Paul A. Shackel
(Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1987)

Director
Center for Heritage Resource Studies
University of Maryland, College Park

Professor of Anthropology
University of Maryland, College Park

Phone:  301-405-1422
Email:  pshackel@anth.umd.edu

New Philadelphia, Illinois

Prior to establishing the Center for Heritage Resource Studies as its founding Director, Paul Shackel joined the Department of Anthropology in 1996 after working for the National Park Service for 7 ½ years. Shackel is interested in the ways material items are used by individuals and groups in order to create social relations and group identity. Material culture and landscapes are powerful tools that can express gender, ethnicity, class, and power relations. Taking an anthropological and historical perspective of material culture allows him to pursue questions on how the value and meaning of goods may change over time in order to define and redefine individual and group relations.

Shackel has developed two cooperative agreements with the National Park Service -- one with the National Capital Region, and the other with the North Atlantic Region. These projects provide work and educational opportunities for students. Shackel is interested in what nationally significant sites mean to the American public, and how they help to create and maintain a national identity. Archaeology plays a significant role in revealing controversial issues of our country’s development, such as labor, racism, and enslavement. These cooperative agreements with the National Park Service help to explore these issues.

Follow these links for information on his current and recent work.  A list of selected publications follows

	Introduction: The Public Meaning of Archeological Heritage
	Remembering the American Industrial Landscape (Paper presented in the Plenary Session, Society for Historical Archaeology, Providence, Rhode Island, 2003)
	Projects with the National Park Service
	New Philadelphia, Illinois

Selected Publications

(Click here for Dr. Shackel's Curriculum Vita)

	Publications Committee for Maryland Archaeology
Books
2006	"They Worked Regular": Craft, Labor, Family and the Archaeology of an Industrial Community (with Matthew Palus).  University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
2004	Places in Mind: Archaeology as Applied Anthropology (edited with Erve Chambers).  Routledge: New York.
2003	Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape.  AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
2000	Archaeology and Created Memory: Public History in a National Park. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing, New York.
2001	Myth, Memory and The Making of The American Landscape. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
1998	Annapolis Pasts: Contributions from Archaeology in Annapolis (edited with Paul Mullins and Mark S. Warner). The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
1996	Culture Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era. Plenum Publishing Corp, New York.
1994	Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake (edited with Barbara J. Little). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1993	Personal Discipline and Material Culture: An Archaeology of Annapolis, Maryland, 1695-1870. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Refereed Journal Volumes Edited
2003	Remembering Landscapes of Conflict. Historical Archaeology 37(3).
1994	An Archaeology of Harpers Ferry's Commercial and Residential District (edited with Susan E. Winter). Historical Archaeology 28(4).
1992	Meanings and Uses of Material Culture, (edited with Barbara J. Little). Historical Archaeology 26(3).
Monographs
1994	(Editor). Domestic Responses to Nineteenth-Century Industry: An Archeology of Park Building 48, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Occasional Report No. 12. Department of the Interior, National Capital Region Archaeology Program. National Park Service
1993	(Editor). Interdisciplinary Investigations of Domestic Life in Government Block B: Perspectives on Harpers Ferry's Armory and Commercial District, Occasional Report No. 6. Department of the Interior, National Capital Region Archaeology Program. National Park Service.