Guest Lecture

Guest Archeology Lecture/ Presentation

On the evening of February 3, 2010 Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center welcomes lecturers from Portland State University and the National Park Service to a special engagement in Wallowa, OR.

WHO:     Wendy Ann Wright & Dr. Doug Wilson (see bios below)
WHAT:    A visual presentation Historical Public Archaeology and Maxville: Recovering the Past for the
               Present, a Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center hosted event.
WHEN:   Wednesday, February 3, 2010
               6:30-7:00pm..... snacks and beverages
               7:00-            ..... Presentation
WHERE: Wallowa Senior Center
               204 2nd St., Wallowa, OR
               (541) 886-2422

		Wendy Ann Wright is an undergraduate student and research assistant in the Department of Anthropology at Portland State' University (PSU). Since 2006 she has focused on community archaeology and researching local historic preservation policy that best serves the public. In 2007 she was awarded the Ronald E. McNair fellowship, which serves to assist Ph.D. bound students from underrepresented groups through various activities including the funding of research. Through the McNair fellowship Wendy Ann researched and published Archaeological Resource Preservation: Developing a Model for the City of Portland, Oregon. Ms. Wright has presented her findings to City of Portland commissioners, planning staff and in various other venues including regional and national conferences. Ms. Wright has received multiple awards for her research including PSU's Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant for Undergraduates, Elisabeth Walton Potter Historic Preservation Advocacy & Education Award, National Trust for Historic Preservation Diversity Scholarship and the Oregon Heritage Fellowship. Since 2008 Ms. Wright has been a research assistant for Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit in PSU's anthropology department. Ms. Wright has continued her work on archaeology at the local government level and was lead author on a recent publication for the National Park Service entitled Options for Stewardship: Archaeological Site Protection Tools for Local Governments along the Lewis and Clark Trail. In addition to her research, Ms. Wright has been actively engaging various communities with archaeology. In October 2008, she organized and directed Portland Archaeology Day, which brought local archaeologists, federal agencies, students, professors, tribal representatives, and the Oregon Historical Society together to showcase archaeology in the heart of downtown Portland. She has also been involved in community archaeoogy through the City of Vancouver's National Get Outdoors Day, Birdfest at Ridgefield WIldlife Refuge, and organizes the monthly PSU Archaeology First Thursday Lecture Series. Outside of her academic work, Ms. Wright is President of Boise Eliot Neighborhood School's Parent Teacher Association (PTA) where she has been an active advocate of neighborhood programs aimed at engaging youth and elders to share history for the purpose of bringing a recently gentrified neighborhood together again. Her work on the this is helping bring a showcase of neighborhood projects to Portland's City Hall on Earth Day 2010 to highlight the importance of sharing stories, histories and cultures for truly sustainable communities.
		Dr. Douglas C. Wilson, (Ph.D. 1991, University of Arizona). Since 2000, Dr. Wilson has served as a National Park Service archaeologist at Fort Vancouver, which contains the remains of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s headquarters, supply depot, and colonial village (ca. 1825-1860) and Vancouver Barracks (1849 to 1948), the U.S. Army’s first permanent fort in the Pacific Northwest. He directs the Northwest Cultural Resources Institute, which integrates students from many Universities, with professional archaeologists, and volunteers with National Park Service staff to provide new scientific and historical research while interpreting National Park Service sites to the public in new and interesting ways. Since 2001, he has taught the joint National Park Service/Portland State University/Washington State University, Vancouver archaeological school at the site. Since 2004, he has served as Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at Portland State University. He also serves the National Park Service as the Pacific West Region’s historical archaeologist. Major interests include public archaeology, historical archaeology, Pacific Northwest archaeology, and modern material culture studies. Publications include: Historical Archaeology at the Middle Village: Station Camp/ McGowan Site (45PC106), Station Camp Unit, Lewis and Clark National Park, Pacific County Washington, Northwest Cultural Resources Institute Report No. 1 (with Kenneth Ames, and others, 2009); Fort Vancouver and Vancouver Barracks in Archeology in America: An Encyclopedia (2008); Garbage and the Modern American Feast in Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on Food, Politics, and Power (with William Rathje, 2001).