Native American Local History Series

 We are privileged to have two distinguished guests for the March and April Local History series. For more information on their work, see below the flier.

Brian Jones became Connecticut’s most recent State Archaeologist this July. He has worked as an archaeologist since 1992 for AHS/PAST Inc., the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, and Archaeological Services at UMass Amherst.  He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at UConn in 1998.

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Paul Grant-Costa has worked as Senior Researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center and as a lead historical  researcher with tribal councils, tribal historians, lawyers, and anthropologists across New England.  He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Connecticut, a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.