Claire Maass

Claire Maass

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Claire Maass is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. Her dissertation research focuses on histories of the African diaspora and enslavement in colonial Peru, drawing on methods from historical archaeology, bioarchaeology, and community-engaged research. As a case study, she centers on the conditions of living and life-histories of enslaved Africans and Afro-descendants at Hacienda La Quebrada, a historic sugar plantation located in the central coastal valley of Cañete, Peru. She is a current Fulbright scholar and co-director of “El proyecto de investigación arqueológica La Quebrada”. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright US Student Program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Stanford Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford Archaeology Center, and Stanford Center for African Studies.

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