Dr Peggy Brunache's visits
July 2024 Research visit
The July 2024 research trip (July 15-20) will include participation from:
Elizabeth Hinds
Elizabeth is the Senior Tour Guide for the Barbados Museum & Historical Society. Her position means that she interacts quite heavily with the public with whom she enjoys relating/relaying many aspects of the history, culture and heritage of Barbados. Her role not only allows her to educate and reintegrate these histories to Barbadians at the local level, but she is also able to share these histories to many who make up the Caribbean Diaspora as well as those who come from many different cultures.
She holds a Bachelor’s in History from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and was a recipient of the Canada-CARICOM Leadership Scholarship 2015. She is hoping to pursue her Masters in Museum Anthropology. She currently holds the position of the Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC) Student and Internship Coordinator and is a floor member for ICOM Barbados.
Her research interests include but are not limited to: furthering archaeology as a practice within Barbados; the expansion and further exploration of Barbadian histories; the expansion of archaeological research in urban areas in Barbados both during slavery and after emancipation; preservation an further examination of physical artifacts at the Barbados Museum & Historical Society.
Lisa Smalls
Lisa Small is a PhD student at the University of Toronto where she continues to expand her research in the Departments of Anthropology and Diaspora/Transnational studies exploring Black diaspora archaeology and heritage in Canada (Ontario) and parts of the Caribbean. Her research interests include looking at the materiality and spatiality of Black lived life to better understand the migration; resistance; geography and making of place of people of Black, African, and Caribbean descent.
Additionally, Lisa is committed to justice-based and community-centered research as a means to engage more critically in understanding the structures, processes and practices around how we recover, protect, manage, represent, narrate, and care for material culture, landscapes, and stories connected to Black and Caribbean Diasporas in the Western world.