Georgia Fox is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Chico, where she also directs the Heritage Resources Conservation Laboratory and Co-Directs the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology and Museum Studies Program. She received her B.A. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University. Her academic interests and specializations include the conservation and preservation of archaeological and ethnographic materials, museum studies, maritime archaeology, and the historical archaeology of New World Caribbean colonization. Her work in the Caribbean includes research into pre-industrial consumerism at Port Royal, Jamaica, and she currently is Principal Investigator of excavations at Bettys Hope Plantation on Antigua. Fox has conducted archaeological and conservation work in Greece, Turkey, and Israel, the Caribbean, and the Netherlands. She has consulted on a number of projects, and established a conservation laboratory at Haifa University, Israel, and the Heritage Resources Conservation Laboratory on the CSU Chico campus, and is in the preliminary stages of establishing a conservation laboratory on the island of Antigua to help conserve materials archaeologically recovered in the Caribbean region.