Angela Labrador

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Education & Honors

• 2013 Ph.D., with distinction, Anthropology, UMass Amherst
• 2007 M.A. with distinction, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2000 B.A., Magna cum laude, Simon’s Rock College of Bard
• 1998 A.A., with distinction, Simon’s Rock College of Bard

Awards

• Art Keene Student Leadership Award, Dept. of Anthropology, UMass 2008
• Natalie FS Woodbury Distinguished Service Award for Scholastic Achievement and University Service, Dept. of Anthropology, UMass 2007
• Nat Smith Community Service Award, Dept. of Anthropology, UMass 2005
• College High Honors received on Senior Thesis, Simon's Rock 2000
• Hutchins Scholarship, Simon's Rock 1997-2000
• AEP (partial) Scholarship, Simon's Rock 1996-2000

Grants

2011 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Funding in support of doctoral dissertation research, $11,660.

2008 World Archaeological Congress

Grant in support of accommodations at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland

2005 Robert E. Funk Memorial Archaeology Foundation Grants for Research

Funding for Masters project, “Lighthouse Cove: A Beacon on the Early and Middle Woodland"

Publications

Book Sections

• 2013 Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. (Section Co-editor for Legislation with María Luz Endere) Springer. In Press.
• 2012 "Databases." The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Second Edition. Edited by Neil Asher Silberman. Volume 1, pp. 379-382. Oxford University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

• 2012Ontologies of the Future and Interfaces for All: Archaeological Databases for the 21st Century. Archaeologies. 8(3):236-249.
• 2012 Entrusting the Commons: Agricultural Land Conservation and Shared Heritage Protection. Heritage & Society. 5(1):77–100.
• 2011Vistas in Common: Sharing Stories about Heritage Landscapes, Museum International. Peer-reviewed.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

• 2009Relocating Meaning in Heritage Archives: A Call for Participatory Heritage Databases First author, with Elizabeth S. Chilton. Paper given at the Computer Applications in Archaeology Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia. March 23. Peer-reviewed and published in Conference Proceedings

Other Publications

• 2010Heritage in Conflict & Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political, and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st Century. International Journal of Cultural Property. 17(4):655-657.
• 2008 Building Tools for Identifying Local Variability and Cultural Patterns: A Digital Ceramic Attribute Analysis North American Archaeologist, Volume 29, Issue 3&4. Pp 287-296.
• 2009 New Findings at the ‘Fort’ Site: A Synopsis of the 2008 Field Season Historic Deerfield, Autumn. Pp. 21-23.
• 1999 Recording the Distance Between Cultures Article in two parts published in The Bainbridge Banter, newspaper, Bainbridge, Ohio.

Book Reviews

• 2010 So That All Shall Know/Para que todos lo sepan. Photographs by Daniel Hernández- Salazar. Edited by Oscar Iván Maldonado. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Solicited by Landscapes of Violence. 1(1).

Technical Reports

• 2011 Summary Report on 2008 Archaeological Investigations Eaglebrook Area D Site (19-FR-415) Deerfield, Massachusetts In prep. Co-author, archaeological site report.
• 1999 What Lies Beneath at D.A.R. State Park Co-author, archaeological site report submitted to the State of Vermont.

Symposia & Sessions Organized or Chaired

• 2011 Future Stewardship, Present Purpose: Past Matters in Heritage Conservation, Session Co-organizer. Why Does the Past Matter?, Amherst, May 6.
• 2009 Heritage as Applied Anthropology: Setting the Agenda for the 21st Century, AAA Presidential Session Co-chair. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 2.
• 2008 WAC Ethics Forum Co-organizer of forum and workshop (as two sessions) at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland. July 3.
• 2005 “The Ethics of Practice in the Social Sciences and Humanities” University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate School grant-sponsored symposium. Co-organizer and participant.

Professional Papers & Panels

• 2011Ontologies of the Future and Interfaces for All: Archaeological Databases for the 21st Century. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Montreal, QC. November 16.
• 2011 Agricultural Land Conservation as a Tool for Cultivating Shared Heritage. Paper presented at Why Does the Past Matter?, Amherst, MA. May 6.
• 2010Vistas in Common: Shared Stories about Heritage Landscapes. Paper presented at Applied Cultural Heritage: How Telling the Past at Historic Sites Benefits Society, Kalmar, Sweden. November 17.
• 2010 Is Duty-Bound Good Enough? Considering Archaeological Ethics beyond Codes and Laws Invited paper given at the Conference for New England Archaeology, Amherst, Massachusetts. March 27.
• 2009 Relocating Meaning in Heritage Archives: A Call for Participatory Heritage Databases First author, with Elizabeth S. Chilton. Paper given at the Computer Applications in Archaeology Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia. March 23.
• 2008 Material Transitions: An Archaeological Perspective of Seventeenth-Century Pocumtuck Life in Deerfield First author, with Katherine Dambach and Siobhan Hart. Paper given at the symposium, “Native Peoples and Cultures of the 15th-17th Centuries: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives”, Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Amherst, Massachusetts. November 1, 2008. Paper reprinted in their Spring 2009 newsletter.
• 2008 The Archaeology of 17th Century Pocumtuck Life in Deerfield Second author, with Siobhan M. Hart, Kendal Peirce, and Brian Loomis. Paper given at Archaeology Day, Deerfield, Massachusetts. October 18.
• 2008 Regulating the Irregular: Mapping the Curious Life of “Female Pills” in America Paper given at the Northeastern Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts. March 8.
• 2008 Scoping the Fundingscape of the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex Paper given at the Northeastern Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts. March 8.
• 2007 Building Tools for Identifying Local Variability and Cultural Patterns: A Digital Ceramic Attribute Analysis Paper given at the Eastern States Archaeological Confederation Meeting, Burlington, Vermont. November 9.
• 2007 Megaliths, Myths and the Monumentality of the Artifact Paper given at Massachusetts Archaeology Day, Deerfield, Massachusetts. October 13.
• 2007 Repatriating the Culturally Unidentifiable: Reflections on NAGPRA at UMass Amherst Paper given at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Legal Studies Faculty & Fellows Colloquia Series, Amherst, Massachusetts. May 3.
• 2007 Fourth Annual SAA Ethics Bowl Participant on the UMass Amherst team, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Austin Texas. April 26, 2007.
• 2006 Towards a Critical Archaeological Field School Second author, with Quentin P. Lewis, paper presented at the Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, MA., October 26.
• 2006 New Ways of Analyzing Variability: A Digital Ceramic Attribute Analysis Paper presented at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Annual Meeting, Fargo, North Dakota. April 21.
• 2005 Choose Your Own Ethics: A Hypertext Adventure Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting, Washington DC. December 1. Published online at the Computer Mediated Anthropology website; Presented in revised form at The Ethics of Practice in the Social Sciences and Humanities Symposium, University of Massachusetts Amherst. April 14, 2006.

Materials for Public Exhibition

• 2009 Farming Williamsburg: A Collaborative Oral History Project Poster presented to Fertile Ground, Williamsburg Grange, Williamsburg Historical Society, Helen E. James Elementary School, and the Williamsburg Public Library. December 9.
• 2006 Native Peoples of Belchertown Exhibit and narrative, co-authored with Randy Brown and Sarah Deihl, presented at the Stone House Museum as part of Massachusetts Archaeology Month, Belchertown, Massachusetts.

Conferences Coordinated

• 2011 High-Tech Heritage, UMass Amherst Center for Heritage & Society
• 2011 Why Does the Past Matter?, UMass Amherst Center for Heritage & Society
• 2009 Heritage in Conflict & Consensus, UMass Amherst Center for Heritage & Society
• 2008 Northeastern Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Amherst, MA
• 2007 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Austin, TX (Assistant to Program Chair)

Teaching Experience

Summer 2010 University of Massachsuetts Amherst

Teaching Assistant

Archaeological Field School, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA

Spring 2009 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Instructor, Teaching Fellow

Legal Studies 391D Cultural Theft and Intellectual Property

Fall 2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Assistant

Anthropology 325 Analysis of Material Culture

Fall 2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Instructor, Teaching Fellow

Legal Studies 450 Legal Research and Writing (Junior Level)

Summer 2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Assistant, Lab and IT Director, and Public Interpretation Coordinator

Archaeological Field School, Deerfield, MA

Spring 2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Instructor, Teaching Fellow

Legal Studies 391D Cultural Theft and Intellectual Property

Fall 2007 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Instructor, Teaching Fellow

Legal Studies 460 Legalization of American Indians

Summer 2007 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Continuing Education

On-line Instructor

Legal Studies 450 Legal Research and Writing

Spring 2007 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Associate

Legal Studies 450 Legal Research and Writing (Junior Level)

Spring 2007 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Assistant, Dr. Elizabeth Chilton

Anthropology 367 Archaeology Survey Methods and Practice

Fall 2006 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Assistant, Dr. Judith Holmes

Legal Studies 450 Legal Research and Writing (Junior Level)

Summer 2006 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Assistant, Lab Director, and Public Relations Coordinator

Archaeological Field School, Deerfield, MA

Spring 2006 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Assistant, Dr. Judith Holmes

Legal Studies 450 Legal Research and Writing (Junior Level)

Fall 2005 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Assistant, Dr. Judith Holmes

Legal Studies 450 Legal Research and Writing (Junior Level)

Spring 2001 Simon’s Rock College of Bard

Teacher’s Assistant, Professor Barbara Resnik, Art History

ARTH 304 Transference: Image, Memory, History

Fall 2000 Simon’s Rock College of Bard

Teacher’s Assistant, Professor Barbara Resnik, Art History

ARTH 300/400 Graphic Art and Social Protest

Fall 1998 Searle’s Elementary School

Teacher’s Assistant, Kindergarten and first grade art classes

Fall 1998 Simon’s Rock College of Bard

Peer Tutor in Calculus

Summer 1997 Sea World of Ohio

Animal Exhibit Narrator, Education Department

Guest Lectures

• 2009 Beyond Historic Preservation: “Heritage” as Contemporary Social Practice Co-lecturer, with Elizabeth S. Chilton. Talk given at the University of Massachusetts Department of Legal Studies Faculty & Fellows Colloquia Series, Amherst, Massachusetts. April, 2 2009.
• 2009 Making Nature and Man “Mine”: Legal Justifications for Private Property under Colonialism Lecture given in ANTH 205 Inequality and Oppression (Residential Academic Program), Amherst, Massachusetts. March 3, 2009.
• 2008 Engaging History: The 2008 UMass Archaeological Field School Lectures delivered to five high school history classes at the Williston Northampton School, Easthampton, Massachusetts. September 27, 2008.

Field, Curation, & Public Interpretation Experience

Summer 2010 UMass Archaeological Field School, Petersham, Massachusetts

Field TA

Summer 2008 UMass Archaeological Field School, Deerfield, Massachusetts

Lab & IT Director, Public Interpretation Coordinator

Summer 2006 UMass Archaeological Field School, Deerfield, Massachusetts

Lab Director and Public Relations Coordinator

Fall 2002 Lighthouse Cove, Saugerties, New York

Field Crew (Student)

Spring-Summer 1999 Archaeology Consulting Team, Essex Junction, Vermont

Field Crew (Paid)

Spring 1999 Ometepe Petroglyph Project, Ometepe, Nicaragua

Field Crew (Volunteer)

Professional Service

Dec 2011

Ethics Committee, Society for Historical Archaeology

Summer 2010 - present

Book Review Editor, Heritage & Society

Spring 2010 – present

Northeastern Anthropological Association Webmaster (appointed position on Executive Board)

Spring 2008 – Spring 2010

Northeastern Anthropological Association Graduate Student Representative (2 year term)

Departmental Service, UMass Anthropology Department

Fall 2005 – present

University of Massachusetts Department of Anthropology NAGPRA Repatriation Committee Member

Fall 2007 – Spring 2008

Northeastern Anthropological Association 48th Annual Meeting Program Data Coordinator

Fall 2007 – Spring 2008

Anthropology Department Publications Committee Member

Fall 2006 – Spring 2007

Graduate Caucus Chair

Fall 2005 – Spring 2006

Anthropology Department Publications Committee Member

Fall 2004 – Spring 2005

Brown Bag/701 Coordinator

Academic Research Positions

Spring 2009 – present Dept. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Assistant to Director of Center for Heritage and Society, Dr. Elizabeth Chilton

Fall 2007 – Spring 2008 Dept. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Assistant to the Chair, Dr. Elizabeth Chilton

Summer 2007 Dept. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Assistant to NEH Grant Proposal Project Director Dr. Elizabeth Chilton

Fall 2006 – Spring 2007 Dept. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Assistant to Chair Dr. Elizabeth Chilton

Fall 2004 – Summer 2006 Dept. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Assistant to Chair Dr. Ralph Faulkingham; Office Manager, African Studies Review