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Theresa A. Singleton is an archaeologist and writer who focuses on the archaeology of African Americans and slavery in the United States. Singleton has been involved in the excavation of slave residences in the southern United States.
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Biography
Singleton became the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in historical archaeology and African American history and culture in 1980 from the University of Florida. In 1991, she was working as an associate curator of historical archaeology for the Smithsonian Institution. Singleton and Elizabeth Scott created the Gender and Minority Affairs Committee in the Society for Historical Archaeology. Singleton has also worked as a professor of anthropology at Syracuse University. In 2014, she was awarded the J.C. Harrington Award, and became the first African American to earn the award.
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The Journal of American History called The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life (1985), edited by Singleton, "a notably coherent group of papers that allow historians to look in new and stimulating directions to analyze the past." Singleton also edited I, Too, Am American: Archaeological Studies of African American Life (1999) which tells "the story of anonymous black Americans, forgotten in written records."