Dr. Rainville teaches anthropology and archaeology at Sweet Briar College. Her primary interests are the Ancient Near East, the Assyrian Empire, urbanism, household archaeology, African-American culture, slave cemeteries, and the history of Virginia. She has conducted fieldwork on complex societies in Turkey, Syria, India, Mexico, and North America. Her recent research on Near Eastern Urbanism and Enslaved Communities in Virginia is supported by grants from the National Endownment for the Humanities, Wenner-Gren, the NSF, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Both projects involve Sweet Briar students. In her recent book, Investigating Upper Mesopotamian Households Using Micro-Archaeological Techniques (Archaeopress 2005), she developed an innovative model for applying micro-archaeological techniques to urban sites.More information is in Dr. Rainville's C.V.
Dr. Rainville is seeking a new research assistant.
Contact: lrainville[at]sbc.edu, (o) 434-381-6432, address: 115 Gray Hall, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA 24595
Dr. Rainville's Research, Projects, and Sites
Micro-Archaeology
Teaching Interests
New
Hampshire Mortuary Ideology
Zoo
Archaeological Collection
Locohistory 
Sweet Briar Archaeology Program
Dr. Rainville's Other Websites
African American Cemeteries in Albemarle County
African American Heritage at Sweet Briar
Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project