Jennifer Trunzo

Associate Professor

Jennifer Trunzo

Associate Professor

Academic Appointment(s)

Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Department of History, Anthropology and Philosophy

  • (706) 667-4562
  • AH E217

Education

  • Ph.D., Anthropology Brown University, 2008

  • MA, Anthropology State University of New York a, 2000

  • BA, Anthropology State University of New York a, 1997

  • BA, History, General State University of NY College, 1992

Certifications

  • The Section 106 Essentials Advisory Council on Historic Presevation, 2017

Awards & Honors

  • Nominated for the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award Augusta State University, 2011

  • Bernard E. Bruce Award Brown University, 2008

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • ANTH 3831

    Archaeology
  • ANTH 1102

    Introductory Anthropology
  • ANTH 3851

    Religion, Culture, and Society
  • ANTH 4950

    Selected Topics: Anthropology & Pop Culture

Teaching Interests

Historical Archaeology, Native American Cultures, North American Prehistory, World Prehistory, Social Inequality, Violence, Warfare, Religion and Spirituality, Cultural Diversity, Museums and Public Archaeology

Scholarship

Selected Recent Publications

  • Review: Captain Kidd’s Lost Ship: The Wreck of the Quedagh Merchant by Frederick H. Hanselmann, 2023
    Book Review
  • Introduction to Archaeologies Special Issue on Intersectionality Theory and Research in Historical Archaeology, 2022
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Book Review Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875 by Laurie A. Wilkie, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2021. 304 pp., ill., maps. $65.00, (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-8263-6299-5; $65.00 (e-book), ISBN: 978-0-8263-6300-8, 2022
    Book Review
  • The Galt Family at the Augusta Arsenal: Intersectionality, Motherhood, and Childhood in the Antebellum Period of the American South, 2022
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Special Issue: Intersectional Theory and Research in Historical Archaeology, 2022
    Other

Research Interests

Historical Archaeology, Ceramics, Social Inequality, Power Relations, Identity, Consumerism

Department Service

  • Graduate programs exploratory committee 2022 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Museum Studies Curriculum Committee 2022 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Military and Public History Faculty Search Committee 2020 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Anthropology Curriculum 2019 - Present

    Role: Other
  • Department Website 2016 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

College Service

  • Exploratory working group for graduate studies in Arts and Humanities 2022 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Pamplin Faculty Council 2022 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Communications Department Tenure and Promotion Committee 2021 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Pamplin Faculty Councl 2021 - Present

    Role: Committee Chair
  • Faculty Council Secretary 2019 - 2021

    Role: Other

University Service

  • Augusta University Tenure and Promotion Committee 2023 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Regents Advisory Committee for Anthropology Curriculum in the University System of Georgia Advisory Committee 2021 - Present

    Role: Committee Member
  • Campus Planning Consultant 2012 - Present

    Role: Other
  • Augusta Arsenal Museum Commiittee 2008 - Present

    Role: Other
  • Campus Archaeologist, Summerville Campus 2008 - Present

    Role: Other

Professional Service

  • Southeastern Archaeological Conference 2010 - Present

    Role: Reviewer
  • Augusta Arsenal History Museum 2008 - Present

    Role: Other
  • W.W. Norton Publisher 2023 - 2023

    Role: Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer
  • Southeastern Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology Annual Conference 2015 - 2015

    Role: Other
  • Southeastern Archaeology 2013 - 2013

    Role: Reviewer, Book

Public Service

  • BeLong Construction LLC 2021 - Present

    Role: Other
  • Ancient Path Augusta 2020 - Present

    Role: Board Member
  • Ancient Path Augusta 2020 - Present

    Role: Officer, Treasurer
  • NAGPRA Contact, Augusta University Archaeology Lab 2020 - Present

    Role: Chair
  • Historic Augusta 2019 - Present

    Role: Other