Participant Info
- First Name
- Laura
- Last Name
- Masur
- Country
- United States
- State
- DC District of Columbia
- masur@cua.edu
- Affiliation
- The Catholic University of America
- Website URL
- https://anthropology.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/masur-laura/index.html
- Keywords
- Historical Archaeology, Missions, Plantations, Slavery, Jesuits, Middle Atlantic, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Laura Masur’s research focuses on the archaeology of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania from 1600 to the present. Her current project, Priestly Plantations: An Archaeology of Jesuit Missions in British North America, explores the complex material world of Jesuit priests, who acted as both slave-owning planters and missionaries in the colonial and modern Middle Atlantic. The project synthesizes archaeological collections from southern Maryland and central Pennsylvania, integrated with historical and archival evidence of agriculture and labor management, to show connections between plantations and Catholic communities.
- Recent Publications
“Tempering our Expectations: Drinking, Smoking, and the Economy of a Western Massachusetts Farmstead-Tavern” (lead author with Aaron F. Miller), accepted at Northeast Historical Archaeology
“Decade Ring.” Curator’s Choice Artifact Series. Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory. Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum. August 2019. https://jefpat.maryland.gov/Pages/mac-lab/curators-choice/2019-curators-choice/2019-08-decade-ring.aspx
“‘Taking the discipline’ at St. Inigoes Plantation: A Cilice from Priest’s Point.” Curator’s Choice Artifact Series. Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory. Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum. January 2017. https://jefpat.maryland.gov/Pages/mac-lab/curators-choice/2017-curators-choice/2017-01-taking-the-discipline-at-st-inigoes-plantation-a-cilice-from-priests-point.aspx
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @lauraemasur
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Material Culture, Religion, Rural & Agrarian History, Slavery
