About this site:

This site was initiated as part of a class project exploring materials as an object and those that use them in creating a social identity. I hope to expand this site from its limited beginnings to documenting the enthusiast moped community, how it expresses itself, and how it changes over time. Here is a literature review of works that inform my analysis.

About me:

My name is Jeremy Floyd. I am a graduate student at Western Michigan University where I am pursuing my Master of Arts degree in Anthropology. I have a strong interest in the various ways people understand and use the past, through documents, material culture, and landscape. I am finishing my final year in the masters program in anthropology and graduate certificate in ethnohistory. My background is in historical archaeology, primarily in Virginia, where I worked at Mount Vernon for a year before beginning graduate school. When I began graduate school, I thought it would be continuing with historical archaeology. Then began a project working with a group of vintage moped enthusiasts associated with The Moped Army . In this project, which has become my masters thesis, I am exploring the ways individuals construct social identities through their use and understanding of these objects from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.