Craig Brown

Craig Brown

Craig J. Brown is a reformed accountant turned archaeologist and historian. He received his AA in accounting in 1994 graduating with honors from New Hampshire Technical College in Laconia. He began writing history and engaging in archaeology as an amateur in 1995. In 2002, he returned to school to study archaeology and anthropology. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in anthropology from the University of New Hampshire in 2007. He currently works as a field archaeologist for Crane & Morrison Archaeology, Freeport, Maine, while pursuing graduate studies in the Historical Archaeology Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In addition to serving as the project director for OREAP, Craig acts as co-director (along with Peter Morrison) for the Cape Porpus Archaeological Partnership, Kennebunkport, Maine. Craig's primary research interests include the agencies and impacts of colonization and the development of state level society. He has excavated on several sites in Maine (Popham and Chadbourne among them), New Hampshire, and in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. He continues to write history in his spare time. Craig lives with his wife, Sarah, and daughter, Bonnie, in Wells, Maine.