Sarah Kennedy receives funding from the Archaeological Institute of America

22 February 2022
Sarah Kennedy
Sarah Kennedy

Sarah Kennedy, Robert A. Oden, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Humanities and Archaeology, has been awarded an Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) grant from the Julie Herzig Desnick Endowment Fund for Archaeological Field Surveys. This funding for her project, Out of the Mine and Into the Furnace: the Ongoing Environmental Impacts of Silver Refining in Peru, supports geophysical surveys at colonial silver refineries in Puno, Peru during the July 2022 fieldwork season, subsequent laboratory analysis of samples by an Australian collaborator, and dissemination of results via journal articles and book manuscript.