William Dunsmore is an archaeologist who has worked on projects in the Pacific Northwest, the American Southwest, the New York metropolitan area, and New England. During his time at Bard Graduate Center, he studied the rise of lager beer in the nineteenth century and its impacts on the German American community in New York City and throughout the United States. Dunsmore’s research interests are varied and include historical, industrial, documentary, experimental, landscape, and contemporary archaeology, Ancestral Puebloan and Mogollon ceramics, Southwest earthen architecture, and ancient and historic beer production.

Qualifying Paper: “A Winter Temperature in the Summer Time”: Preserving Nineteenth-Century Lagerkellers and German-American Heritage