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Ann K. Wentworth

Excelsior Title:  

Program Director, History and Liberal Studies
Degrees:  

PhD in anthropology from State University of New York at Albany-1994
MA in anthropology from State University of New York at Albany-1991
Graduate study at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1972-74
BA cum laude, in anthropology from Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin-1972

 
Programs and Courses

2005 Senior Project Proposal, Empire State College, International Programs
2005 Senior Project/Thesis, Empire State College, International Programs
2004 Competition and Cooperation, Empire State College, Center for Distance Learning
2002 Faces of Culture, Empire State College, Center for Distance Learning
2002 First Peoples of North America, Empire State College, Center for Distance Learning
1998 Women’s and Family History Empire State College, Center for Distance Learning (and subsequent revisions through 2006)
 


Research and Publications

Major professional papers:


"Margaret Beekman: Businesswoman or Lady of the Manor?" Great Estates Symposium, Wallace Center, F.D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, NY, 2008. 
"From Businesswoman to Lady: An Archaeological Examination of Changing Gender Roles Among the Hudson Valley Elite." Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1995.
"Landlords and Ladies: Social Issues Examined Through the Archaeology at Clermont State Historic Site, Columbia County, New York." Historic Hudson Valley/New Netherland Project Symposium, Tarrytown, NY, 1993.
"Adaptive Reuse of Archaeological Collections." Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, VA, 1983.

Publications:


Center for Distance Learning Course Guide: Faces of Culture. Empire State College-SUNY, Saratoga Springs, NY (rev. 2000), 1997.

Center for Distance Learning Course Guide: Women's and Family History: Colonial Period to Present. Empire State College-SUNY, Saratoga Springs, NY. (rev.2002), 1996.
Woman of Business or Lady of the Manor?: An Archaeological Examination of Changes in Gender Roles among the Hudson Valley Elite during the 18th Century. Volumes in Historical Archaeology XXXI, Stanley South, editor. The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Columbia, South Carolina, 1995. 
Woman of Business or Lady of the Manor?: An Archaeological Examination of Changes in Gender Roles among the Hudson Valley Elite During the 18th Century (Ph.D. dissertation). University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI, 1994.