Background

Sarah came to the MA/PhD program at William and Mary from the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2005, having dreamed of being an archaeologist from the age of 8. She completed her Master's thesis in 2009, entitled "Propagating Status: Gentlemen Planters and Their Greenhouses in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake." She has assisted and taught the William and Mary Archaeological Field School since the summer of 2007, and served as the Anthropology Graduate Student President from 2007-2008. She has presented at a number of conferences, including the William and Mary Graduate Research Symposium in 2007, 2008, and 2010, the annual Society for Historical Archaeology meetings in 2008 and 2010, and at the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology meetings in 2009. Currently, she splits her time between her dissertation work on an eighteenth-century greenhouse in Philadelphia and as a member of the archaeology crew at Colonial Williamsburg.