Biography

Eleanor M. King teaches anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology. An archaeologist, archivist, and educator, she specializes in the prehispanic Maya of Belize and the history of Buffalo Soldier and Apache interaction in the Southwest U.S. She has also researched and lectured on public outreach in archaeology, heritage studies, and illicit trafficking in antiquities. Her most recent publications focus on Maya commerce and on designing and assessing public education programs in archaeology, as well as extending archaeology’s reach to African Americans and other underrepresented groups. In 2016 Dr. King co-founded The Heritage Education Network with Carol Ellick. This interdisciplinary, non-profit organization aims to disseminate information about heritage education to the practitioners from different disciplines that engage in it and with it (http://theheritageeducationnetwork.org/). She is currently the editor of a new online, peer-reviewed journal for that organization, The Journal of Heritage Education, whose first issue is slated to appear in summer 2021.