Jennifer L. Barber
Principal Investigator
Jennifer L. Barber holds a Master's degree in anthropology with an emphasis in historical archaeology. She has conducted fieldwork in Belize, New York, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Ms. Barber has supervised and participated in numerous phase I surveys, phase II National Register evaluations, and phase III intensive investigations.
My deeply buried interest in history was sparked by the time I spent in Turkey, and was further uncovered while I was an undergraduate student by a great professor from the University at Buffalo. Graduating from the University of Albany (Go Great Danes!), I studied MesoAmerican archaeology and attended a three-month field school in Belize working on a post-classic Mayan site. Under the excellent tutelage and encouragement of Lois Feister at the New York State Bureau of Historic Sites, I decided to go to the University of Tennessee (Go Vols!) for graduate school. I hold a master’s degree in anthropology with a concentration in historical archaeology. Having studied there under Dr. Charles Faulkner, I received an avalanche of information about East Tennessee history and archaeology. After graduation, I moved to Kentucky to begin work at CRAI in January, 2003, as a staff archaeologist and later as a principal investigator. My work at CRAI involves field, laboratory, and management duties, and developing budgets and writing research designs and data recovery plans. I primarily direct fieldwork and author reports for phase I, II, and III projects in the Ohio Valley region. While my research interests lie in early historic sites dating to the late 1700s and early 1800s, very few people were living here in Kentucky at that time, so as of late I’ve had to become more acquainted with late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history. When I can, I present papers at regional and national meetings, and I am a member of a number of professional organizations including the Register of Professional Archaeologists, the Kentucky Organization of Professional Archaeologists, and the Society for Historical Archaeology.
When I’m not working (although archaeology is fun enough that many of us do it during our days off, too), I organize much of my time around watching college football, college basketball, and (who-knew-it) baseball. If I’m not out training for a random 5-K, 10-K, or half-marathon, then I can usually be found roaming the hills with my dogs (whose company is more enjoyable than most anybody else’s), trying to keep my cat off my knitting yarn, or hiking creeks looking for and learning about chert, lithics, and local Native American history.
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