Shahin Monshipour, a part-time faculty member in the department of Anthropology, Sociology, History and Political Science, spent six weeks doing historical archaeology field work, under the supervision of leading colonial historian/ archaeologist Mark Leon, excavating in two units at Annapolis and the Wye House/Farm in Maryland. The Wye plantation is where Frederick Douglas lived as a child, and was described in his narratives. Both sites are significant in the pedagogy of slavery ideology and anthropology of US culture.
On July 10, Monshipour successfully completed requirements for, and received six graduate credit hours in Historical Archaeology from the Anthropology Department of University of Maryland at College Park.
The results of her research will be shared with colleagues and with her sociology students at MCC in the fall 2009.
Janet Ekis
College and Community Relations
07/14/2008 |