Dr. Julie Ernstein
Dr. Julie H. Ernstein
Ph.D., Archaeology (Boston University)
M.A., Archaeology (Boston University)
B.A., Anthropology (University of Maryland, College Park)
Areas of Specialized Competence: Dr. Ernstein’s research, teaching, publication, and advocacy integrate above-and below-ground archaeology, heritage interpretation, interpretive planning, historical and oral historical investigation of landscapes, historic sites, communities, and the complex relationships between past and present. In addition to her formal training as an anthropologist and archaeologist, Dr. Ernstein has undertaken several certifications from the National Association for Interpretation in the areas of heritage interpretation and interpretive planning. Recent work includes the nomination of an early 20th-century Virginia Indian School to the National Register of Historic Places, an overview and assessment of materials documenting traditional associations between Civil War reenactors in a NPS park unit, an ongoing survey of several mid-century suburban communities in the Baltimore-Washington area to explore how knowledge, spaces and objects from the past are strategically deployed to negotiate identity on several levels (e.g., personal, family, community, and national), and interpretive planning at an abandoned 19th-century silver mining town in Idaho and at the Kate Chopin/Bayou Folk Museum in Cloutierville, LA.
Publications: Dr. Ernstein is currently completing revisions for publication of a book titled Constructing Context: Historical Archaeology and the Pleasure Gardens of Prince George’s County, Maryland, 1740-1790 (University of Tennessee Press, forthcoming), and her other publications include: (1) Nails in The Encyclopedia of the History of Invention and Technology (2009), (2) with Lu Ann DeCunzo, Historical Landscapes, Ideology, and Experience. In Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry, eds. Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2006), pp. 255-279; (3) with Anthea M. Hartig and Luis G. Hoyos, Setting the Bar: The Pros and Cons of Holding the Recent Past to a Higher Standard. Preservation Forum (September 2005), pp. 23-29; (4) Landscape Archaeology and the Recent Past: A View from Bowie, Maryland. In Deborah Slaton and William G. Foulks, eds. Preserving the Recent Past II. Washington, DC: Preservation Education Foundation, National Park Service, and Association for Preservation International (2000), pp. 2-97 to 21-103; (5) Shifting Land Use, Shifting Values, and the Reinvention of Annapolis. In Paul A. Shackel, Paul R. Mullins, and Mark S. Warner, eds. Annapolis Pasts: Historical Archaeology in Annapolis, Maryland. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press (1988), pp. 147-168; as well as numerous book reviews, exhibit reviews and cultural resource management documents.
Professional Service: Dr. Ernstein serves on the Maryland State Review Board for the National Register of Historic Places, on the editorial advisory board for the journal Heritage Management, on the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Society for American Archaeology, on the Landscape Advisory Panel at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, as an officer and board member of the Recent Past Preservation Network, and regularly provides manuscript review and grant review assistance to journals and the SHPO offices in Maryland and Louisiana.
Professional Memberships: Dr. Ernstein is a member, officer, and/or board member of several local, state, regional, national, and international organizations, including: the Association for the Preservation of Historic Natchitoches, the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, the Louisiana Archeological Society, the Louisiana Center for Women in Government, the Louisiana Folklore Society, the Natchitoches Historic Foundation, the National Association for Interpretation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Recent Past Preservation Network, Saving Antiquities for Everyone, the Society for American Archaeology, the Society for Historical Archaeology, the Society for Industrial Archeology, the Southeast Archaeological Conference, US/ICOMOS, and the World Archaeological Congress.