Katharine Meade Davis

Kate Davis is an anthropological archaeologist whose research focuses on the pre-Inkan Andean civilization; the Tiwanaku in Bolivia. Interested in the lives of everyday people that made up the majority of the population at the monumental urban site, her excavations involving students and local indigenous people have focused on the residential structures where the people lived. These households were important places where multi-generational families would have cooked, feasted with their friends, performed rituals, made pottery, and buried their dead.

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History Beneath Our Feet: Untold Stories Discovered at The Speaker’s House

Visiting Instructor of Anthropology Katharine Davis and a group of students have spent the summer working on an archaeological dig project The Speaker’s House located right up the road from Ursinus College in Trappe

Forensic Anthropology Class Works a Simulated Crime Scene

Students in Professor Katharine Davis’s Introduction to Forensic Anthropology class spend a lab outdoors.

History Unearthed

The restoration of the centuries-old Speakers House—once an Ursinus College residence hall—in neighboring Trappe is a passion project decades in the making for historian Lisa Minardi ’04. And she has some help from aspiring Ursinus archaeologists.