Sarah and Dave:

Pardon me, U of A NOT ASU.

Rich Lundin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah Cowie" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: An academic-type question


> 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
>> > Legacy 106, Inc.
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