THE "COD ROAD" TEAM MEMBERS
A Collaborative & Diverse Group
Department of Archaeology, Memorial University
DR. CATHERINE LOSIER
Associate Professor
Dr. Catherine Losier projects are at forefront of the research on the colonial Atlantic world and seek to document the singularity of French colonies as well as the connectivity between French territories of the North Atlantic, the Caribbean and the South Atlantic.
MEGHANN LIVINGSTON
PhD Student
Historical Archaeology, Colonial Atlantic World, French fisheries, material culture studies, cultural landscapes, 17th and 18th century Saint-Pierre et Miquelon and Newfoundland.
MALLORY CHAMPAGNE
MA student
My research focus is on French ceramic production and distribution in
the New World after 1763, from the perspective of Saint-Pierre and
Miquelon. Using material culture and comparative analysis I will
contribute to the reconstruction of French trade networks in the
Atlantic through the 18th and 19th century.
AUBREY O'TOOLE
PhD student
Historical archaeology, New Netherland, material culture, identity, ethnogenesis, foodways, room use, households, 17th-century North America
ROBYNN HOSKINS
MA Student
My research focuses on the lifeways of various people within the Saint-Pierre et Miquelon migratory fisheries, with particular attention given to the lives of working women and children. Integrating both material culture and historical records, my research will contribute to an intersectional understanding of how poverty, age, and gender contributed to the lives of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon’s people from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
COLLEEN TAMBLYN
MA Student
My research focuses on engaging with material culture, specifically ceramics excavated from Fort Louis, Placentia, to deduce and explore socio-economic shifts during the French period of occupation. By building typochronologies and exploring wealth expression in the material record, I will be able to examine how Placentia grew and became increasingly involved with the Atlantic network.
VALENTIN DE FILIPPO
PhD Student
Digital Archaeology of Farming Landscapes in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon: A Diachronic Inquiry on Agricultural Development From the 17th to the Mid-20th Century
CHERMAINE LIEW
MA Student
My research focuses on the landscape transformation in Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, from the 16th century to the Cod Moratorium in 1992. Using a geographic information system (GIS), I will document and analyze the landscape transformation of Bay Bulls in the Longue Durée (long term). Building a chronological GIS heritage map will lead to a better understanding of the landscape modifications through time and how historical events have impacted the settlement. This will contribute to the community's current discussion of heritage and preservation in Bay Bulls.
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KAYLA LOW
MA Student
My research focuses on analyzing the earthenware and stoneware excavated from Anse à Bertrand, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, to enhance our understanding of the North Atlantic cod fishery. By constructing a typochronology of the ceramics excavated from the Anse à Bertrand site, I aim to identify changes in ceramic production and provenance to better understand the historical occupations of Anse à Bertrand, its role within European trade networks, and the development of the cod fishery.
KASSANDRA L. DRAKE
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MA Student
My proposed MA research will employ environmental and historical archaeological approaches to build the biography, with a long-term perspective, of a site in Little St. Lawrence on the Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland. This will be achieved through integrating and cross-referencing palynology, radiocarbon dating, and utilizing Bayesian modelling with archival and historical records along with material culture to create a chronological history of the site and, in doing so, also provide insight into the daily practices and subsistence strategies through time in Little Saint Lawrence. Consequently, this project also has the potential to explore the environmental impacts of previous natural disasters in the area and their implications on the landscape, human populations, and the archaeological record through the analysis of pollen distribution, stratigraphy, and the archaeological context.