Justine Shapiro, Host Justine Shapiro Is an Academy Award-Nominated
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Justine Shapiro, Host Justine Shapiro is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and television host. Born in South Africa, Justine grew up in Berkeley, California and graduated Magna Cum Laude in History and Theater, with honors, from Tufts University. While studying documentary filmmaking in the San Francisco Bay Area, Justine was fortunate to land a job hosting a brand new travel show called GlobeTrekker. Now in it’s 20th year, the show is broadcast around the world and on PBS. As host of GlobeTrekker Justine has traveled to over 40 countries, interviewing hundreds of locals from all walks of life. In 1996, Justine and BZ Goldberg founded PROMISES FILMS. Their first project took them to Israel and Palestine where they filmed seven Palestinian and Israeli children over five years. In 2002, their film Promises was nominated for an Academy Award and won two Emmy Awards. Most recently PROMISES FILMS produced Our Summer In Tehran, which follows Justine and her six-year old son to Tehran as they spend the summer with three Iranian families. The film was broadcast on public television in spring 2011. Margaret “Meg” Watters, Ph.D., Remote Sensing and Visualization Specialist Meg Watters specializes in using 3D visualization to bring a new perspective to non-invasive modeling and analysis of archaeological sites. Her fundamental work has been mapping archaeological sites through geophysical survey methods that include magnetometry, resistance, conductivity and ground- penetrating radar surveys. Her current research involves integrating geophysical data with other types of spatial data in order to seamlessly combine 3D subsurface features, excavation data, and existing environment data. While most of Meg’s work is with these types of applications in archaeology, she has had a great time working with different television programs to get people, especially children, excited about the different scientific methods and technologies that we use in archaeology. Joe Watkins, Ph.D., Director, Native American Studies Program, University of Oklahoma Joe Watkins has been involved in archaeology for more than four decades. He received his B.A. from the University of Oklahoma, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University. He is currently the director of the Native American Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, where he continues to publish extensively on his research interests and present to public and professional audiences extensively worldwide. His book Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice (2000) is a seminal work in Indigenous Archaeology. Most recently, Joe co-authored The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide: From Student to a Career (Left Coast Press, 2011). He is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. 1 Chelsea Rose, M.A., Archaeologist and Adjunct Faculty Member, Southern Oregon University Chelsea is a staff archaeologist and an adjunct faculty member at Southern Oregon University. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon, and her M.A. from Sonoma State University. Chelsea was a member of Time Team America’s first season, and continues to be actively involved in public outreach through regional and local media. Her research interests focus on the early settlement and development of the American west, and she involves student and community members in her examination of archaeological sites across the Pacific Northwest. Chelsea’s recent work has included sites such as the Jacksonville Chinese Quarters, the homestead of frontier photographer Peter Britt, the native Hawaiian mining camp of Kanaka Flat and the Historic Applegate Trail. Allan Maca, Ph.D., Archaeologist Allan Maca is an archaeologist trained in anthropology. For the last 15 years he has conducted field and laboratory work at the ancient Maya city of Copan in Honduras, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University and has taught archaeology, anthropology, and Native American Studies at Colgate and Columbia universities. Allan’s areas of scholarly interest include Amerindian religion and cosmology, ritual plants of the Americas, ceramics, and the history of American archaeology. His recent work in Copan is the first archaeological project in the valley's history to engage a local indigenous community in protracted discussions regarding heritage conservation and the protection of ruins in, on, and around their homes. This has dovetailed with a project he leads in the local town to develop an NGO dedicated to public archaeology, ethnography of archaeology and studies of public health as a response to archaeo-tourism. Allan has been featured in documentaries produced for LucasFilm and the History Channel. He was raised in New York City and is fluent in Spanish. Jeff Brown, Excavator Born in the City of Brotherly Love and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Jeff Brown now resides as a tribal member on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in King William, VA. With treaties reaching back to 1646 and 1677, the Pamunkey is the oldest reservation in America. Jeff, a tribal councilman, entered into archaeology to help protect his tribe against a reservoir projected to be built on old tribal land. He was "bit hard by the archaeology bug," and has since assisted the College of William and Mary with three field schools at Werowacomoco, the native stronghold where Captain John Smith was brought as a captive to Chief Powhatan. Jeff has also worked CRM with Geo-Marine, CRI, Data Investigations, Lost Colony Foundation, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and public archaeology, which Jeff loves. He is a proficient shoveler, troweler and screener, never tiring of finding ancient artifacts. When not on an archaeological dig, Jeff spends his time fishing drift nets, pulling in crab pots, enjoying a good pub, or taking in beautiful sunsets on the Pamunkey River. 2 .