Teresita Majewski, Ph.D., RPA
Vice President/Chief Operating Officer

Since 2005, Dr. Teresita Majewski has been SRI’s chief operating officer. In this capacity, she oversees the company operations branch and is responsible for ensuring that the branch and projects carried out within it run smoothly and efficiently. She supervises the directors of SRI’s various offices as well as project managers, principal investigators, and the directors of two support departments—publications and the laboratory. Dr. Majewski often serves as senior principal investigator or senior project manager on large projects, and because of her extensive experience with carrying out projects subject to federal, state, and local preservation law and regulations, she works closely with clients (particularly government clients) and Statistical Research, Inc., staff to ensure appropriate logistical design and implementation.  She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri–Columbia.

Dr. Majewski has worked on more than 150 archaeological and historical projects in the western, southwestern, and midwestern United States as well as in Latin America and Europe, and has been active in historic preservation, including prehistoric and historical architecture, and curation and collections management, since 1982. She joined SRI in 1994 to develop the company’s historic department (now historic program), which specializes in historical archaeology, history, architectural history, and material culture. From 1999 to 2004, she served as the company’s corporate project manager, and from 1989 to 1994 she was managing editor of the Society for American Archaeology’s journals American Antiquity and Latin American Antiquity.

Dr. Majewski is a Registered Professional Archaeologist, an associate research professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, and in 2008 became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She is senior editor (with Dr. David Gaimster) of The International Handbook of Historical Archaeology (Springer, 2009). She has published extensively on historical ceramics, but has also written on topics ranging from colonialism, the historical archaeology of Native Americans, and the archaeology of consumerism, to the development of historical archaeology as a discipline. She has also contributed to numerous technical reports.

She is a member of various professional organizations and is active in the governance of many of them. Dr. Majewski was president of the Society for Historical Archaeology in 1999 and a member of the Board of Directors (1994–2000), a member of the executive committee of the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association (2005–2007; 2008–present), and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Cultural Resources Association from 2004 to the present. Dr. Majewski served on the Society for American Archaeology’s Curation Committee (2000–2006) and was recently asked to be a member of the society’s Excellence in CRM Committee. She is currently appointed by the governor of Arizona to the Arizona Historic Sites Review Committee and serves as chairperson. She received a Presidential Recognition Award from the Society for American Archaeology in 1994 for her work with the society’s publications.