Richard G. Schaefer

B.A., Anthropology, Queens College, CUNY

A.M., American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania

Ph.D., Historical Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania

Project Director

Dr. Schaefer has been with HPI since 1986. Project Director for numerous cultural resource assessments and disturbance memoranda, he has also undertaken extensive primary research, report writing and agency communication, concentrating on the five boroughs of New York City. He has been responsible for devising, implementing, and overseeing documentary analyses designed to assess archaeological and historical potential and project impacts, with emphasis on historical and archival research, report writing, and editing.

Dr. Schaefer is also a member of the editorial advisory board for the journal Historical Archaeology, and serves as associate copy editor. His particular research interests are the archaeology and history of New York City, especially the 17th century Dutch.

Projects of interest include:

• East River Waterfront Esplanade and Piers Project for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, New York, NY;

• NYC DEP Avenue V Pumping Station and Force Mains Installation, Brooklyn, NY;

• The Glen Cove Creek Revitalization Plan Sector 2, Glen Cove, NY;

• NYC School Construction Authority, PS/IS at 1740 Macombs Road, Block 2866 Lots 70 and 100, Bronx, NY; and

• MTA/LIRR East Side Access Project, New York and Queens, NY.

Selected publications:

2005 (with Meta F. Janowitz) The Castello Plan–Evidence of Horticulture in New Netherland or Cartographer’s Whimsy? Volume 34, Northeast Historical Archaeology.

2004 (primary author), His Beloved Aunt Polly: Aunt Polly Archaeological Preserve, East Haddam, Connecticut. Hartford, CT.

1998 A Typology of 17th-Century Dutch Ceramics and Its Implications for American Historical Archaeology. BAR International Series, 702, Oxford, UK.