November 14, 2019
On-campus archaeological dig draws media attention
Members of the media interview Associate Professor Rebecca Graff during the Archaeological Field School Open House.
Students in Associate Professor of Anthropology Rebecca Graff’s Archaeological Field Methods course have been working all semester to unearth traces of a church on South Campus and held an Open House and Media Day on Thursday.
The event drew several news outlets, including the Daily Herald, The Lake County News-Sun/Chicago Tribune, and 22nd Century Media, to cover the findings of the archaeology students who excavated the church site. 
Graff is leading her students in SOAN 215: Archaeological Field Methods class in an archaeological dig at the previous site of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Lake Forest, which served as a place of worship from its construction in 1870 to the 1920s. The goal of this project is to unearth further information about and awareness of the past and present African American communities of the North Shore and Chicago.
Credit: Ryan Cook