Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman

Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. Dr. Pavão-Zuckerman is an historical archaeologist and zooarchaeologist interested in human-environment interactions and foodways within enslaved communities. She also publishes on Native American entanglements with European settler colonialism. Dr. Pavão-Zuckermanis the zooarchaeologist for James Madison’s Montpelier and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. She serves on the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Anti-Black Racism Initiative, and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Expanding the DAACS (Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery) Research Consortium. In 2017, Dr. Pavão-Zuckerman was awarded the Diversity Field School Award by the Gender and Minority Affairs Committee of the Society for Historical Archaeology.