{"id":18199,"date":"2022-10-23T23:36:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T03:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=18199"},"modified":"2022-10-23T23:36:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T03:36:32","slug":"dr-laura-e-masur","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/profile\/dr-laura-e-masur\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Laura E Masur"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<tbody>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#EAF2FA\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><span><strong>Website(s)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td><span>Catholic University Faculty Profile: <a href=\"https:\/\/anthropology.catholic.edu\/faculty-and-research\/faculty-profiles\/masur-laura\/index.html\">https:\/\/anthropology.catholic.edu\/faculty-and-research\/faculty-profiles\/masur-laura\/index.html<\/a><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Research Project Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/stillwespeak.org\/\">http:\/\/stillwespeak.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#EAF2FA\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><span><strong>Current CV<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/index.php?gf-download=2022%2F08%2FLaura_E_Masur_Aug22.pdf&amp;form-id=12&amp;field-id=25&amp;hash=ab5225dd646e06a7d8a03f909cbeb66172555fbd13bac08526dc77076668da87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" aria-label=\"Click to view\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Laura_E_Masur_Aug22.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\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>Historical Archaeology, Public and community archaeology, African diaspora, Jesuit missions, Environmental archaeology, Chesapeake and Middle Atlantic<\/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>Geophysical survey and ongoing field research at St. Inigoes (18ST233, 18ST330, 18ST87), Newtown (18ST16), and Bohemia (18CE413) plantations in Maryland<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Fall 2022: Survey of Sidney\/St. Thomas Hill (51NE031) on Catholic University&#8217;s campus<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#EAF2FA\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><span><strong>Representative Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td><span>Laura E. Masur, \u201cPlantation as Mission: American Indians, Enslaved Africans, and Jesuit Missionaries in Maryland,\u201d Journal of Jesuit Studies 8, no. 3 (2021): 385-407. doi:10.1163\/22141332-0803P003<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Stephan T. Lenik and Laura E. Masur, \u201cIntroduction: The Archaeology of Jesuit Sites in the Americas,\u201d Journal of Jesuit Studies 8, no. 3 (2021): 341-354. doi:10.1163\/22141332-0803P001<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Laura E. Masur, \u201cA Spiritual Inheritance: Black Catholics in Southern Maryland.\u201d In Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus (Chestnut Hill: Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, 2021). doi:10.51238\/ISJS.2019.10<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Laura E. Masur, &#8220;Symbol or Presence? Archaeology and the Materiality of Catholic Devotions,&#8221; U.S. Catholic Historian 38, no. 2 (2020): 1-21, doi:10.1353\/cht.2020.0009.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Laura E. Masur and Aaron F. Miller, \u201cTempering Our Expectations: Drinking, Smoking, and the Economy of a Western Massachusetts \u2018Farmstead-Tavern,\u2019\u201d Northeast Historical Archaeology 49 (2019), 148-170.<\/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 have been working as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.<\/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>My training at BU provided great exposure to archeological methods across the globe.<\/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>Dr. Catherine West and Dr. Mac Marston were really incredible mentors, and helped me to refine and shape my research.<\/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\/18199"}],"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\/18199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18201,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18199\/revisions\/18201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}