Chesson, Meredith S.: - Meredith S. Chesson teaches archaeology and anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, and nurtures a passion for exploring how people use their belongings, heirlooms, and heritage to craft their homes to meet life's challenges, great and small. Supported by American grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, and the Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation, she has published books and journal articles detailing the results of archaeological research in Jordan, Italy, and Ireland. Since 2009 she has worked on the Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast research project, focused on the heritage and archaeology of the western islands of Inishbofin, Inishturk, and Inishark. She is a member of the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group and the Society for Historical Archaeology, and a Research Associate at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.