Laura Hampden (Greater London Archaeological Advisory Service)

Laura Hampden is a curatorial archaeologist currently working in the Greater London Archaeological Advisory Service, Historic England. Her research interests revolve around the archaeology of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the impact of colonial cultural encounters on the historic environment in the post-medieval to modern period (in the U.K and Caribbean colonies). Laura’s archaeological interests intersect with current conversations in the wider sector around Diversity, Equality, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion, Decolonisation, and the call for the significant cultural change needed to address structural inequality, and discrimination in the profession. She is a founding member of the European Society for Black and Allied Archaeologists and currently sits on the committee of Museum Detox. Through time working with communities, and time working with underrepresented and/marginalised heritage professionals Laura has developed an interest in implementing archaeology through a transformative practice lens; specifically where we collectively seek to understand the colonial roots of our profession, and remedy behaviours that perpetuate colonial inheritance and transference.

Lewis C. Jones (Gettysburg College)

Lewis C. Jones received his B.A. in History with a Minor in Anthropology, his B.S. in Secondary Education from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in 2006, and M.A in Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2013.  Jones teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and also teaches Anthropology Classes for Harrisburg Area Community College. He currently serves as the Chair of the Society for Historical Archaeology’s Gender and Minority Affairs Committee.  His research interests include the history, archaeology and anthropology of the African Diaspora; the archaeology and anthropology of slavery; gender formation with the African Diaspora; consumption within the African-American Diaspora; antiracism and decoupling racism and racist practices from the field of anthropology; discourses on poverty at the colour line; and memorialization, race, and reconfiguring of the Past.

Publications include:

‘Consuming Lines of Difference: The Politics of Wealth and Poverty along the Color Line’.  Paul R. Mullins, Modupe Labode, Lewis C. Jones, et al. Historical Archaeology 45(3): 140-150 (thematic issue on Archaeologies of Poverty, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood and Christopher Matthews, eds), 2011

‘Race, Displacement, and 20th Century University Landscapes: An Archaeology of Urban Renewal and Urban Universities’, with Paul R. Mullins in The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Post Emancipation Life (Jodi A. Barnes, ed), University of South Carolina Press, 2011.

Sanna Lipkin (University of Oulu)

Dr. Sanna Lipkin is Academy Research Fellow at the University of Oulu in Finland. Her current research projects (funded by the Academy of Finland) concentrate on post-medieval childhood. Her personal research interests focus on understanding the emotions related to child death and children in northern Finland. She is interested in social bonds between people, and how emotions affect those bonds’ evolvement. She also studies the post-medieval religious meanings related to death and afterlife, the preservation and decay processes of mummified remains, as well as past interference, comprehension, and attitudes towards these processes.

Dr Lipkin is president of the Archaeological Society of Finland and in this capacity works actively for equality and equity among archaeologists. 

Join us Saturday evening as co-editor Prof. Roger Leech (University of Southampton) and three contributors to the volume outline some of the research included in this new SPMA monograph.  The volume brings together new research on the archaeology of the colonial landscape of the Caribbean. It focusses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on the British Caribbean: notably Bermuda, Jamaica, Florida, Barbados, Antigua, and especially St. Kitts and Nevis. Chapters cover a wide range of landscapes – domestic, military and industrial – and interests, including the archaeology and architecture of African-Caribbean slavery and emancipation, European settlements, sugar production, burial grounds, cartography, fortifications and trade.

Dr. Theresa Singleton (Syracuse University), one of North America’s leading experts on the archaeology of African Americans, the African Diaspora, and slavery in the United States and the Caribbean, and recipient of the Society for Historical Archaeology’s prestigious J.C. Harrington Medal, will serve as the book launch session discussant, and chair a question and answer session with the audience.