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Johanna Pacyga is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on historical archaeology, colonialism, women’s labor, and community-building, with regional emphases in West Africa, North America, and the Caribbean. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (2022), an M.A. in History of Decorative Arts and Design from The New School (2010), and a B.A. in Archaeology from Boston University (2006).
Her work examines intersections of gender, race, and religion in the Atlantic World. Key projects include excavations at the Convent of the Daughters of the Holy Heart of Mary in Senegal, analyzing African religious sisterhoods’ agency in colonial contexts, and archaeobotanical studies of agricultural practices in the Kingdom of Siin. She also explores postcolonial frameworks around foodways, Indigenous knowledge, and human-plant relationships.
Selected publications include analyses of missionization dynamics in Senegal and cultural anxieties in the French Empire. Pacyga teaches courses on historical archaeology, archaeobotany, and ancient civilizations.
