This summer, thanks in part to a CLACLS summer travel fellowship, I was able to conduct vital research for my dissertation on the island of Barbuda West Indies. With the CLACLS scholarship I traveled to the island of Barbuda where I spent two weeks doing fieldwork using a Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) on the site of Indian Town Trail. GPR data is key in defining the boundaries of my site which will help make more efficient decisions on where to excavate in January of 2016. While in Barbuda, I also spent time in the lab analyzing the faunal remains from yet another site from the Pre- Columbian time, the site of Welches. Without this field visit, the data collection that has resulted and the subsequent analysis of all this information and data, my proposal would not have been possible. Beyond my dissertation proposal, this primary data will also be used for writing a dissertation improvement grant that I hope to apply for after the completion of my second exam.