Staff

John Roby, MA email
(Field School Instructor)
John Roby will be the instructor for the 2009 summer field school. A doctoral student at SUNY Binghamton, he received his MA in Anthropology from Georgia State University in 2006. Roby has worked on numerous academic and professional archaeological projects since 2004, digging in New Mexico, Georgia and New York. His dissertation research explores the material practices through which modernist subjectivities are produced, altered and/or rejected as a pathway toward assessing the universality of this major narrative of our understanding of history. The Dennis Farm site will be the primary locus of his research. Roby has served as an adjunct instructor and teaching assistant at Binghamton University, and is a member of the Society for Historical Archaeology, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology.

Contact Nina Versaggi, PhD email
(Director and Principal Investigator, Public Archaeology Facility)
Versaggi received her doctorate in Anthropology from SUNY-Binghamton in 1988, her MA from SUNY Binghamton in 1976 and her BA from Rutgers University in 1974. She has been active in professional archaeology since 1972. Professional positions held include Director of the Public Archaeology Facility since 1988, Partner in Compliance Survey Associates for 6 years, Guest Curator at the Roberson Museum and Science Center, and Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hartwick College Museums. She serves as principal investigator for all current and past projects of the Public Archaeology Facility including the statewide Department of Transportation subcontract with the New York State Museum. She is a former member of the board for the Preservation Association of the Southern Tier, and a current board member for the New York Archaeological Council where she chairs the Professional Survey and Report Standards Committee. She serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Binghamton University