The Center's Staff

Dr. Douglas Sanford, the Director of the Center for Historic Preservation, also serves as the Center’s Director of Archaeological Programs. Dr. Sanford is a professional historical archaeologist who oversees all Center programs and Cultural Resource Management projects. He is responsible for contract negotiation, budgeting, research design, oversight of staff and facilities, and consulting with the Principal Investigator and Center staff concerning proposed activities and their timely performance. He also manages the Center's archaeological laboratory. Dr. Sanford has over twenty years of experience in Virginia archaeology, and presently conducts research at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia. His research interests include the archaeology of plantation slavery, the study of early industrial development in the Middle Atlantic region, the study of historic landscapes and archaeology in Virginia, and Cultural Resource Management.

(540)654-1314
email: dsanford@umw.edu

Dr. Michael J. Klein, the Center’s Principal Investigator, specializes in the prehistory of Eastern North America. As the Center's Principal Investigator, Dr. Klein manages and supervises the Center's Cultural Resource Management projects and is responsible for the direction of staff and resources during field and laboratory stages. Dr. Klein is also serves as the principle author for the progress, draft, and final reports associated with a given project. He has over twelve years of experience in writing and implementing Cultural Resource Management research designs, and he has directed numerous archaeological surveys and excavations on prehistoric and historic sites throughout Virginia. His own research focuses on the study of prehistoric settlement patterns, the creation of predictive models, the analysis of prehistoric ceramics and lithics, and the use of quantitative methods to study the prehistory of Eastern North America.

(540)654-1371
email: mklein@umw.edu

Although the Center for Historic Preservation is a small group of very talented people, it is mainly involved in field studies. They do share in the responsibility of teaching students with the faculty of the Department of Historic Preservation.