Julia A. King (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)
Project Title
Land as Archive: An Indigenous Landscape History of the Rappahannock People of Tidewater Virginia
St. Mary's College of Maryland
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2024–25
Julia A. King neared completion of a draft of her work in progress, provisionally titled The Land as Archive: An Indigenous History of the Rappahannock River Valley.
Along with several collaborators, including members of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe and the Rappahannock Tribe, she completed the project, An Indigenous History of Bacon’s Rebellion: Dragon Run for the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program (NPS ABPP); that work is now in revision by the collaborators for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The NPS ABPP project also identified lands associated with the Dragon that can be targeted for future conservation.
King also completed final edits for her essay, “‘Notice is Hereby Given’: The Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland,” which appeared at the end of 2024 in Grappling with Monuments of Oppression: Moving from Analysis to Activism, edited by Christopher Fennell (Routledge, 2024).
Along with coauthors Skylar Bauer and Alex J. Flick, she completed revisions on an article, “Negotiating Political Authority, Religion, and Landscape in the Early Modern Atlantic: The View from Maryland,” which will appear in Northeast Historical Archaeology in 2025.
Finally, she edited her essay, “Moving Toward Supra-Regional Comparison: The Legacy of Martha Zierden,” which appeared in Historical Archaeology in 2025.