https://www.ayanaomiladeflewellen.com/about daily 1.0 2024-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b06b67b36099bfc220578b0/4ff49355-c5b8-4435-92b1-53c09e755a03/948A51BC-1BF3-42AB-B9A2-16BAF9882312.JPG Home https://www.ayanaomiladeflewellen.com/curriculum-vitae daily 0.75 2024-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b06b67b36099bfc220578b0/18443faa-f14c-44b9-8aae-d31962001c00/headshot.JPG C.V. - CurriculumVitae “To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.” ― James Baldwin https://www.ayanaomiladeflewellen.com/research daily 0.75 2021-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b06b67b36099bfc220578b0/1527209834108-6I3ZOH360J4DNP2QSQOW/IMG_2192.jpg Research - Sustainable Archaeology Dr. Flewellen with Estate Little Princess Field School participant during the 2017 field season. Photo taken by Dr. Alicia Odewale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b06b67b36099bfc220578b0/1588276650823-FA7OM2B82EODPAT6TBV0/Picture1.png Research - Black Feminist Archaeology Dr. Flewellen with Estate Little Princess Field School participant during the 2017 field season. Photo taken by Dr. Alicia Odewale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b06b67b36099bfc220578b0/1564343722487-AM122TOQQB4GV7DM1FS8/NOAA8.jpg Research - Maritime Heritage Conservation Since the summer of 2016 Dr. Flewellen has worked with Diving with a Purpose (DWP), a community-focused, non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation and protection of submerged heritage resources. Flewellen is now a DWP Instructor and Board Member. She works to promote maritime heritage and advocacy nationwide. Additionally, the Society of Black Archaeologists, in collaboration with DWP and the Slave Wrecks Project (SWP), are currently developing a maritime and terrestrial archaeology program for Crucian youth on the island of St. Croix that explores the history and heritage of the global slave trade through maritime sites, combining archaeological research with training and education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b06b67b36099bfc220578b0/1551978155381-JB0C7D7BK8ICUCMCL3DF/sha2017-116_orig.jpg Research - The Society of Black Archaeologists SBA Members at SHA 2017 in Dallas, Texas. (from left) Row 1: Dr. Alexandra Jones, Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Dr. Ayana Flewellen, Dr. Peggy Brunch, Dr. Nedra Lee, Row 3: Dr. Lewis Jones, Dr. William White, Dr. Jerry Howard, Dr. Justin Dunnavant, and Khadene Harris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b06b67b36099bfc220578b0/1565026988646-345B7BZUYY6273NLU40H/67298397_10157289895297999_4239173622125559808_o.jpg Research - Research Interest Flewellen presenting on Community Archaeology and Capacity Building at the 2017 annual American Anthropologists Association conference. Photo taken by Dr. Justin Dunnavant. https://www.ayanaomiladeflewellen.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b06b67b36099bfc220578b0/6bcf6c6b-a438-422f-9811-965a7a7fe068/tempImage0yM4TP.jpg Contact - Contact Ayana O. Flewellen Image: Dr. Flewellen being interviewed for the CNN Documentary Lessons From the Water: Diving With a Purpose. https://www.ayanaomiladeflewellen.com/welcome daily 0.75 2019-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1493402875328-BNUBDW0YU8T7FLFUE8TV/Stocksy_txp35169653TeS100_Large_674803_WEBSAFE.jpg Welcome https://www.ayanaomiladeflewellen.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2024-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b06b67b36099bfc220578b0/1564328652900-3J5GOXGT68E6XCH403LY/IMG_7652.jpeg About - About Ayana Omilade Flewellen (they/she) is a Black Feminist, an archaeologist, an artist scholar and a storyteller. Flewellen is the co-founder and current President of the Society of Black Archaeologists and sits on the Board of Diving With A Purpose. They were selected for the inaugural 2021-2023 cohort Called By Water, directed by Sharon Bridgforth and Omi Oshun Jones, funded by Solidaire Networks’ Black Liberation Pooled Fund. In 2022 Ayana joined Stanford University’s Department of Anthropology as an Assistant Professor. Her research and teaching interests are shaped by and speak to Black Feminist Theory, historical archaeology, maritime heritage conservation, public and community-engaged archaeology, processes of identity formations, memory, and representations of slavery. Their current book project, tentatively titled The Will to Adorn: Black Women and Sartorial Choice After Enslavement examines sartorial practices of self-making among African American tenant, sharecropping and landowning African Americans in post-emancipated Texas, Tennessee and Virginia. Sartorial practices, in this forthcoming work, are defined as social-cultural practices, shaped by many intersecting operations of power and oppression including racism, sexism, and classism, that involve modifications of the corporal form (e.g., scarification, body piercings and hair alteration), and all three-dimensional supplements added to the body (e.g., clothing, hair combs, jewelry). Their artwork, like their archaeological scholarship, vacillates between the solidity of land and the liquidity of water. Rooting in the physicality of the ground, their adornments and small installation pieces are crafted from metal and stone. More recently, as their archaeological work has shifted from land to sea, her art practice has shifted to performance art centering on documenting submerged embodied practices of remembering. They currently are the Co-PI of the Estate Little Princess Archaeology Project, an award-winning collaborative community engaged archaeological project based on the island of St. Croix, USVI. https://www.ayanaomiladeflewellen.com/teaching daily 0.75 2022-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b06b67b36099bfc220578b0/1593368386053-X4M8UHZJ7BPCXH1TDK9U/wpa11.jpg Teaching - Teaching Philosophy As a scholar of anthropology with a specialization in archaeology and African diaspora studies, my intellectual genealogy is shaped by critical theory rooted in Black feminist epistemology and pedagogy. This epistemological backdrop acts as foundational to how I conceptualize pedagogy. My pedagogical praxis values experience-based knowledge while centering an analysis of axes of power and oppression that emphasizes the importance of reflexivity. As an educator, my role is to help students appreciate archaeology as an interdisciplinary field with contemporary societal impact. 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