Sarah Surface-Evans Editor

Sarah Surface-Evans is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Central Michigan University. Her community-based archaeological research investigates cultural landscapes in the Great Lakes region. Her recent publication “A Landscape of Assimilation and Resistance: The Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School” (2016) in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology examines the gendered and powered components of institutional design at Federal Indian Boarding Schools. This ongoing research was recognized for a Michigan Governor's Award for Historic Preservation in 2016. She has a forthcoming publication that utilizes “haunting” as a way conceptualize the trauma of colonial landscapes.