Julia A. King (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Julia A. King is the George B. and Willma Reeves Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she studies, teaches, and writes about historical archaeology and Chesapeake history and culture. She has held fellowships with Dumbarton Oaks, the Virginia Historical Society, and Winterthur Museum and received six major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 2003 until 2011, King served as an Expert Member on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a Federal agency that advises the president and Congress on matters of national historic preservation policy. In 2018, the Society for Historical Archaeology presented King with the J.C. Harrington Award in recognition of her scholarly contributions to the discipline. She has also received awards from the Register for Professional Archaeologists and the Archaeological Society of Virginia. Her current research focus includes Indigenous history and colonialism in the Chesapeake region.

Selected Publications

• King, Julia A., Scott M. Strickland, and G. Anne Richardson. “Rappahannock Oral Tradition, John Smith’s “Map of Virginia,” and Political Authority in the Algonquian Chesapeake.” William and Mary Quarterly 80, no. 1 (2023): 3–48.
• King, Julia A., and Scott M. Strickland. “Ceremonial Landscapes in the Chesapeake.” In Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America, edited by Lucianne Lavin and Elaine Thomas, 155–83. Native Peoples of the Americas. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2023.
• King, Julia A. “Ruins of Jamestown.” Buildings and Landscapes 26, no. 1 (2019): 11–31.
• King, Julia A. Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past: The View from Southern Maryland. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2012.