Megan Hicks
National Science Foundation, Polar Programs, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Recipient 2012-2014
I use interdisciplinary archaeology to understand how communities interact with their local ecologies over long periods of time. This includes issues of stewardship of land, plants, and animals as well as the impacts of colonial and capitalist market economies upon these relationships.
The regional focus of my work has been the North Atlantic where I have led research for over a decade. My work in Iceland reconstructs how herding, fishing, and hunting - studied on the household and community scale - were shaped by Danish colonial economic administration and Iceland's first rural capitalist movement.
Since 2019, I have expanded my focus to include colonial contexts in North America. I am dedicated to community-engaged and community-led archaeology and I hope to expand the ways in which communities harness tools from archaeology to advocate in various contexts for sovereignty, land protection, and self determination. I see archaeology as one way of both understanding and mediating political relationships, justice, and equity via its uniquely long-term and materially-focused knowledge production.
I am presently an Assistant Professor at Hunter College, CUNY. The undergraduate and MA courses I teach include: the archaeology of colonialism, urban archaeology of NYC, the archaeology of gender, archaeological methods, and a Ph.D. course (at the CUNY Graduate Center) on historical archaeology of rebellion and resistance.
Beyond academia, I am involved in advocacy, public education, and direct action organizing for social and environmental justice. I am a descendant of enslaved people and this aspect of my heritage informs the way I think about the importance of social memory and the potentials for archaeology as a reparative practice.
Please feel free to contact me at meganthicks@gmail.com
Address: New York, United States
The regional focus of my work has been the North Atlantic where I have led research for over a decade. My work in Iceland reconstructs how herding, fishing, and hunting - studied on the household and community scale - were shaped by Danish colonial economic administration and Iceland's first rural capitalist movement.
Since 2019, I have expanded my focus to include colonial contexts in North America. I am dedicated to community-engaged and community-led archaeology and I hope to expand the ways in which communities harness tools from archaeology to advocate in various contexts for sovereignty, land protection, and self determination. I see archaeology as one way of both understanding and mediating political relationships, justice, and equity via its uniquely long-term and materially-focused knowledge production.
I am presently an Assistant Professor at Hunter College, CUNY. The undergraduate and MA courses I teach include: the archaeology of colonialism, urban archaeology of NYC, the archaeology of gender, archaeological methods, and a Ph.D. course (at the CUNY Graduate Center) on historical archaeology of rebellion and resistance.
Beyond academia, I am involved in advocacy, public education, and direct action organizing for social and environmental justice. I am a descendant of enslaved people and this aspect of my heritage informs the way I think about the importance of social memory and the potentials for archaeology as a reparative practice.
Please feel free to contact me at meganthicks@gmail.com
Address: New York, United States
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