Lauren Alston Bridges
Visiting Scholar, Columbus Chapel and Boal Mansion Museum
Biography
Lauren Alston Bridges (BA, Sewanee: The University of the South; MA, Illinois State University; Register of Professional Archaeologists [RPA]) is a PhD candidate at the College of William and Mary. A specialist in the archaeology of Spanish colonialism in the Americas, her publications include a forthcoming article in Historical Archaeology, various archaeological and historic property reports, as well as presentations at the W&M Graduate Research Symposium and Society for Historical Archaeology. She is president of the Anthropology Graduate Student Collective and contributes regularly to the graduate student blog (http://anthrograd.blogs.wm.edu/) and has worked with historical societies and museums ranging from Washington State, California, Illinois, and Tennessee, to Georgia and Virginia. Lauren Alston Bridges has received a fellowship from the College of William and Mary, and is currently planning dissertation work in western El Salvador and Seville, Spain. Her research illuminates the biographies of objects and people through the study of consumption and use of material goods in the 19th century. She hopes to complicate conceptions of class and status as well as contribute toward ideas of value, place, and identity.
Project Description:
Survey, Inventory, and Evaluation of the Columbus Family Papers
Lauren Alston Bridges' current project creates an archival translation and layout of the Columbus (Colon) family papers, currently housed in the Columbus Chapel. She is evaluating the condition and content of the papers and will compose a summary review. Her analysis includes a comparison with a previous evaluation of the collection, completed by Richard L. Garner and Donald C. Henderson sponsored by Penn State University in 1974.
Lauren Alston Bridges (BA, Sewanee: The University of the South; MA, Illinois State University; Register of Professional Archaeologists [RPA]) is a PhD candidate at the College of William and Mary. A specialist in the archaeology of Spanish colonialism in the Americas, her publications include a forthcoming article in Historical Archaeology, various archaeological and historic property reports, as well as presentations at the W&M Graduate Research Symposium and Society for Historical Archaeology. She is president of the Anthropology Graduate Student Collective and contributes regularly to the graduate student blog (http://anthrograd.blogs.wm.edu/) and has worked with historical societies and museums ranging from Washington State, California, Illinois, and Tennessee, to Georgia and Virginia. Lauren Alston Bridges has received a fellowship from the College of William and Mary, and is currently planning dissertation work in western El Salvador and Seville, Spain. Her research illuminates the biographies of objects and people through the study of consumption and use of material goods in the 19th century. She hopes to complicate conceptions of class and status as well as contribute toward ideas of value, place, and identity.
Project Description:
Survey, Inventory, and Evaluation of the Columbus Family Papers
Lauren Alston Bridges' current project creates an archival translation and layout of the Columbus (Colon) family papers, currently housed in the Columbus Chapel. She is evaluating the condition and content of the papers and will compose a summary review. Her analysis includes a comparison with a previous evaluation of the collection, completed by Richard L. Garner and Donald C. Henderson sponsored by Penn State University in 1974.
Lauren Alston Bridges
PhD Student
Editorial Assistant, Tipiti: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/
Department of Anthropology
The College of William and Mary
Box 8795, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185-8795
404.630.4749
anthrograd.blogs.wm.edu
PhD Student
Editorial Assistant, Tipiti: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/
Department of Anthropology
The College of William and Mary
Box 8795, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185-8795
404.630.4749
anthrograd.blogs.wm.edu
