December 26, 2024

EagleEye

A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff

Sanford Highlighted by Rappahannock Review for Talk That Examines Slave Quarters

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Professor Emeritus of Historic Preservation Douglas Sanford

Professor Emeritus of Historic Preservation, Douglas Sanford

Douglas W. Sanford, professor emeritus of historic preservation, presented “Interpreting the Evidence for African American History: Virginia’s Slave Quarters and Free Blacks on the Middle Peninsula in 1860,” at a virtual meeting of the Middle Peninsula African American Genealogical and Historical Society. Read the article.

Other recent media mentions for Sanford include:

Talk to explore lives of slaves and free persons in 1860 (Richmond Free Press)
Historian Douglas W. Sanford will present “Interpreting the Evidence for African American History: Virginia’s Slave Quarters and Free Blacks on the Middle Peninsula in 1860,” hosted by the Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society.
https://richmondfreepress.com/news/2024/nov/07/talk-to-explore-lives-of-slaves-and-free-persons-in-1860/

Sanford’s Slave Dwelling Expertise Featured in ‘Washington Post’

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Professor Emeritus of Historic Preservation Douglas Sanford

Professor Emeritus of Historic Preservation Douglas Sanford

Professor Emeritus of Historic Preservation Douglas W. Sanford’s expertise on slave dwellings were featured recently in an article titled “Rare 19th-century log cabin restored near Lake Mooney,” which ran in The Washington Post. “They were never built to last hundreds of years,” Sanford said. “This is truly a rare survivor.” Read more.

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Sanford Participates at Regional Archaeological Conference

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Doug Sanford, Professor in the Department of Historic Preservation, held multiple roles at the March 2014 meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference (MAAC) in Langhorne, Pa. Sanford was an invited participant in the workshop entitled “Boot Camp for Teaching Undergraduate Archaeology: Lessons from the Middle Atlantic,” involving over a dozen faculty members from private and public colleges and universities. For this open forum discussion, Sanford made a presentation on “Teaching Archaeology in an Interdisciplinary Environment: Anthropology, Archaeology, and Historic Preservation.” Besides accompanying four Mary Washington students, Sanford also served as a judge for the conference’s graduate student paper competition and was elected to the position of President-Elect of the MAAC for the next two years.