MIDDLE ATLANTIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE

WINNERS of the MIKE KLEIN MEMORIAL PAPER/POSTER COMPETITION

2025: 

• Undergraduate Paper Winner: Drew Meisenheimer, "Preserving in Place: The National Register and the Negro Leagues"
• Undergraduate Poster Winner: Paige Mervine, "Historical Ecology of the Penuel Site"
• Graduate Poster Winner: Kyett Salamone, "Not Quite Hospital Food: A Faunal Analysis of a Union-Occupied Plantation"

2024: 

• Undergraduate Paper Winner: Laura McCarty, "Dairying, Cidering and Sewing: Investigating Women’s Work in the Colonial Chesapeake"
• Undergraduate Poster Winner: Linda Zuñiga, "Forging Identity: Learning about Craft Production and Agency through the Analysis of Hand-Made Nails"
• Graduate Poster Winner: Madison Ramsey, ""Mystery Fort": Origins of the Jolliff Road Earthwork"

2023: 

• Undergraduate Winner: Macie Clerkley, ""Social Memory:" Interpreting an Enslaved Domestic Space with Public Collaboration"
• Graduate Winner: Linda Seminario, "“Provisioned, Produced, Procured”, and Purchased?: A Study of Enslaved African Economic Involvement in the Shenandoah Valley"

2022: 

• Undergraduate Winner: Katelyn Bajorek, "Analysis of Avian Eggshell at Belle Grove Plantation" JMAA Vol. 38:89-96
• Graduate Winner: Mary Lawrence Young, "Sustaining the Shell Middens: A Coastal Vulnerability Assessment of Shell Midden Sites within the Nansemond River Tributary"

2021: 

• Undergraduate Winner: Delaney Resweber, "The Usage of Yard and Space at an 18th-century plantation context at the Oval Site, Stratford Hall"
• Graduate Winner: Kaitlin LaGrasta, "Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) glass trade beads, aesthetics, and economy

2020: 

• No conference was held

2019: 

• Graduate Winner: Justin M. Reamer, "Old Collections, New Data: Insights on the Minisink Site and Upper Delaware Valley Archaeology from the Philhower and Sommerville Collections"

2018: 

• Undergraduate Paper Winner: Shannon Bremer, "Health and Hygiene at Sherwood Forest Plantation (44ST615): Civil War and Postbellum"
• Undergraduate Poster Winner: John Strangfeld, "Spatial Distribution and Geographic Analysis of Nomini Plantation (44WM12), Westmoreland County, VA"

2017: 

• Graduate Winner: Jessie Jenkins, "Shell on Earth: An Archaeomalacological Approach to Precolonial Powhatan Social Life"

2016

2015

2014

2013: 

• Undergraduate Winners: Alexandra Crowder, "Utilizing Ceramics to Draw Comparisons Between Areas of a Farm Quarter at Stratford Hill Plantation" JMAA Vol. 29:43-54; and Ashley McCuisten, "Promoting the Past: The Educational Applications of 3D Scanning Technology in Archaeology" JMAA Vol. 29:35-42

• Graduate Paper Winner: Crystal Ptacek, "Considering Landscape as Material Culture: An Example From Eighteenth-Century Piedmont Virginia" JMAA Vol. 29: 55-72

2012

2011: 

• Undergraduate Winner: Crystal Collins, "Playing in the Dirt: The Archaeology of Childhood at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest"

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2005