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Paul A. Shackel

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#1923

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#666

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Archeology

#462

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#649

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Paul A. Shackel's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Maryland, College Park
Masters Anthropology University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelors Anthropology University of Maryland, College Park

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According to Wikipedia, Paul A. Shackel is an American anthropologist and a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He joined the Department of Anthropology in 1996 after working for the National Park Service for seven and a half years. His research interests include Historical Archaeology, Civic Engagement, Social Justice, African Diaspora, Labor Archaeology, and Heritage Studies. He teaches courses in Historical Archaeology, The Anthropology of Work, Archaeology of the Chesapeake, and Method and Theory in Archaeology.

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Paul A. Shackel's Published Works

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Toward a Critical Archaeology [and Comments and Reply] (1987) (219)
Archaeology as a tool of civic engagement (2007) (157)
Places in mind : public archaeology as applied anthropology (2004) (126)
Public memory and the search for power in American historical archaeology (2001) (109)
Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape (2003) (91)
Myth, memory, and the making of the American landscape (2003) (74)
Archaeology, Heritage, and Civic Engagement: Working toward the Public Good (2014) (47)
Archaeology and Created Memory: Public History in a National Park (2000) (42)
Remembering an Industrial Landscape (2006) (40)
The Archaeology of American Labor and Working-Class Life (2009) (37)
Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake. (1996) (34)
Labor’s Heritage: Remembering the American Industrial Landscape (2004) (33)
Archaeology, Memory, and Landscapes of Conflict (2003) (32)
Post-Processual approaches to meanings and uses of material culture in historical archaeology (1992) (31)
Heritage, labour and the working classes (2011) (30)
The Gilded Age and Working‐Class Industrial Communities (2006) (29)
Scales of historical anthropology: an archaeology of colonial Anglo-America (1989) (25)
Introduction: Class still matters (2011) (21)
Local identity, national memory, and heritage tourism : Creating a sense of place with archaeology (2005) (20)
The Gilded Age Wasn’t So Gilded in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania (2012) (20)
Pursuing Heritage, Engaging Communities (2011) (16)
Slavery behind the Wall (2017) (15)
Annapolis Pasts: Historical Archaeology in Annapolis, Maryland. (2000) (15)
Modern Discipline: Its historical context in the colonial Chesapeake (1992) (15)
Stakeholders and Community Participation (2020) (14)
Culture Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era (2013) (13)
Labour’s heritage (2011) (12)
Culture Change And The New Technology (1996) (11)
Terrible saint: Changing meanings of the John Brown Fort (1995) (11)
Changing social and material routine in Nineteenth-Century Harpers Ferry (1994) (11)
A reconstruction of 19th-century surgical techniques: Bones in Dr. Thompson’s Privy (1991) (11)
Identity and Collective Action in a Multiracial Community (2010) (10)
Classical and Liberal Republicanisms and the New Consumer Culture (1998) (10)
New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland (2010) (10)
Commemorating a Rural African-American Family at a National Battlefield Park (1997) (9)
Immigration heritage in the anthracite coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania (2018) (8)
The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream (2007) (8)
Heyward Shepherd: The Faithful Slave Memorial (2003) (8)
Transgenerational Impact of Structural Violence: Epigenetics and the Legacy of Anthracite Coal (2018) (8)
Power Gardens of Annapolis (1989) (7)
Fragments from Antiquity: An Archaeology of Social life in Britain, 2900‐1200 BC. John C. Barrett (1994) (7)
The meaning of place in the anthracite region of Northeastern Pennsylvania (2016) (7)
A Historical Archaeology of Labor and Social Justice (2013) (6)
Remembering New Philadelphia (2010) (6)
Changing the Past for the Present and the Future (2013) (6)
Structural violence and the industrial landscape (2018) (5)
Memory studies in historical archaelogy (2008) (5)
When the Mines Closed: Heritage Building in Northeastern Pennsylvania (2016) (5)
Identity and a Sense of Place (2005) (5)
Interdisciplinary Investigations of Domestic Life in Government Block B: Perspectives On Harpers Ferry's Armory and Commercial District (1993) (4)
A snapshot of tourism in Greenland (2011) (3)
Remembering Lattimer (2018) (2)
America’s home town: fiction, Mark Twain, and the re‐creation of Hannibal, Missouri (2011) (2)
“I, Too, Am America ”: Archaeological Studies of African-American Life. Theresa A. Singleton, editor. 1999. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, xi + 368 pp. $59.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-8139-1842-1. (2003) (2)
HSR-Archaeological Component, Package 116: Block B, Lot 3, Buildings 32, 33A, 33, 34, 34A, 35, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (1992) (2)
WORKING WITH THE DIFFICULT PAST: EXAMPLES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (2013) (2)
Archaeological Testing at the 193 Main St. Site, 18AP44, Annapolis, Maryland (1986) (2)
Memory, civic engagement, and the public meaning of archaeological heritage (2005) (2)
Thinking Through “Community” In Archaeological Practice (2018) (2)
Archeological Investigations at Wernwag's Machine Shop Site 46JF230 on Virginius Island (1995) (2)
Engaging Communities in the Heartland: An Archaeology of a Multi-Racial Community (2009) (1)
Custer's Journey (2005) (1)
Some thoughts about the graduate curriculum (2006) (1)
Archaeological Excavations at 18AP44: 193 Main Street, Annapolis, Maryland, 1985-1987 (1994) (1)
Excavations at the State House Inn Site, 18AP42, 15 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland (1988) (1)
Industry, Entrepreneurship, and Patronage: Lewis Wernwag and the Development of Virginius Island (2010) (1)
An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism (2019) (1)
Archeological Views of the Upper Wager Block, A Domestic and Commercial Neighborhood in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (1994) (1)
Interdisciplinary approaches to the meanings and uses of material goods in Lower Town Harpers Ferry (1994) (1)
New Philadelphia: The XYZs of the First Excavations (2004) (1)
Labor Archaeology (2020) (1)
Carol McDavid 2007 (2007) (0)
The Meaning of Material Culture in a Materialistic Society (1990) (0)
The Annales School and Archaeology. John Bintliff, editor. New York University Press, New York, 1991. vii + 127 pp., figures, tables, index, bibliography. $30.00 (cloth). (1993) (0)
Cultural Resources Survey of Genesee Street Intersection With Ransom Road, Town of Lancaster, Erie County, New York, Pin 5512.19 (1984) (0)
The Lattimer Strike/Incident/Massacre (2018) (0)
An Archeology of Labor in Practice (2015) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Excavations at 178 Prince George's Street, the Back Area of the Brice House, 18AP38, Annapolis, Maryland (1988) (0)
John L. Cotter Award in Historical Archaeology: Megan E. Springate (2021) (0)
A Cultural Resource Survey of the College Creek Area, Annapolis, Maryland (18AP46) (1987) (0)
Building 40 Archeological Excavations Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (1993) (0)
Excavations at St. Anne's Churchyard, 18AP43, Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland (1988) (0)
Andrew B. Arnold, Fueling the Gilded Age: railroads, miners and disorder in Pennsylvania coal country (New York: New York University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 288. ISBN 9780814764985 Hbk. £33) (2015) (0)
A Great Miscarriage of Justice and the Growth of the UMWA (2018) (0)
Cultural Resources Survey of the Brockport Sand and Gravel Mining Area, Town of Clarendon, Orleans County, New York (1984) (0)
Book Review of "The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America" by Charles E. Orser (2008) (0)
Landmarks of the American Revolution; Landmarks of the Civil War (2004) (0)
The Gilded Age Wasn’t So Gilded in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania (2012) (0)
A Case for Landmark Status (2010) (0)
Negotiating the Memory of the American Civil War (2022) (0)
“Looking for Liberty: An Overview of Maryland History.” (2004) (0)
Rediscovering New Philadelphia: Race and Racism on the Illinois Frontier (2005) (0)
New Philadelphia: Free African-American Historical Site, Southern Illinois (2008) (0)
‘Where we need to go’: comments on ‘decennial reflections on A Geography of Heritage’ (2013) (0)
Shackel, Paul (2020) (0)
Cultural Resource Investigation of Brewer Cross Road Bridge Over Great Valley Creek, Town of Great Valley, Cattaraugus County, New York, Pin 5751.79 (1984) (0)
Cultural Resources Survey of Gas Pipelines in the Vicinity of Markhams and Cottage Roads, Town of Dayton, Cattaraugus County, New York (1984) (0)
Memory of Lattimer (2018) (0)
Bibliography - Archaeology in Annapolis (1990) (0)
From Grass Roots to a National Movement (2010) (0)
Free Frank's community, New Philadelphia (2005) (0)
The Archaeology of Collective Action. Dean J. Saitta. 2007. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, xx + 140 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN-13 978-0-8130-3070-8. (2008) (0)
Some Thoughts, but Not the Final Word (2010) (0)
Domestic Responses to Nineteenth-Century Industrialization: An Archeology of Park Building 48, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (2017) (0)
Daniel G. Roberts Award for Excellence in Historical Archaeology: Christopher Fennell (2020) (0)
Family Reunion and Division (2010) (0)
Anthracite Mining (2018) (0)
Turning the Corner (2018) (0)
Deindustrialization and the New Twenty-First-Century Immigrant (2018) (0)
Race and the Illusion of Harmony (2010) (0)
The Settlement of New Philadelphia (2010) (0)
Archeological Investigations at Building 37, Wager lot 52 (1992) (0)
Merchants and Shopkeepers: A Historical Anthropology of an Irish Market Town, 1200–1991. P. H. Gulliver and Marilyn Silverman (1996) (0)
Transgenerational Impact of Structural Violence: Epigenetics and the Legacy of Anthracite Coal (2017) (0)
Continuity and Change on an Urban Houselot: Archaeological Excavation at the 22 West Street Backlot (18AP51) of the Annapolis National Historic District, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1994) (0)
Flowerdrew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864@@@Personal Discipline and Material Culture: An Archaeology of Annapolis, Maryland, 1695-1870 (1994) (0)
Approaches to the Recent Past (2005) (0)
It Was Never Lost (2010) (0)
The 1997 Centennial Commemoration and the Memory of Lattimer (2018) (0)
Text Mining Oral Histories in Historical Archaeology (2023) (0)
Landmarks of the American Revolution Gary Nash Landmarks of the Civil War Nina Silber (2004) (0)
Results of the 1985 Excavations at Shiplap House (18AP30), 18 Pinkney Street, Annapolis, Maryland (1993) (0)
The Apple Festival and National Significance (2010) (0)
Three Generations of Building and One Hundred Years of Living in New Philadelphia (2010) (0)
A Heritage of Health Disparities in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania. (2018) (0)
Ruins and Rivals: The Making of Southwest Archaeology (Book) (2003) (0)
The First Field Season (2010) (0)
Civic Engagement, Representation, and Social Justice: (2019) (0)
Expansion and Decline (2010) (0)
African Diaspora Archaeology Newslett er (2005) (0)
Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology. Valerie Pinsky and Alison Wylie, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. ix + 160 pp., figures, references, index. $54.40 (cloth). (1992) (0)

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