Mary C. Beaudry

Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology

DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES
CHAIR OF THE AWARDS COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Vestigios: Revista Latinoamericana de Arqueologia Historica, and Cultural Landscapes

Office: Room 345C
(617) 358-1650

PhD, Brown University, 1980
Areas of interest: historical and industrial archaeology of the Americas and British Isles, comparative colonialism, culture contact, gender and equity issues in archaeology, the archaeology of historical households and homelots, documentary archaeology, landscape, ceramic analysis and typologies

Excavations & Field Work
Her current field projects include investigations at several historical home sites in Massachusetts and at the colonial William Carr Estate at Little Bay, Montserrat, West Indies.

PUBLICATIONS

Mary C. Beaudry, Findings: The Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (2006).

Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2006).

Stephen A. Mrozowski, Grace H. Ziesing, and Mary C. Beaudry, ‘Living on the Boott’: Historical Archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst (1996).

Anne Elizabeth Yentsch and Mary C. Beaudry, editors, The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology: Essays in Honor of James Deetz. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (1992).

Mary C. Beaudry, editor, Documentary Archaeology in the New World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1988, issued in softcover 1992).

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