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Jade Luiz
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Sociology and Anthropology
[email protected]Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm to 4:00pm, or by appointment
Biography
Dr. Jade Luiz received her Ph.D. from Boston University where she specialized in historical archaeology, nineteenth-century urbanism, gender, and archaeology of the senses. Her research delves into the history of nineteenth-century sex work.Education
PhD in Historical Archaeology
Boston University
MA in Historical Archaeology
Boston University
BA in Anthropology
Portland State University
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Published Works
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Luiz, J. (2025). Review of Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago鈥檚 1893 World鈥檚 Fair by Rebecca Graff. Historical Archaeology,
Kolb, J. M., Hill, A., Leek, P., Luiz, W. J., McConnell, R., Wheaton, G. (2025). Tracing the use-life of an early Denver neighborhood cistern: A multi-proxy analysis of soil development, domestic practices, and urban privacy. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6405117. .
Luiz, W. J. (2024). Archaeological Investigation of a Nineteenth-Century Sex District in Central City, Colorado (5GL2511). State Historic Preservation Office of Colorado,
Luiz, W. J. (2022). Archaeology of a Brothel in Boston, MA: Erotic Facades. (pp 172). Routledge.
Luiz, W. J. (2022). Wares of Venus: the sensoriality of sex for purchase at a nineteenth-century brothel in Boston, Massachusetts. (56Issue 2, pp 244-261). Historical Archaeology.
Opishinski, A., Luiz, J. (2022). Archaeology in a New Light: Interpreting Indigenous History in a Sea of Pilgrims. The Public Historian, 44(4), 147鈥�168. .
Luiz, W. J. (2020). Ghosts in the Archives: Using Archaeology to Discuss Brothel Childhoods. (pp 125-143). University Press of Florida.
Luiz, W. J. (2019). Clandestine, Ephemeral, Anonymous?: Myths and Realities of the Intimate Economy of a Nineteenth-Century Boston Brothel. (pp 214-238). University Press of Florida.