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The SAHND and SHEL Lab is a collaborative unit in the Department of Anthropology at Penn State that studies the long-term histories of past and present sociopolitics, economics, and ecologies of eastern North America (and beyond!) and the ways that both human institutions and landscapes are creatively imagined and transformed by people.

Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz, Principal Investigator
Jacob Holland-Lulewicz, Principal Investigator

What We Do

  • Archaeologies of governance, politics, and collective action
  • Social networks and the relational foundations of human organizational forms
  • Socioecological histories of coastal and estuarine landscapes
  • Economic institutions of resource management
  • Environmental and climatic reconstructions
  • Collaborative and community-driven archaeology
  • Quantitative and digital approaches to the archaeological, historical, and environmental records
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Jacob Holland-Lulewicz, Principal Investigator in the field

Let’s Collaborate

We’re always looking for new opportunities to collaborate! The SAHND and SHEL Lab is also actively recruiting graduate students, post-docs, and undergraduates to work on a range of current projects. Our lab is specially equipped to support researchers working on, or wishing to propose, large-scale radiocarbon and chronological modeling programs, multi-method geophysical surveys, zooarchaeological analyses, isotopic analyses for environmental reconstructions, or other digital projects including those leveraging “big” datasets, formal network analyses, geospatial applications, or environmental methods.