Board of Directors
Carole Crumley
Project Director
Elizabeth Jones
Scott Madry
William Marquardt
V. Ann Tippitt
Scholars:
Gillian Bolsover
Dennis McDaniel
Laurel McEwen
Sarah Madry
Alan May
Will Meyer
Seth Murray
Laura Oaks
Chris Potter
Michael Rosenmeier
Eric Straffin
Brian Sykora
Amanda Tickner
Danny deVries |
Carole Crumley, PhD, Director
Dr. Crumley brought the French Project to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) when she joined the faculty in 1977. Until then she was at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Current Project participants include students and faculty from UNC-CH as well as the Universities of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) and Edinboro (Pennsylvania, USA), Strasbourg and Bourgogne (France), and the Centre Archéologique Européen du Mont Beuvray (Glux-en-Glenne, France).
 Gillian Bolsover
Gillian Bolsover is a photographer. She visited Uxeau in Burgundy in spring 2002 to collect photos and record interviews in order to create a multimedia presentation for the Triquête website. She is currently interning at the photography department of the Times Free Press in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. Go to Gillian's website at http://www.bolsoverphotos.com
 Danny deVries
Danny H. de Vries is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and Predoctoral Trainee in Demography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), USA. He has worked as a Research Associate at UNC-CH’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies on social vulnerability and hazard mitigation research projects funded by the United States Federal Emergency Management Administration and is currently a monitoring and evaluation officer at IntraHealth International, an international development nonprofit. Danny completed his master's thesis in the department of psychology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, on images of nature, environmental values, and landscape preferences.
Danny's involvement with Triquête includes researching (with Seth Murray) Burgundian historical climatology, collecting climatological data, and analyzing Burgundian field notes. The result found and presented at several conferences was that knowledge about microclimatology at the landscape level - as strongly evidenced among Uxeau farmers - is neglected within the data and trends produced by historical climatologists, which tend to focus on macro perspectives. The problem with this is a loss of detail at the landscape level needed for regional studies. In addition, Danny spent a summer in the field assisting in French Project fieldwork, helped write an NSF grant for the French Project, and supported the French Project website since its inception.
Elizabeth Jones, PhD
I have worked with the French Project since 1991. My expertise is in historical anthropology which includes historical archaeology, historical demography and anthropological studies incorporating historic documents. My research interests include Celtic myth and ritual with an emphasis on Arthurian studies, gender in 19th-century America, and rural agricultural life with an emphasis on farm families and monastic institutions. Most of my research has focused on western Europe from the Dark Ages to the Early Modern Period, but I have participated in excavations of a university campus in late 18th-century/early 19th-century America (the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and I am also now researching late 17th-century/early 18th-century French colonists around Natchez. My research in Burgundy has included a study of medieval fortified priories, including the Priory of St Pierre-en-Liens in Uxeau, Burgundy. I have participated in excavations of medieval moat in Uxeau, the Roman villa at la Grenouillère, and the medieval château d’Artus near Suin. I received my PhD in 2006 from the University of North Carolina. My doctoral work was done on Pparish records from Uxeau/Bessy in the 1690s (the coldest decade of the Little Ice Age). My research involving these records produced standard historical demographic analysis including family reconstitution, and historical ecology research on land use, social networks, and family strategies to deal with risk. Currently I am working with Triquête members on reconstructing 19th-century land use in Uxeau from historic maps, tax records and agricultural reports, and also on the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age ritual landscape around Mont Dardon, focusing on tumuli and ritual use of mistletoe.
Scott Madry, PhD
Scott Madry is a research associate professor of anthropology at UNC-CH and has participated in the French project since 1978. His primary interest is in the application of Geomatics (the integration of remote sensing, Geographic Informatiion Systems, GPS, spatial modeling, visualization, and related tools) to regional archaeological and cultural research. See his website at http://www.informatics.org/france/france.html for more information about his research on the French project, and http://www.informatics.org/anthromadry.html for his general research and activities.
William Marquardt , PhD
William Marquardt is curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He has done archaeological research in New Mexico, Kentucky, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida (in the USA), and Burgundy (France). He collaborated on the research design and participated in the early stages of field work for the French Project, and with Carole Crumley, co-edited Regional Dynamics: Burgundian Landscapes in Historical Perspective. San Diego: Academic Press, 1987. Since 1985, he has directed the Southwest Florida Project, which is focused on the ancient domain of the Calusa Indians (present-day Charlotte, Lee, and Collier counties, southwest Florida). He has been instrumental in the establishment of the Randell Research Center (RRC), a research and education center at Pineland, near Fort Myers, Florida, USA. The RRC's Calusa Heritage Trail is open daily to the public. Author of several books and articles about the archaeology and history of southwest Florida, he was the curator of the 6,050-square-foot Hall of South Florida People and Environments (opened 2002) at the Florida Museum's main exhibition center in Gainesville, Florida.
Sarah Madry, MEd
Round temples of the ancient, Renaissance, 18th, and 19th centuries are the subject of Well Worth a Shindy: The Architectural and Philosophical History of the Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which Madry published in 2004. Garden and landscape history are her major interests, and she is currently researching the history of a garden near Paris - Mortefontaine - the location the signing of a Franco-USA treaty in 1800. Sarah helps with the design and production of the Triquête website.
 Alan May, PhD
My French Project interests have changed as the project has evolved over the years. Initially interested in the Neolithic and Iron Age sites around Mont Dardon, I was a part of the survey crew that worked on several of the transects around the mountain and to the north toward Mont Beuvray. Anyone who travels to France and appreciates the landscape also, usually, appreciates the cuisine, and I am no exception - foodways are important conditioning factors in rural landscapes. This involves climate as well as viticulture and horticulture. Currently, I am interested in the transportation networks in the region and how they have changed as responses to culture, politics, and shifting micro environments.
Dennis McDaniel, PhD
Dennis K. McDaniel is a retired history museum curator who holds a PhD in history. His work in French history over the past forty years has depended overwhelmingly on medieval Latin cartularies (most edited and published from 1860 until 1910). These are collections of documents, usually from monasteries and spanning the years 600 - 1400 CE, which, incidental to their main purposes of establishing monastic ownership and income rights, can provide fleeting information on land use, agricultural production (both flora and fauna), waters, mills, meadows, fields, farms, vineyards, clearings, servitude, dues, measures, prices, barns, bridges, tolls, and similar down-to-earth matters. In the present project the idea is that these documentary sources might complement archaeological, cartographic, and other scientific data.
 Laurel McEwen
Laurel McEwen joined the French Project in 2006 with a focus on conducting ethnography. She graduated from UNC-Chapel with a BA in anthropology and international studies in 2006. She returned to Uxeau in 2007 to collect more interview data. She is currently working on the project from Japan and looks forward to returning to France.
Will Meyer
 Seth Murray
My involvement in the French Project began when I started my doctoral studies at UNC-CH in 1998. Although I developed and conducted my own research project in the Basque region of southwestern France for my dissertation, I visited Uxeau on seven separate occasions between 1999-2004. My initial interests in this project emanated from a project that I did in a graduate course under the supervision of Dr. Crumley; this was both a literature review and an examination of the possible future research directions in the historical climatology of Burgundy. During the last four visits to Burgundy, I conducted a series of ethnographic and ethnohistorical interviews in Uxeau and the surrounding environs (I would like to acknowledge here the generous help of Danny de Vries who helped shape these inquiries). This research examines the inter-generational variations in the perceptions of environmental and economic risks among a dozen different farming households and the diverse strategies that farmers deployed in order to address these various risks. Although this project was originally conceived in 2001 and my interviews began in June 2002, the scope of this project was substantially revised the following summer during the heatwave and drought (“canicule”) of July - August 2003. This natural catastrophe provided the impetus to on-the-spot methodological revisions, and the project was specifically re-oriented to address the means, both material and in terms of agricultural knowledge, that farmers had at their disposal to deal with these risks. A final series of follow-up interviews were conducted in April 2004 in order to ascertain the intermediate consequences of the catastrophe. The project concluded with a review of the French government’s planning for and response to the canicule, as well as the policies that have been formulated at the regional and national levels in response to this catastrophe. The final research report for this project is forthcoming in 2007.
 Chris Potter, MEd
Chris Potter is an independent film producer and graphic designer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. He has produced films for a variety of corporations and educational institutions over the past thirty years, including the Atlantic Coast Conference. Potter works in a range of media, from graphic design to computer-based presentations, to commercial and documentary videos. After studying video and film production at the Rice University Media Center, he received an MEd in instructional design from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He launched Southern Media Design & Production in 1976 and has been involved in projects for businesses large and small, institutions, and individuals ever since. He teaches documentary video production at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. (This text was copied from: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/pastfreshdocs.html at Duke University.)
 Laura Oaks
Laura Oaks has been an independent editor of scholarly books and journals since 1977, primarily in classical studies and European history and culture. A contributor to Regional Dynamics, she also served as the book’s copy and rewrite editor pre-press and in publication, and plans to assist in preparation of Long Upon the Land. She lives in Hillsborough near Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
 Michael Rosenmeier, PhD
Dr. Michael Rosenmeier (University of Pittsburgh, Geology and Planetary Science) joined the French Project in 2006. Mike’s research addresses the complex interactions among climate, humans and the environment. He employs stable isotope and geochemical analyses of lake sediment cores to decipher the history of aquatic ecosystems and surrounding watersheds. Sediment profiles record both long-term, climate-driven environmental changes and the results of recent anthropogenic impacts. During summer 2006, Dr. Rosenmeier and colleagues collected sediment records from six small lake basins (reservoirs) near Uxeau and Mont Dardon, Burgundy. His research group (including graduate student Tamara Misner) will specifically measure numerous physical and chemical sediment characteristics and thereby document changes within the regional landscape (e.g., deforestation and agricultural production). Recovery of sediment core data from the reservoirs will permit direct comparison with known local cultural histories.
In addition to France, Dr. Rosenmeier has active research programs in Greece, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Ohio, USA, and Pennsylvania, USA.
 Eric Straffin, PhD
Eric is an associate professor at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, USA. He has been working (on and off) with the French Project since 1994, when he began his dissertation work on the response of the Loire and Arroux Rivers to climate and land-use changes. Eric is now working with researchers from the University of Pittsburgh to examine the record of environmental and land-use change preserved in Burgundian mill ponds. We hope to combine the river and lake records with historical data collected by other team members, to provide a more holistic study of the landscape response to environmental change over the last several thousand years.
You can find more information about Eric's research at
http://www.edinboro.edu/cwis/geosci/straffin/research.htm
Brian Sykora
Amanda Tickner
 V. Ann Tippitt
Ann Tippitt is the executive director of the Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina, USA. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll and has conducted archaeological research in Arizona, Arkansas, Missouri, Georgia, North and South Carolina (all in USA) and Burgundy, France. Ann worked on French project in the 1970s, contributed to the Regional Dynamics volume, and continues to be interested in and supportive of the French projects research.
Last updated 4/28/2008. |
