Members of the Werowocomoco Research Group
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• David Brown received a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the College of William and Mary in 1996 and a Master’s degree in History/Historical Archaeology from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2001. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in History at the College of William and Mary. Mr. Brown has conducted extensive research on the history and archaeology of Gloucester County over the past nine years. In addition he has worked as an archaeologist at the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He has considerable experience in field and laboratory methods and in supervising volunteers and students. Since November of 2000, Mr. Brown has been Co-Director of the Fairfield Foundation in Gloucester County and in 2003 he became co-owner of DATA Investigations, a cultural resource managment company, also in Gloucester County. His research interests include historic community development and social interaction, domestic architecture, and the role of archaeology in historic preservation and education.
  
  
• Martin Gallivan received a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1990 before pursuing graduate studies in anthropology. He received his Master’s degree (1995) and Ph.D. (1999) in anthropology from the University of Virginia, focusing on regional comparison of Native settlement organization during the late prehistoric and contact period in Virginia’s James River Valley. From 1999 to 2002 he served as Associate Director for Academic Affairs of the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research before being appointed to the College’s Anthropology faculty in September 2002. He has directed excavations at several late prehistoric and Contact Period sites in piedmont and coastal Virginia and taught archaeological field schools at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary. He has written over fifteen articles and reports related to this research and has recently completed work on the book James River Chiefdoms: The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake. His current research interests center on the organization and use of space in Native households and village communities in the Chesapeake during the Late Woodland and Contact periods.
  
  
• Thane Harpole received a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and History from the College of William and Mary in 1996. He completed graduate coursework for a Master’s degree in Historical Archaeology at the University of Massachusetts Boston in May of 2001, and is currently working on his thesis. Mr. Harpole has conducted extensive research on the history and archaeology of Gloucester County during the past nine years. He has also worked as an archaeologist at the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research and George Washington’s Mount Vernon. His experience includes extensive training in field and laboratory methods and in supervising volunteers and students. Since November of 2000, Mr. Harpole has been Co-Director of the Fairfield Foundation in Gloucester County and in 2003 he became co-owner of DATA Investigations, a cultural resource managment company, also in Gloucester County.
  
  
• Danielle Moretti-Langholtz received a Bachelors degree in Social Science from the State University of New York at Oneonta in 1969. She attended the New School for Social Research and New York University and obtained a certificate in Social Science Education from the State of New York in 1975. She received a Master’s degree (1989) and Ph.D. (1998) in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. The focus of her graduate work has been the examination of the economic and political structures of contemporary American Indian communities. Since the 1980s she has worked with a number of tribes and native organizations including Navajo weavers in New Mexico, Inuit knitters associated with the Oomingmak Cooperative in Alaska, the Chickasaw Nation, the Creek Nation, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency. Danielle has also worked in collections management at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, at the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey and at the American Museum of Natural History. She has taught at the College of William & Mary since 1995 and is currently the Director of the American Indian Resource Center. She co-authored We’re Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories and established the Virginia Indian Oral History Project. With support from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the College of William & Mary, the Camp Foundations and the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation she directed and produced a video documentary in Virginia’s eight state-recognized tribes titled In Our Own Words: Voices of Virginia Indians.
  
  
• Randolph Turner received a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Virginia in 1970 followed by a Master’s degree in anthropology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1972 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1976. Both his Master’s thesis and Ph.D. dissertation focused on Virginia Coastal Plain archaeology and the Powhatans. He has written over 50 articles related to Virginia archaeology and ethnohistory in addition to co-authoring with Helen Rountree in 2002 a book on Before and After Jamestown: Virginia’s Powhatans and Their Predecessors. Since 1979 he has been employed with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources as Senior Prehistoric Archaeologist, serving for the past ten years as director of the Department’s regional office for eastern Virginia located in Newport News. He also has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology and archeology at Penn State, Emory and Henry College, and the College of William and Mary.