CURRICULUM VITAE
Diana S. Gallagher, Doctoral Candidate
dsgall@mit.edu Work
dsgall@bu.edu
School
Degrees Earned
M.A.- Historical Archaeology, University of Massachusetts Boston 2006
Thesis research supported by a grant from Newport Historical Society.
Thesis: An Archaeobotanical and Archaeoparasitological Analysis
of the Widow Pratt Privy, Newport RI.
Special Graduate Student- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005
Introduction to the History of Technology
M.A.- Classics, Tufts University 1988
Partial Fellowship
Thesis: Women in Herodotus.
B.A.- Anthropology, Summa cum laude, University of Massachusetts Boston 2003
Awarded Prize for Academic Distinction in Anthropology 2003.
B.A.- Latin, Mount Holyoke College 1983
Degrees in progress
PhD- Historical Archaeology, Boston University
Atlantic World and New England Archaeology
Archaeoparasitology- Set up archaeoparasitology lab at BU.
M.S.- Entomology, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Archaeoentomology, medical, and forensic entomology.
Presentations
Archaeoparasitology and Embodiment: Health, Illness and Lived Experience.
Paper presented at “Bodies in Motion” an interdisciplinary conference
At the University of Rhode Island. March 28th, 2009.
Merchants and Manners: Archaeoparasitology in 18th-Century Newport, RI.
Paper presented at the 14th Omohundro Conference on Early
American History, Suffolk University. June, 2008
Privy Archaeology
MIT- Independent Activities Period- January 2008
The Privy and the Worm: parasites, health and sanitation.
Paper presented at the Eastern States Archaeological Federation
73rd Annual Meeting, Fitchburg, MA. November 2006
Posters
“an Excellent Cure for Worms”: Parasites and Living Conditions in the New World.
Presented in absentia at the 2009 Graduate Archaeology at Oxford
Conference “Conditions through Time and Space.” Oxford University,
March 2009.
Parasite Eggs and Pollen Grains: Environmental Archaeology and its use on Historic
Sites.
Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Boston MA, February 2008
Archaeoparasitology in the Northeastern United States.
Presented at the 36th International Symposium on
Archaeometry, Quebec QC, May 2006.
Publications
Gallagher, Diana
“Parasites and Sanitation in Eighteenth-Century Newport, Rhode Island:
The Pratt Brown and Tate Families.” Early American Studies. Elaine
Forman Crane, ed. University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia. 2010.
Gallagher, Diana, Susan Jacobucci and Heather Trigg
“Archaeoparasitology of the 44 Joy Street Privy.” In Investigating the
Heart of the Community: Archaeological Investigations at the African
Meeting House, Boston Massachusetts. Ed. David B. Landon.
An Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeology Research Cultural
Resource Management Study, No. 22. University of Massachusetts
Boston, Boston Massachusetts. 2008
Trigg, Heather and Diana Gallagher “Macrobotanical Analysis of Features at the Saugus
Iron Works Site” in Report on the Saugus Iron Works.
National Park Service 2004.
Analyses
Chase House Privy, Portsmouth NH- parasitological analysis in process
Padelford Privy, Boston MA- parasitological analysis
71 Joy Street Privy, Boston MA- parasitological analysis
African Meeting House Site, Boston MA- parasitological analysis
American Glassworks Site, Boston MA- parasitological analysis
Mill Creek Site, Boston MA- parasitological analysis
Widow Pratt Privy, Newport RI- macrobotanical and parasitological analyses
Saugus Iron Works, Saugus MA- macrobotanical analysis
Teaching Experience
Guest lecturer- Parasites on Archaeological Sites.
The Archaeology of Colonial Boston, Summer 2008, Summer 2009,
Summer 2011.
Taught by Dr. Mary Beaudry, Boston University
Teaching Assistant- University of Massachusetts Boston 2005
Human Osteology and Forensic Anthropology
(for credit, unpaid)
Teaching Assistant- Tufts University, 1987
Greek and Roman Comedy
Work Experience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
Graduate Administrator’s Assistant/ Placement Assistant/
Personnel Assistant
August 2005- Present
Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston MA
Technical Services Division Coordinator
January 2004- June 2006
Dalbar, Inc., Boston MA
Customer Service Analyst
February 2001- June 2003
John Hancock Signature Services, Charlestown MA
Licensing Technician, Proprietary Products
February 2000- February 2001
Scudder Kemper Investments, Norwell MA
Prospect Inquiry Representative
1998- February 2000
Historic New England (then SPNEA)
Interpreter, Harrison Grey Otis House, Boston MA
Interpreter, Codman House, Lincoln MA
Head Interpreter, Josiah Quincy House, Quincy MA
1995-1997
Associations
Elected
Sigma Xi- Associate member
Lambda Alpha- Anthropology Honor Society, UMass Boston Chapter
Joined
Society for Historical Archaeology
The Paleopathology Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Society for Archaeological Sciences