MEET FELICE HERMAN, Â鶹ֱ²¥’S NEW MEMBERSHIP MANAGER
Felice Herman began working for Â鶹ֱ²¥ in December 2018 as Membership & Friends of Â鶹ֱ²¥ Manager. She is the first staff member to be hired at Â鶹ֱ²¥â€™s new home in Alexandria, VA. Felice spent the last four years as the Assistant Director of Development at Tudor Place Historic House & Garden in Georgetown, D.C. As a native to the area, she enjoys sharing her knowledge of the historical Chesapeake tidewater region and introducing her colleagues to local cuisine and connections. Her duties as Manager of Membership & Friends of Â鶹ֱ²¥ include the growth of both the membership and Friends of Â鶹ֱ²¥Â programs, handling membership processing and fulfillment, donor relations, planning and support for the Annual Meeting, and website maintenance.
Born in Maryland, Felice has spent the majority of her life in the Mid-Atlantic and traveling abroad. She completed her B.A. with honors in the Anthropology & Archaeology at Washington & Lee University, VA in 2011. Her undergraduate thesis (“Life and the Ruins: Exploring New Archeological Interpretations of Megalithic Monuments as Places of Life and Death in the British and Irish Neolithic Age”) tested a hypothesis about the cultural interplay of archaeological materials, astronomical orientation, and movement through the landscape on four major British and Irish prehistoric sites. Felice earned the M.A. degree in archaeology from University College Dublin, Ireland in 2014, where she continued her studies on how prehistoric megalithic sites and the landscape interacted. Her masters thesis was titled, “Approaching the Irish Sea from the East & West: Constructing Megalithic Monuments and Performative Landscapes in Neolithic Ireland and Scotland.â€
Felice’s fieldwork experience includes a graduate student field school using
ground-penetrating radar at the Neolithic site of the Céide Fields in Mayo, Ireland, an undergraduate student field school at Thomas Jefferson’s ²Ñ´Ç²Ô³Ù¾±³¦±ð±ô±ô´ÇÌýin Virginia, and participation in the first major excavation of the Gabii Project in Gabii, Italy in 2009. In Gabii, she was a part of the team that discovered an intact Roman cistern and the remnants of a bath that once had painted murals on its walls.
Felice has worked in non-profits for six years in addition to her archaeological education and fieldwork. She brings administrative, financial, event management, and fundraising experience to Â鶹ֱ²¥â€™s new home in Alexandria. Felice looks forward to developing Â鶹ֱ²¥â€™s membership options and benefits while sharing her passion for archaeology with members, donors, and beyond.