fire Insurance Policies as Sources for Research and Preservation, Alexandria, VA 3:30pm - 3:45pm "I Was Told That's Where the Tavern Was": An Illinois Homestead at the Intersection of Oral History, Written Records, and Archaeology 3:45pm - 4:00pm Collaborative Archaeology and Community History in Brooklyn, Illinois 4:00pm - 4:15pm Layer of Abundant Meaning: A Multi-method Investigation of Community Formation and Memory in the Vineyard Highlands, Oak Bluffs, MA (1870-1960) |