Washington and Lee University
Sean Devlin has joined the Sociology and Anthropology Department in January of 2009 as the new Staff Archaeologist/Instructor.
He received a Master’s degree in Anthropology with a specialization in Historical Archaeology from the College of William and Mary in 2008. As part of the completion of this degree, he helped direct the 2007 William and Mary summer field school program at St. Nicholas Abbey Plantation on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
For the last five years, Sean has also worked extensively in the Chesapeake region of Virginia in the field of cultural resource management. In 2008, he held the position of Project Archaeologist with the James River Institute for Archaeology. There, he directed several projects including the recent excavations at the nineteenth century slave jail of Robert Lumpkin in the heart of Downtown Richmond, Virginia. As a result of this work experience, Sean is interested in issues of identity construction, particularly as it has been and is used to both create and moderate social inequality, and the relationship between archaeology and local descendant communities of the present.
