Christine N. Reiser
Brown Teaching Fellow
Degrees
Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University, Anthropology
M.A., Brown University, Athropology
B.A., Notre Dame, Anthropology and History
Main Interests
Anthropology, Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Research Interests
Historical archaeology/anthropology; ethnohistory; public humanities and museum studies; comparative colonialism; community studies; race; heritage; memory; landscape and the social uses of space; Native American studies; northeastern North America
Teaching Interests
Anthropology
Other Interests
Native American Studies
Student Projects
2002-present: Researcher, Study of Cocumscussoc Archaeological Site
2005-2006: Field Assistant, Greene Farm Archaeological Project, Warwick, R.I.
2006: Researcher, Mt. Hope Carousel Project, Bristol, R.I.
2005-2006: Research Assistant, Brown Univ.
2003: Researcher, Study of Fort Island Archaeological Site, Block Island, R.I.
2003: Researcher, Study of Providence Cove Lands, Providence, R.I.
2003: Field Researcher, Jamestown Rediscovery Field School, Jamestown, VA
2003: Field Assistant, Forensic Archaeology Recovery at The Station Nightclub, West Warwick, R.I.
2000-2001: Field and Research Assistant, Upper Klamath River Project, Univ. of Nortre Dame
Publications
"Locating the Past in History: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Public History" in Retrospect 1 (1), 2007.
"Safeguarding the Mint: Wampum Production and the Social Uses of Space at Fort Island" in Native Forts of Long Island Sound Area, Readings in Long Island Archeology & Ethnohistory, Vol. III, edited by Gaynell Stone, Suffolk County Archaeological Association, Stony Brook, NY, 2007.
"Small Finds: Cocumscussoc's Buried Inventory" in The Castle Chronicle, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter 2006), The Cocumscussoc Association at Smith's Castle, pp. 15-22.
Performances
Professional Service and Leadership:
2006-present: Member of Cocumscussoc Association Long Range Site Planning Committee, North Kingstown, R.I.
2005-present: Board of Directors, R.I. Archaeology Society
2002-present: Team Member in Forensic Archaeology Recovery (FAR)
2006-2007: Member of University Graduate Student Council, Anthropology Rep., Brown University
2007: Co-organizer, "Practicing Community, Interpreting Connectedness", Session for the American Ethnological Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
2007: Co-organizer, "Breaking the Divide Between Public and Intellectual Work", Session for the Brown Univ. Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, "Intellectuals and the Academy in Public Life", Providence, R.I.
2005, Co-organizer, R.I. Archaeology Day
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
Professional Memberships:
Society for American Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, American Society for Ethnohistory, American Anthropological Association, Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology