Postdoctoral Fellowship: SPRF: Contested Spaces and Spectrums of Resistance

该奖项是作为NSF社会、行为和经济学博士后研究奖学金(SPRF)计划的一部分提供的。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界、工业界或私营部门和政府的科学职业生涯培养有前途的、早期职业博士水平的科学家。SPRF奖项包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。国家科学基金会致力于促进科学界所有阶层的科学家参与其研究方案和活动，包括那些来自代表性不足的群体的科学家；博士后阶段被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的一个重要水平。每个博士后研究员都必须解决推动各自学科领域向前发展的重要科学问题。在加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的Tsim Schneider博士的赞助下，这项博士后奖学金资助了一位早期职业科学家，他研究了当地土著群体如何在内陆南加州边境地区的竞争空间中导航。具体地说，这一拟议项目旨在说明土著社区的复原力和周边任务卫星园区周围的抵抗力量，这些卫星园区被称为asistencias或estancias。在土著学者和其他人的工作之后，我们设想了一个以土著为中心的社区考古项目，以更好地了解当地抵抗、恢复和生存的光谱。拟议的考古研究通过与部落社区合作伙伴协商共同创造知识，寻求当地的有效参与。因此，这项考古研究将坚持部落的目标和需求，并建立在人种学和档案研究的基础上。拟议的考古研究通过与部落社区合作伙伴协商，寻求当地有效参与，共同创造知识。该项目将分三个阶段进行。每个阶段都将与部落社区合作伙伴协作实施，以确定部落的目标和需求的优先次序。第一阶段可能包括档案调查，以记录Asiencias的建立、相关活动以及土著/殖民地之间的互动。根据美洲原住民社区合作伙伴的目标和第一阶段的结果，第二阶段将包括对加利福尼亚州雷德兰兹的Asistencia San Bernardino de Sena进行最小限度的侵入性考古调查。这些调查涉及近地表和地表收集方案，如行人调查、金属探测器调查、探地雷达调查，以及识别和记录建筑特征、活动区和其他相关空间的捕捉和释放研究。在与美洲原住民组织协商后，第三阶段将包括对圣贝纳迪诺县博物馆现有收藏品的博物馆研究分析，以确定助手中是否存在与土著人民有关的文物。这一阶段还将利用地理信息系统分析其他阶段的数据和调查结果，重建圣贝纳迪诺-德塞纳-亚斯滕西亚的土著历史和复原力。该项目将与部落组织和当地历史社区的志愿者密切合作，记录牧场活动的证据，确定土著劳工的营房/定居点，确定可能与特定部落/群体有关的亚斯滕西亚和周围地区的地区或特征，并记录土著生存和技术的证据。此外，将利用地理信息系统重建景观，并记录与阿斯滕西亚相关的多次在山谷中定居的尝试，说明土著空间仍然存在。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award was provided as part of the NSF Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Tsim Schneider at the University of California Santa Cruz, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating how local Indigenous groups navigated contested spaces in the inland Southern California borderlands. Specifically, this proposed project seeks to illustrate the resilience of Indigenous communities and spectrums of resistance around peripheral mission satellite campuses, known as asistencias or estancias. Following the work of Indigenous scholars and others, we envision an Indigenous-centered community archaeology project to better understand spectrums of local resistance, resilience and survivance at asistencias/estancias. The proposed archaeological study seeks effective local engagement by consulting with Tribal community partners in the coproduction of knowledge. Thus, this archaeological study will adhere to the goals and needs of Tribes and build from ethnographic and archival research.The proposed archaeological study seeks effective local engagement by consulting with Tribal community partners in coproduction of knowledge. This project will be conducted over three phases. Each phase will be implemented in collaboration with Tribal community partners to prioritize the goals and needs of Tribes. The first phase would potentially include archival investigations to document the establishment, activities associated within, and the Indigenous/colonial interactions at asistencias. Contingent on the goals of the Native American community partners and the results of Phase 1, the second phase would consist of minimally intrusive archaeological investigations of the Asistencia San Bernardino de Sena in Redlands, California. These investigations involve near-surface and surface collection protocols such as pedestrian survey, a metal detector survey, a ground penetrating radar survey, and a catch-and-release study to identify and document architectural features, activity areas, and other relevant spaces. In consultation with Native American organizations, the third phase will consist of museum study analysis of extant collections from the San Bernardino County Museum to determine the presence of artifacts associated with Native peoples at the asistencia. This phase will also utilize a geographic information system (GIS) to analyze data and findings from the other phases reconstructing Indigenous history and resilience at the San Bernardino de Sena Asistencia. This project would work closely with Tribal organizations and volunteers from local historical communities to record evidence of ranching activities, identify the barracks/settlements of Indigenous labor, ascertain areas or features of the Asistencia and surrounding locale that might be associated with specific tribes/groups, and document evidence of Indigenous subsistence and technology. In addition, a GIS will be utilized to reconstruct the landscape and document the multiple attempts at settlement in the valley in relation to the Asistencia illustrating how Indigenous spaces still remain.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.