Applied Archaeology graduate student, Emma Lashley won the 2025 (PHA) Magruder-Newman Prize for Best Student Paper Presentation for her paper "The Wanton Women of Western Pennsylvania: Identifying Individuals of the Sex Work Industry in Early 20th Century Rural Pennsylvania.”
The Magruder-Newman Prize recognizes the best student paper in the field of Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic history presented at the PHA annual meeting. Lashley's paper will be published in a forthcoming volume of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.
Lashley's winning presentation began as a research paper for an 亚色影库 graduate course in historical archaeology. This research is in addition to her ongoing thesis research on the Brown Farm cemetery; part of the .
Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences