I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Smith College and I am on the Faculty Advisory Committees for Latin American & Latino/a Studies (LAS), the Archaeology Minor (ARC), and the Museums Concentration (MUX). During my first decade at Smith, I had a Five College faculty appointment, which means that I taught one course every fall at Mount Holyoke College and one every spring at Amherst College. There is a vibrant community of archaeologists in the Five Colleges– check out the U Mass Amherst Anthropology website– and a chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America in Western Massachusetts, which hosts a number of speakers throughout the academic year.
In terms of courses, each fall I teach Introduction to Archaeology at Smith College and I offer some variety of the following courses throughout the school year: Archaeology of Food; Collecting the Past: Art and Artifacts of the Ancient Americas; Archaeological Method, Theory & Practice; Museum Anthropology & South American Archaeology. Please contact me if you would like a copy of a syllabus or have questions or comments about the course content. I have also taught an undergraduate and graduate-level archaeological field school at Pukara, Peru (2009 & 2010) and look forward to taking students to the field again in the upcoming years.
Lastly, students interested in pursuing archaeology as a career should contact professional archaeologists in colleges and universities, museums and other cultural institutions, cultural resource management firms (CRM), and government agencies with questions. These professionals can share advice about what types of employment are possible with a BA, MA or PhD and ways to be prepared for those opportunities. I recommend some resources to explore before reaching out with questions.