Kristen Fellows, associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in a recent edition of American Archaeology.

Kristen Fellows, NDSU associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in the summer 2022 edition of American Archaeology.

The article, “The Story of Marshall’s Pen,” examines the archaeological research being done at Marshall’s Pen, a 19th Century coffee plantation in Jamaica. Fellows has worked at the site for a number of years, taking students to participate in archaeological digs.

In the article she said, “Marshall’s Pen is by far one of the best documented (colonial-era) coffee plantations in the Caribbean,” and the finds there “have helped widen our view of how these places operated and how enslaved people experienced them.”

Fellows is an historical archaeologist specializing in the African Diaspora. Her research interests include historical archaeology, ethnohistory and oral histories, anthropology of the Caribbean, the African Diaspora, British and Spanish colonialism, race and ethnicity, the plantation complex, enslaved populations and feminist archaeology and anthropology.

She earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

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