Grant Recipients

Congratulations to Rachael Lanning, the 2026 Recipient of the Don Rosick Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid Award!

YearRecipientResearch Project
2026Rachael LanningArchaeological wayside signage at Sesquicentennial State Park
2025Elena VoriesSubsurface Anomalies at Green’s Shell Enclosure, Beaufort County
2024Emily SykoraIndigenous Collaboration and a Zooarchaeological Analysis of Platform Mound Features at a Mississippian Mound Town, 38KE12, Kershaw County, South Carolina.
2023Nina Schreiner
2022Jessica Cooper
2022Angelina Towery-TomasuraCemetery Landscapes of Daufuskie Island
2022Derrick MaurerArchaeology of Sex Work in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Charleston, SC
2022Hannah Hoover
2022Emily Schwalbe
2019John DodgeAnalysis of Structure V1 and associated artifacts from Mulberry Plantation Mound Site (38KE12)
2018Brandy Joy
2013Cameron Howell
2013Christopher Young
2013Rebecca Shepherd
2013Eva Falls
2012Walter Clifford
2012Patrick Morgan
2012Kimberly Wescott
2012Kevin Fogle
2012Katherine Goldberg
2011Kimberly Pyszka
2011James StewartFort Congaree Artifact Analysis
2011Brooke Kenline
2011Lisa Randle
2010James NymanThe Ashley Series as Native American Persistence: Lowcountry Indians in the Period of European Expansion
2010Brooke BrilliantColonoware, Creolization, and Interactions between African Americans and Native Americans during the Colonial Period in the South Carolina Lowcountry
2008Chris ThornockGeomorphologic and Underwater Investigations at the Mason’s Plantation
Mound Site on the Middle Savannah River
2008Helena FergusonReconnecting the Physical and Cultural Landscapes of the Hampton-Preston Mansion in Columbia, South Carolina
2007Jared M. WoodMississippi Chiefdom Organization: A Case Study from the Savannah River Site
2006Aaron BrummittThe Sleepy Hollow Phase: Mississippian Emergence in the Middle Savannah Valley
2005Emily DaleThe Red Lake Site (9SN4): A Middle Mississippian Mound Town in the Central Savannah River Valley
2005Joseph SamolisPublic Engagement at the Seibels House: Applied Archaeological Methodologies and Techniques in Columbia, South Carolina
2005Heather BartleyGeomorphology and Site Formation Processes of the Belmont Neck Site (38KE06) in the Wateree Valley, SC
2004Kara Bridgman-SweeneyVariation in Early Archaic Material Culture across the Lower Southeast
2003Nicole IsenbargerPhytolith Analysis of Coloware from Charleston, South Carolina
2003Michael NelsonSeasonality and Residential Population at the 14th-Century Lawton Mound Site
2002Andrew AghaSearching for Cabins, Searching for Places: Locating the Living Areas at the James Stobo Plantation, Willtown Bluff, Charleston County, South Carolina
2002Katrina S. EppsIntra-Regional Interaction in the Lowcountry of South Carolina
2002Alexander Y. SweeneyInvestigating Yamasee Identity: Archaeological Research at Pocotaligo
2001Rebecca BarreraThe Impact of Archaeological Method and Theory: Intra-site Comparisons of Sixteenth-Century Spanish Santa Elena and St Augustine
2001Jamie CivitelloAnthropogenic Landscapes at Spratt?s Bottom (38YK3), South Carolina
2000Thomas I. McIntoshDiachronic Variation in Late Archaic Lithic Technology at the Big Pine Tree Site, Allendale County, South Carolina
1999Kerri S. BarileCauses and Creations: Exploring the Relationship between Nineteenth-Century Slave Insurrections, Landscape and Architecture at Middleburg Plantation, BerkeleyA Lodge of Their Own: A Look at Vessel Function at a Possible Cofitachequi Women?s Lodge County, South Carolina
1999J. Michelle SchohnA Lodge of Their Own: A Look at Vessel Function at a Possible Cofitachequi Women?s Lodge
1999Christopher R. MooreA Technological Analysis of the Early Archaic Debitage from G.S. Lewis-East (38AK228), South Carolina
1997Kristin J. WilsonBiocultural Investigation of Late Archaic Stallings Culture.
1996Susan D. BallPhase One Colonization: The Process of Reduction
1996A. Eric HowardAn Intrasite Spatial Analysis of Surface Collections at Chattooga (38OC18): A Lower Town Cherokee Village
1996J. Christopher ReedThe Holladay Site: Bioarchaeological Analysis of an Ossuary in Horry County, South Carolina
1996M. Beth Sain
1995Myles BlandLate Archaic Plant Use at the Big Pine Tree Site (38AL143), Allendale County, South Carolina
1995Kerry L. OgataAfrican-American Women and Medicine: Expanding Interpretations of Colono Ware
1995Scott G. SuttonSymbolism and Archaeological Interpretation: A Case Study of Late Woodland Ceramics from the South Carolina Coast
1994Monica L. BeckServant to Chattel: African-American Slaves and Their Masters on an Upcountry Plantation
1994Phillip J. CarrHunter-Gatherers, Mobility, and Technological Organization: The Early Archaic of East Tennessee
1994Amy L. YoungRisk and Material Conditions of African-American Slaves at Locust Grove: An Archaeological Perspective
1993Elizabeth L. CollinsElements of Childbirth and Infant Care among Native Americans of the Southeast
1993Ellen ShlaskoCarolina Gold: Economic and Social Change on a South Carolina Rice Plantation, 1760-1820
1992Patti L. ByraThe Contextual Meaning of the 1830s Landscape at Middleburg Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina