Anthropology

Jeremy Floyd

B.A. Anthropology & History, University of Nevada, Reno, 2004

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Research interests: Material culture, cultural change/appropriation, globalization, tourism, historical archaeology

Regional focus: North America

A closer look: I have a strong interest in the various ways people understand and use the past, through documents, material culture, and landscape. I am finishing my final year in the masters program in anthropology and graduate certificate in ethnohistory. My background is in historical archaeology, primarily in Virginia, where I worked at Mount Vernon for a year before beginning graduate school. When I began graduate school, I thought it would be continuing with historical archaeology. Then began a project working with a group of vintage moped enthusiasts associated with The Moped Army . In this project, which has become my masters thesis, I am exploring the ways individuals construct social identities through their use and understanding of these objects from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.