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Anthony Graesch is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Connecticut College, where he has been since 2010. He also serves as the College Archaeologist, collaborating with the Mohegan Tribe, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, and Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation to oversee the conservation, management, and study of cultural heritage resources within the college's 750-acre arboretum. These resources include archaeological sites spanning over five thousand years of human history.
Education: Professor Graesch holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Research Interests: His scholarship bridges two primary domains:
- Household materiality and discard behavior in contemporary North America
- Ancestral Sto:lo-Coast Salish lifeways in British Columbia
- Archaeology of the contemporary
- Household Archaeology
- Discard & Discarding
- Experimental archaeology
- Materiality
- Indigenous and Settler Societies
Awards:
- Helen Mulvey Faculty Award for teaching excellence and student mentorship
Advising and Academic Leadership: Professor Graesch directs the Archaeology Concentration, providing practice-based training for heritage conservation careers. He mentors students in experiential field/lab research and advises Environmental Studies majors and fellows at the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment and Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology. His interdisciplinary approach encourages combined majors in Anthropology/Environmental Studies, Biology, Botany, History, or Art.
Collaborative Stewardship: As College Archaeologist, he coordinates with regional Indigenous nations to manage archaeological resources, challenging Eurocentric practices while developing stakeholder collaboration frameworks for cultural resource conservation.
