Brian Gohacki
Areas of Interest: The colonial maritime world; long-distance exchange systems; industrialization and ideology; class identity formation; archaeological ethics; forensic archaeology.
Status: Post field
Current Research: Co-Principal Investigator: field school in New England Archaeology at the John Greene Farm, coastal Rhode Island.
MA Thesis: The Archaeology of the Steamship Omeo, 1858-Present. This paper explores the disconnect between economically-determined commercial practice and colonialist discourses on modernity and technology in the extreme periphery of the English colonial system in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Previous Degrees: MA, Brown University; BA, Cornell University
Contact Information: Brian_Gohacki@brown.edu