PUBLICATIONS
2022 "The Balance Principle Revisited: Slavery, Freedom and the Geography of Statehood." In Cabin, Quarter, Plantation:
Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery. Electronic Edition, Yale University Press.
2021 "The Underground Railroad in Maryland’s Ports Bays, and Harbors: Maritime Strategies for Freedom." In Sailing to
Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad, edited by Timothy D. Walker, University of Massachusetts
Press.
2021 "Secrets Well Kept: Colored Conventioneers and Underground Railroad Activism." In The Colored Conventions Movement:
Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, edited by P. Gabrielle Foremen, Jim Casey and Sarah Lynn Patterson,
University of North Carolina Press.
2014 Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance
University of Illinois Press, January 2014. Harriet Tubman
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/43wee5me9780252038044.html
"As Above, So Below": Ritual And Commemoration in African American Archaeological
Contexts in the Northern United States.” In Materialities, Meanings, And Modernities Of
Rituals In The Black Atlantic, edited by Akin Ogundiran and Paula Saunders, University of
Indiana Press.
Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807283
2013 “Coerced But Not Subdued: Women’s Gendered Resistance to Slavery.” In Gendered Resistance,
edited by Mary Frederickson and Delores Walters, University of Illinois Press, University of Illinois.
Press. http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/86maw3nh9780252037900.html
2013 “The African Burial Ground in the Age of Revolution.” In Tales of Gotham, Historical Archaeology,
Ethnohistory and Microhistory of New York City. 2015 Winner, James Deetz Book Award, Society for
Historical Archaeology.
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-5272-0_9
2012 “The Anthropology of Archaeology: The Benefits of Public Intervention at African American
Archaeological Sites.” In The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology, edited by John Carman, Carol
McDavid and Robin Skeates. Oxford University Press.
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199237821.do
2011 Archaeology, the Activist Community, and the Redistribution of Power in New York City .
In Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress, Vol. 7.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v1751j635514x515/
2010 “The Balance Principle: Slavery, Freedom and the Geography of Statehood”
in Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery, Yale University.
http://www.cwbr.com/index.php?q=4689&field=ID&browse=yes&record=full&searching=yes&Submit=Search
2009 Lead author and Cultural Landscape Consultant, Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study:
Environmental Assessment, National Park Service, Northeast Region, Department of the Interior. http://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?parkID=213&projectId=11008&documentID=25141
2009 Volume IV. Conservation of Materials from the African Burial Ground and the Non-Mortuary
Contexts. Prepared for Jacobs Edwards and Kelcey and the U. S. General Services Administration.
http://www.gsa.gov/graphics/regions/Volume_IV_290Broadway.pdf
2008 Introduction to Color in Freedom: Journey Along the Underground Railroad (Joseph Holston
exhibition catalogue) Pomegranete Press for the University of Maryland University College.
http://www.umuc.edu/colorinfreedom/bio/laRoche.shtml
2008 “William Paul Quinn.” The National African-American National Biography,
Oxford University Press (co-author).
http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/AANB
2007 “Public History at Sites of Protest: Citizenship on the President’s House Viewing Platform.” Cross Ties: Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, Fall 2007.
http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/news/ctfall07.htm
2007 Resistance to Slavery in Maryland: Strategies for Freedom, Special History Study for Organization of American Historians, National Park Service, Northeast Region, U. S. Department of Interior.
http://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/discover_history/upload/ResistanceMDRpt.pdf
2005 “The Archaeology of Black Americans in Recent Times” (Co-author with Mark Leone). Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 34: 575-598.
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120417
2001 “Material Culture”: Conservation and Analysis of Textiles Recovered from Five Points.
(Co-author with Gary McGowan) Journal of the Society for Historical Archaeology, 35(3): 65-75.
2000 Tales of Five Points: Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-Century New York. Volume V
Conservation of Materials from The Courthouse Block. (Co-author) John Milner Assoc., Inc. for Edwards
and Kelcey Engineers, Inc. and the GSA.
2000 Tales of Five Points: Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-Century New York. Volume II
An Interpretive Approach to Understanding Working-Class Life. (Contributor) John Milner Associates, Inc. for Edwards and Kelcey Engineers, Inc. and the General Services Administration.
1997 “Seizing Intellectual Power: The Dialogue at the New York African Burial Ground”
(Co-author with Michael Blakey) Journal of the Society for Historical Archaeology, 31(3): 84-106. http://www.scribd.com/doc/92146820/La-Roche-and-Blakey-1997-Seizing-Intellectual-Power-the-Dialogue-at-the-
New-York-African-Burial-Ground
1995 The Ethical Dilemma Facing Conservation: Care and Treatment of Human Skeletal Remains and Mortuary Objects, (Co-author with Gary McGowan) Journal of the American Institute for Conservation,
Vol. 35, No. 2 (Summer, 1996), pp. 109-121.
http://cool.conservation-us.org/jaic/articles/jaic35-02-003.html
1995 “Beads from the African Burial Ground: A Preliminary Assessment.”
Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers, 6: 3-20.
http://www.beadresearch.org/Pages/Journal_Contents.html
PROJECT
2016-present Principal Investigator, Hampton Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Project
Hampton National Historic Site, Towson, MD, National Park Service
2017-2019 Principal Investigator, Ethnohistory of the President's House Site
National Park Service, Northeast Region
2014 The Search for Josiah Henson.
Time Team America. PBS. August.
http://www.pbs.org/time-team/explore-the-sites/search-josiah-henson/
2013-2014 Project Historian, Cultural Expressions Exhibition,
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Opening 2016.
http://nmaahc.si.edu/Collections/Culture
2012-2013 Consultant, Josiah Henson Park, Montgomery County Parks and Planning.
http://www.montgomeryparks.org/PPSD/Cultural_Resources_Stewardship/heritage/josiahhensonsp.shtm
2012 Consultant, Harriet Tubman By-Way Tour, Riggs Ward Design.
http://www.harriettubmanbyway.org/
SERVICE
2021-present Riversdale Museum House Focus Group
2014-15 Shockoe Bottom Preservation Group
http://www.savingplaces.org/treasures/shockoe-bottom#.VOKvoSxIjT8
2007-2013 Vice Chair, Commission on African American History and Culture, State of Maryland.
http://www.africanamerican.maryland.gov/
AWARDS
2021 Hartzog Volunteer Service Award, Woodson Home Committee, National Park Service.
2015 James Deetz Book Award, Society for Historical Archaeology
“The African Burial Ground in the Age of Revolution.” In Tales of Gotham,
Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Microhistory of New York City.
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-5272-0_9
2011 John L. Cotter Award, Society for Historical Archaeology
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news1210/news1210.html#8