Sample of Research Projects

• Applications of remote sensing/GIS/GPS to regional archaeological analysis in Burgundy, France
• 19th and 20th Century Garden Practices (ethnography)
• Contemporary Charolais beef production (ethnography)
• The Production, Distribution, and Utilization of Common-Ware Ceramics in the Roman Period (archeology)
• The Architecture and Sculpture of the Donjon Atelier (art history, ethnography)
• Historical demography (parish records, other archival materials)
• Historical Climatology
• Economic and subsistence activities in medieval rural monasteries (archaeology, ethnohistory)
• Long-term shifts in settlement (archaeologicial and remote sensing surveys)
• Physiogeography of the Arroux and Loire River (geology)
• Studies of contemproary periodic markets and midsummer's eve festivals
• The linguistic and dialect history of the region
• The widespread influence of the goddess Epona
• Celtic and Roman road networks
• Study of the relationship between landscape and power
• Overviews of Burgundian historical ecology (including climatic history) and of medieval history.