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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Matthew D. McKnight
Matthew D. McKnight is the Chief Archaeologist at the Maryland Historical Trust, the state agency dedicated to preserving and interpreting the legacy of Maryland’s past. McKnight holds a B.A. degree from Southeast Missouri State University, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. He is the current editor of Maryland Archeology, the journal of the Archeological Society of Maryland, and has served on the board of the Council for Maryland Archaeology. While at the Trust, McKnight has worked to develop the Maryland Archeological Synthesis Database with the goal of making accessible archaeological compliance reports and research findings to professionals and the general public alike.
Henry M. Miller
Henry M. Miller is an historical archaeologist who has worked in the Chesapeake region since 1972. He has a B.A. from the University of Arkansas and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropol- ogy from Michigan State University (1984). Miller served as Laboratory Director and then Director of Research for the state museum of Historic St. Mary’s City between 1977 and 2012 and is now the museum’s Maryland Heritage Scholar, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. In 1997, he served as President of the Society for Historical Archaeology and in 2011-2012 was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Oxford University. Miller’s career has included the plan- ning and direction of many archaeological investigations, analysis and synthesis of the resulting data, and conversion of the findings into a variety of museum exhibits and reconstructions for the public.
Julia A. King
Julia A. King is Professor of Anthropology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she research- es, teaches, and writes about Chesapeake history and archaeology. King received her degrees from the College of William and Mary, the Florida State University, and the University of Pennsylva- nia. King is a past president of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA). In 2003, she was appointed by President George W. Bush as an Expert Member to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a Federal body which advises the president and Congress on matters of national historic preservation policy. In 2018, King received the SHA’s J.C. Harrington Award in Historical Archaeology, one of the youngest members so recognized for a lifetime of contri- butions to the discipline centered on scholarship.
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