Valerie M. J. Hall
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland
vhall@umd.edu

Education:
2017-Present		University of Maryland, Ph.D. program, Anthropology/Zooarchaeology
Dissertation: In Their Elements: Using Zooarchaeology, Stable Isotope Analysis, and Geometric Morphometrics to Build an Environmental History of the Upper Chesapeake Region
Committee: Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman (Advisor), George Hambrecht, Julie King, Carla Hadden, Madeleine Brown, and Mitch Pavão-Zuckerman

2010-2012		M.A. Illinois State University, Anthropology and Archaeology
				Thesis: These Pots Do Talk: Seventeenth-Century Indigenous Women’s
				Influence on Transculturation in the Chesapeake Region
				
1993-1997		B.S. (Education) The Pennsylvania State University
				History Minor; Graduated with Distinction

Professional Experience:
2023-Present	Fellow
	Graduate Writing Center, The Graduate School, University of Maryland, Collete Park, MD

2023-Present	Editorial Assistant
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites Journal, Anthropology Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
	
2023	Archaeofaunal Consultant
	Archeological Society of Maryland Tyler Bastian Field Session in Maryland Archeology, Chapel Branch Site, Caroline County, MD
		
2022			Graduate Research Fellow
Centre for Human-Animal-Environmental (HumAnE) Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology and History, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

2022			Codirector
			Outer Hebrides Archaeological Project, West Geirinish, South Uist, UK

2018-Present		Zooarchaeological Consultant
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Charlottesville, VA

2017-2022		Graduate Teaching Assistant
Anthropology Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Professional Experience (continued):
2018			Intern
National Capital Region, National Parks Service, Washington, D.C.

2015-2017		Artifact Laboratory Manager 
Veterans Curation Program, Alexandria, VA

2013-2015		Curator
Museum of the Grand Prairie, Mahomet, IL

2012-2013		Educational Programs Specialist	
Museum of the Grand Prairie, Mahomet, IL

2013			Principal Investigator
Archeological Society of Maryland Field Session, St. Mary’s County, MD

2012			Archaeological Specialist
Illinois State Archaeological Survey, Champaign, IL

2010-2012		Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

2007-2009		Volunteer
Maryland Historic Trust, Crownsville, MD; Anne Arundel County Archaeology Lab, Londontown, MD

2003-2006		Elementary Teacher
			State College Area School District, State College, PA

2001-2002		Teacher
			The Bennett Family Center, University Park, PA

2000-2001		Staffing Specialist
			Preferred Staffing Solutions, State College, PA

1998-2000		Teacher
			Children’s House Montessori School, State College, PA

1997			Student Teacher
Durrington Middle School, Durrington, West Sussex, England; The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

1994			Intern
			Erie County History Center and Cashier’s House, Erie, PA

Honors and Awards:
2022		International Graduate Research Fellowship, joint award from University of Maryland and University of Exeter ($7500)

2022		Covid-delay Fellowship, University of Maryland ($12,262)

2020    	Faculty-Student Research Award, University of Maryland ($10,000)

2020    	Gloria S. King Research Fellowship in Archaeology, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory ($3500)

2019		Ark and Dove Scholar in Residence Research Fellowship, Historic St. Mary’s City in collaboration with the Society of the Ark and Dove ($5000)

2019		Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, University of Maryland ($5000)

2018		Gloria S. King Research Fellowship in Archaeology, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory ($1400)

2017		Dean’s Fellowship, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland ($10,000)

2015		Stories from Main Street Oral History Grant, Museum on Main Street/Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service ($10,000)

2015		Water/Ways Museum on Main Street Exhibit Rental Grant, Illinois Humanities Council ($2000)

2014		Gloria S. King Research Fellowship in Archaeology, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory ($500)

2014		Illinois Association for Advancement of Archaeology (IAAA) Permanent Fund Grant, Illinois Association for Advancement of Archaeology ($400)

2013		Public Service Award, Illinois Archeological Survey

2012	Scott Elliot Endowment for Sociology and Anthropology

Courses Taught:
Fall 2019	ANTH 240, Introduction to Archaeology, 23 undergraduate students

Guest Editor:
2018	Entangled Landscapes: Case Studies from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Northeast Historical Archaeology 47:1-118.
Publications (Peer-Reviewed):
2018		“…Wild Neat Cattle …”:  Dietary Preferences and Related Environmental Impacts at Two Seventeenth-Century Maryland Households.  Northeast Historical Archaeology 47:99-118.

2018		Applied Anthropology and its Practice:  Insights from the Classroom.  Practicing Anthropology 40(1):58-62.  (With Michael Paolisso, Ellen J. Platts, Samantha J. Primiano, Brian Crawford, Josette Graham, Samantha J. Lee, Alexander W. Sahi, Tiffany Grew, Barbara Vasco, Tamara Schlossenberg, Kathleen Jockel, and Jessica Gough).

2016		Engagement, Agency, and Activism through Environmental Archaeology:  A Citizen Science Program at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.  Practicing Anthropology 38(3):46-47.  (With Sarah Grady and Sarah Janesko).

Other Publications:
2016		The Ohio/‘Nine Gal’ Tavern Site—Mahomet, Illinois. Illinois Antiquity 51(2):1-2.

2012		These Pots Do Talk:  Seventeenth-Century Native American Women’s Influence on Creolization in the Chesapeake Region. Master’s thesis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.

Invited Lectures:
2023	ANTH 341/641 Using Zooarchaeology to Build an Ecological History of the Upper Chesapeake Region

2022	A Millennium of Change: Using Zooarchaeology to Build an Ecological History of the Upper Chesapeake Region, presented for the Centre for Human-Animal-Environmental (HumAnE) Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology and History, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

2022	Zooarch 101: Basic Faunal Analysis, presented for the Maryland Historical Trust and Archeological Society of Maryland’s 31st Annual Workshop in Archaeology

2020	“...Wild Neat Cattle…”: Domesticated Livestock and Landscape Change in Colonial Maryland, presented for Historic St. Mary’s City’s Fall 2020 Speaker’s Series

2019		Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones, presented for the Society for 				American Archaeology’s Online Seminar Series (with April Beisaw)

Invited Lectures (continued):
2019	Environmental and Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay, presented for the University of Maryland’s Horn Point Laboratory staff and students in the Marine-Estuarine Environmental Sciences Graduate Program

2019	Zooarchaeology Workshop, presented for the Archeological Society of Maryland’s Certified Archaeological Technician (CAT) program, Historic London Town and Gardens

2018	ANTH 240	Introduction to Archaeology
Development of Agriculture in the New World
Environmental and Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay

2018-2020	ANTH 322 	Method and Theory in Ecological Anthropology
Environmental and Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay

Selected Presentations (*Invited):
2023	Investigating Environmental Change through Stable Isotope Analysis and Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Archaeofaunal Remains—Mid-Atlantic Archaeological Conference; Ocean City, MD

2020	Chasing Rabbits: Investigating Domesticated Leporids at Jefferson’s Monticello—Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference; Boston, MA

2019	Small Clues to Big Changes: Using Zooarchaeology to Explore Landscape Transformation—GradTerp Exchange; University of Maryland, College Park MD

2018	Neither Fish nor Fowl:  The Environmental Impacts of Dietary Preferences at Two Late 17th-Century Maryland Households—Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference; New Orleans, LA

2017	“…Wild Neat Cattle …”:  Culture, Diet, and the Environmental Impact of Two Late 17th-Century Maryland Households—Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting; Portsmouth, New Hampshire

2016	“…conforme your selves to the Customes of our Countrey…”: Acknowledging the Contributions of Indigenous Women in Colonial Maryland—Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference; Washington, D.C.

*2014	“Out of the shadows…”:  Examining Historic-Period Indigenous Ceramics from Maryland Using Subtypological Analysis—Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference; Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

2013	Learning to Say Yes:  Keeping an Open Mind when Evolving Collaborations—Illinois Association of Museums Annual Conference; Peoria, IL
Selected Exhibitions and Installations:
2015		“The Grand Prairie Story”, main exhibit, Museum of the Grand Prairie

2015   		“Hidden Underfoot: Historical Archaeology in Illinois”, annual exhibit, Museum of the Grand Prairie

2014		“Through the Garden Gate”, annual exhibit, Museum of the Grand Prairie
		(with Barbara Oehlschlaeger-Garvey and Kaitlyn Riopelle)

Campus Service:
2021-2022	Graduate Student Senator, University Senate

2020-2021	University Senate Educational Affairs Committee, Ex-Officio Member

2018-2021	Graduate Student Grievance Committee, Anthropology Department

2018-2021	Graduate Student Government (GSG), Anthropology Department Representative
		
2018-2021	GSG Legislative Action Committee
		Vice-Chair; Outstanding Committee Member Award, 2020-2021
		GSG Academic Affairs Committee, 
		Outstanding Committee Member Award, 2020-2021

2019-2020	Provost Student Advisory Council (ProvSAC), Graduate Representative

Other Service:
2019-present	Assistant Scoutmaster, Scouts BSA Girl Troop 422
		Merit Badge Counselor, BSA River Hawk District
		
2021-present	Member, North American Heritage at Risk Coalition

2018-present	Society for Historical Archaeology, Heritage at Risk Committee
		Social Media Liaison, Heritage at Risk Committee, 2018

2018 		Judge, National History Day

Public Outreach and Education:

Approximately 1-2 presentations a year at venues including:
		Anne Arundel County Public Schools
		Scouts BSA Events/Meetings
		Maryland Day at the University of Maryland
		Archaeology Day at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum