“The People of the Waters that Are Never Still have a rich and illustrious history which has been retained through oral tradition and the written word.”

– The Stockbridge-Munsee Community on The Muh-he-con-ne-ok

President, Co-Founder,
& Resident of Historic Germantown

Currently is a cultural resource manager based in the central Hudson Valley. He obtained a master’s degree in Archaeology at Cornell University, where he focused on North American Archaeology under the advisement of Sherene B. Baugher. In 2020, he obtained a B.A. in Anthropological Archaeology from Bard College, where he researched an African American neighborhood along Maple Avenue under the guidance of his then Advisor, Christopher R. Lindner. Before his education at Bard, he was inspired by the time spent at Dutchess Community College, obtaining an A.A. in Liberal Arts and Humanities. While at DCC, he was a Field Report Writer with Stephanie Roberg-Lopez, RPA, cleaning and identifying several years of Bowdoin Park Field School’s Indigenous artifacts.

One of Ethan’s current projects includes the recent Tompkins County Rural Black Residents Project (The TCRBR Project), merging history, genealogy, census records, and maps to spatially contextualize the stories of rural black residents between 1820 & 1870. This initiative was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with Cornell Rural Humanities’ Co-Principal Investigator Gerard Aching. His previous experiences include Lab Assistance at Bard Archaeology and Internships with the Black Rock Forest Consortium and Germantown History Department. He is also the Rombout Rural Cemetery Association’s Secretary, Sextant, and Historical Researcher.