Rethinking Archaeological Pedagogies (plenary panel)

One hour panel discussion with Gloria J. Wilson, Anna Agbe-Davies & Sven Haakanson. Introduced by Zoë Crossland and chaired by Sara L. Gonzalez.

A conversation and workshop addressing current and future archaeological pedagogies. 
Our speakers brought perspectives from Education and Black and Indigenous Studies into conversation with Archaeology. The panelists discussed the work they have done to decolonize the syllabus, rethink curricula and develop inclusive teaching strategies We considered how insights from Education may be brought into archaeological teaching, including lab and field based contexts

Panelist information at time of panel discussion:
Gloria J. Wilson
Co-Founder/Co-Director, the Racial Justice Studio and Assistant Professor, Art + Visual Culture Education (University of Arizona)

Anna Agbe-Davies
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Faculty appointments in the Curriculum in Archaeology and the Department of African and African-American Diaspora Studies.

Sven Haakanson
Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Washington and a curator of North American Anthropology at the Burke Museum.

Sara L. Gonzalez
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology, Curator of Archaeology the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington and co-founder of the Indigenous Archaeology Collective (IAC)

This was a TAG Stanford plenary event, sponsored by the Society of Black Archaeologists, the Columbia Center for Archaeology and TAG North America together with the Archaeology Centers Coalition.

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