Who We Are

Dr. Jaimee Hegge

Dr. Jaimee Hegge has practiced as an occupational therapist since 2012 and has been a Clinical Assistant Professor at Sacred Heart University since 2018. Dr. Hegge teaches and coordinates the adult and geriatric physical rehabilitation curriculum in the Graduate Occupational Therapy (OT) Program. She received her Master of Science in OT degree from Sacred Heart University and her Post-Professional Doctoral degree from St. Catherine University.

Dr. Hegge’s area of clinical expertise is in adult and geriatric physical rehabilitation, with a focus on orthopedic injuries, cumulative trauma disorders, and pelvic floor dysfunction. She is also a Certified Kinesio Tape Practitioner. Dr. Hegge has been working with AVAR and supervising OT students’ clinical fieldwork with AVAR since 2019.

Dr. Lola Halperin

Dr. Lola Halperin has practiced as a mental health occupational therapist since 1995 and has been teaching/coordinating the mental health curriculum in the Graduate Occupational Therapy (OT) Program at Sacred Heart University (SHU) since 2010.

She has a Bachelor in OT degree from Tel Aviv University, a Post-Professional Master’s degree from New York University and a Doctor of Education degree from Columbia University.
Throughout her career, she has worked with clients experiencing mental health issues and other forms of adversity in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric facilities as well as community-based settings in Israel, Canada, and United States.

Dr. Halperin has participated in American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR) digs in Albany and Saratoga (NY) and Beit Shearim in Israel. In collaboration with her colleague, Dr. Jaimee Hegge, she has been also supervising SHU OT students’ clinical fieldwork with AVAR.

Dr. Douglas D. Scott

Retired in 2006 from the National Park Service after more than 30 years of with the Department of the Interior. Doug was the BLM Montrose District Archeologist from 1975 to 1983 when he transferred to the National Park Service. His last position was as Great Plains Team Leader, Park Programs, Midwest Archeological Center Lincoln, Nebraska. He is currently Adjunct Research Faculty at Colorado Mesa University. Doug received his Ph.D. in 1977 in Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has worked throughout the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West on a variety of archeological projects. Doug specializes in nineteenth century military sites archeology and forensic archeology. He is particularly noted for his expertise in battlefield archeology and firearms identification having worked on more than 40 battlefield sites, including the Sand Creek Massacre, and the Battles of Big Hole, Wilson’s Creek, Pea Ridge, and Santiago de Cuba. He was awarded the Department of the Interior’s Distinguished Service Award in 2002 for his innovative research in battlefield archeology that started with his work at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. His 2013 book Uncovering History, on the archaeology of the Little Bighorn battle, has received several book of the year awards. In 2015 Doug was presented with the J. C. Harrington Award from the Society for Historical Archaeology for lifetime achievements in the field of Historical Archaeology

Doug has also been involved with human rights and forensic investigations since the early 1990s. He has worked with the United Nations and various human rights organizations in El Salvador, Croatia, Rwanda, Cyprus, Iraq, and on an animal welfare case in Canada. He is also an instructor for the Advanced Metal Detecting for Archaeologists program sponsored by the Register of Professional Archaeologists.

Joel Bohy

Joel is the Director of Historic Arms & Militaria for Bruneau & Co Auctioneers and an appraiser on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow for Arms & Militaria. He is an active member of the American Society of Arms Collectors and an instructor and board member for Advanced Metal Detecting for the Archeologist.

His passion for material culture and the history of the start of the American Revolution has led him to write and lecture with the Society for Historical Archaeology, the Fields of Conflict archaeology conference, Colonial Williamsburg’s “Weapons of War” conference, the Concord Museum, and Minuteman National Historical Park.

Clarissa Humphreys

Clarissa Humphreys is a leading authority on preventing sexual violence in Higher Education.  She has served as the Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response Manager at Durham University (UK) since 2016 and is the co-author of Addressing Student Sexual Violence in Higher Education: A Good Practice Guide. She is an experienced trainer and has developed and delivered courses focused on preventing and responding to sexual violence to universities across the United Kingdom and Egypt.

She has a Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin. She previously gained extensive professional experience working as a forensic mental health social worker in England and as a Licensed Master Social Worker and Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor in Texas. She has worked with survivors and perpetrators of domestic abuse and sexual violence.

She provides AVAR’s three levels of sexual harassment prevention training and has been a board member for AVAR since 2016. She attended a 6-week archaeology field school at Tel Gezer, Israel in 2011 and has excavated in Cyprus and the United States.