Charlotte Goudge
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Degrees
University of Bristol, Ph.D.University of Bristol, M.A.
University of Kent, B.A.
Expertise
I am an anthropological archaeologist with a broad interest base. I have conducted various research projects in England, Antigua, Barbados, North Carolina, and Florida.My research interests include cultural contact, the long-term impacts of colonialism and commodity creation, industrialism, archaeologies of the illicit, and various aspects of historical and maritime archaeology.
Profile
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As a historical archaeologist, my research interests focus on the rise and intersection of colonialism, capitalism, consumerism, and colonial entanglements in the New World, particularly focusing on the Caribbean and North America. I am interested in island and maritime-based networks and tackling questions related to economy, social change, and environment.
Within the last decade, I have had the opportunity to work on an exciting variety of fieldwork sites ranging from Roman burial sites and a Viking settlement in England to Caribbean and Floridian plantations.
I was a co-primary investigator on the Dig Hatteras Archaeological Project, a fascinating early contact site in the Outer Banks, North Carolina. The excavations took place throughout field seasons from 2009-2017, discovering and excavating the remains of a sizable Indian village on Cape Creek and Pamlico Sound near Cape Hatteras, uncovering incredible amounts of material culture relating to the lives and subsistence patterns of Native Croatoans. The Croatoan were a community of Carolina Algonquians who likely inhabited both present-day Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands at the time of the arrival of the first English explorers and colonists in the 16th Century. The excavations uncovered evidence of village structures, combined subsistence practices suggesting hunting, fishing, and limited agriculture, as well as clear evidence of early trading interactions with British settlers. We are still in the process of analyzing the vast repository of archaeological material data for this project.
I was also PI for the Still House Project on the Betty’s Hope Plantation in Antigua, working collaboratively with archaeologists from various institutions to understand the long, fraught history of sugar and those who made it within the British Caribbean. Our interdisciplinary work brought archaeologists, faunal experts, soil researchers, and human and environmental health researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the plantation, both socially and environmentally, in the form of land-use legacies. At the still house, the study was able to show not only styles and methodologies for Caribbean rum production but also disentangled varying effects of rum and sugar manufacture. The project demonstrated the impact of industrial runoff, chemical toxicants, soil and water pollution, and various health impacts from historic sugar and rum production in the British Caribbean. That project has led to further research interrogating the ways in which colonial enterprises in the Caribbean and colonial environmental violence laid the groundwork for financial, social, and particularly, environmental disaster, much of which can still be felt by communities today.
Courses Taught
| ANTH | 7a | Great Discoveries: Introduction to Archaeology |
| ANTH | 112b | Bison, Berries and Banquets: The Social Archaeology of Food and Drink |
| ANTH | 123b | Lost Voices: The Historical Archaeology of Oppression and Exploitation |
| ANTH | 124a | Maritime Archaeology: The Salty Relationship Between Society and The Sea |