Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
DEI Statement
The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As faculty members housed in the departments of Anthropology and Art, we join our colleagues in the commitment to fighting racial injustice and in their response to the events of summer 2020. We welcome to our classrooms students of all backgrounds and abilities and seek to create a welcoming environment of teaching, learning, and collaboration. We share here also the sentiments and resources of our national organizations, the American Anthropological Association, Archaeological Institute of America, and Society of Black Archaeologists, on the issues of racism and social justice. We commit to continued outreach, collaboration, greater inclusion, and public education with and about Indigenous people and descendants of the enslaved in our teaching and research.
Land Acknowledgement
The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program acknowledges that the land where we learn and work is the ancestral homeland and traditional territory of the Monacan Indian Nation. We pay respect to their elders and knowledge keepers — past and present.
We acknowledge and pay respect to the enslaved Africans, enslaved laborers, and free Black laborers who built UVA, as well as their descendants.
Today we acknowledge the land, we acknowledge labor, traditions, and knowledge, and we acknowledge lives.