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- Freelance photographic archaeologist, situated in the New England area.
Education:
Graduate School: University of Glasgow, Glasgow Scotland
Mlitt/PgDig Aerial Photography with Geophysical Survey in Archaeology
(Accepted, attending September 2008-September 2009)
University: University of Bristol, Bristol England
Archaeology BA Honours, July 2007
Courses Included: Introduction to Archaeology, Comparative World Archaeology, Sites and Monuments, Artifacts, Field course (1), Celtic and Roman World, Anthropology of Religion, Environmental Archaeology, The History of Archaeology, Contemporary Theory in Archaeology, Ancient Technology, Field Course (2), Introduction to Ancient Egypt, Anthropology of Islam, Anthropology of Africa, Heritage Management, Archaeological Applications and Techniques, Field Course (3), Ancient Egyptian World of the Dead, Anthropology of India, Archaeology and the Sea.
Dissertation: A Comparative Look at Photographic Advances in the Field of Archaeology, University of Bristol, May 3, 2007
Work History:
Intern: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. September 2007 –Present
• Involved with the Giza Archives Project archiving excavation documents from an excavation the MFA and Harvard carried out at Giza, Egypt from 1905-1947.
• Working to improve my archiving skills, processing publications for the Giza Archives Website using Smart Museum On-Line Database entry.
• Proficient Photoshop, Acrobat, Adobe, Optical Character Reader, ABBEY OCR, Miicrosoft Word and Excel.
• Being trained in library science practices by a librarian archivist with an MA in library science.
Archiving Unit: University of Bristol and Somerset County Council Historic Environment Service. Bristol, England. June 2007
• Researched the historic background of the parish of Kingsdon in South Somerset, both onsite with ordinance surveying, and off site using the Somerset Council Records Office.
• Contributed to the Somerset Historic Environment Record with my findings on the Bowling Green of Kingsdon.
Digger: Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society Field School. Blacklands, England. May 2006
• Training excavation on a Roman site just outside Bath, England.
• Gaining experience working in a Roman archaeology.
Site Photographer/Digger: University of Bristol Training Dig. Berkley Castle, Gloucestershire, England May-June 2005
• Training excavation in the Butterfly Garden of the castle.
• I was in charge of photographing features, levels, and the landscape of the site.
Digger: Abbe Museum Field School, Maine. August 2004
• Field school excavation on a Native American site in northern Maine.
• Scholarship recipient to attend field school.
Intern: Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME. January 2003-June 2004
• Cleaning and cataloguing artifacts, assisting with school groups, lending a hand with exhibit installation, helping with open days and fundraising functions. Continued to volunteer my time with various events even after my official internship ended.
• In my second year I worked on an independent research project scanning archaeological scrapbooks from the 1920’s, and examining the foundations of archaeology as a discipline and how they correlated to the scrapbooks, all research culminated in a public lecture.
• Presentation: Linking Relics: 1920s Archaeology From the Pages of Dr. Abbe’s Scrapbooks, The Abbe Museum, June 12, 2004
July 2006 I photographed 42 pieces of art for the museums annual fundraising auction.
Computer Skills: Photoshop, Acrobat, Adobe, Optical Character Reader, ABBEY OCR, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, File Maker
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i suppose it's not exactly a big cultural shift moving up here, so i'm sure you'll fit right in. The department's really friendly, and I'll no doubt see you at the wednesday seminars (they're compulsory for you actually. lol). Everyone heads out for a few beers after those things so it's really pretty easy to get well acquianted. Wish there was something I could warn you about but I've not had any bad experiences over the last 2 years anyway, quite the contrary really.
if i were you, however, i'd just make sure that between september and march you're prepared to get soaked randomly, even if it looks sunny outside. :)
oh, and if anyone mentions the words "80's party" then beware!
:)