Hofstra University Center for Public Archaeology

The Center for Public Archaeology at Hofstra University is devoted to engaging students and the greater community in thinking critically about modern social contexts and the historical and material structures that helped shape them. By creating continuity and context through the analysis of materials operating at various scales of time, place, events, and roles, archaeology informs not only an understanding of the beginnings of today's communities, but also how people both in the past and today negotiate communities across class, racial, ethnic, and gendered lines.