| 2008-9 |
Research Fellow at the Virginia Center for Digital History |
| 2008-9 | Founding Director of the Tusculum Institute for Sustainable Historic Preservation, Sweet
Briar College |
| 2007 | Curator, in collaboration with Virginian Tribes, “Family Portraits: Virginian Indians at the Turn of the 20th Century” |
| 2007-8 | National Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America |
| 2005-8 | Board of Directors, Albemarle County Historical Society |
| 2005-6 | National Mellink Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America |
| 2003-5 | Board of Directors, Preservation Piedmont (local historic preservation group) |
| 2002-7 | Visiting Scholar, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia |
| 2002-4 | Mentor, Faculty Mentoring Program (for undergraduate students of color), Sponsored by Office of African-American Affairs, University of Virginia |
| 2001 | Chair, “Bronze Age Archaeology,” Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. |
| 2000 | Co-Organizer and Chair, “Households in Community Context: New Approaches.” Invited Session at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. |
| 2000-1 | Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire |
| 1998-9 | Curatorial Research Assistantship, Old World Archaeological Division, Univ. Michigan |
| 1993 | Town Archivist, Hanover, New Hampshire |
| 1992 | Curatorial Internship, Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution |
| 1990-3 | Archival Assistant, Dartmouth College Archives. Hanover, New Hampshire |
| 1988-9 | Archivist, Evanston Historic Society, Evanston, Illinois |
| 2009 |
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, to research Rosenwald Schools (historic, black segregated schools, c. 1917-1960s) ($6000) |
| 2008 |
Preservation Piedmont, seed grant to begin research into Rosenwald Schools ($1000) |
| 2007 | Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, to curate an exhibition on historic Native American photographs and host a gallery talk given by tribal representatives ($2500) |
| 2006 | Sweet Briar, Faculty Grant: to test Ground Penetrating Radar on the SBC Slave Cemetery |
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Sweet Briar, Faculty Grant: travel to Ziyaret Tepe, southeastern Turkey |
| 2005 | National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant: to investigate historic African-American mortuary traditions in Central Virginia ($100,000) |
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Sweet Briar, Faculty Grant: to attend an Archaeology Symposium in Antalya, Turkey |
| 2004 | National Endowment for the Humanities Grant: to investigate a Late Assyrian urban landscape at Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey,” co-PI with Timothy Matney ($200,000) |
| 2004 |
Curtiss & Mary Brennan Fellowship: to investigate daily life in an ancient city ($4,000) |
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Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges Grant: Turkish Fieldwork ($1,600) |
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Sweet Briar, Faculty Grant: to attend an Archaeology Symposium in Konya, Turkey |
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International Center for Jefferson Studies DAACS Fellow: to model features on plantation landscapes in the Virginian Piedmont (1 month summer fellowship, $1,500) |
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Sweet Briar, Faculty Grant (co-PI with Dr. Fink, Biology): to create a GIS database / map of archaeological sites and historic vegetation on the Sweet Briar Plantation |
| 2003 | National Science Foundation CCLI Adaptation and Implementation grant: to create an Archaeology Lab and improve curricular offerings in Archaeology at Sweet Briar ($120,000) |
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Virginia Foundation for the Humanities: to research and disseminate information on African American Landscapes and Deathscapes in Virginia ($8,800) |
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Wenner-Gren Individual Research Grant: to research and write “A Micro-Archaeological Approach to Domestic Activities in Mesopotamian Households” ($9,500) |
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Sweet Briar, Faculty Grant: to conduct interdisciplinary research - Sweet Briar Plantation |
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Sweet Briar, Technology Grant: to improve site, “African American Heritage at Sweet Briar” (created by Rainville in 2002): www.faculty.sbc.edu/lrainville/introAfAmH.html |
| 2002 |
Virginia Foundation for Humanities Discretionary Grant, (with J. S. Handler): to research an Albemarle County Slave Cemetery in Whitehall, Virginia ($3,000) |
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Virginia Foundation for the Humanities African-American Grant: to research the enslaved community on the Sweet Briar Plantation, c. 1810-1865 ($4,000) |
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Sweet Briar, Technology Grant: to create a web-accessible cemetery database. |
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ARIT Excavation Grant (American Research Center in Turkey): Fieldwork at Ziyaret Tepe ($4,000) |
| Forthcoming |
“Mortuary Rituals and Cemeteries.” A chapter in Slave Life, in the American Life and Culture series edited by Brian L. Johnson. Forthcoming 2010. |
| 2009 |
“Home at Last: mortuary commemoration in Virginian slave cemeteries,” Markers: Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies, vol. XXVI, pp. 54-83. |
| 2009 |
"Savings the Remains of the Day: the cultural heritage of historic American cemeteries," Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 195-206. |
| 2008 | “Social Memory and Plantation Burial Grounds: a Virginian Example.” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, Spring 2008, 27 pages. Hosted on-line by the University of Illinois: www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html |
| 2007 | “Micro-Archaeology at Ziyaret,” in “Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey, 2006,” by T. Matney, et al., Anatolica volume 33: 39-43, 67-68. |
| 2006 | “Locating the ‘People without History’ in Histories of the Ancient Near East.” Reviews in Anthropology 35:1-22. |
| 2005 | “Eighth Preliminary Report on Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe, 2004 Season.” Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi volume 27. Co-authored with T. Matney. |
| | “Archaeological Investigations at Ziyaret Tepe, 2003 and 2004,” Anatolica 31: 20-68. Co-edited with T. Matney. |
| 2004 | “Seventh Preliminary Report on Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe, 2003 Season.” Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 26: 63-74. Co-authored with T. Matney. |
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“African American History at the Sweet Briar Plantation,” Sweet Briar Alumnae Magazine Spring 2004: 7-10. |
| 2003 | “Micro-Debris Analysis,” in “Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey, 2002,” by T. Matney, et al., Anatolica 29: 194-197, 218. |
| | “Results from Micro-archaeology in 2001 and 2002,” in “Excavations at Tell Brak, 2001-2002,” by G. Emberling and H. McDonald. Iraq 64: 63-73. |
| | “An Investigation of an Enslaved Community and Slave Cemetery at Mt. Fair, in Brown’s Cove, Virginia.” The Magazine of Albemarle County History 61:1-26. Winner of the Annual 2003 Rawlings Prize (sponsored by the Historic Society). |
| 2001 | “Micro-Debris based functional analyses of Late EBA Houses,” in “Research at Titris Höyük in Southeastern Turkey,” by G. Algaze, et al., Anatolica 27: 30-33 and 86-87. |
| 2000 | “Microdebris Analysis in Bronze Age Mesopotamian Households,” Antiquity 74: 284. |
| 1999 | “Hanover Deathscapes: Mortuary Variability in New Hampshire Cemeteries, A.D. 1770-1920,” Ethnohistory 43: 3: 541-97. |
| 2010 |
A Guide to Cemetery Research. James Madison University, Va. |
| 2009 |
Saving and Respecting African American Cemeteries. Martinsville, Va. |
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Virtual Places: Digitizing Local History. Virginia Forum. Farmville,Va. |
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From Purtains to the Present: America's Evolving View of Death. Virginia Council of Social Studies. Richmond, Va. |
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Graveyards & Genealogies. Central Virginia Genealogy Group. Charlottesville, Va. |
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Albemarle County Burial Practices, c. 1760s-1960s. Michie Tavern Lectures Series. Charlottesville, Va. |
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Micro-Matters: Results from Micro-Archaeological Investigations at an Assyrian City. An invite only conference, "Household Archaeology in the Middle East and Beyond: Theory, Method and Practice" at the University of Utah. |
| 2008 |
Sweet Briar Founders: Archaeo-Historic Evidence for the African-American Community. Given at Sweet Briar College in honor of Black History Month. Amherst, Va. |
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Gravestones, Deathscapes and Funerals in Virginia's Piedmont. Guest speaker at the annual Funeral Consumer’s Alliance meeting, Charlottesville, Virginia. |
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Sepulchral Museums: Learning about Past Communities from Gravestones and Cemetery Landscapes. Southern Anthropology Society Meetings. Staunton, Va. |
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Indiana’s Last Will and Testament and the Founding of a College: Sweet Briar Institute, 1900-1910, Virginia History Forum. Fredericksburg, Va. |
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On-Line Mortuary Landscapes: creating publicly accessible databases for historic African-American cemeteries, National Council on Public History Meeting. Providence, Rhode Island. |
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Remembering the Dead: working with descendant communities to learn from historic Virginian cemeteries and family heirlooms. Society for Historic Archaeology Meeting. Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
| 2007 |
A Sweet Survey: archaeological investigations at the Sweet Briar Plantation, Archaeology Month Lecture at Sweet Briar College. Amherst, Va. |
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Micro-artifacts and Everyday Lives in Ancient Mesopotamia, Archaeological Institute of America Lecture. Several universities in North Carolina |
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From Slave Graveyards to Segregated Cemeteries: Inequality in 19th- and 20th- Century American Burial Practices, American Anthropological Association Meeting. Washington D.C. |
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Learning from African-American Deathscapes, Virginia Archaeology Month Presentation at the Booker T. Washington National Park. |
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Using Cemeteries to Research Family History, Central Virginia Genealogical Society Meeting. Charlottesville, Va. |
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Investigating African American Mortuary Traditions in Virginia, Virginia Forum. Richmond, Va. |
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Gravestone Variability and Context in Historic African-American Cemeteries in Virginia. Mid-Atlantic Archaeology Meeting. |
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The Contributions of Public Archaeology to Protecting Historic Cemeteries, Radford University, Va. |
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Understanding Gravestone Variability in Historic African American Cemeteries, Society for Historical Archaeology Meeting. |
| 2006 | Hidden History: African American Communities at Sweet Briar, Sweet Briar College |
| 2005 | Everyday Life in Ancient Assyria, Archaeological Institute of America Lecture, Richmond, Virginia |
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Urban Planning in Anatolian Cities: past and present, American Anthropological Association Meeting. |
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Urban Planning in Assyria, American School of Oriental Research Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. |
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Preliminary Results of the 2004 Season at Ziyaret Tepe, Annual Archaeology Symposium, Antalya, Turkey. |
| 2004 | Preliminary Results of the 2003 Season at Ziyaret Tepe, Annual Archaeology Symposium, Konya, Turkey (given with Timothy Matney). |
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Investigating Mortuary Variability in Slave Cemeteries, Association Gravestone Studies. |
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Micro-Matters: An Assessment of Micro-Archaeological Techniques and Results from Four Upper Mesopotamian Sites, Society for American Archaeology Meeting. |
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African Americans at the Sweet Briar Plantation, Sweet Briar History Series. |
| 2003 | Enslaved Communities: slave cabins and cemeteries on Virginian plantations,” World Archaeology Conference. |
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Research on a Slave Cemetery in Virginia, Society Historic Archaeology Meeting. |
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Enslaved Communities and Slave Cemeteries in Brown’s Cove, Albemarle County Historical Society (Charlottesville, Virginia). |
| 2002 | Micro-Matters: An Assessment of Micro-Archaeological Techniques and Results from Upper Mesopotamia, University of Virginia |
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Households and Neighborhoods in Upper Mesopotamian Cities of the 4th-3rd Millenia BCE, Archaeological Institute of America Lecture Program (Lynchburg, VA). |
| 2001 | Size Does Matter: Identifying Domestic Activity Areas with Micro-archaeology, Society for American Archaeology Meeting. |
| 2000 | Upper Mesopotamian Households in Early Bronze Age Communities: An Approach Using Micro-Debris, American Anthropological Association Meeting. |
| 1999 | Early Bronze Age Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Study of Primary Activity Areas, Mediterranean Studies Colloquium (Dartmouth College). |
| 1997 | A South Indian Microcosm: reuse, recycling, and trash in a South Indian Village, Conference on South Asia |
