National Lecture Program

AIA Lecturer: M. Dores Cruz

Affiliation: University of Denver

M. Dores Cruz is with the University of Denver, and holds her degrees from Binghamton University-SUNY (Ph.D.), University of Porto, and the University of Coimbra, Portugal.  Her research interests include African archaeology, historical anthropology, ethnoarchaeology, comparative colonialisms and diasporas, Ghana, Mozambique, and Portugal.  Her current projects are an Africa American homestead community in Colorado, landscape and memory construction in Mozambique, and colonial landscapes in Portugal.  Professor Cruz is the AIA’s Archaeology of Portugal Lecturer for 2013/2014.

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