| Website |
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www.lauraheathstout.com |
| Current CV |
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| Areas of Interest |
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socio-politics of archaeology; intersectional feminism; knowledge production; gender; sexual orientation; race; class; disability; colonialism; contact-period Mexico; ceramics |
| Excavation and Fieldwork |
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2013–2015 Field Archaeologist and Ceramics Analyst; Proyecto Arqueológico Tepeticpac, Tlaxcala, Mexico
2014 Field Archaeologist; Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan, Estado de México, Mexico
2012 Ceramics Analyst; Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala, Mexico
2012 Senior Staff Archaeologist; Wakefield Summer Institute, Milton, Massachusetts
2010 Field Archaeologist; Ka’Kabish Archaeological Research Project, Orange Walk District, Belize
2009 Field Intern; Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado
2008 Field School Student; Pambamarca Archaeological Project, Cayambe, Ecuador |
| Representative Publications |
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2022 Heath-Stout, Laura E. “The Invisibly Disabled Archaeologist.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-022-00653-8.
2020 Heath-Stout Laura E. “Who Writes About Archaeology? An Intersectional Study of Authorship in Archaeological Journals.” American Antiquity 85(3): 407–426. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.28.
2020 Heath-Stout, Laura E., and Elizabeth M. Hannigan. “Affording Archaeology: How the Cost of Field School Keeps Archaeology Exclusive.” Advances in Archaeological Practice 8(2): 123–133. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2020.7
2019 Heath-Stout, Laura E. “Pottery on the Periphery: Contact-Period Ceramics and Regional Integration at La Laguna, Tlaxcala, Mexico.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 56: 101088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101088 |
| What have you been doing since you’ve graduated? |
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I’ve been completing a series of postdoctoral fellowships while working on my book. First, I spent a year in the Anthropology Department at Rice University (2019–2020), where I taught “Archaeological Heritage of Mexico” and “Museums and Cultural Heritage: Exhibiting Art, Exhibiting Culture,” and mentored seven students through their cultural heritage practica at local museums. Then, I spent a year as a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Writing Program at Emory University (2020–2021), where I taught six sections of “Expository Writing: The Politics of Cultural Heritage.” I received the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and spent the 2021–2022 year in residence in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, working on my book manuscript. Beginning in fall 2022, I will be a full-time lecturer in the University Writing Program at Brandeis University. My book, “Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology: Career Arcs,” is under contract at Routledge. |
| What interactions with members of the Archaeology faculty did you value most during your time in the program? |
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I learned so much from David Carballo and Mary Beaudry! They both supported me in both my Mesoamerican research and when I changed my topic to the socio-politics of archaeology. Their support made me a better researcher, writer, and teacher. |
