Sudha Shah

E-Mail: sudhashah@brockington.org
Phone: 678-638-4139

Sudha Shah (M.A., Ph.D [candidate], University of Michigan) has been actively working in cultural resource management and archaeology since 1996, and has conducted archaeological field research in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Michigan and Turkey.

A member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists, Sudha has served as principal investigator and archaeologist on a number of archaeological survey and data recovery projects. She is currently serving a two-year term as the Secretary and Treasurer of the Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists. Sudha has several areas of expertise, including cognitive, symbolic and semiotic approaches to archaeology, anthropology of material culture, and Southeastern Native American prehistory and history. Her doctoral thesis, "A Cognitive Diachronic Approach to Modeling Exchange Relations in Early Complex Societies of the Upper Tennessee River Valley." The thesis uses Mushkhogean language, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic data to model the exchange and circulation of shell and copper valuables among Mississippian populations. It is currently in progress.

Sudha works in the Atlanta office of Brockington and Associates, Inc.