Background

Alix completed her BA in Anthropology from Mount Holyoke College in 2005.  She then worked for several years as a contract archaeologist and lab manager for the University of Vermont's Consulting Archaeology Program.  She completed her Master's degree at William & Mary in 2010, writing a thesis entitled "Federal Recognition Politics and Collaborative Archaeologists: The Need for a Cultural Consensus."  Alix has experience at pre-contact and historical sites throughout New England, as well as in the Caribbean, colonial Virginia, and historic Alabama, but she plans to return to southern New England for her dissertation research.  She hopes to develop a project related to identity, materiality, and the politics of mortuary archaeology of the early colonial period, working in collaboration with Native stakeholder communities.  Look for her upcoming co-authored work with Christopher Shephard.