Buried Chinatowns

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Fall 2025 Recap

December 14, 2025

The Fall 2025 semester is essentially over at Grinnell College, so I will use this opportunity to write a recap on the research team’s various activities. In mid-October, I attended the Rural Chinatowns and Hidden Sites: Chinese American History in the Deep South and Midwest Conference in Memphis, TN. The meeting included a field trip to…
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Upcoming archaeology talks on Chinese American sites in Wyoming & Texas

October 8, 2025

I just returned from NYC, where I gave a talk at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) on the archaeology of the Rock Springs Chinatown in Wyoming. I was also able to see the Port Henry Chinese jail ledger at MOCA, spend time with research collaborator Peter Lau, Rock Springs Chinatown descendant Arvin Chin,…
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News Coverage: Dig Featured in NPR Weekend Edition

September 29, 2025

Our Rock Springs Chinatown archaeology project has received national coverage since our last post! We were featured as a story on yesterday morning’s NPR Weekend Edition (Sunday), which means that potentially millions of people across the U.S. learned about the 1885 Chinese Massacre, the commemoration events that brought descendants to Rock Springs earlier this month,…
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