Jade Luiz

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Jade Luiz

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Sociology and Anthropology

Office Hours

Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm to 4:00pm, or by appointment

Biography

Dr. Jade Luiz received her Ph.D. from Boston University where she specialized in historical archaeology, nineteenth-century urbanism, gender, and archaeology of the senses. Her research delves into the history of nineteenth-century sex work.

Education

PhD in Historical Archaeology

Boston University

MA in Historical Archaeology

Boston University

BA in Anthropology

Portland State University

Personal Website

https://msudenver.academia.edu/JadeLuiz

Published Works

    Luiz, J. (2025). Review of Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair by Rebecca Graff. Historical Archaeology, https://link.springer.com/journal/41636 Kolb, J. M., Hill, A., Leek, P., Luiz, W. J., McConnell, R., Wheaton, G. (2025). Tracing the use-life of an early Denver neighborhood cistern: A multi-proxy analysis of soil development, domestic practices, and urban privacy. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6405117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105117. Luiz, W. J. (2024). Archaeological Investigation of a Nineteenth-Century Sex District in Central City, Colorado (5GL2511). State Historic Preservation Office of Colorado, Luiz, W. J. (2022). Archaeology of a Brothel in Boston, MA: Erotic Facades. (pp 172). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003194330 Luiz, W. J. (2022). Wares of Venus: the sensoriality of sex for purchase at a nineteenth-century brothel in Boston, Massachusetts. (56Issue 2, pp 244-261). Historical Archaeology. Opishinski, A., Luiz, J. (2022). Archaeology in a New Light: Interpreting Indigenous History in a Sea of Pilgrims. The Public Historian, 44(4), 147–168. . Luiz, W. J. (2020). Ghosts in the Archives: Using Archaeology to Discuss Brothel Childhoods. (pp 125-143). University Press of Florida. Luiz, W. J. (2019). Clandestine, Ephemeral, Anonymous?: Myths and Realities of the Intimate Economy of a Nineteenth-Century Boston Brothel. (pp 214-238). University Press of Florida.