Director of Research and Collections, Historic St. Mary's City
Biography
Dr. Travis Parno is the Director of Research and Collections at Historic St. Mary’s City and Project Director of the People to People Project. He has over 18 years of experience excavating and researching historic sites in Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Bermuda. In addition to overseeing the Department of Research and Collections, Travis runs Historic St. Mary’s City’s annual Field School in Historical Archaeology, the country’s longest-running program of its kind. He received a B.A. in Anthropology from the College of William & Mary, a M.A. in Historical Archaeology at the University of Bristol, and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Boston University.
Travis’ primary research interests include early native-colonial relations in the English Atlantic world, the social and legal origins of slavery in Maryland, the functions of ordinaries in the 17th-century Chesapeake, and the role of archaeology in museums. Travis is the author and editor of various publications detailing his research and he has presented numerous papers at academic conferences beginning in 2007.