3/27/2019: Mark Kostro on Facbeook: This summer I will teach my 10th and final Colonial Williamsburg/ William & Mary archaeological field school. After that, I am excited to announce, I will begin my new job as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Longwood University. Longwood Archaeology — March 27, 2019: We are incredibly pleased to announce that this fall Dr. Mark Kostro will be joining the Longwood Anthropology & Archaeology faculty as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology and the Executive Director of the Dr. James W. Jordan Archaeology Field School. Dr. Kostro is currently the Senior Staff Archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg. For the past two decades Mark has developed an extensive research presence in the Chesapeake and Caribbean. At Colonial Williamsburg his work has been focused on the interplay of material culture, architecture, and documentary sources as a way to tell more enriched and relevant stories about the past. In addition to his work at Colonial Williamsburg, Mark has taught as an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary and Christopher Newport University. For the past nine years he has led the Colonial Williamsburg / William & Mary Joint Field School. Dr. Kostro earned his B.A. from Rutgers University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the College of William & Mary. Mark’s doctoral dissertation, entitled “On the Margin’s Empire: the archaeology and history of Guana Island, British Virgin Islands”, focused on the study of the BVI’s early eighteenth-century settlement by poor and middling English cotton farmers and fisherman, and the subsequent transition of the local economy to sugar cultivation reliant on massive imports of enslaved Africans as plantation laborers. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Mark’s down-to-earth approach and affable personality make him well-suited to the kind of student engagement for which our program is so well-known. Beyond that, he’s just a heck of a nice guy. We are excited to welcome him to the department later this year.