LAURIE MIROFF

LAURIE MIROFF has been appointed the new director of Binghamton University’s Public Archaeology Facility (Archaeology Research Center). She has been project director with the research center since 1998, and will now oversee the center and its 25-member staff as director. Miroff succeeds Nina Versaggi, who served as director of the center for more than 30 years. Miroff holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Connecticut, and earned two master’s degrees (one in anthropology and another in teaching) from Binghamton University before completing her doctorate at Binghamton in 2002. She co-developed the Community Archaeology Program, which began in 1996 and is about to start its 24th season.