Ph.D. Memorial University, 2006

Ph.D. Dissertations

• Hollahan, Jordan (in progress). Research topic. TBD.
• Hogan, Jared T. (in progress). Research topic. Just representation? Investigating the visibility of Indigenous cultures at museums in Newfoundland and Labrador. (Co-supervised with Dr. Scott Neilsen).
• Lacy, Robyn (in progress). Research topic. Sic Finis: 17th-century Burial Places and Spaces in Northeast North America and Newfoundland.
• O'Toole, Aubrey (in progress). Research topic. Investigating the intersection of material culture and identity among New Netherlanders and their descendants, 1650-1750. (Co-supervised with Dr. Catherine Losier).
• Morrison, Adrian (in progress). Research topic: Merchants, Migrants, and Military Men: An Archaeology of Life in Early Eighteenth-Century Canso, Nova Scotia. (Co-supervised with Dr. Michael Deal).
  
• Clausnitzer, Art (2018). The Seventeenth-Century English Cod Fisheries of Newfoundland and New England, circa 1600-1713: An Archaeological and Historical Comparison.
• Miller, Aaron (2013). Avalon and Maryland: A comparative historical archaeology of the seventeenth-century New World provinces of the Lords Baltimore (1621-1644).

M.A. Theses

• Brydon, Calum (in progress). Research topic: TBD.
• Roberts, Sarah (in progress). Research topic: “Thy Reale Friend George Skeffington”: An Archaeological Investigation of 18th-century European Salmon Fishing on the Gander River (DhAp-01)
• McMillan, Alessandra (in progress). Research topic: Death and Heritage: An Archaeological Analysis of the Differential Treatment of Two Historic Burial Grounds in Ferryland, Newfoundland
• Perri, Carli (in progress). Research topic. Hardworking Households: An Archaeology of Ferryland's 19th Working Class.
  
• Jones, Natasha (in progress). Research topic. tbd.
• Tamblyn, Colleen (in progress). Research topic. A Wealth of Small Pieces: Community Archaeology and Ceramic Analysis in Placentia, Newfoundland. (Co-supervised with Dr. Catherine Losier).
• Northover, Karen (in progress). Research Topic. An Archaeological Investigation of Fox Island, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: A (Civilian) Defensible Position Built in the Early 18th Century.
• Lewis-Sing, Emma (in progress). Research topic: Before Avalon, Beyond Contact: A palaeoethnobotanical inquiry into Beothuk-European interaction at 16th century Ferryland. (Co-supervised with Dr. Michael Deal)
• Archer, JD (2022). "Smoky, Noisy, Bloody, Violent, and Smelly": Ferryland's 'Manor House' kitchen.
• De La Plante, Jake (2022). Examining the Lives of Garrisoned Soldiers at Admiral's Point in Trinity, Newfoundland (ca.1744-1820).
• Bethune, Eileen (2022). Cobbling Together the Past: Investigations into Ferryland's "Prettie Streete".
• Spiwak, Alexa (2020). "A slator or two": Exploring the 17th-century slate industry at Ferryland.
• Petty, Ian (2019). "As Elegant as They are Novel": Exploring Consumption Patterns of 18th Century Ceramics in Newfoundland and the Northeast.
• Jones-Doyle, Annique (2019). Maritime Consumption on Newfoundland’s Petit Nord: Material Expressions of Identity on the Champ Paya Fishing Station, 1504-1904.
• Williams, Duncan (2019). ‘A Large House on the Downs’: Household Archaeology and Middle-Class Gentility in Early 19th-century Ferryland, Newfoundland.
• Newcombe, Simon (2017). Research topic: An Examinaiton of Military Life in 18th Century Newfoundland Using the Archaeological Remains of an Officer's Barracks on Bois Island, Ferryland.
• Lacy, Robyn (2017). "Here lieth interr’d": An Examination of the 17th-Century burial landscape of coastal British North America.
• Venovcevs, Anatolijs (2017). Not Just Fisherfolk: Winter housing and Seasonal Lifeways of Rural Euro-Newfoundlanders.
• Hawkins, Catherine (2016). Research topic: English Border Ware Ceramics in Seventeenth-Century British North America.
• Ingram, Sarah (2015). "By Which So Much Happiness Is Produced": An Analysis of the Seventeenth-Century Tavern at Ferryland, Newfoundland.
• Clausnitzer, Art (2011). "As well as any beere": The seventeenth-century brewhouse and bakery at Ferryland, Newfoundland.
• Cromwell, Tom (2011). The new fort : an examination of the design and construction of an 18th-century fort in Placentia, Newfoundland.
• Tourigny, Eric (2009). What ladies and gentlemen ate for dinner: The analysis of faunal material from a seventeenth-century high status English household, Ferryland, Newfoundland.

B.A. Honours Essays

I am seeking dedicated undergraduate honours' students for the following research projects. Many of these projects have been developed in consultation with the Provincial Archaeology Office and/or the Rooms Provincial Museum.

• 17th and 18th century lead bale seals from Ferryland.
• Cannon projectiles excavated from 17th and 18th century contexts at Ferryland.
• Material culture analysis of the Ryan’s Store site in Trinity: earthenware and stoneware.
• Material culture analysis of the Ryan’s Store site in Trinity: clay tobacco pipes.
• An early to late 19th century sealing/fishing/habitation site at Point St. Charles, L’Anse a Claire.
• Preliminary metal detector survey and recording of William John Winters’ Cabin site on Long Pond, St. John’s (requires CERIIG consultation and approval).
• Artifacts recovered from the 18th-century ship Speedwell in Trinity Harbour. 

I am open to supervising other projects that fall within my research interests. Below is a list of completed BA Honours students and their research projects.

• Calum Brydon (2023). Shoes From a 17th-century French Military Fort in Placentia, Newfoundland.
• Roberts, Sarah (2021). Exploring the Archaeological Potential of the 18th-century European Salmon Fishery in Newfoundland.
• Hollahan, Jordan (2021). An Analysis of Seventeenth-century Firearms at the Ferryland Site (CgAf-2).
• Burgess, Neil (2021). Two 17th-century Marine Astrolabes Recovered from a Shipwreck near Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland.
• Hoskins, Robynn (2020). Deoraithe i dTalamh an Eise: Changes in Irish Immigration in 18th- and 19th-Century Newfoundland - A Historical Archaeological Approach.
• Cole, Johanna (2019). Invisible Women: An Archival Approach to Unearthing the Historic Sex Trade in St. John’s, Newfoundland (co-supervisor Dr. Madeline Mant).
• Miller, Mikayla (2013). Examination and Interpretation of Architectual Remains of Structure 32, Ferryland, Newfoundland.
• Whalley, Meaghan (2013). The Conservation of Nineteenth Century Waterlogged Archeological Cork.
• Graham, David (2012). Where once they stood...and dropped things: Answering Questions about Frenchmen's Island (ClAl-1) through an artifact analysis. (Recipient of the ITC Scholarship in Historical Archaeology for 2012).
• Hawkins, Catherine (2012). English Border Ware Ceramics at Ferryland, Newfoundland.
• Matte, Sarah (2011). Telling time in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Colonial North America.
• DeRoo, Tessa (2009). All the King's Ponies: The story of Ferryland's Horses as told by their furnishings.
• Elwood, Kathleen (2009). Sparking an Interest in the Past: An examination of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century gunflints from Ferryland Newfoundland.
• James, Margaret (2009). Death and Christianity in the New World: An examination of Christian Burials in 17th- century Atlantic settlements. (Recipient of the ITC Scholarship in Historical Archaeology for 2010).
• Gushue, Jennifer (2008). "Concerning the Healthfulness of this Countrie": Health, Hygiene and Medical Practices in seventeenth-century Newfoundland. (Recipient of the ITC Scholarship in Historical Archaeology for 2007).
• Young, Jaclyn (2007). Kirke and his Curios: An examination of seventeenth-century Curiosity Collecting at Ferryland, Newfoundland. (Recipient of the ITC Scholarship in Historical Archaeology for 2007).
• Flower, Abbey (2006). All Work and No Play: An archaeological analysis of simple pastimes in Early Modern Newfoundland.
• Hynes, Kyla (2006). Tuscan Export Olive Oil Jars: A case study of a late eighteenth-century jar found in Bareneed, Newfoundland. (Recipient of the ITC Scholarship in Historical Archaeology for 2006).

HATCH Laboratory (Queen's College, MUN)

BA Honours and graduate students conduct some of their artifact analyses in the HATCH lab at Queen's College. The lab has several tables for layout space; a small library of material on clay tobacco pipes, glass and ceramics; a computer; and a compact photography studio with tripod and scales.

Ferryland Collections Room and Conservation Lab (Ferryland, Newfoundland)

Student's researching artifact assemblages from the archaeological site at Ferryland will have access to the extensive collection of 16th- to 19th-century material housed in our collection's storage room in the Colony of Avalon Foundation building at Ferryland, Newfoundland. Three decades of excavation at Ferryland has unearthed one of the best collections of 17th-century material culture in North America. Our faunal collection (mostly from the 17th century) is contained within a separate storage facility in the same building.