Francis Pierce-McManamon

At Johns Hopkins, Francis Pierce-McManamon serves as a lecturer for the MA in Cultural Heritage Management program, where he has taught the program’s introductory course and developed the Managing Cultural Heritage Resources course. He draws on his expertise in Heritage Resource Management; CRM as practiced in the United States; the management of digital cultural resource data; and the identification, evaluation, public interpretation, preservation, protection, and treatment of cultural heritage and resources.

From 2009 to 2019, McManamon was the Executive and Founding Director of the Center for Digital Antiquity, which develops and maintains an international digital repository for data and information about archaeological, cultural, and historical resources at Arizona State University. He also served as a Research Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at ASU.

Prior to joining Digital Antiquity, McManamon served as the Chief Archeologist of the National Park Service (1995–2009) and the Departmental Consulting Archeologist of the Department of the Interior (1991–2009). In 1998-2000, he led the U.S. government’s investigation of the Kennewick Man skeletal remains from Washington State. From 2018-2022, he served as a member of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee, appointed by the Secretary of the Interior on the recommendation of the American Alliance of Museums, American Anthropological Association, and the Society for American Archaeology.

The author or editor of articles, books, book chapters, commentaries, and reviews on a variety of topics related to heritage management and archaeology, his most recent book, which he edited, is New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management (Routledge, 2018).

A graduate of Colgate University, McManamon earned his PhD from the State University of New York at Binghamton (now Binghamton University). He has been involved in archaeological and CRM investigations in eastern North America, Western Europe, and Micronesia and has worked internationally with UNESCO, UNIDROIT, ICOMOS, and ICHAM.

Featured Works

• “At Risk Worldwide: Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Digital Data,” in Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Sending Out an S.O.S., edited by Nicola Lercari and others, pp. 176-203, Equinox, Sheffield, UK and Bristol, CT, 2022
• “Developments in American Archaeology: Fifty Years of the National Historic Preservation Act,” in Annual Review of Anthropology 47:553-74, 2018
• “Kennewick Man Case – Tribal Consultation, Scientific Studies, and Legal Issues,” in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, 2018