2014 Candidates for CAA Vice-President

Adrian L. Burke

I have been teaching archaeology in the Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal, since 2003. I have also co-owned and run a CRM company, and I regularly collaborate with private CRM firms, municipalities, museums and First Nations. I have been a member of the CAA since 1992 CE, and I was associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Archaeology from 2002 to 2007. I helped organize the 2012 annual conference. I work primarily on the prehistory of northeastern North America, and specifically on lithic technology, quarries and geochemical sourcing of raw materials. I wish to be the vice-president of the CAA because I sincerely believe that having a national organization that represents archaeologists from coast to coast to coast is still relevant in 2014. Our CAA should be the lead organization in Canada in terms of organizing a concerted and sustained effort for promoting archaeology and protecting our past. I am prepared to lobby the federal and provincial governments, as well as industry organizations, to live up to their legal responsibilities regarding the protection of our collective heritage. I also hope to strengthen the relationship between the CAA and the provincial archaeological associations and government archaeologists. The CAA needs to continue to encourage student membership by maintaining student member and conference rates low and to increase the participation of historically underrepresented groups by increasing the awards (fieldwork, travel/conference, bursary) available to young archaeologists.


Jennifer L. Campbell

Trained and raised in Canada (BA, MA Memorial University, PhD The University of Toronto) I am presently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Potsdam as-well-as a research fellow of Trent University’s Archaeological Research Centre and the Archaeology Centre at the University of Toronto. I presently live in Brockville, Ontario. I co-direct the Caravanserai Networks Project and conduct fieldwork on the transits systems of the Mughal Empire (Northern South Asia, 16th-18th centuries C.E.). I am an architecture specialist who uses digital and three-dimensional media to explore memory formation and identity negotiation at heritage sites. My MA focused on contact period Huron sites from the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario.

A member of the CAA since 2002, I am presently chair of the Heritage and Legislation Policy Committee. As Vice-President I would focus my efforts in three complimentary areas. First; fostering student engagement with(in) the CAA. Students represent the future of our organization and I believe we can offer more programming for students at all levels. Second; building our relationships with provincial organizations, archaeological societies, professional organizations, etc. Given the present political climate it is clear that the CAA must work with other bodies to unify our voice as we lobby for archaeology (locally, nationally, and internationally). Third, increasing public outreach and reconnecting our association with the public that supports our work. These three engagement initiatives when taken together will unify, strengthen, and build our organization.


Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown

An article in Archaeology Magazine led me to the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary, where I completed my undergraduate degree in 2003. I then ventured to the Institute of Archaeology, University College London to pursue an M.A. in Artefact Studies, completing a thesis on ceramic manufacture in pre-Columbian Honduras (2004). Finally, after taking a year off to work in a chocolate shop, I decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of Calgary, focused on pre-Columbian urbanism. While at school, I also worked on and off in CRM. Just prior to and since completing my degree in February 2013, I have held a series of teaching positions at University of Calgary, Lakehead University, Brandon University, and McMaster University. While at each location, I have learned much about local archaeology and have met a number of amazing scholars (professional and avocational) interested in the archaeological past of Canada.

I have been a member of the CAA since 2008, and have presented research at a number of the annual meetings and published in the CJA. I have also served as Chair of the Public Communication Awards committee since September 2012.  If elected Vice President I will work to reconcile the many potential members with the association, its goals and activities. I look forward to the opportunity to work alongside the President to promote the interests of our association, including academic/professional integrity and political advocacy, and the future of the archaeological past.