Nicole Isenbarger

E-Mail: nicoleisenbarger@brockington.org

Ms. Nicole Isenbarger (M.A., pending, University of South Carolina, B.A., College of Charleston) has eight years of field and lab experience in Southeastern archaeology; mainly in the South Carolina lowcountry. Her primary research is in historical archaeology, with a focus on eighteenth century colonial settlements, material culture, and foodways, as well as African-American archaeology. Before coming to Brockington, she worked for the Charleston Museum, the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, and South Carolina State Parks. Her thesis showed how colonoware (a low-fired earthenware associated with enslaved African-Americans), could have been used as an internal commodity and ultimately may have helped build families and improve standards of living. Nicole currently conducts analyses of colonoware, plus seventeenth and eighteenth century Euro-American ceramics for our Charleston lab.