Email: MKerns@USNA.edu
Phone: 410-293-5467

Office: B13 Preble Hall (USNA Museum)

Education

PhD, Maritime History and Archaeology
University of St. Andrews
Fife, Scotland, UK (2004)

MA, Historical Studies
Certificate in Public History
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD (1999)

BA, Ancient Studies
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD (1996)

 

Teaching

Faculty (8/2011- Current)
United States Naval Academy
History Department
Assistant Professor teaching American Naval History (HH104) and The West in the Modern World (HH216).

Adjunct Faculty (2004-Current)
University of Maryland University College
School of Undergraduate Studies
Adelphi, Maryland

• Adjunct Assistant Professor teaching history of the United States II and other classes as assigned in both the online and traditional formats.

Adjunct Faculty (2004)
Prince George’s Community College
Liberal Arts Division
Largo, Maryland

· Adjunct instructor, teaching history of the United States I & II (traditional format).

Adjunct Faculty (2003)
Anne Arundel Community College
History Department
Arnold, Maryland

· Adjunct instructor, teaching history of the United States (traditional format).

 

Research and Publications

2011 Survey Report: Dayton Manor Staff Housing MDC Brooklyn. J.C. Chang & Associates, Inc and US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC.

2011 Survey Report: Staff Housing, US Penitentiary Atlanta, GA . J.C. Chang & Associates, Inc and US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC.

2011 Architectural and Historical Investigation of the Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO) Building. Prepared for University of Maryland Office of Administrative Affairs, College Park, Maryland. Retrospect and Kerns CRM Consultants.

2010 Iron Forge (18AN1386) Discovery. Cultural Resources Documentation. Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Gaithersburg, MD: URS Corporation.

2009 Phase I Archaeological Survey of the Beauvoir Property (22HR1012). Harrison County, Mississippi. Gaithersburg, MD: URS Corporation.

2009 Phase II Archaeological Evaluation of Site 47BA199. Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Bayfield County, Wisconsin. Gaithersburg, MD: URS Corporation.

2009 Thomas Johnson Bridge Replacement. Phase I Archeological Survey. St. Mary's and Calvert Counties, Maryland. Gaithersburg, MD: URS Corporation.

2009 Phase I Archaeological Survey of the Black and White Inn Property (18MO669) Montgomery County, Maryland. Gaithersburg, MD: URS Corporation.

2009 Phase I Archaeological Survey of Location 31. Dover Air Force Base Kent County, Delaware. Gaithersburg, MD: URS Corporation.

2009 Report of Investigations: Archival Research Concerning Center Hill Lake. Gaithersburg, MD: URS Corporation.

2007 Phase II Archaeological Evaluation of Sites 18PR867 and 18PR868, The Homeland Property, Prince George's County, Maryland. Gaithersburg, MD: URS Corporation.

2007 Phase I Archeological Survey of the Proposed US 15 at MD 26 Reforestation Site, the proposed US 15 at Monocacy Boulevard Interchange, and Phase II Evaluation of Site 18FR148A, Frederick County, Maryland. Gaithersburg, MD: URS Corporation.

2007 104-106 North Market Street. Phase I Archaeological Survey Demiray Property (18FR857), Frederick, Maryland. Annapolis, MD: Aarcher, Inc-CRM Group.

2006 Unearthing Our Colonial Past: Selected Articles on The Archaeology of Early Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Annapolis, MD: Anne Arundel County Office of Environmental and Cultural Resources, Lost Towns Project.

2006 Fountain Rock Park Phase II archaeological survey (18FR835 & 18FR836). Annapolis, MD: Aarcher, Inc. - CRM Group.

2003 Discovering London Town off the Park: Salvage Excavations on the Shah Property (18AN1062). Compliance report for the Maryland Historical Trust on file at the MHT, Crownsville, MD.

Publications

2008 “The McCeney Bucket Privy (18PR910): Anne Arundel County Archeological Society Field Session 2007.” Maryland Archeology Volume 44, Number 2.

2004 The History of London Town, Maryland: A Case Study of an Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Tobacco Port and its Role in the Colonial Maritime Economy. PhD dissertation, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK.

2003 “Trade in Colonial Anne Arundel County: The Tobacco Port of London Town.” Maryland Historical Magazine 93, 3, 2003.

2003 Discovering London Town off the Park: Salvage Excavations on the Shah Property (18AN1062). Compliance report for the Maryland Historical Trust on file at the MHT, Crownsville, Maryland,

2003 A Bibliography of Publications, Paper, Reports, and Manuscripts of Anne Arundel County’s Lost Towns Project: 1999-2003. Anne Arundel County Office of Environmental and Cultural Resources.

2002 “Stories Deadmen Tell: A Geophysical Survey of the All Hallows Graveyard, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.” Maryland Archaeology 38, no. 4, 2002.

1999 London Town, the Life of a Colonial Town. Master’s thesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland.

1998 Dr. Richard Hill of London Town: Economic and Social Perspectives on Life in Colonial America. Maryland: The London Town Foundation, 1998.

Scholarly Activities: Papers Presented

2012 For the Defense of Annapolis: Fort Madison at Carr's Point. Paper presented in the symposium “Two Centuries On: Historical Archaeology and the War of 1812.” Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) 45^th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Baltimore, MD.

2010 What Lies Beneath… Legg’s Dependence Kitchen Excavations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for North Eastern Historical Archeology, Lancaster, PA.

2010 Colonial Maryland in the Atlantic World: Places and People of Trade. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archeology, Amelia Island, FL.

2009 Free Blacks in Antebellum Maryland: The 5^th District of Montgomery County in 1860. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for North Eastern Historical Archeology, Quebec City, Quebec, CA.

2009 The Black and White Inn (18MO669), Montgomery County, Maryland. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archeological Conference, Ocean City, MD.

2009 “To Melinda Jackson and Her Children”: Slavery and Freedom in Montgomery, County, Maryland. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, CA.

2008 Maryland in the Atlantic World: Places and People of Trade. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for North Eastern Historical Archaeology, St. Mary’s City, MD.

2008 The Homeland Site: Phase II Archaeology in Price George’ County, Maryland. Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, Ocean City, MD.

2007 A Pot to Piss In: The McCeney Bucket Privy, Laurel, Maryland. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for North Eastern Historical Archaeology, Buffalo, NY.

2007 Elizabeth Rigby’s Black Pearls: Material Culture and Probate Records. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, VA.

2006 The Stone Wall and Indian Landing: Using Historical Archaeology to Prove the Past. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Sacramento, CA.

2005 Rumney’s Tavern and Freeman’s Ordinary: A Comparative Study of Two 18^th Century Taverns in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for North Eastern Historical Archaeology, Trenton, New Jersey. Co-authors Caralyn Roviello Fama and Al Luckenbach.

2005 Rumney’s Tavern Talks: Plates, Pipes, and the Rockman-Rothschild Paradigm. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, York, England, UK.

2003 London Town, Tobacco Port: Maritime Trade in Eighteenth-Century Maryland. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Providence, Rhode Island.

2002 A Colonial Community: The “lost town” of London and All Hallows Parish. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Mobile, AL.

2001 To Have a Decent Christian Burial: London Town and All Hallows. Media presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Long Beach, CA.

2000 Thriving Trade, Thirsty Traders: A Look at Rumney’s Tavern in London Town. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, Ocean City, MD. Coauthor, Paul F. Mintz (presenter).

2000 The Lost Towns Project Relational Database: A Tool for the Study of Early Town Formation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

1999 Twitch Cove Burial Site, Smith Island, Somerset County, Maryland (18SO317). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Salt Lake City, UT.

1998 Refining the Class and Occupation Descriptions of Colonial Documentary Records. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archaeology Conference, Cape May, NJ. Coauthor, Dr. Jay Thomas.

Academic and Public Service

2010: Elected President (2011-2012) Archeological Society of Maryland (ASM)

2007: Maryland Archeology Month (MAM) Coordinator/Organizer of the statewide Maryland Archeology Month program overseeing production and distribution of educational materials

2006-Current: President of the Anne Arundel County Chapter, Archeology Society of Maryland
 

Honors and Awards

Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA)

2000: Awarded the Madelyn Moeller Research Fellowship from The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

1996: Honored as a McNair Fellow

1996: Accepted as a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, a National Academic Scholars Program