Professor Anna Feuerbach, Sociology



I have been a faculty member at NCC since 2012 and in fact took some Chemistry classes at the College in the 90’s. Currently I teach Cultural Anthropology and Physical Anthropology. I am an archaeological scientist and specialize in artifact conservation and ancient technology, specifically Medieval Eurasian sword production and how culture influences technological innovations. I study the relationship between people, planet, products and profit because archaeology is the study of past innovations. I have won a few awards for my research including Material Research Society but my favorite accomplishment was being asked to provide a paper by the American Chemical Society publication. As a student, I bought a book from them on the use of chemistry to study artifacts and at that point did not understand any of the scientific techniques that were being discussed and NOW I wrote a paper for them!



I very much enjoy my time at NCC. It is great to have a class full of people from diverse backgrounds to give first-hand accounts of life from different social and cultural perspectives. I once had a student who was really interested in sword making so we started a club, wrote and published a paper together and had a sword conference at NCC. The NOVA/PBS program Secrets of the Viking Sword had recently been on and I was a consultant for the show. Another PBS show, On the Shining Knight, had also recently aired, so we had the Blacksmith from the Viking show and the armorer from the Shining Knight show come to NCC to demonstrate sword forging and armor decorating. That was really fun!



Meet Professor Feuerbach www.youtube.com/watch?v=09fWMV7OtxM&t=1s



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