Delande Justinvil
Adjunct Instructor
Department of Anthropology
Degrees
BA, Anthropology; Classical Studies; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
Bio
Delande Justinvil a third-year doctoral student whose interests lie at the intersection of biocultural anthropology, cultural history, race and science, critical geography, and Black study. His research mobilizes (what he calls) an 鈥渁nthropology of Black remains鈥 which brings together biological, archaeological, and archival methods to interrogate the afterlives of slavery, with a particular focus on the 19th and 20th century Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Delande has participated in excavations in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. In summer 2019, Delande was the was the lead curator of 鈥淧lans to Prosper You: Reflections of Black Resistance and Resilience in Montgomery County鈥檚 Potomac River Valley,鈥 presented by the 麻豆传媒 Museum. His dissertation research project uses bioarchaeological analyses and historical methods to investigate recently discovered burials in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
