Ben Ford is the Chair of the Anthropology Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in maritime and historical archaeology. Ben’s Ph.D. from Texas A&M University was preceded by several years of cultural resource management experience and degrees from the College of William and Mary and the University of Cincinnati. He recently published The Shore is a Bridge: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Lake Ontario and Our Blue Planet: An Introduction to Maritime and Underwater Archaeology (with Jessi Halligan and Alexis Catsambis). He has also edited the Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology, The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes, and New Life for Old Collections (with Rebecca Allen). Ben is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and the 2015 Archaeological Institute of America McCann-Taggart Underwater Archaeology Lecturer. His current research focuses on 18th-centruy connections across the Mid-Atlantic region and includes work at Historic Hanna’s Town, a Revolutionary War era town in Pennsylvania, and Fort Necessity National Battlefield, as well as underwater archaeology work in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

Ben will speak about careers in Anthropology. There are few jobs that have “Anthropology” in their title, but Anthropologists and Archaeologists are employed in a wide range of jobs, including public health, museums, international affairs, federal and state agencies, advocacy, and technology.