Christopher C. Fennell

Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148
607 South Mathews Ave.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Phone: (217) 244-7309
Fax: (217) 244-3490
email: cfennell@illinois.edu
photo by Bill Wiegand for Inside Illinois

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EDUCATION

    University of Virginia: Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2003.
    Concentration in historical archaeology and African diaspora archaeology.
    M.A. in Anthropology, 2000.

    Georgetown University Law Center: J.D., 1989.
    Research Editor, American Criminal Law Review, Volume 26 (1988-1989); managed final review of all articles; chaired committee for selecting articles for publication.

    University of Pennsylvania: M.A. in American Civilization, 1986.
    Interdisciplinary program applying anthropological theories and methods to subjects in American history, with concentration in historical archaeology.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
    Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 2004-present.
    Designing and teaching courses in anthropology and archaeology.
    Faculty affiliate of the College of Law, teaching interdisciplinary seminars in Anthropology and Law; also faculty affiliate of the Department of Landscape Architecture, the Center for African Studies, and the African American Studies Program.

    University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX
    Adjunct Professor of Law and Senior Research Fellow, 2003-2004.
    Designed and taught seminar in Anthropology and Law and course in Social Norms and the Law.

    Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
    Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Fall 2003.
    Designed and taught Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course, including elements of anthropology’s four sub-fields, history of humankind, and diversity of cultures.

    Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
    Instructor, School of Policy Studies, Spring 2001.
    Designed and taught course on Cross-Cultural Anthropology, including analysis of diverse cultures and economic, environmental, class, gender, and ethnic dynamics.

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
    Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Summer 2000, Summer 1999.
    Designed and taught course on Witchcraft and Magic and an intensive, six-week Field School in Historical Archaeology theory and methods, including excavation, surveying, artifact and documentary analysis.

OTHER TEACHING & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

    University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
    Archaeology Project Co-Director, 2008-2010.
    Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Archaeologist, with Anna Agbe-Davies (DePaul U.) and Terrance Martin (Illinois State Museum), conducting archaeological investigations and funded field schools at nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois, under a grant award by the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.

    Aerial Thermal Survey Research, 2007-2008.
    Principal Investigator and co-Principal Archaeologist, with Tommy Hailey (Northwestern State University) and Bryan Haley (U. Mississippi), conducting low-altitude high resolution thermal survey at nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois, under a grant award by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

    Archaeology Project Co-Director, 2004-2006.
    Co-Principal Archaeologist, with Paul Shackel (U. Maryland) and Terrance Martin (Illinois State Museum), conducting archaeological investigations and funded field schools at nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois, under a grant award by the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.

    Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
    Adjunct Research Associate in Anthropology, 2008-2009.
    Conducting research on nineteenth century history in Illinois and Midwest region, including social history of New Philadelphia.

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
    Archaeology Project Director, 1997-2003.
    Conducted excavations, research, and analysis of eighteenth and nineteenth century archaeology sites at St. Peter’s Church and School House, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and Demory farmstead site, Loudoun County, Virginia.

    Guest Lecturer, Universities of Virginia and Illinois.
    Presented guest lectures in courses on Witchcraft and Magic (Spring, 1999), Historical Ethnography (Spring 1999), Reconstructing the Plymouth Colony (Fall 1998), North American Indians (Summer 1998), American Material Culture (Spring 1998), Introduction to Archaeology (Fall, 2004), Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Spring, 2005), Archaeology and the Public (Spring, 2005), Museum Studies Seminar (Spring, 2005), and Archaeology of Illinois (Spring 2006, 2008).

EDITORIAL AND REFEREE EXPERIENCE

    International Journal of Historical Archaeology
    Editorial Board Member, 2005-present.
    Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Plenum/Springer.

    African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter
    Editor, 2005-present.
    Editor and co-founder of the African Diaspora Archaeology Network, providing a focal point for archaeological studies of African diasporas, with analysis papers, news, and current research related to the archaeology and history of descendants of African peoples. Available online at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/

    Article and Book Manuscript Referee, 2004-present.
    Providing peer review for publication selection of article and book manuscripts submitted to the American Anthropologist journal, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Historical Archaeology journal, and Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, and University Press of Florida.

    Plymouth Colony Archive Project
    Editor, 1998-present.
    Editor, and co-founder in 1998 with James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz, of the Plymouth Colony Archive Project, an internet publication of ethnohistorical and archaeological analyses and historical texts; recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as "peer-reviewed for outstanding intellectual quality, superior design, and educational impact." Available online at: http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/

COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH

PUBLICATIONS

    "Archaeological Perspectives on Early African America," an invited synthesis and review article for Journal of Archaeological Research, in preparation.

    "Ethnic Markers and Signaling: Interpretative Debates and Historical Dynamics," in preparation.

    "African Diaspora Archaeology in Multiscalar and Multivariate Perspectives," introductory chapter in African Diaspora Archaeology, an invited textbook compiled and edited by Christopher Fennell, accepted for peer reviewed publication by the Society for Historical Archaeology (in press).

    "Damaging Detours: Routes, Racism and New Philadelphia," in New Philadelphia: Racism, Community, and the Illinois Frontier, a specially edited thematic issue of articles accepted for peer reviewed publication by Historical Archaeology journal.

    New Philadelphia: Racism, Community, and the Illinois Frontier, editor (with Terrance J. Martin and Paul A. Shackel) of a specially edited thematic issue accepted for peer reviewed publication by Historical Archaeology journal.

    "Combating Attempts of Elision: African American Accomplishments at New Philadelphia, Illinois," invited chapter in Intangible Heritage Embodied, edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles and Helaine Silverman, accepted for peer reviewed publication by Springer Press.

    Archaeological Investigations at the New Philadelphia Town Site, Pike County, Illinois, co-edited with Terrance J. Martin and Paul A. Shackel. Edited volume of chapters to be published in a monograph series entitled Illinois State Museum Reports of Investigations. Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois (in press).

    "Excavating Strata of Memory and Forgetting," an invited article in SAA Archaeological Record 8(1): 17-21. Society for American Archaeology (Jan. 2008).

    Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World, with a foreword by Robert Farris Thompson, peer reviewed publication by University of Florida Press (2007).

    "BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Expression in the Americas," an invited chapter in The Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Toyin Falola and Akin Ogundiran, pp. 210-50, peer reviewed publication by Indiana University Press (2007).

    "New Philadelphia: Free African-American Historical Site, Southern Illinois," in Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia (with Paul Shackel, Michael Hargrave, and Terrance Martin), edited by Francis McManamon, Greenwood Press (forthcoming).

    "Free Frank's Community, New Philadelphia," with Terrance J. Martin and Paul A. Shackel, Outdoor Illinois 13(10): 26-28 (2005).

    "New Philadelphia: The XYZs of the First Excavations," with Terrance J. Martin and Paul A. Shackel, Living Museum 66(4): 8-13 (2004/2005).

    Consuming Mosaics: Mass-Produced Goods and Contours of Choice in the Upper Potomac Region, PhD Diss., University of Virginia. Ann Arbor: UMI (2003).

    "Group Identity, Individual Creativity and Symbolic Generation in a BaKongo Diaspora," International Journal of Historical Archaeology 7(1): 1-31, peer reviewed publication by Kluwer Academic & Plenum Publishers (2003).

    "Molded Malevolence: Instrumental Symbolism Rendered in Clay," invited article in Ceramics in America 3: 270-273, peer reviewed publication by University Press of New England and the Chipstone Foundation (2003).

    "Fear and Greed in Tax Policy: A Qualitative Research Agenda," with Lee A. Fennell, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 13: 75-138 (2003).

    "Proximate Inventions," AnthroGlobe Journal, AnthroTech Publications (Jan. 2002).

    "Assessing Criticisms of Faunal Analyses and Environmental Reconstructions in the Tehuacán Valley Project," Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal 29(3): 349-359, peer reviewed publication by Kluwer Academic & Plenum Publishers (2001).

    "Conjuring Boundaries: Inferring Past Identities from Religious Artifacts," International Journal of Historical Archaeology 4(4): 281-313, peer reviewed publication by Kluwer Academic & Plenum Publishers (2000).

    "Government Contract Fraud," White Collar Crime Survey of Law, American Criminal Law Review 25(3): 427-442 (1988).

WORKS IN PROGRESS

    "Social Bonds and Loosening Commodity Chains in Antebellum Virginia," addresses the unfolding and interaction of three cultural processes in the ethnically diverse upper Potomac and northern Shenandoah region surrounding Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, during the period of 1750 to 1865. One process involved the dynamics with which distinct social groups and networks formed, solidified and dissipated over time. Such social group dynamics included a second process of communication through the stylistic shaping and display of material culture. These two in turn impacted a third set of dynamics that involved regional exchange systems and competing socio-economic interests deployed across the North Atlantic and within the mid-Atlantic region of America.

    "A View from Above: Surveying New Philadelphia's History," considers the regional context of racial tensions that impacted New Philadelphia, Illinois, archaeological findings to date, and ways in which African American residents overcame adversities. This study focuses on a new form of low-altitude aerial survey, utilizing high resolution thermal imaging, that we plan to employ at the 42-acre town site to explore the degree to which the actual build-out of the town through the late 1800s achieved the 1836 town plan. Multiple sources of data from documents, surface surveys, geophysics, and aerial thermal techniques will be used in a comparative analysis yielding a new and unique test of varying methods. This aerial thermal survey is supported by a grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

    "Footprint of Freedom: What Archaeology Tells Us about the New Philadelphia Community," invited lecture scheduled to be presented October 21, 2008, to the University of Illinois Alumni Association, Springfield, Illinois.

    "Studies in African-American Archaeology and Heritage in the Midwest," invited organizer and moderator of forum as part of the Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference, scheduled to be convened October 3-4, 2008, Indianapolis, Indiana.

    "Collaborative Studies and Interdisciplinary Data in the New Philadelphia Project," invited lecture presented in the Paul Mickey Science Series, Illinois State Museum, July 9, 2008, Springfield, Illinois.

    "Civic Engagement and Interdisciplinary Data in the New Philadelphia Project," invited lecture presented to the Community Informatics Initiative, University of Illinois, April 23, 2008, Champaign, Illinois.

    "Cultural Heritage and Economic Dynamics in Western Illinois," invited lecture presented to the Pike County Chamber of Commerce, June 11, 2008, Pittsfield, Illinois.

    "A View from Above: Surveying New Philadelphia's History," paper presented in a syposium entitled Post-Emancipation Transitions in the African Diaspora, January 12, 2008, at the Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    "Routes, Racism, and New Philadelphia: Archaeology of an Interracial Town in the 19th Century," invited lecture presented to the Central Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, October 25, 2007, Urbana, Illinois.

    "Archaeological Explorations of African Diasporas and Symbolism in the New World," paper presented in a symposium entitled Rituals, Symbols, and Community in the Diaspora at the Fourth Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, October 10, 2007, St. Michael, Barbados.

    "Rituals, Symbols, and Community in the Diaspora," chairperson for symposium panel convened at the Fourth Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, October 10, 2007, St. Michael, Barbados.

    "New Philadelphia and Landscapes of History," invited lecture presented June 19, 2007, New Philadelphia Association Speaker Series, Kinderhook, Illinois.

    "Terrains of African-American Accomplishment at New Philadelphia," invited paper presented March 30, 2007, at "Intangible Heritage Embodied," Annual Workshop of the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

    "African American and German Heritage in the Loudoun Valley: Communities, Conflicts, and Cosmologies," invited lecture presented February 23, 2007, for the Loudoun Museum, in Leesburg, Virginia.

    "Research Designs for Atlantic Africa and African Diaspora Archaeologies," organizer, chair, and moderator of the Annual Forum for the African Diaspora Archaeology Network, convened January 12, 2007, at the 40th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, Virginia.

    "Multivalent Histories of the Recent Past: Archaeology and Racialization in the American Midwest," paper presented November 10, 2006, at the 2006 Conference on Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory, University of Bristol, England.

    "Creolization and Ethnogenic Bricolage in African Diasporas," invited lecture presented October 26, 2006, to the Department of Anthropology's Archaeology Workshop, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

    "Regional Dynamics and Racialization on a Midwestern Frontier," invited lecture presented September 20, 2006, to the Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

    "Guile, Stratagems, and the Contours of Success in Transatlantic Trade Spheres," chair, organizer, and commentator for symposium panel convened July 21, 2006, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Montreal, Canada.

    "Crossroads, Cosmologies, and Ethnogenesis in the New World," invited paper presented at Colloquium of the Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, February 25, 2006.

    "Patriarchy Performed: The Value of Women's Labor in Peripheral Links of a Commodity Chain," paper presented December 3, 2005, at a session panel entitled Archaeologies of American History, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

    "Identity and a Sense of Place" (with C. Christman and P. Shackel), paper presented by C. Christman, December 3, 2005, at a symposium entitled Dialogues in Context: Perspectives on Applied Work in African Diaspora Archaeology, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

    "Archaeology at New Philadelphia: Multivalent Histories and Heritage of a Diverse Frontier Town," paper presented September 17, 2005, at a symposium entitled Ethnic and Racial Identities in the Archaeological Record, Forty-Ninth Annual Conference in Illinois Archaeology, Champaign, Illinois.

    "Geophysical Investigations at New Philadelphia, Pike County, Illinois" (with M. Hargrave, T. Martin, and P. Shackel), paper presented by M. Hargrave, September 17, 2005, at a symposium entitled Ethnic and Racial Identities in the Archaeological Record, Forty-Ninth Annual Conference in Illinois Archaeology, Champaign, Illinois.

    "Archaeology of New Philadelphia: Histories of a Multiracial Frontier Town," invited lecture presented to the Central Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, April 20, 2005, Urbana, Illinois, and invited lecture presented October 1, 2004, at the University of Virginia, Department of Anthropology Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology, Charlottesville, Virginia.

    "Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence of BaKongo Diasporas in the Caribbean Region," paper presented April 2, 2005, at a session panel entitled History and Historic Archaeology, Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah.

    "Multivalent Histories and Heritage of a Diverse Frontier Town" (with P. Shackel and T. Martin), invited paper presented January 9, 2005, at a symposium entitled After Archaeology: Problems in the Management of Living Sites, Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, York, England.

    "New Philadelphia, Race and the American Frontier" (with P. Shackel and T. Martin), paper presented by P. Shackel, January 8, 2005, at the Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, York, England.

    "Use of Internet Technologies in Public History and Public Archaeology," paper presented December 3, 2004, at a symposium entitled Finding the Unseen, Twenty-Fifth Annual Illinois History Symposium, Springfield, Illinois.

    "Progress Report on the 2004 Excavations at the New Philadelphia Site" (with T. Martin, P. Shackel, and M. Hargrave), paper presented by T. Martin, October 21, 2004, at combined Fiftieth Midwest Archaeological Conference and Sixty-First Southeastern Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.

    "Bound Up in Commodity Chains: The Value of Women’s Labor in Backcountry Farmsteads and Local Stores," paper presented January 9, 2004, at a symposium entitled Marginalized in the Past, Dismissed in the Present?, Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri.

    "Structure and Scales of Reciprocity: Implications from Anthropological Studies and Game Theory Experiments," invited paper presented at the October 2003 Faculty Workshop, School of Law, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.

    "Group Identity, Individual Creativity and Symbolic Generation in a BaKongo Diaspora," paper presented June 22, 2003, at a symposium entitled The Politics of Representation, Fifth World Archaeological Conference, Washington, D.C.

    "Fear and Greed in Tax Policy: A Qualitative Research Agenda," invited paper presented at the February 2003 Faculty Workshop, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia.

    "The Supply is Willing But the Demand is Weak: Contours of Choice in the Upper Potomac Region, 1750-1865," paper presented January 18, 2003, at a session panel entitled Trade and Consumption, Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Providence, Rhode Island.

    "Style, Choice and Consuming Mosaics: Challenges to the Spread of Mass-Production Economies in the Mid-Atlantic," paper presented November 24, 2002, at a session panel entitled Archaeological Investigation of Materials, Craft Production and Use, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

    "Consuming Mosaics: Contours of Choice in the Upper Potomac Region," paper presented March 24, 2002, at a session panel entitled New World Historical Archaeology, Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.

    "Common Grounds and Creative Dynamics in the Instrumental Symbolism of Religious Artifacts," invited paper presented January 11, 2002, at a symposium entitled Religion, Ritual, and Magic: The Archaeology of Spiritual Life, Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Mobile, Alabama.

    "Emblematic and Instrumental Symbolism in the Material Culture of Group Identities and Individual Creativity," presented December 2, 2001, at a session panel entitled Memory and Material Culture, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

    "Dynamics of Shifting Ethnic Group Memberships and Individual Creativity," presented April 20, 2001, at a session panel entitled Power, Economy & Identity, Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.

    "European Conjuring Practices and Questions of Ethnic Identities in the Chesapeake Region," invited paper presented March 2, 2001, at Gunston Hall's Annual Symposium in Historical Archaeology, entitled The Life of the Spirit: Material Dimensions of Religious and Spiritual Life in the Historic Chesapeake, Mason Neck, Virginia.

    "Individual Status and Interpersonal Dynamics in African American Spiritual Practices," invited paper presented January 11, 2001, in a symposium entitled More Than Community: Different Scales of Analysis in African American Archaeology, Annual Conference of the Society of Historical Archaeology, Long Beach, California.

    "Spirits Invoked: Archaeological Recovery of Protective Religious Practices among African Americans in the 19th Century," invited paper presented May 25, 2000, at Annual Conference of the Middle Passage Project, entitled Monuments of the Black Atlantic: History, Memory and Politics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

    "Developments in Law and Civil Litigation in Antitrust," presented at 1996 Conference of American Bar Association, Utility Law Section, Salt Lake City, Utah.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

    As described in more detail below, from 2004 through 2008, I have been grateful to receive the support of: $112,829 in competitive, peer-reviewed research grants awarded by the University of Illinois Research Board and grant programs of the Andrew Mellon Foundation and Community Informatics Initiative; and $528,656 in competitive, peer-reviewed research grants awarded by external agencies including the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

    National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Grant, 2008-2011, as Principal Investigator and co-Principal Archaeologist with Anna Agbe-Davies (DePaul U.) and Terrance Martin (Illinois State Museum), conducting archaeological investigations and NSF funded field schools at nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois.

    Community Informatics Initiative, 2008-2009, as Principal Investigator, in a project concerning civic engagement among researchers and local and descendant communities of New Philadelphia, Illinois.

    African-American Heritage in the Midwest, Speaker Series, 2008, as Project Director, supported by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General Assembly.

    National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, 2007-2008, as Principal Investigator and co-Principal Archaeologist, with Tommy Hailey (Northwestern State University) and Bryan Haley (U. Mississippi), conducting low-altitude high resolution thermal survey at nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois.

    Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Faculty Fellowship, 2006-2007, to conduct interdisciplinary work in the humanities, focusing on nineteenth century history in the midwest region.

    National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Grant, 2004-2006, as co-Principal Archaeologist with Paul Shackel (U. Maryland) and Terrance Martin (Illinois State Museum), conducting archaeological investigations and NSF funded field schools at nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois.

    University of Illinois, Research Board Grants, 2004-2008, supporting archaeological and historical research projects concerning African diaspora subjects and social history of nineteenth century town of New Philadelphia, Illinois.

    Voted "Outstanding" Anthropology Faculty member by the Undergraduate Anthropology Students Association, 2004-2005.

    University of Illinois, included in "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent," Fall 2004, Fall 2007.

    West Virginia Humanities Council Grants, 2000-2001, 2002-2003, from state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, supporting continuing archival research as part of an historical archaeology study of St. Peter's Church and School House sites, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

    DuPont Fellowship, 2001-2002, University of Virginia, Department of Anthropology, supporting write-up of doctoral dissertation.

    Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Research Fellowship, 2000, supporting study of aspects of Virginia economic history in the 18th and 19th centuries, utilizing resources of the Virginia Historical Society.

    Governor's Fellowship, 1997-2000, University of Virginia, Department of Anthropology, supporting doctoral studies.

    American Jurisprudence Awards, 1988, 1989, for Antitrust and Employment Discrimination courses, Georgetown University Law Center.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

    Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, TX
    Volunteer, 2002.
    Provided volunteer research to develop claims in civil rights impact litigation.

    Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC
    Associate Attorney, 1991-1997.
    Conducted seminars for corporate managers and personnel on applicability of antitrust, contract, trade and environmental laws and regulations to their business activities and strategies; trial work in complex cases involving antitrust, contracts, products liability, torts, false claims, commercial real estate, and securities disputes; provided pro bono services to obtain benefits for elderly persons and individuals disabled by AIDS.

    D.C. Superior Court, Multidoor Dispute Resolution Division, Washington, DC
    Court-appointed Mediator, 1995-1997.
    Provided mediation services on pro bono basis for D.C. Superior Court's civil docket cases. Conducted confidential conferences with parties in litigation to evaluate nature of disputes and formulate basis for settlement before trial.

    Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA
    Associate Attorney, 1990-1991.
    Experience in trial and appellate litigation of complex antitrust, intellectual property, and contract disputes.

    Honorable Jane R. Roth, Wilmington, DE
    Judicial Clerk, 1989-1990.
    Researched and wrote bench memoranda and opinions for Hon. Jane R. Roth of U.S. District Court for District of Delaware, now on United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

    Register of Professional Archaeologists
    American Anthropological Association
    Society for American Archaeology
    Society for Historical Archaeology
    Midwest Archaeological Conference
    Illinois Archaeological Survey
    Society for Applied Anthropology
    Association for Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
    Member (non-practicing) of the bars of state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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