Morton, Shawn

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Ph.D., RPA
Anthropology Instructor - Department of Humanities and Social Sciences - Northwestern Polytechnic
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Department of Anthropology and Archaeology - University of Calgary
Research Associate - Department of Anthropology - Michigan State University
Co-Director - Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project, Stann Creek District, Belize
Co-Director - Old Bezanson Archaeology Project, Alberta, Canada

Archaeologies of place, being, and embodiment; urbanism/ urbanization; ceremony and religion; architecture; speleoarchaeology; archaeologies of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean; archaeologies of Canada and Turtle Island.

Shawn is an archaeological anthropologist generally interested in processes of placemaking and identity. Working in Canada, Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, he has 25 years of archaeological professional and research experience. He co-directs two archaeological research projects, one focused on ancestral Maya stories of the Stann Creek District, Belize, and the other focused on the settler-historical (but incorporating deep Indigenous archaeologies) stories of the Old Bezanson Townsite in Alberta, Canada.