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Annual Meeting

Annual Meeting 2007

Welcome to San Antonio for the
78th Texas Archeological Society Annual Meeting

Dr. Kathleen Deagan
Public Forum Speaker

Dr. Kathleen Deagan: Spanish Colonial archaeology of Florida

Kathleen Deagan is Distinguished Research Curator of Archaeology and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History.  She received her Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of Florida, and after teaching at Florida State University Anthropology Department for eight years, she joined the University of Florida faculty in 1982.

Her research has focused on the archaeology of the Spanish colonial period in Florida and the Caribbean.  She has conducted field excavations in St. Augustine, Florida since 1972, and has worked in Haiti and the Dominican Republic since 1979.  Deagan has directed excavations at La Isabela, Christopher Colombus’s first town in America; the search for la Navidad, Columbus’s first fort, in Haiti; Ft. Mose, America’s first free black town and Florida’s first Spanish fort (1565-66) in St. Augustine.  She been a consultant on historic preservation and archaeology in Spain, Venezuela, Panama. Peru, Jamaica and Honduras.

Deagan is the author of eight books and more than 65 scientific papers.   She was named an Alumna of Outstanding Distinction by the University of Florida in 1998, and is a recipient of the Society for Historical Archaeology’s J.C. Harrington Award for Lifetime Distinction in Historical Archaeology.