{"id":18170,"date":"2022-10-23T22:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T02:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=18170"},"modified":"2022-10-23T22:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T02:56:58","slug":"dr-samantha-stein","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/profile\/dr-samantha-stein\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Samantha Stein"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<tbody>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#EAF2FA\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><span><strong>Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td><span>Geoarcheology; archaeology in the media<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#EAF2FA\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><span><strong>Excavation and Fieldwork<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td><span>Torksey Viking Winter Camp; York Archaeological Trust geoarchaeologist; Historic England Science Advisor; BBC&#8217;s Digging for Britain Producer<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#EAF2FA\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><span><strong>What have you been doing since you&#8217;ve graduated?<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td><span>I completed my MSc and PhD in geoarchaeology at the University of Sheffield in the UK. This work was on Viking overwintering camps and landscape reconstruction. I worked as staff geoarchaeologist at York Archaeological Trust and Trent and Peak, where I worked throughout the UK, and then as Historic England&#8217;s Science Advisor for the southwest and Yorkshire. I am now working in TV, where I have worked on both scripted and non-scripted TV for National Geographic, NOVA, BBC, Channel 4, and History Channel\/A&amp;E. I am currently working producing BBC&#8217;s flagship archaeology programme, Digging for Britain.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#EAF2FA\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><span><strong>How did your experience in the program shape your professional and personal life?<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td><span>It was a fantastic basis for my career, and helped me understand archaeology more widely.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#EAF2FA\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><span><strong>What interactions with members of the Archaeology faculty did you value most during your time in the program?<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td><span>Prof Goldberg inspired me to take up geoarchaeology, much to Prof Beaudry&#8217;s dismay, but I managed to combine historical archaeology and geoarchaeology in the end!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#EAF2FA\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><span><strong>If you could give a piece of advice to your past self, what would it be?<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td><span>Appreciate every piece of wisdom given by Prof Beaudry!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":1481,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18172,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18170\/revisions\/18172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}