https://www.katherineparkerarchaeology.com/hisp-470-2025 daily 0.75 2025-06-18 https://www.katherineparkerarchaeology.com/hisp-470-2025/blog-post-1-hisp470overview-7yk4l monthly 0.5 2025-06-18 https://www.katherineparkerarchaeology.com/home daily 1.0 2025-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/438f6b3c-7ef8-4037-852a-a2a7eff77e8d/KGP_Headshot-1_2023_reduced.png Home - Katherine Parker is an Assistant Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Mary Washington. Her research focuses on the ways that moonshine is constructed in discursive spaces, such as popular media, social memory, and academic research, and in material places where moonshine distillation sites exist as archaeological resources. Her work examines the entangled influences of class, race, racism, gender, and heritage tourism on the political economy of moonshiners in the postbellum US. Research Interests: Historical Archaeology, Southeastern US, Mid-Atlantic Region, Landscapes, Heritage Studies, Historical Memory, Political Economy, African Diaspora, Archaeology of the New South, Conflict Archaeology, Clandestine Economies, Moonshine, Spatial Analysis and Patterning, Remote Sensing, Archaeological Geophysics, Archaeological Practice and Ethics, Cemetery Documentation, Climate Change https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4958-185X https://www.katherineparkerarchaeology.com/current-projects daily 0.75 2022-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609261421233-UV0P6TS60A17YOAFAS9N/2019SCArchaeologyMonthPosterFortFrederick_Page_1.jpg Current Projects - Fort Frederick Collection Analysis Beaufort, SC | In Summer 2022, I will be partnering with archaeologists from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Heritage Trust Program to inventory collections from the 18th-century site of Fort Frederick in Beaufort County, South Carolina. This site is undergoing intensive archaeological recovery work by SCDNR due to climactic and developmental threats to the site. Note: This project has been delayed from July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609260616346-UQ2OGYA7800KJWGMU0WG/PXL_20201114_204249192.jpg Current Projects - Francis Marion National Forest (FMNF) Still Sites Berkeley County, SC | Since 2018, I have been investigating the archaeological remains of moonshining, known as still sites, in the South Carolina Lowcountry. This project, which serves as the basis for my dissertation research, represents a collaboration between myself, the US Forest Service, and descendant communities to tell the story of this dynamic landscape’s transformation during the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609260940490-POO4BAI4A3LLATRSLAEW/A_Katherine+Parker_2019.jpg Current Projects - Coan Hall Geophysics Northumberland County, VA | Since 2018, I have been collaborating with Dr. Barbara Heath and the Coan Hall Archaeological Research Group (CHARG) to develop a better understanding of the colonial-era landscape using geophysical survey. The site is the location of ongoing archaeological research into the nature of colonial entanglements between Indigenous groups and English colonists on Virginia’s Northern Neck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609260788924-7HVTVOLNUPQJPIJEBXJX/PXL_20201003_154730671.PORTRAIT.jpg Current Projects - Odd Fellows Cemetery Knoxville, TN | Since 2019, I have been collaborating with other graduate students in the Anthropology Department and Katherine Ambroziak in the College of Architecture & Design at UTK to document and delineate the Odd Fellows Cemetery, a historically African-American cemetery in East Knoxville. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1623618679396-7O66HG6HXAD0GI5IG16C/Rose-Hill_Artifacts-2.jpg Current Projects - Archaeological Collaborations with the South Carolina State Parks Aiken and Union Counties, SC | Since 2021, I have been collaborating with South Carolina State Parks Archaeologist Stacey Young to conduct geophysical and terrestrial archaeological surveys at several park properties across the state. To date, this work has included volunteer ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys, cemetery delineations, and a field school offered through the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. https://www.katherineparkerarchaeology.com/outreach daily 0.75 2025-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609262416930-G156U20VREP6WKNCHI0C/IMG_20200206_175657.jpg Community Outreach and Public Engagement Students on the distillery tour for the Fall 2019 Moonshine and Archaeology class at PostModern Distillery, Knoxville, TN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609262256383-DH8215JQYT9ZVD8HE92M/PXL_20201107_163901652.jpg Community Outreach and Public Engagement Volunteers from the University of Tennessee, The Citadel, and Berkeley County for the FMNF Still Sites Project in November 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/7f4bbf8d-968c-4ef3-a04d-b3fb26836383/Underground-History_Screenshot.JPG Community Outreach and Public Engagement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1612889522918-IB149TGRMMCZTT9VKYFX/FMNF+Stills+Article+Image+1.jpg Community Outreach and Public Engagement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/6e3f37fc-30a5-4df8-8186-7b1e312d1adb/Parker2023_HARC-Blog.jpg Community Outreach and Public Engagement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1612024467770-ZDW8GP140IAGDT0GTKM3/IMG_20191215_141819.jpg Community Outreach and Public Engagement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1052f588-1467-485a-a14e-1a70e043ffee/BK57-001_Container-Glass-Sample.jpg Community Outreach and Public Engagement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/a4dca7fa-8bb8-4050-b97e-1f187ee83775/SEAC_H%26T_Fall-2022_NatalieInterviewTitle.PNG Community Outreach and Public Engagement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609262862086-ZZDWBN1R8LLOLHIKKZ7A/KGP_NatGeo_Berkeley.PNG Community Outreach and Public Engagement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609262803071-P56BHB9I8G7T6ZNXZLX9/KGP_Odd-Fellows.PNG Community Outreach and Public Engagement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609263205592-N72P6KBWD8GGR7K79YE4/South+Carolina.png Community Outreach and Public Engagement https://www.katherineparkerarchaeology.com/content daily 0.75 2025-06-18 https://www.katherineparkerarchaeology.com/odd-fellows-cemetery daily 0.75 2020-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609269635045-6RV8GYKUU38VGDCSMW9F/Figure+2-William+F.+Yardley+%281844-1924%29.jpg Odd Fellows Cemetery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609269611323-98P7LR8Y26TPKTKFRCEI/Figure+3-Calvin+Johnson+%281844-1925%29.jpg Odd Fellows Cemetery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609270230615-TMQM181NR4HXRBJ76MZ7/Figure+8-Map+showing+the+Odd+Fellows+Cemetery+and+the+Fall+2020+Survey+Area.png Odd Fellows Cemetery - Make it stand out. 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The site has been the location of numerous historic, and likely pre-contact occupations, spanning from the late Woodland period to the twentieth century. First discovered by Stephen Potter in the 1960s and systematically surface collected by him as part of his dissertation research in the 1970s, this site has more recently been the subject of field investigation by the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Under the direction of Dr. Barbara Heath, fieldwork began with initial testing in 2011 and with intensive excavations beginning in 2015. These excavations have uncovered portions of a circa-1640s 54 x 21.5 ft. earthfast manor house, a series of pits, some of which are likely associated with seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century outbuildings, and other landscape features. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fea1855aec7c22763c5c8b4/1609272622157-80DEY3XTQIZ3O499TMIQ/Coan+Hall+Core+Features_Draft+2.png Coan Hall (44NB11) Geophysics - Locating the Palisade Geophysical work conducted by Dan Brock, myself, and Howard Cyr over the 2014-2020 fieldwork seasons helped identify the presence of several historical features on the Coan Hall site. The focus of the GPR and gradiometer surveys that I conducted in 2018 and 2019 was the identification of a circular palisade feature that had been identified in previous test unit excavations. 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