Heather Trigg is a Senior Scientist in the Fiske Center. She supervises the paleoethnobotany lab, which conducts archaeobotanical (pollen, seeds, and wood) and parasitological analyses. Her research interests include colonialism and human-environment interactions in the Northeast US and in the American Southwest. Her work on Spanish colonialism in New Mexico focuses on the interactions between settlers and Indigenous peoples, which she explores in such publications as Spanish-Pueblo Interactions in New Mexico’s 17th-Century Spanish Households, and her book From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico where she examines Spanish colonists’ early attempts to create economies of differing scales. She explores the intersection between society and the environment in such papers as Dominion and improvement: The moral ecologies of colonial encounters and Archaeological Parasites as Indicators of Environmental Change in Urbanizing Landscapes: Implications for Health and Social Status. In her paleoethnobotanical work, she has examined plant materials from such places as North America, Iceland, Germany, Iran, and Mongolia. She has received National Science Foundation funding from the Biological Research Collections Program for the Human Impacts Pollen Database and grants through the Archaeology Program for her work on 17th- and 18th-century colonialism in New Mexico. She teaches Archaeological Field Methods and Environmental Archaeology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1999.
Email: .........Heather.Trigg@umb.edu
Phone: ........617.287.6838
Address: ......Fiske Center for Archaeological Research ...................Department of Anthropology ...................100 Morrissey Boulevard ...................University of Massachusetts Boston ...................Boston, MA 02125
Heather Trigg is a Senior Scientist in the Fiske Center. She supervises the paleoethnobotany lab, which conducts archaeobotanical (pollen, seeds, and wood) and parasitological analyses. Her research interests include colonialism and human-environment interactions in the Northeast US and in the American Southwest. Her work on Spanish colonialism in New Mexico focuses on the interactions between settlers and Indigenous peoples, which she explores in such publications as Spanish-Pueblo Interactions in New Mexico’s 17th-Century Spanish Households, and her book From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico where she examines Spanish colonists’ early attempts to create economies of differing scales. She explores the intersection between society and the environment in such papers as Dominion and improvement: The moral ecologies of colonial encounters and Archaeological Parasites as Indicators of Environmental Change in Urbanizing Landscapes: Implications for Health and Social Status. In her paleoethnobotanical work, she has examined plant materials from such places as North America, Iceland, Germany, Iran, and Mongolia. She has received National Science Foundation funding from the Biological Research Collections Program for the Human Impacts Pollen Database and grants through the Archaeology Program for her work on 17th- and 18th-century colonialism in New Mexico. She teaches Archaeological Field Methods and Environmental Archaeology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1999.