Nicole Isenbarger

E-Mail: nicoleisenbarger@brockington.org

Mrs. Nicole M. Isenbarger (M.A. University of South Carolina 2006) serves as the Laboratory Supervisor for the Charleston office. She has ten years of field and laboratory experience working in Southeastern archaeology, mainly in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Her primary research is in historical archaeology, with a focus on eighteenth century colonial settlements, material culture, and foodways. She also has a focus on African-American archaeology. In 2000 she received a B.S. in Anthropology from the College of Charleston. She has worked throughout the South Carolina Lowcountry on numerous testing, and data recovery projects for the Charleston Museum, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, South Carolina State Parks, and with private CRM firms. Her thesis researched how Colonoware, a low-fired earthenware associated with African-American slaves in the Lowcountry, could have been used as a commodity within the slaves' internal marketing system, and ultimately could have helped slaves in their efforts to build families and better their standard of living. Nicole has been conducting ceramic analyses of Colonoware, and seventeenth and eighteenth century Euro-American ceramics for Brockington and Associates' Mount Pleasant, SC office since 2004.