Curator of Archaeological Collections Maine State Museum. He is a graduate of North County Union High School, the University of Vermont (BA), Western Michigan University (MA) and the College of William and Mary (Ph. D).  Dr. Beaupré has made the French Colonial world and French-Canadian diaspora the focus of his historical and archaeological research. A native of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, he is the grandson of French-Canadian immigrants to the New England mills. Beaupre has excavated on both side of the modern US/Canadian border and published on French Jesuit material culture, historical archaeology of military instillations, and contact period border politics as well as community archaeology, landscape archeology, and heritage studies. He currently resides in central Maine with his wife, son and daughter.

Institutional/professional affiliation:

Curator of Archaeological Collections

Maine State Museum

 Research Associate

Arkansas Archeological Survey

Recent Publications:

n.d.      “on the same River where the Dutch have built a wretched redoubt”: Space, Place and the Creation of the Southern Border of New France through the Lake Champlain Richelieu River Valley in Colonial Forts in Archaeological Perspective. Michael S. Nassaney and Sergio Escribano-Ruiz editors (In Review)

2024    “The Posts along the Arkansas: A Brief Introduction to French Settlement in the Arkansas River Valley.” Le Journal, Center for French Colonial Studies/Centre pour l’etude du pays des Illinois. Vol. 40, no 1, Winter 24.

2022    ‘Skeletons in the Cabinet: Historical Memory and the Treatment of Human Remains Attributed to the Schenectady Massacre of 1690’ in Beyond the Battlefield:  Historical Memory, Archaeology, and the Social Experience of War and Conflict.  Mark Axel Tveskov and Ashley A. Bissonnette, editors, University Press of Florida. (with Erin N. Delwiche and Holly E. Delwiche)

2021    “The Jesuits Mission Proves We Were Here’: 18th Century Jesuit Missions Aiding 21st Century Tribal Recognition.”  Journal of Jesuit Studies 8(3): 454-473.

 Professional Service:

 January 2025 - Present – Vice president, Center for French Colonial Studies/Centre pour l’etude du pays des Illinois.

July 2023 – Present – Book Review Editor, Le Journal, quarterly journal of the Center for French Colonial Studies/Centre pour l’etude du pays des Illinois.

April 2022 – April 2023 – Chairmen of Fundraising, Old State House Museum Society, Department of Arkansas Heritage, Little Rock, AR. 

August 2011 – August 2015 - Commission Member and Chairman of Sub-Committee on Cultural Affairs, Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs, Department of Historic Preservation, Giovanna Peebles and Laura Trishmann, State Historic Preservation Officer.