The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts

List of Contributors

Contributors Lawrence E. Babits is now retired. In an earlier life, he was director of the Program in Maritime Studies, East Carolina University. He is still active in a variety of archaeological and historical teaching and research endeavors and writes extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century military topics when not shooting period weapons or playing rugby. Susan M. Bazely is a consulting archaeologist in Kingston, Ontario. As senior archaeologist with the Cataraqui Archaeological Research Foundation for 28 years, she directed investigations at the Fort Frontenac National Historic Site of Canada and other Kingston military sites, including the Royal Naval Dockyard and Fort Henry Garrison Hospital, both also national historic sites and part of the Rideau Canal World Heritage Site. She is author of Fort Frontenac: A French Stronghold on the Great Lakes and Fort Frontenac: Bastion of the British and editor of Fields of Fire: Fortified Works of Kingston Harbour. Lynn L. M. Evans is curator of archaeology for Mackinac State Historic Parks, a position she has held since 1996. She began excavating at Michilimackinac in 1989. She holds a BA in anthropology and museum studies from Beloit College and a PhD in American civilization and historical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. Charles L. Fisher was born in 1949 in Champaign, Illinois. He attended the State University of New York at New Paltz as an undergraduate and received his PhD in anthropology in 1983 from the University at Albany. From 1981 until 1995 he worked as an archaeologist in the Bureau of Historic Sites of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, the agency which administers the Crown Point State Historic Site. From 1995 until his death in 2007 from melanoma, he served as the first curator of historical archaeology at the New York State Museum. He edited “The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands”: An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site (2004) and People, Places, and Material Things: Historical Archaeology of Albany, New York (2003), 288 · Contributors plus Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Domestic Site Archaeology in New York State (2000), which he coedited with John P. Hart. Stephanie Gandulla is media and outreach coordinator at Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. James L. Hart is a writer and researcher affiliated with Archaeological Research, Inc. His interests include fortifications of the early modern period, the history of French and British colonial America, and the American Civil War. He is translating journals and inspection reports on the defenses of New France just before the French and Indian War. He lives in Baltimore. Paul R. Huey, now retired, developed and directed the archaeology program of the Bureau of Historic Sites in the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation for more than 40 years. He instituted a program of research and resource management for the archaeological resources for which his agency is responsible. His research has focused on the Dutch of seventeenth-century New Netherland and the French and English of late seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury New York, while his interests also extend through the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Robert L. Jolley is a regional archaeologist for the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Historic Resources. He received his MA in anthropology from Vanderbilt University. He has published reports of investigations on military sites dating from the French and Indian War to the Civil War. David J. Keene is founder and president of Archaeological Research, Inc., with offices in Illinois and Wisconsin. He first became interested in eighteenth-century fortifications while working on French colonial sites in Illinois. Carl Kuttruff is adjunct assistant professor at Louisiana State University and works as an independent archaeologist and researcher. He is actively involved in a number of prehistoric and historic archaeological projects and has a wide range of research interests and experience, including military sites and battlefield archaeology. Kim A. McBride is codirector of the Kentucky Archaeological Survey. She has a BA in anthropology from Beloit College and an MA and PhD in anthropology from Michigan State University. She has directed historical research and archaeological excavations on a number of sites, including many frontier forts. Contributors · 289 W. Stephen McBride is director of interpretation and archaeology at Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park and manager of McBride Preservation Services, LLC. His main interest is military archaeology, and he has conducted extensive historical and archaeological research on French and Indian War, Revolutionary...