Heather Trigg has been a Research Scientist at the Fiske Center since 2001. She supervises the paleoethnobotany lab, which conducts archaeobotanical (pollen, seeds, and wood) and parasitological analyses. Her research interests include colonialism in the Southwest United States particularly exploring Spanish colonization. In her book From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico, she examines Spanish colonists’ early attempts to create economies of differing scales. In her paleoethnobotanical work, she has examined plant materials from such places as North America, Iceland, Germany, Iran, and Mongolia. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1999. With Virginia Popper, she is co-editor for the Journal of Ethnobiology.
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 has been a Research Scientist at the Fiske Center since 2001. She supervises the paleoethnobotany lab, which conducts archaeobotanical (pollen, seeds, and wood) and parasitological analyses. Her research interests include colonialism in the Southwest United States particularly exploring Spanish colonization. In her book From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico, she examines Spanish colonists’ early attempts to create economies of differing scales. In her paleoethnobotanical work, she has examined plant materials from such places as North America, Iceland, Germany, Iran, and Mongolia. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1999. With Virginia Popper, she is co-editor for the Journal of Ethnobiology.