Trish Markert
Trish Markert is an historical archaeologist and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Western University, Canada. Her research examines placemaking as a material (e.g., buildings, landscapes, objects) and narrative (e.g., storytelling, heritage discourse, community archives) practice in the generations following historic migration events. She currently directs the Old D’Hanis Archaeological Mapping Project in Medina County, Texas (US), a community-based archaeology project that explores the layered histories and landscapes of 19th century Alsatian and German migration and 20th century Mexican migration with descendant community members. She also directs the Digital and Interdisciplinary Archaeology Lab (DIA Lab) and is a co-founder of the Mapping and Memory Research Group at Western University. Her work has received support from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies/Mellon Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the National Geographic Society, and the Council of Texas Archeologists. As a member of the Surviving Memory team, she is part of the virtual reconstruction working group, which focuses on reconstructing village sites based on interdisciplinary data, remote sensing, and survivor testimony.