30 Nov 2020 5:30pm - 7:30pm ONLINE SESSION (UK Time). Please note the changed time.

Description

For further information and to register for this online lecture please email Mezna Qato.
 

Speaker

Theresa Singleton (Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University and Pitt Professor at the University of Cambridge 2021-2022)

 

About the Speaker

My areas of interest include historical archaeology, African Diasporas, Museums, North America, and the Caribbean. Throughout my career as an archaeologist, I have combined my research interests with developing museum collections, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and publications geared toward general audiences.  I am particularly interested in comparative studies of slave societies in the Americas.  I began my study of slavery in coastal Georgia where African-Americans descended from the former slave population are known as the Gullah-Geechee. (Gullah refers to both the creole language they speak as well as to the people themselves).

Since that time, I have conducted research, contributed to exhibitions, and published on various aspects of African-American life in the United States. More recently, I have undertaken archaeological research on slavery in Cuba, and in 2015, published a book on my study of a Coffee plantation. I am also working on another book publication focusing on comparing plantation life in the Caribbean and the United States.

 

 

An event organised by Archives of the Disappeared: Discipline and Method Amidst Ruin Network and co-sponsored by the Newnham College Legacies of Enslavement Committee and Decolonise Anthropology Society.
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