John Shorter

Participant: John Shorter
Biography: John Shorter is a graduate student at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, specialising in archaeology, memory, and marginality. His research intersects bioarchaeology with medical and plantation history to investigate the physical impact of slavery, and other exploitative labour regimes, on the skeletal remains of Afro-Caribbean populations. Oral history, class relations, and the role of alternative, community-based archives also feature prominently within the parameters of his analysis. A former executive board member of The Archaeological Society of Jamaica (ASJ), he is currently an editor for The Coalition of Master's Scholars on Material Culture (CMSMC), where he and other postgraduates publish interdisciplinary research on the varied aspects of tangible culture. He is also a research assistant working with The Guardian Legacies of Enslavement Project hosted by The Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at The University of Hull, The United Kingdom.
Location: Jamaica
Date: November 8, 2023
Interviewer: Schuyler Esprit