SOULA
Chelsea Rose, MA, RPA
Chelsea Rose is the director of SOULA and a historical archaeologist that focuses on the settlement and development of the American West. Chelsea regularly works with the media, students, and community volunteers in an effort to promote archaeological awareness and encourage historical stewardship. She has been featured in books and magazines promoting STEM education, and currently serves on the board of the Oregon Historical Quarterly and the Southern Oregon Historical Society. Chelsea is a Principal Investigator with the award-winning Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project, was a guest co-editor of the Oregon Historical Quarterly issue dedicated to the Chinese diaspora, and co-edited Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America, available from the University Press at Florida.
See Chelsea’s publications here: Chelsea Rose Publications
Chelsea is host of the award-winning Underground History podcast, which is a collaboration with Jefferson Public Radio, and she has partnered with the Oregon Historical Society on the Unearthing Oregon video series.
Check out Chelsea on the CSI: Southern Pacific episode of the Smithsonian Sidedoor Podcast!
Katie Johnson, MA, RPA
Katie Johnson is a research archaeologist and Principal Investigator at SOULA, specializing in pre-contact lithic technology, GIS-mapping, and faunal analysis. In addition to over a decade of excavating and supervising projects in Oregon, Katie has also supervised the analysis of large assemblages from several pre-contact and historic-era assemblages within Oregon. Katie has received three competitive grants from the Oregon Parks and Recreations Department Heritage Program for the in-depth analyses of the faunal materials from the Jacksonville Chinese Quarter, The Dalles Chinatown, and the Britt Gardens assemblages. Katie currently serves as the Treasurer of the Association of Oregon Archaeologists (AOA), and regularly conducts public outreach and provides educational opportunities for archaeologists and aspiring archaeologists across Oregon.
Anna Sloan, PhD
Anna Sloan is the Education Coordinator and a Research Archaeologist at SOULA, and the Curator of Collections for the Southern Oregon Historical Society (SOHS). She received a PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology) and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Oregon in 2021. Anna grew up in and around the abundant historic homes, sites, and museums of the East Coast; got her start in museum work in New York City; and completed her doctoral research doing archaeology and oral history with a Yup’ik community in Southwest Alaska. An interest in story-telling around historic subjects has followed her in these pursuits, and she is excited to now be doing the work of connecting Southern Oregon communities to their histories through her work with archeological and historical collections at SOULA and SOHS. Anna’s research interests include gender, sexuality, and social identities of the past; Indigenous histories; and pre-contact/contact era transitions. View a list of Anna’s publications here, and her work experience here.
Carrie Vincent, MA, RPA
Carrie Vincent has a master’s degree in Archaeology and Humanities from Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona and has been conducting archaeology within Oregon for eight years. Vincent is a Staff Archeologist with SOULA, and owner and Principal Investigator of Vincent Archaeological Services, LLC. She specializes in pre-contact lithic technology and historical archaeology. Vincent conducted the first comprehensive projectile point analysis on the Marial Site 35CU84, one of the oldest radiocarbon-dated sites in southwest Oregon dating to almost 9,000 years BP. Through her work on Marial, Vincent established a chronology enabling cross-comparison and dating for other archaeological sites in the southwest Oregon region.
Keoni Diacamos
Keoni is a SOU alum and staff archaeologist with a wide breadth of experience working for the NPS, BLM, and in cultural resources management. He has worked extensively in wild-fire recovery throughout Oregon and California as well as DPAA projects aimed at the recovery and repatriation of WWII US Airmen in Poland and Germany. When not out in the field he enjoys driving and restoring classic Japanese automobiles.
Finley Brake
Finn is an Assistant Curator and field trained archaeologist for SOULA and has a BA in Humanities from the University of Oregon, with an emphasis on the art and culture of ancient civilizations. He has called Southern Oregon home for 30 years now and is passionate about uncovering the story Oregon’s archaeological record has to share with us all.
Tyler Davis
Tyler Davis is a field tech with nearly 10 years-worth of experience with SOULA. Tyler has a research focus on zooarchaeology and has helped build and maintain SOULA’s comparative collection. He has worked with Wildlife Images and the Clark R. Bavin National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Lab.
Eric Gleason
Eric Gleason is an Oregon-based archaeologist with over four decades of experience. His research and personal interests include the integration of historic preservation and community development, public and community archaeology, the intersection of archaeological method and theory, old crumbling buildings including the Wing Hong Hai Company store in The Dalles, Oregon, and old rusty cars, particularly those powered by steam.
Jacqueline Cheung
Jacqueline Cheung holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and has worked for over thirty years in the Pacific Northwest on archaeological surveys and excavations, as well as laboratory analysis, historic research and report writing. She has worked for private contractors and the National Park Service at locations including Fort Vancouver, Mount Rainier, Lava Beds, and John Day Fossil Beds. She and her husband Eric Gleason acquired and are renovating the Wing Hong Hai Company store in The Dalles and continue to research the lives of the early members of the Chinese community in The Dalles. Jacqui currently serves on the Oregon State Advisory Commission for Historic Preservation and is on the Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project Advisory Committee.
Affiliated Researchers
Jennifer Fang, PhD
Jennifer Fang is a historian, curator, community worker, and second-generation Chinese American. She is the Director of Exhibitions at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle. Previously, she worked at the Pittock Mansion, the Japanese American Museum of Oregon, and the Portland Chinatown Museum. Jennifer earned a Ph.D. in U.S. history and Museum Studies certificate from the University of Delaware, where her research focused on race and immigration during the Cold War. She guest co-edited the Winter 2021 special issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly on Oregon’s Chinese Diaspora. Her research and writing have been published in the Journal of American Ethnic History and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. She currently serves as historical advisor to the Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project, on the editorial advisory board of the Oregon Historical Quarterly, and the board of directors of the Western Museums Association.
Laura Ferguson, PhD
Laura Ferguson is the founder and principal historian of Time and Place Historical Research. She specializes in the history of the American West and public history and is invested in working closely with communities on projects that bring their history to light. Laura serves on the Oregon Historical Quarterly board. She previously worked as a curator at the High Desert Museum, taught at Whitman College as a visiting assistant professor, and served on the Oregon Heritage Commission. She received her doctorate from the University of Michigan. Laura lives in Bend, Oregon, where she enjoys trail running and spending time on the river.
Don Hann
Don Hann has worked as an archaeologist for over thirty years, most of this time spent on the Malheur National Forest in the southern Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. There he managed one of the largest Federal cultural resource programs in the state, comprising over 6,000 documented archaeological and cultural sites. Hann has been a proponent of public archaeology for most of his career and since 1994 has worked with volunteers from the Forest Service’s Passport In Time (PIT) program and the Oregon Archaeological Society. He co-founded the award-winning Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project, and his research interests include historic mining, American Indian rock art, and lithic technology. His publications include the co-authored the book, Pushing the Boundaries: The Pictographs and Petroglyphs of Oregon’s Harney Basin (2017 Oregon Archaeological Society), and “Chinese Mining Kongsi in Eastern Oregon: A Case Study of Cultural Amnesia,” published in the 2021 Oregon Historical Quarterly thematic volume.
Jocelyn Lee
Jocelyn Lee is a historical archaeologist with a focus on antiracist methodologies to understand landscape, mobility, and placemaking. Her dissertation is on Chinese diaspora archaeology in Oregon looking at the movement between labor camps and small community centers in rural landscapes. Jocelyn’s work seeks to connect archaeological interpretations with present-day communities through the combination of countermapping, archival, and material analyses to help understand contemporary Chinese American’s conception of historical places. Jocelyn completed her MA in historical archaeology at UMass Boston in 2020 and received the Barbara E. Luedtke Book Award in Anthropology. She currently serves on the Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project Advisory Committee.
Olivia Wing, PhD
Olivia Wing is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Oregon. She is completing a dissertation on Asian American youth culture and gender in the twentieth-century Pacific Northwest and teaches courses in the History and Ethnic Studies Departments at UO. Wing has been part of the OCDP team since 2022. As both a researcher and a teacher, she works with public historians, community members, and students to locate Chinese American, as well as other Asian American, histories in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest more largely.
