Dear listmembers,

I'm the chair of an interdepartmental faculty committee for archaeology 
at my university, Montclair State University in northeastern New 
Jersey.   I'm an Old World specialist, and I could use your help. We are 
planning to develop a Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies are 
in the process of getting--we hope--a faculty line in U.S. historical 
archaeology, with emphasis on the Northeast and the Atlantic region, 
approved by our administration.   For reasons that are too complicated 
to go into here, the administration plans to place this position in the 
History Department rather than in Anthropology or in some type of 
crossover appointment.

I'd appreciate any thoughts you all may have on
(a) How often are such positions in History as opposed to Anthropology, 
in your experience?
(b) Which departmental environment do you think would be better for the 
person (bearing in mind, of course, that not all  North American 
archaeologists are cut from the same cloth)?

Thanks very much.

Tim Renner