معرفی
Meghan C.L. Howey is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire and the James H. Hayes and Claire Short Hayes Professor of the Humanities. She directs the Great Bay Archaeological Survey (GBAS), a community-engaged, interdisciplinary program focused on deep-time human-natural systems analysis. Her research spans North America, Europe, and East Africa, with a focus on landscape archaeology, the Anthropocene, and geospatial modeling.
- Education: B.A. in Anthropology and Political Science (University of Delaware, 2000), M.A. in Anthropology (University of Michigan, 2002), Ph.D. in Anthropological Archaeology (University of Michigan, 2006).
Her work integrates GIS, LiDAR, and ethnohistoric research to study precontact Native American ceremonialism, food storage, and socioecological dynamics. Recent projects examine settler colonial memoryscapes and Arctic socioecological systems through NSF and NEH grants.
Selected Trends: 2020s publications emphasize Anthropocene modeling, Indigenous ontologies, and remote sensing for cultural heritage vulnerability. Earlier works (2010s) focus on GIS methodologies, ritual practices, and colonial encounters in the Great Lakes and Maritime regions.
- Scientific Awards: NEH Fellowship (2024–2025), Carnegie Corporation grant (2020–2023), NSF grants for landscape-scale archaeology (2017–2022), NASA collaboration (2013–2017).
As an educator, she has taught courses like Method & Theory in Archaeology and Human Evolution, Fossils & DNA, and supervised internships and senior theses. Her lab, GBAS, prioritizes community collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches to archaeological research.
