Kathleen L Sheppard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1214697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen L Sheppard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheppard |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPPARD K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Missouri University of Science and Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop
This research article is a collaborative set of reflections and provocations stemming from the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded workshop on STS as a Critical Pedagogy, hosted online during the summer of 2021 by Shannon N. Conley and Emily York at James Madison University. The workshop occurred over four separate sessions, bringing together forty participants (including six undergraduate students who contributed as both facilitators and re…
Victorian Alchemy
E ric H. C line . Digging Up Armageddon
Archaeology is done on site by people who very often have complex stories to tell. As they come together to work in close and isolated confines—sometimes for months and years on end—there will inevitably be personal and professional conflict. But they will also uncover wonderful finds that help fill in the blanks and answer questions about the histories of sites that have long drawn public interest. In Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lo…
HSS Virtual Forum
Women in Archaeology
Life of Margaret Alice Murray
Life of Margaret Alice Murray
The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology is the first book-length biography of Margaret Alice Murray (1863–1963), one of the first women to practice archeology. Despite Murray’s numerous professional successes, her career has received little attention because she has been overshadowed by her mentor, Sir Flinders Petrie. This oversight has obscured the significance of her career including her fieldwork, the students she tra…
Between Spectacle and Science
ArgumentThis article explores the history of mummy unwrappings in the West, culminating in Margaret Murray's public unrolling of two mummies in Manchester in 1908. Mummy unwrappings as a practice have shifted often between public spectacles which displayed and objectified exotic artifacts, and scientific investigations which sought to reveal medical and historical information about ancient life. Although others have looked at Murray's work in the…
Flinders Petrie and Eugenics at UCL
William Matthew Flinders Petrie is considered the father of scientific archaeology and is credited with developing a chronology of Ancient Egypt using the nondescript artefacts that other archaeologists had ignored. He occupied the first chair of Egyptology in England, and was also well-known for the museum built around his personal collection of Egyptian artifacts at University College London. Petrie's archaeological work has been studied by sch…
Flinders Petrie and Eugenics at UCL
William Matthew Flinders Petrie is considered the father of scientific archaeology and is credited with developing a chronology of Ancient Egypt using the nondescript artefacts that other archaeologists had ignored. He occupied the first chair of Egyptology in England, and was also well-known for the museum built around his personal collection of Egyptian artifacts at University College London. Petrie's archaeological work has been studied by sch…
Between Spectacle and Science
ArgumentThis article explores the history of mummy unwrappings in the West, culminating in Margaret Murray's public unrolling of two mummies in Manchester in 1908. Mummy unwrappings as a practice have shifted often between public spectacles which displayed and objectified exotic artifacts, and scientific investigations which sought to reveal medical and historical information about ancient life. Although others have looked at Murray's work in the…
Flinders Petrie and Eugenics at UCL
William Matthew Flinders Petrie is considered the father of scientific archaeology and is credited with developing a chronology of Ancient Egypt using the nondescript artefacts that other archaeologists had ignored. He occupied the first chair of Egyptology in England, and was also well-known for the museum built around his personal collection of Egyptian artifacts at University College London. Petrie's archaeological work has been studied by sch…
Between Spectacle and Science
ArgumentThis article explores the history of mummy unwrappings in the West, culminating in Margaret Murray's public unrolling of two mummies in Manchester in 1908. Mummy unwrappings as a practice have shifted often between public spectacles which displayed and objectified exotic artifacts, and scientific investigations which sought to reveal medical and historical information about ancient life. Although others have looked at Murray's work in the…
Life of Margaret Alice Murray
Life of Margaret Alice Murray
The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology is the first book-length biography of Margaret Alice Murray (1863–1963), one of the first women to practice archeology. Despite Murray’s numerous professional successes, her career has received little attention because she has been overshadowed by her mentor, Sir Flinders Petrie. This oversight has obscured the significance of her career including her fieldwork, the students she tra…
Women in Archaeology
E ric H. C line . Digging Up Armageddon
Archaeology is done on site by people who very often have complex stories to tell. As they come together to work in close and isolated confines—sometimes for months and years on end—there will inevitably be personal and professional conflict. But they will also uncover wonderful finds that help fill in the blanks and answer questions about the histories of sites that have long drawn public interest. In Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lo…
HSS Virtual Forum
Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop
This research article is a collaborative set of reflections and provocations stemming from the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded workshop on STS as a Critical Pedagogy, hosted online during the summer of 2021 by Shannon N. Conley and Emily York at James Madison University. The workshop occurred over four separate sessions, bringing together forty participants (including six undergraduate students who contributed as both facilitators and re…
Victorian Alchemy
History (7 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Excavation (2 works)