Professor, Geography, ISAT and CISE Director of Inclusive Excellence
nashcl@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
- Ph.D. Anthropology (Archaeology), Catholic University of America
- M.A. Applied Philosophy, Bowling Green State University
- B.S. with Honors, James Madison University
Scholarly Interests/Research Topics
- Middle Atlantic Archaeology
- Long-Term Climate Change and Impacts on Human Community
- Sustainability and Indigenous Peoples
- Resilience Theory and Systems Maintenance/Change
- Science and the Public
Experience
- 40 years cultural resource management (National Park Service, National Forest Service, State of Virginia)
- Co-Chair, Society for American Archaeology Committee on Climate Change and Archaeological Resource Strategies
- President, Mountain Valley Archaeology
Selected Publications
- 2024 "Citizen Science Takes Archaeology Out of the Tower and Into the Trenches," In the Trenches 14 (3): 12-16.
- 2023 (with Cochran et al) “Building a Foundation to Unify the Language of Climate Change in Historical Archaeology,” Historical Archaeology 57 (2): 473-488.
- 2022 (with M. Barber) “Arriving Here: First Settlers of the Shenandoah Valley,” Silver Lake: 200 Years of a Shenandoah Valley Mill and Community, ed. C. Lyons, pp. 20-25. (Rocktown History)
- 2022 (with H. Wholey and D. Nichols) “From the President: Committee on Climate Change Strategies and Archaeological Resources,” The SAA Archaeological Record, 22 (1): 3.
- 2021a The Visibility of Sound: Acoustic Archaeology in the Virginia Blue Ridge. North American Archaeologist 43 (2): 103-123.
- 2021b The View from Rockshelters: Finding the Intangible in Landscapes. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 37: 109-124. 2021c Caching Quartzite: Lithic Foraging and Focused Mobility in the Virginia Blue Ridge. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 76 (2): 39-50.
- 2020 Middle Woodland Research in Virginia: A Review of Post-1990 Studies in The History of Virginia’s First Peoples, ed. Elizabeth Moore, pp. 123-160. Archeological Society of Virginia Special Publication.
- 2019 Climate Change Impacts on Archaeological Sites of the Middle Atlantic Uplands (U.S.). Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 74 (3): 107-120.
- 2018a Foundations of Middle Atlantic Prehistory, ed. H. Wholey and C. Nash, Alta Mira Press.
- 2018b (with Heather Wholey) Prioritizing Heritage Resources in a Time of Loss: Sea Level Rise and Archaeological Sites in the Middle Atlantic, U.S. in Burning Libraries Special Issue of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 20 (4): 285-295.
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