Rich and Histarchers,

Yes, Dave Killick mentors a number of historical
archaeologists here at UA, as do Terry Majewski, Jim
Ayers, Jeff Reid, and Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman (and
maybe others?).  We have no formal Historical
Archaeology program, concentration or major, but there
are a number of us graduate students who refer to
ourselves as historical archaeologists, nonetheless.  

I suspect there are a lot of departments out there
that, like UA, do not have formal HA programs, but
have a number of qualified and interested faculty to
teach HA and mentor. However, it would be good to see
more cohesive HA programs and full-time HA faculty
positions in the future.  

Sarah Cowie
PhD candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Arizona

--- Rich Lundin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Ron:
> 
> When I did my survey of Historical Archaeology
> programs for my MA in 1997 at 
> NAU, there were several Historical Archaeology
> programs listed in 
> California.  Sadly, I believe the only active
> programs now are at UCB and 
> CSU-Humboldt.  It appears, that like Arizona,
> California anthropology 
> departments got rid of the Historical Archaeology
> programs when the funds 
> got short and the administrators and prehistoric
> archaeologists believed 
> that their projects would be threatened and "Who
> needs to look at this 
> recent junk anyway?"  That approach turns out to be
> so short-sited (pun 
> intended) with our governmental mandate of looking
> at the data from a 
> moving window of 50 years from the present-you have
> to deal with this "junk" 
> anyway.  The success and growth of SHA proves this
> out. In Arizona, I 
> believe I was the last Historical Archaeology MA.
> There may be some work 
> being done on historical sites out of University of
> Arizona's Archaeological 
> Science Program under Dave Killick, an ex-pat from
> the UK like Noel Hume.
> 
> Rich Lundin, BA, MA, RPA, ISAP
> Consulting Historical Archaeologist and Remote
> Sensing Specialist
> Director, Wondjina Research Institute
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron May" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:28 AM
> Subject: Re: An academic-type question
> 
> 
> >
> > In a message dated 7/18/2007 6:32:31 P.M. Pacific
> Daylight Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > archaeology depts
> >
> >
> > I believe the University of California, Los
> Angeles has an archaeology
> > department. However, I would be surprised if they
> had an historical 
> > archaeologist
> > on staff.
> >
> > Ron May
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