Krista Eschbach graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of West Florida. She has done fieldwork on various archaeological sites in northwest Florida, as well as Mexico and Little Sapelo Island, Georgia. She spent three summers (2002-2004) working on the Presidio Isla de Santa Rosa site, which is the basis for her thesis, “An Examination of Eighteenth Century Spanish Colonial Socioeconomics as Seen at Presidio Isla de Santa Rosa.” She is currently working as a research assistant with Dr. Judith Bense on her newest book that will synthesize over a decade of UWF research on four Spanish colonial presidios in northwest Florida. Krista will graduate summa cum laude with a M.A. in Anthropology specializing in Historical Archaeology in December 2007. In 2008, she will serve as project director for the anticipated UWF excavations in Veracruz, Mexico, investigating the colonial connection between New Spain and Spanish West Florida. Degree and focus: Historical Archaeology, Terrestrial.
Email: kle5@students.uwf.edu
