Tonya Baroody Largy

Tonya Baroody Largy graduated in 1961 from St. Mary of the Springs (now Ohio Dominican University). She majored in Sociology and French and minored in Psychology. She went on to earn an M.S.W. from the Fordham University School of Social Work in 1963 and practiced in New York City and Poughkeepsie, New York until her first child was born.

After living in Rome, Italy for a year in 1970 where her husband was assigned to work for IBM, she developed an interest in archaeology. In 1981, she completed a second B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. In 2001, she earned a second Master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Since 1982, she has been employed as an archaeologist specializing in the study of animal bones from archaeological sites at Harvard University. Tonya also analyzes bones and plants as a Consultant to other archaeologists in the Northeastern United States.

While living in Massachusetts since the late 1970’s, Tonya has done volunteer work and served on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations. These include starting a home (Hesed House) for mentally handicapped adults, working to establish a grass roots organization to protect the Assabet River, serving as Vice-President of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, and the Steering Committee of the Conference of New England Archaeology.

Tonya and her husband, Thomas Largy, have two sons, Thomas Edward and Timothy.