Maggie Peterson
Maggie Peterson
Academic Department Administrator (she/her/hers)
Contact:
Hortense Amsterdam House, 2110 G St NW
Washington DC 20052
Maggie is our full time Academic Department Administrator, an On-Call archaeologist, and a current GIS graduate student in the certificate program here at GW. This semester she is in a remote sensing course, and has experience with geospatial statistics, and programming for GIS. She plans to take her research and knowledge out into the field to delve deeper into the intersection of archaeology, forensic anthropology, and GIS, specifically using spatial statistics and mapping on the minute scale of the surface of bone. For more information see her LinkedIn page.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), archaeological excavation, digitization, digital mapping and cartography, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, human osteology.
Maggie is currently working on multiple projects as a GIS technician.
The first project Maggie is working on is an important one to everyone affected by the pandemic. She is working with local DC artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, as well as the Rituals in the Making team from GW -- lead by Dr. Sarah Wagner, in the digitization of Firstenberg's huge art installation called In America: How could this happen?. The art installation was planted on a field west of RFK stadium, where one white flag was planted per one death of an American from COVID-19 from October-December 2020. Maggie is working with the artist directly to digitize each flag that was dedicated to someone who passed, creating a digital map of all of the flags in memoriam of these individuals. She also created a form for anyone in the public to fill out to request a flag to be added to the digital installation. You can see all of this on the In America webpage Maggie created. Maggie is currently maintaining the webpage, maps, and apps associated with In America.
The second project Maggie is working on is with GW's Program on Extremism. She is creates a monthly map of individuals who have been charged in federal court for crimes related to the Capitol Hill siege. You can see the map and relevant data on GW's Program on Extremism's Capitol Hill Seige page.
GIS Graduate Certificate, est. 2021, The George Washington University
MSc, 2018, Bioarchaeological and Forensic Anthropology, University College London
BS, 2017, Biological Anthropology, The George Washington University