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Just after insurrectionists attempted to take over the Capitol last week, a professor of archaeology did the Nazi salute during a plenary session at the Society for Historical Archaeology’s virtual meeting.
“Sieg heil, you,” said Robert Schuyler, associate professor of archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, raising his hand in the Nazi salute, as seen in a clip of the incident circulating on social media.
Schuyler, who was in plenary’s virtual audience, targeted panelist Liz Quinlan, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of York in Britain, after she declined to entertain questions from him about society membership rates. She deemed the questions unrelated to her comments on creating accessibility documents for the conference, according to a public account of what happened from independent bioarchaeologist Kristina Killgrove. Quinlan had not finished her remarks but Schuyler continued to interrupt her.
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Robert Schuyler (bottom right) interrupted Liz Quinlan (second from top left) and used a Nazi phrase and salute during the opening plenary of a virtual archaeology conference last week. Liz Quinlan
Public use of Nazi salute rocks archaeology conference
Jan. 11, 2021 , 3:30 PM
Attendees at last week’s annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) were shocked by a public, online altercation that included a past president of the organization using a Nazi salute and phrase during the conference’s opening plenary session.
Liz Quinlan, a doctoral student at the University of York, was thrilled to be an invited speaker at the plenary on Wednesday, 6 January. She served as the accessibility and inclusion coordinator of both the January 2020 conference, held in person in Boston, and this year’s virtual conference. As she was talking about her work, which included an LGBTQ+ guide to Boston in 2020 and a push to provide live closed captioning and tran
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