Meet Jodi Barnes
(Image courtesy of Climate Central 2016).
Dr. Jodi A. Barnes is a Heritage Trust Archaeologist with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR). She has a B.A. in Anthropology and a Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies from the University of South Carolina, and she earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from American University in Washington, DC. Previously, Barnes worked for the SC State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Arkansas’s Arkansas Archeological Survey. Her current research focuses on the archeology of the African diaspora in the Santee Delta, and the impacts of climate change on those sites with an emphasis on the Yawkey Wildlife Center,
a 24,000-acre Heritage Preserve at the mouth of Winyah Bay and the North Santee River. She has published her research findings in the American Anthropologist, Historical Archaeology, and Southeastern Archaeology, and she is the editor of The Materiality of Freedom (2011) and co-editor of Managing Cultural Resources: Global Context, National Programs, Local Actions (2008). For this project, Barnes is involved in the archaeological and climate change research. She is assisting with the curation of the archaeological collection into the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) so that they will be comparable with collections from other SCDNR properties and helping with archaeological permitting on SCDNR lands.
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