Curriculum Vitae

MIRANDA YANCEY-BAILEY

American Bottom Field Station Illinois State Archaeological Survey formerly the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program 1510 N. 89th Street, Fairview Heights, Illinois 62208 [email protected] (618) 394-0221

Education: University of Illinois, Springfield Illinois M.S. in Computer Science, anticipated August 2017

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois M.S. in Geography, August 2007.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois B.A. in Anthropology, May 2005.

Academic Honors and Scholarships:

Noble R. Thompson III Student Award in Geography, 2007 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Competitive Graduate Award, 2005 – 2006 Fred Voget Award in History and Theory of Anthropology, 2005 Mary Warren Bagley Rekas Memorial Scholarship Award, 2005 Susan York Memorial Award in Geography, 2005 The Bank of Edwardsville Award in Anthropology, 2004

Teaching Experience:

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Course: Introduction to GIS. Under the supervision of Dr. Shunfu Hu. August 2006 – May 2007.

Archaeological Employment:

Archaeological GIS Specialist, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Wood River, Illinois. August 2009 – present.

Lithic analyst/site supervisor, Gateway Archaeology, Saint Charles, Missouri. Occasional weekend work December 2009 – 2011.

Archaeological assistant, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Wood River, Illinois. May 2007 – August 2009.

Archaeological assistant, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Wood River, Illinois. June – November 2003.

Articles and Contributions

2014 (Miranda L. Yancey-Bailey and Joseph Galloy) Underground Railroad and America’s First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois. Illinois Antiquity 49(3): 10-11.

2011 (Miranda L Yancey and Brad Koldehoff) Rolling Icons: Engraved Cahokia-style Chunkey Stones. Illinois Archaeology 22(2): 491-501.

2010 (Joseph M. Galloy and Miranda L. Yancey) Searching for Brooklyn’s Freedom Village: A Free Black Community in Lincoln’s Illinois. Illinois Antiquity 44(3&4): 20–23. Reprinted in St. Clair County Historical Society Newsletter 40(2): 1–4.

2009 (Joseph M. Galloy and Miranda L. Yancey) Searching for Brooklyn’s Freedom Village: A Free Black Community in Lincoln’s Illinois. Illinois Antiquity 44(3&4): 20–23.

(Jeffrey D. Kruchten and Brad Koldehoff) Phase II Testing at the Stockyard Tract (11S706/5) for the Proposed Extension of Exchange Avenue, Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program Compliance Report No. 127, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Contributor for lithic analysis sections.

Presented Papers and Posters:

2015 (Daniel F. Blodgett, Miranda L. Yancey-Bailey, and Michael Brent Lansdell) “Monumental Posts from the East St. Louis Mound Complex.” Poster presented at the Missouri Archaeological Society Spring Meeting, Lake Ozark, Missouri, April 10-12.

2014 "Mapping an Ancient City: Cartography of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey investigations at 11S706." Poster presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Champaign, Illinois, October 2-4.

2013 "Brooklyn, Illinois: A Free Black Antebellum Community Adjacent to St. Louis." Paper presented at a meeting of the Greater St. Louis Archaeological Society, Bridgeton, Missouri, March 20.

(Miranda L. Yancey-Bailey, Joseph M. Galloy, and Thomas E. Emerson) "Engaging America's First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois." Poster paper presented at the 2013 University of Illinois Public Engagement Symposium, Champaign, February 28.

(Thomas E. Emerson, Miranda L. Yancey-Bailey, and Joseph M. Galloy) "Mother Baltimore’s Freedom Village and the Reconstitution of Memory." Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology 46th Annual Meeting, Leicester, United Kingdom, January 9–12.

2012 (Miranda L. Yancey-Bailey, Joseph M. Galloy, and Thomas E. Emerson) "Engaging America's First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois." Poster paper presented at the 2012 Prairie Research Institute Lightning Symposium, Champaign, Illinois, November 30.

(Patrick R. Durst, Miranda L. Yancey-Bailey, and Dwayne L. Scheid) "History of East St. Louis, Illinois: A Synopsis of the Historic Archaeology of the New Mississippi River Bridge Project." Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference 69th Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 7–10.

(Miranda L. Yancey-Bailey, Joseph M. Galloy, and Thomas E. Emerson) "Brooklyn, Illinois: America's First Black Town and the Reconstitution of Memory." Paper presented at the Midwest Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, Urbana, Illinois, October 6.

(Patrick R. Durst and Miranda L. Yancey-Bailey) "ISAS Archaeology in French Cahokia." Poster paper presented at the Midwest Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, Urbana, Illinois, October 6.

(Patrick R. Durst, Miranda L. Yancey-Bailey, and Dwayne L. Scheid) "Historic Archeology of the New Mississippi River Bridge Project." Paper presented at the Illinois Archaeological Survey 56nd Annual Meeting, Urbana, September 8.

2010 (Patrick R. Durst and Miranda L. Yancey) "East St. Louis Forgotten: Archaeological Investigations of Three Turn of the Century Sites in East St. Louis, Illinois." Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, October 21 – 24.

(Miranda L. Yancey and Joseph M. Galloy) "Mother Baltimore’s Freedom Village and the Development of Brooklyn, Illinois." Paper presented at 12th Annual Conference on Illinois History, Springfield, Illinois, September 30 – October 1.

(Joseph M. Galloy and Miranda L. Yancey) "Exploring a Late Nineteenth-Century German Neighborhood in Old North St. Louis." Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 75th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, April 14 – 18.

2009 (Miranda L. Yancey and Joseph M. Galloy) "In Search of Mother Baltimore’s Freedom Village: The Free Black Community at Brooklyn, Illinois, ca. 1829 – 1837." Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 15 – 19.

2008 "Interpreting a Mississippian Landscape." Paper presented at the Illinois Archaeological Survey 52nd Annual Meeting, Edwardsville, September 19 – 20.

2007 (Julie Zimmermann Holt, Miranda Yancey, and Erin Marks) "SIUE Field School Excavations at the D. Hitchens Site (11MS1124)." Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Springfield, April 21.

Public Outreach:

2015 Guest speaker for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville ANTH 490 Senior Assignment course, November 30.

WSIE 88.7 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville College of Arts and Sciences Segue Radio Show discussant, Anthropology Students: Teaching and Using Anthropology in the Modern World, airdate April 19.

2014 KWMU 90.7 St. Louis Public Radio interview on Brooklyn, Illinois, airdate October 14.

RAF-STL Radio Arts Foundation interview on Brooklyn, Illinois. St. Louis, Missouri, airdate June 24.

2013 Film interview for the Illinois State Archaeological Survey Brooklyn Public Engagement Program documentary "Founded by Chance: Sustained by Courage." Champaign, August 29.

Volunteer lecture and artifact show and tell for children aged 10 to 15. 17th Annual Illinois Federation for Outdoor Resourced Outdoor Youth Skills Camp, Carlyle, August 10.

Recorded and researched genealogy and family histories at the Brooklyn, Illinois Juneteenth Celebration, Lovejoy School, June 28-29.

2012 Participant in the Brooklyn Freedom Walk, Brooklyn, Illinois, June 23.

Participant in the 2nd Annual Priscilla Baltimore Memorial Service, Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, June 22.

Televised Interview with WGN TV Crusin' Illinois segment on Brooklyn, Illinois, June 15.

2011 Participant in the 1st Annual Priscilla Baltimore Memorial Service, Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, June 17.

Conducted a mock archaeological excavation with children. University of Illinois Naturally Illinois Expo, Champaign, March 10.

Research Papers: 2007 The D. Hitchens Site: An Interpretation of Mississippian Space. Master’s thesis, Department of Geography, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

2005 The D. Hitchens Site: A Survey and Analysis of a Multicomponent Site in the Uplands Adjacent to the American Bottom. Senior project paper, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Professional Development:

2013 Archeological Modeling and Long-Term Site Management Workshop. National Park Service, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Urbana, Illinois, September 10-12.

2012 Illinois State Geological Survey 2 Day Short Course: Practical Geophysics for Engineering, Archaeology, And Hydrogeology. University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, September 27– 28.

Illinois GIS Association Southern Illinois Training Event, Kaskaskia College, Centralia, August 24.

2009 Participated in weeklong Flintknapping Workshop with Tim Dillard, Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, Illinois.

2008 Participated in weekend People and Plant Interactions Workshop with Dr. Timothy Messner, Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, Illinois.

2007 Participated in weekend Geoarchaeology Workshop with Dr. Greg Vogel, Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, Illinois.

Professional Membership

Register of Professional Archaeologists Illinois Archaeological Survey

Certifications

Competent Person Awareness Trenching and Shoring, COCA Inc., May 1, 2010. CPR Adult, American Red Cross certification. Standard First Aid, American Red Cross certification.

Selected Archaeological Experience

Assistant project archaeologist field supervision of phase III prehistoric and historic excavations at the East Saint Louis site, (11S706). St. Clair County, Illinois. (ISAS). July 2010 – October 2012.

Site supervisor for phase II and III prehistoric and historic excavations for the Rieder Road Interstate 64 Interchange, 11S814, 11S825, 11S1098, 11S1100. (ISAS) April – July 2012.

Analysis and report contribution on lithic materials recovered from two Mississippian homesteads at sites 11S1619 and 11S886, St. Clair County, Illinois. (Gateway Archaeology). December 2009 – March 2010. Site supervisor for phase III excavations at the historic WWTDD site (11MS2366). Madison County, Illinois. (ISAS) December 2009.

Site supervisor for phase III excavations at the Middle Woodland Elbert Watt site (11MS1843). Madison County, Illinois. (ISAS). November 2009.

Crew supervisor for phase II investigations in Madison County, Illinois for the FAP-310 Project. (ISAS). October – December 2009.

Site supervisor for phase III excavations at the Early/Late Woodland Low Tee site (11S1735). St Clair County, Illinois. (ISAS). May – July 2009.

Site supervisor for phase III excavations at the Late Woodland/Mississippian Pfeffer site (11S204). St. Clair County, Illinois. (ISAS). May – July 2009.

ISAS Wood River Field Station Lab Safety Coordinator. January 2009 – present.

Analyzed lithic materials from phase II testing at tract 5 of the East Saint Louis site 11S706, St. Clair County, Illinois. (ISAS). Under the supervision of Brad Koldehoff. November 2008 – January 2009.

Assisted in lithic analysis for materials from FAP-310 sites, Madison County, Illinois (ISAS). Under the supervision of Brad Koldehoff, Joseph M. Galloy, and Frank Cowan. Analysis conducted on sites 11MS89, 11MS477, 11MS526, 11MS662, 11MS769, 11MS923, and 11MS957. February – November 2008.

Creation and maintenance of a GIS for the new Mississippi River Bridge and rerouting of I-70 in East St. Louis, Illinois. (ISAS). Under the supervision of Joseph M. Galloy. September 2008 – October 2012.

Brooklyn, Illinois Site (11MS2329, 11S1769/1 & 11S1769/2), Madison and St. Clair counties, Illinois. (ISAS). Creation and maintenance of a historic parcel database GIS for the Brooklyn Public Engagement Project. Under the supervision of Joseph M. Galloy. May – July 2008.

Brooklyn, Illinois Site (11MS2329, 11S1769/1 & 11S1769/2), Madison and St. Clair counties, Illinois. (ISAS). Historical research pertaining to the Brooklyn Public Engagement Project. Under the supervision of Joseph M. Galloy. April 2008 – current.

Brooklyn, Illinois Site (11MS2329, 11S1769/1 & 11S1769/2), Madison and St. Clair counties, Illinois. (ISAS). Phase II archaeological testing at Brooklyn, Illinois. Joseph M. Galloy, Site Director. July – November 2008.

Flotation processing of samples for various prehistoric sites (ISAS). August 2007 – January 2008.

Fish Lake Site (11MO608), Monroe County, Illinois. (ISAS). Phase III fieldwork at a large Late Woodland site. Jeffrey Kruchten, Site Director. May – August 2007.

Analyzed ceramics from the multicomponent D. Hitchens Site (11MS1124), Madison County, Illinois. Under the supervision of Dr. Julie Zimmermann Holt. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. September 2006 – January 2007.

Completed Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s prehistoric field school at the D. Hitchens Site (11MS1124), Madison County, Illinois. Julie Zimmermann Holt, Field School Director. May – July 2006.

Analyzed and documented artifact collections from the prehistoric D. Hitchens Site (11MS1124), Madison County, Illinois. Under the supervision of Dr. Julie Zimmermann Holt. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. November 2004 – April 2005.

Completed Southern Illinois University Carbondale Prehistoric Archaeological Field School in Saline and Pope counties, Illinois. Anne DiCosola, Field School Director. May – August 2004.

Janey B. Goode Site (11S1232), St. Clair County, Illinois. (ISAS). Phase III fieldwork at intensively occupied prehistoric site. Charles Moffat, Site Director. June – November 2003.