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About Kara Bridgman Sweeney

Kara Bridgman Sweeney is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Georgia Southern University. She joined Georgia Southern in 2014.

Positions

Present Faculty Member, Georgia Southern University ‐ Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2018 Service agreement
Telfair Museums
2018 Student Research Assistant Grant
College of Behavioral Arts and Sciences, Georgia Southern University.
2004 Grant-in-Aid of Research
Archaeological Society of South Carolina
2002 - 2003 Travel Grant
Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2014 - Present Volunteer, Wormsloe State Historic Site in partnership with Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites
2018 Volunteer, Archaeological Excavations at the Town of Frederica in partnership with National Park Service
2018 Managed, Georgia Southern University Laboratory of Archaeology Information Booth
2018 Board Member, Keep Chatham Beautiful, Savannah, Georgia
2018 Volunteer, Tomoka Archaeological Project & Eastern Kentucky University and Gulf Archaeology Research Institute
2007 Coordinator and Educator, Archaeology Camp Days
2007 Co-coordinator and Educator, Archaeology Festival at Riverside Camp and Retreat
2007 Board Member, Archaeology, Lee County (Florida) Historic Preservation Board
2007 Coordinator and Educator, Calusa Summer Camp
2007 Advisory Member, Trail of Florida’s Indian Heritage
2006 - 2007 Advisor, Pineland Archaeological District
2006 - 2007 Publicity Chair, Southwest Florida Archaeology Society
1999 Volunteer Excavator and Illustrator, Humanitarian exhumation of H.L. Hunley crew members, Confederate Naval and Marine Cemetery
Peer Reviewer, American Antiquity
Peer Reviewer, Early Georgia
Member, Society for American Archaeology
Member, Society for Georgia Archaeology
Member, Southeastern Archaeological Conference
Peer Reviewer, Southeastern Archaeology
Peer Reviewer, The Florida Anthropologist
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Honors and Awards

  • Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar to Ireland, 1996-1997
  • Outstanding Anthropology Student Award, University of South Carolina, 1996
  • Phi Beta Kappa, University of South Carolina, 1995

Courses

  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Global Perspectives in Anthropology: Peoples of the World
  • Anthropology of Sexuality
  • World Archaeology
  • North American Archaeology
  • Public Archaeology
  • Archaeological Methods and Theory

Education

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2013 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Florida
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1999 M.A. in Archaeology, University College Cork, Ireland
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1995 B.A. in Anthropology, University of South Carolina
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Links

Contact Information

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Georgia Southern University (Armstrong Campus)
Savannah, GA 31419-1997

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Chapters (2)

Book Review (2)

Technical Reports (51)