Dr. Jakob Crockett presented the First Friday Lunch and Lecture November 2, Community Memory: The manufacturing of history. He works as an archeologist for Hot Springs National Park. His interests include mostly urban archeology, late 19th to 20th-century artifacts and object philosophy. Crockett is interested in questions such as the relation between culture and technology, whether objects have agency, and how history is produced.
While in Columbia, South Carolina, Dr. Crockett created the Columbia archaeology program. This program delved into the site history of the Mann-Simons property, which was owned by the same African-American family from 1843 to 1970. Crockett believes that we “connect with each other through place.”
