Oliver Mueller-Heubach

Email:: [[ommuel]]
Year entered:: 2003
Degree sought;: PhD

Background

Oliver Mueller-Heubach graduated with honors from the University of Pittsburgh in spring 2003, having majored in Anthropology and History and with certificates in Western European Studies and German for Professional Purposes. His field school experiences include: Casa Malpais Anasazi Pueblo in Arizona, Talati de Dalt megalithic site on Menorca, Spain; Fröjel, a Viking- era port on Gotland, Sweden and the 18th- and 19th-century Moravian First House/ Schaffner Pottery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This last provided the background for an honor's thesis on Moravian pottery and kiln technology.

Oliver's research interests include 18th- through 20th-century archaeological landscapes of English, Dutch and German-American communities. Further interests include archaeological illustration and material culture analysis. He has worked part-time for the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research since 2004. Oliver successfully defended his MA thesis, Boat-Wrights in a Port of Black Diamonds: Waterfront Landscapes of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal's Cumberland, MD Terminus in May, 2006.