March 28, 2024
Clemson University hired Carrel Cowan-Ricks of Michigan in the Department of Historic Houses and the College of Architecture in 1991. At the time, she was one of just three Black female archeologists in the United States. Tasked with finding evidence of a historic Black burial ground on the western slope of Woodland Cemetery as expansion […]
May 1, 2023
This is a special post re-published from the May 2023 newsletter. Read the full May 2023 newsletter. By Dr. David Markus, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice One of the most significant points the ongoing research and community engagement of the Woodland Cemetery and African American Burial Ground Historic Preservation […]
March 6, 2023
This is a special post re-published from the March 2023 newsletter. Read the full March 2023 newsletter. By Alleyia Bailey, Undergraduate Research Assistant Carrel Cowan-Ricks began her journey in Historical Archaeology in 1980 when she enrolled at Wayne State University to study Anthropology. By 1990 Cowan-Ricks entered the Anthropology Ph.D. program at Wayne State with […]
