The Search Committee for the position of CT State Archaeologist is pleased to announce that two outstanding candidates will be visiting the Storrs and Hartford campuses on December 12-13 and December 16-17.
Members of the public and campus community are invited to attend scheduled Talks and Q&A Sessions with the candidates. Candidate information and the dates/times are provided below.
Candidate 1: Sarah Sportman, PhD
- Thursday, December 12 - Public Lecture, 3:00-4:30pm; Class of 1947 Room, Babbidge Library, UConn Storrs Campus
- Friday, December 13 - Public Q&A, 10:00-11:30am; Hartford Times Building, Room 214, 10 Prospect Street*, Hartford
Sarah Sportman is currently a senior archaeologist with Archaeological and Historical Services in Storrs, CT and a research affiliate of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. She graduated with a PhD from UCONN in 2011. Sarah has wide-ranging excavation experience at both historic and prehistoric sites in the northeastern United States and is an expert in zooarchaeology.
Candidate 2: Heather Rockwell, PhD
- Monday, December 16 - Public Lecture, 3:00-4:30pm; Class of 1947 Room, Babbidge Library, UConn Storrs Campus
- Tuesday, December 17 - Public Q&A,10:00-11:30am; Room 214, Hartford Times Building, 10 Prospect Street*, Hartford
Heather Rockwell is a Deputy State Historical Preservation Officer at the Wyoming State Historical Preservation Office. She received her PhD from the University of Wyoming in 2014. Heather is an expert in hunter-gatherer mobility and lithic technology of New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces. She has worked in Cultural Resource Management, federal and state government and university settings.
*The entrance to the Times Building is on Front Street, across from Barnes & Noble (not Prospect Street).
For more information, contact: Natalie Munro at natalie.munro@uconn.edu