Scott D. Stull

I am an historical archaeologist with a particular interest in the built environment and in ceramics. My current research examines the connections between colonial America and the medieval European societies from which they came, and how the colonial experience transformed society into a new entity. I am teaching Applied Archaeology in the Spring of 2009, and taught the Archaeology of Colonial America in the Fall 2008 semester. I am teaching Experimental Archaeology in the Fall of 2009.

In the summer of 2009, I worked in New York's Mohawk Valley at two National Historic Landmark Houses, Old Fort Johnson and Fort Klock. Both houses were built in 1750 and have been maintained and restored by non-profit organizations. If you are interested in working on the Colonial Houses of the Mohawk Valley project in the future, please contact me by e-mail at sstull@ithaca.edu.

I have worked in cultural resource management since 1984, and was in a senior position with a private CRM firm between 2000 and 2008 prior to coming to Ithaca College. From 2005 to 2007, I was the Executive Secretary of the American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA), the national trade organization for the cultural resource industry. During this time, I served as the executive manager for ACRA, and worked with CRM firms across the United States.

In 2001, I completed a Certificate in Museum Studies at Harvard University in Cambridge. I strongly believe that understanding museums is vital to archaeologists, as museums serve both as the final repository for archaeological materials, and one of the ways that archaeological research can continue to be presented to the public for years after the excavation is completed and the report is published. I am particularly interested in museum exhibition and evaluation, and have worked at the Museum of Science in Boston in addition to creating museum exhibits related to my CRM work.

I have also worked in Morocco, at the site of Sijilmasa. Sijilmasa is located on the edge of the Sahara, and was a trading and political center on the gold trade routes between West Africa and the Mediterranean. The Islamic societies of al-Andalus (Spain) and the Maghreb (North Africa) remain a topic of interest for me.