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Ian Kerr

B.A. in Anthropology & Cultural and Historic Preservation, Salve Regina University, 2008

Contact
Moore 1041

Research Interests:Historical archaeology of New France and colonial New England, the syncretic process of cultural change, race and the racialization of archaeology, gender relations as present in material culture, personal adornment and social identity.

Regional Focus: New England, Mid-West North America

A closer look: Ian Kerr is an archaeologist who main focus is on historical archaeology especially in regards to Fort St. Joseph in Niles, Michigan. Ian’s previous fieldwork includes two summers with the Salve Regina Archaeological field school in Newport, Rhode Island and extensive geophysical surveying on subsequent sites there. This summer Ian was the field teaching assistant for the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project. Presently Ian is a teaching assistant for the class ‘Peoples of the World’ and is researching the spatial and temporal distribution of French military buttons in the western Great Lakes Region and how personal adornment speaks to the fluidity and contestation of personal identity.