The Joan Rosen Fellowship Program

Suzanne Spencer-Wood, Professor of Anthropology, inspired and supervised anthropology major Amanda Sosnowski's archaeological research "How the Mighty Fall: An Archaeological Comparative Analysis of Detroit," which linked the decline of ancient civilizations to Detroit's ruins.

 

Together Dr. Spencer-Wood and Ms. Sosnowski co-authored "Above-ground Archaeology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Detroit,"  which Amanda presented in a symposium entitled "Work, Workers, and Workplaces in Anthropocene: Insights on the Modern World from Industrial, Historical, and Contemporary Archaeology"at the 2016 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology in Washington, D. C. The symposium chairs, Tim Scarlett and Sam Sweitz, invited her to expand the work into a chapter for their planned edited volume. Currently the team is expanding the conference paper for that publication.