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Kasey Diserens Morgan

Visiting Assistant Professor

kad625@lehigh.edu
Education:

University of Pennsylvania, PhD in Anthropology: Concentration in Cultural Heritage. Philadelphia, PA

Master of Science in Historic Preservation: Concentration in Conservation Science. Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of the Arts with Honors: Archaeology and Spanish, magna cum laude. Ithaca, NY

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Research Areas

Single Authored Conference Papers and Round Tables 

2024 “Heritage Making with a Side of Archaeology: A Community-Led Project and Practice in Tihosuco, Mexico.” Society for American Archaeology conference, April. 

2022 “Collaboration with the Museo de la Guerra de Castas: Public Memory in a Private Institution.” American Anthropological Association conference, November. 2022 “Restoring the Façade, Changing the Relationship to the Past?” Society for Historical Archaeology conference, January. 

2021 “Blurring the Lines of Ethnography: Collaborative Efforts to Document Heritage Making.” American Anthropological Association hybrid conference, November. 

2021 “A Promise without Work: The Politicization of Heritage in Rural Mexico.” Latin American Studies Association virtual conference, May. 

2021 “Politicizing Heritage: How Government Protections Use Heritage Assets to Control the Maya Past.” Society for American Archaeology virtual conference, April. 

2021 “Adapting and Improvising: Materiality and the Politicization of Historic Structures.” Society for Historical Archaeology virtual conference, January 6-9. 

2020 “Rethinking Facadism: How Governments Use Colonial Heritage to Control the Maya Past.” Society for American Archaeology conference, April 22-26, Austin, TX. *Cancelled due to COVID-19* 

2020 “Embedding Control: Ownership Rights and Government Interventions in Post-conflict Quintana Roo.” Penn Cultural Heritage Center Annual Conference, Owning (up to) the Past, April 4, Philadelphia, PA. *Cancelled due to COVID-19* 

2020 “Moving the Baseline: Why isn’t Community Archaeology the Convention?” Society for Historical Archaeology conference, January 7-11, Boston, MA. 

2020 “From the Trowel to the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism.” Invited Panel. Society for Historical Archaeology conference, January 7-11, Boston, MA  

Teaching

Introduction to Archaeology and Human Evolution
World Archaeology