References for the paper “Sexualities and Textualities: An Archaeological Perspective” to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology in 2025

Agarwal, Sabrina C. 2012. “The Past of Sex, Gender, and Health: Bioarchaeology of the Aging Skeleton.” American anthropologist 114 (2): 322-335. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01428.x..

Benveniste, Emile. 1971. “The Nature of Pronouns, The Nature of the Linguistic Sign, and, Subjectivity in Language.” In Problems in General Linguistics, 217-230, 43-54. Miami: The University of Miami Press.

Drake, St. Clair, and Horace A. Cayton. 1993 [1945]. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Drury, Doreen M. 2009. “Love, Ambition, and “Invisible Footnotes” in the Life and Writing of Pauli Murray.” Souls 11 (3): 295-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999940903088366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10999940903088366.

—. 2013. “Boy-girl, Imp, Priest: Pauli Murray and the Limits of Identity.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 29 (1): 142-147. https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.29.1.142. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jfemistudreli.29.1.142.

Fearnbach History Services, Inc. 2016. Robert G. and Cornelia S. Fitzgerald House–Pauli Murray Family Home, 906 Carroll Street, Durham, Durham County, North Carolina: Historic Structure Report. National Trust for Historic Preservation (Durham, North Carolina).

Fisher, Simon D. Elin 2019. “Challenging Dissemblance in Pauli Murray Historiography, Sketching a History of the Trans New Negro.” The Journal of African American History 104 (2): 176-200. https://doi.org/10.1086/702437.

Franklin, Maria. 2020. “Gender, Clothing Fasteners, and Dress Practices in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town, ca. 1880–1904.” Historical Archaeology: 556-580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-020-00250-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-020-00250-8.

Keane, Webb. 2005. “Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things.” In Materiality, edited by Daniel Miller, 182-205. Durham: Duke University Press.

Mullins, Paul R. 1999. Race and affluence : an archaeology of African America and consumer culture. New York: Kluwer Academic.

Murray, Pauli. 1947. “Why Negro Girls Stay Single.” Negro Digest (July): 4-8.

—. 1987. Song in a weary throat : an American pilgrimage. New York: Harper & Row.

—. 1999. Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family.Black women writers series. Boston: Beacon Press.

Murray, Pauli, and Mary O. Eastwood. 1965. “Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII.” George Washington Law Review 34 (2): 232-256.

Murray, Pauli, and Genna Rae McNeil. 1976. Oral history interview with Pauli Murray, February 13, 1976 : interview G-0044, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Chapel Hill, N.C. : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007.

Rosenberg, Rosalind. 2017. Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray.. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Saxby, Troy R. 2020. Pauli Murray : a personal and political life. Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press.

Schmidt, Robert A., and Barbara L. Voss, eds. 2000. Archaeologies of Sexuality. Florence, Kentucky: Routledge.

 

Additional Sources:

https://www.paulimurraycenter.com/our-historic-site

https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/pauli-murray

This is the bibliography from the talk I’m honored to be delivering at the VII Semana Internacional de Arqueologia at the University of São Paulo.

Agarwal, Sabrina C., Michael L. Blakey, Thomas H. Champney, Carlina dela Cova, Jenny L. Davis, Debra L. Martin, Kisha Supernant, Deborah A. Thomas, Rachel Watkins, and Terrence Weik. June 2024 2024. The Commission for the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains, American Anthropological Association FINAL REPORT. The American Anthropological Association, https://americananthro.org/about/committees-and-task-forces/tcethr/ (Washington, D. C.).

Agbe-Davies, Anna S. 2004. “Up in Smoke: Pipe Production, Smoking, and Bacon’s Rebellion.” Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology, The University of Pennsylvania.

—. 2010a. “Archaeology as a Tool to Illuminate and Support Community Struggles in the Black Metropolis of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries.” Public Archaeology 9 (4): 171-193.

—. 2010b. “Concepts of community in the pursuit of an inclusive archaeology.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 16 (6): 373-389.

—. 2011. “Inside, Outside, Upside-down: Approaches to “Community” Archaeology in Chicago.” Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 7 (3): 574-595.

—. 2014. Community Engagement in Archaeology. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by Claire Smith. New York: Springer.

—. 2018. “Dr. Stage-Love, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Dissertation on Race, Pipes, and Classification in the Chesapeake.” In Engaging Archaeology: 25 Case Studies in Research Practice, edited by Stephen W Silliman, 181-188. 2018: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

—. 2022. “African American Archaeology, for Now.” Annual Review of Anthropology 51 (1): 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-041320-022153. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-041320-022153.

—. in press-a. “Archaeology, Intersectionally: Past Lives and Present Day Sociopolitics.” In The Routledge Handbook to Feminist Anthropology, edited by Pamela Geller.

—. in press-b. “Intersectional Thinking in Archaeological Analysis.” In The Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology edited by Marianne Moen and Unn Pedersen.

Agbe-Davies, Anna S., and J. Eric Deetz. 2025. “Classification for the Plastic Age.” In The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics, edited by Geneviève Godin, Þóra Pétursdóttir, Estelle Praet and John Schofield, 123-146. London: Routledge.

Atalay, Sonya. 2014. “Engaging Archaeology: Positivism, Objectivity, and Rigor in Activist Archaeology.” In Transforming archaeology : activist practices and prospects, edited by Sonya Atalay, Lee Rains Clauss, Randall H. McGuire and John R. Welch, 45-59. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.

Atalay, Sonya L. (Ojibwe). 2007. “Global Application of Indigenous Archaeology: Community Based Participatory Research in Turkey.” Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 3 (3): 249-270.

Barnes, Jodi A. 2021. “Behind the Scenes of Hollywood: An Archaeology of Reproductive Oppression at the Intersections.” American Anthropologist 123 (1): 9-35. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13511.

Bilge, Sirma. 2013. “Intersectionality undone: Saving intersectionality from feminist intersectionality studies.” Du Bois review: Social science research on race 10 (2): 405-424.

Blakey, Michael L. 2010. “African Burial Ground Project: paradigm for cooperation?” Museum International 62 (1-2): 61-68.

—. 2020. “Archaeology under the Blinding Light of Race.” Current Anthropology 61 (S22): S183-S197. https://doi.org/10.1086/710357.

Caldwell, Kia Lilly. 2022. “# MariellePresente: Black Feminism, Political Power, and Violence in Brazil.” Souls 22 (2-4): 213-238.

Colclasure, Cayla, and Anna S. Agbe-Davies. under review. “The Introductory Survey Course as an Invitation to Disrupt.” In Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Active learning in and beyond the university classroom, edited by Karina Croucher and Hannah Cobb. Routledge.

Collins, Patricia Hill. 2011. “Piecing Together a Genealogical Puzzle: Intersectionality and American Pragmatism.” European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy III (2).

—. 2017. “Social Inequality, Power, and Politics: Intersectionality in Dialogue with American Pragmatism.” In Pragmatism and Justice, edited by Susan Dieleman, David Rondel and Christopher Voparil, 147-162. New York: Oxford University Press.

— 2019. Intersectionality as critical social theory. Durham: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Chip, T. J. Ferguson, Dorothy Lippert, Randall H. McGuire, George P. Nicholas, Joe E. Watkins, and Larry J. Zimmerman. 2010. “The Premise and Promise of Indigenous Archaeology.” American Antiquity 75 (2): 228-238.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 1989. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” The University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989 139: 139-167.

De Souza Lima, Lívia, Julia Roth, and Edith Otero Quezada. 2023. “Marielle Presente!: Defending the Memory and Legacy of Marielle Franco in Brazil.  An Interview with Anielle Franco.” In Feminisms in Movement: Theories and Practices from the Americas, edited by Lívia De Souza Lima, Edith  Otero Quezada and Julia Roth, 283-289. transcript Verlag.

Douglass, Kristina, Eréndira Quintana Morales, George Manahira, Felicia Fenomanana, Roger Samba, Francois Lahiniriko, Zafy Maharesy Chrisostome, Voahirana Vavisoa, Patricia Soafiavy, Ricky Justome, Harson Leonce, Laurence Hubertine, Briand Venance Pierre, Carnah Tahirisoa, Christoph Sakisy Colomb, Fleurita Soamampionona Lovanirina, Vanillah Andriankaja, and Rivo Robison. 2019. “Toward a just and inclusive environmental archaeology of southwest Madagascar.” Journal of Social Archaeology 19 (3): 307-332. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605319862072.

Drake, St. Clair, and Horace A. Cayton. 1993 [1945]. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Emerson, Matthew C. 1999. “African Inspirations in a New World Art and Artifact: Decorated Tobacco Pipes from the Chesapeake.” In I, too, Am America: Studies in African-American Archaeology, edited by Theresa A. Singleton, 47-74. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia.

Eskildsen, Kasper Risbjerg. 2012. “The Language of Objects: Christian Jürgensen Thomsen’s Science of the Past.” Isis 103 (1): 24-53. https://doi.org/10.1086/664975.

Flewellen, Ayana Omilade. 2017. “Locating Marginalized Historical Narratives at Kingsley Plantation.” Historical Archaeology 51 (1): 71-87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-017-0005-7.

—. 2022. “Dress and Labor: An Intersectional Interpretation of Clothing and Adornment Artifacts Recovered from the Levi Jordan Plantation.” Archaeologies 18 (1): 200-234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-022-09443-4..

Flewellen, Ayana Omilade, Alicia Odewale, Justin Dunnavant, Alexandra Jones, and William White. 2021. “Creating Community and Engaging Community: The Foundations of the Estate Little Princess Archaeology Project in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 26: 147–176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-021-00600-z.

Flynn, Gillian A., and Deborah Hull-Walski. 2001. “Merging Traditional Indigenous Curation Methods with Modern Museum Standards of Care.” Museum Anthropology 25 (1): 31-40. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1525/mua.2001.25.1.31.

Franklin, Maria. 2001. “A Black feminist-inspired archaeology?” Journal of Social Archaeology 1 (1): 108-125.

Freinkel, Susan. 2011. Plastic : a toxic love story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Godin, Geneviève, Þóra Pétursdóttir, Estelle Praet, and John Schofield, eds. 2025. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics. London: Routledge.

Gräslund, Bo. 1987. The birth of prehistoric chronology : dating methods and dating systems in nineteenth-century Scandinavian archaeology. Cambridge Cambridgeshire

Hanchard, Michael. 2008. “Black Memory versus State Memory: Notes toward a Method.” Small Axe (26): 45-62.

Harrington, J. C. 1951. “Tobacco Pipes From Jamestown.” Quarterly Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Virginia 5 (4): unpaginated.

Hawkins, Gay. 2018. “Plastic and Presentism: The Time of Disposability.” Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 5 (1): 91-102. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.33291.

Jackson, Antoinette T. 2012. Speaking for the enslaved : heritage interpretation at antebellum plantation sites. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2012.

La Roche, Cheryl J., and Michael L. Blakey. 1997. “Seizing Intellectual Power: The Dialogue at the New York African Burial Ground.” Historical Archaeology 31 (3): 84-106.

Lippert, Dorothy. 2005. “Comment on “Dwelling at the margins, action at the intersection? Feminist and indigenous archaeologies, 2005”.” Archaeologies 1 (1): 63-66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-005-0005-7.

Mack, Mark E., and Michael L. Blakey. 2004. “The New York African Burial Ground Project: Past Biases, Current Dilemmas, and Future Research Opportunities.” Historical Archaeology 38 (1): 10-17.

McKittrick, Katherine. 2013. “Plantation Futures.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (42): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378892.

Meikle, Jeffrey L. 1995. American plastic : a cultural history. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.

Meyers, Maureen S., Elizabeth T. Horton, Edmond A. Boudreaux, Stephen B. Carmody, Alice P. Wright, and Victoria G. Dekle. 2018. “The Context and Consequences of Sexual Harassment in Southeastern Archaeology.” Advances in Archaeological Practice 6 (4): 275-287. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2018.23.

Miller, Daniel. 2007. “Stone age or plastic age?” Archaeological Dialogues 14 (1): 23-27.

Mouer, L. Daniel, Mary Ellen N. Hodges, Stephen R. Potter, Susan L. Henry Renaud, Ivor Noël Hume, Dennis J. Pogue, Martha W. McCartney, and Thomas E. Davidson. 1999. “Colonoware Pottery, Chesapeake Pipes, and “Uncritical Assumptions”.” In I, too, Am America: Studies in African-American Archaeology, edited by Theresa A. Singleton, 75-115. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia.

Schofield, John, Jerry Aylmer, Andy Donnelly, Jen Jones, Juan Pablo Muñoz-Pérez, Elena Perez, Callum Scott, and Kathy A. Townsend. 2021. “Contemporary Archaeology as a Framework for Investigating the Impact of Disposable Plastic Bags on Environmental Pollution in Galápagos.” Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 7 (2): 276–306. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.41134.

Schomburg, Arthur A. 1925. “The Negro Digs up His Past.” In The New Negro: An Interpretation, edited by Alain Locke, 231-237. New York: Albert and Charles Boni.

Spector, Janet D. 1993. What this awl means: feminist archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M., and Jennifer M. Cantú Trunzo. 2022. “Introduction to Archaeologies Special Issue on Intersectionality Theory and Research in Historical Archaeology.” Archaeologies 18 (1): 1-44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-022-09442-5.

Surface-Evans, Sarah. 2020. “”I Could Feel Your Heart:” The Transformative and Collaborative Power of Heartfelt Thinking in Archaeology.” In Archaeologies of the Heart, edited by Kisha Supernant, Jane Eva Baxter, Natasha Lyons and Sonya Atalay, 69-81. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1995. Silencing the past : power and the production of history. Boston, Mass.: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c1995.

Voss, Barbara L. 2021a. “Disrupting Cultures of Harassment in Archaeology: Social-Environmental and Trauma-Informed Approaches to Disciplinary Transformation.” American Antiquity 86 (3): 447-464. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.19.

—. 2021b. “Documenting Cultures of Harassment in Archaeology: A Review and Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Research Studies.” American Antiquity 86 (2): 244-260. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.118.

Watkins, Rachel J. 2020. “An Alter(ed)native Perspective on Historical Bioarchaeology.” Historical Archaeology 54 (1): 17-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-019-00224-5.

White, William A. 2021. “Applying Risk Management Concepts from CRM and the Outdoor Recreation Industry to Academic Archaeology Projects.” Advances in Archaeological Practice 9 (1): 61-65.

From the National Trust for Historic Preservation: “Please join the National Trust in asking your elected officials to support the newly authorized African American Burial Grounds Preservation Program by approving full funding of $3 million in FY 2025 appropriations to enable the launch of this program.”

https://support.savingplaces.org/page/64151/action/1

I was invited to be part of a conversation with archaeologists all across the world to think through how the current global pandemic will shape archaeological practice.  We published our remarks as guest bloggers for the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

This is the syllabus from 2014.  Adjustments will be made for the new project, but the underlying concept remains.

Public Archaeology Practicum

ANTH 898.079

Spring 2014

 

Prof. Anna Agbe-Davies

201B Alumni

Office Hours: T 2-4, F 9-10

agbe-davies@unc.edu

919-962-5267

Overview

Anthropology has a long history as an applied discipline, producing insights that are useful in the world as well as in the academy. This graduate course provides an opportunity to explore that dimension of the discipline through readings, seminar discussions, and the completion of an applied group project. Members of this class will engage in ongoing research that uses their anthropological and archaeological training to further the goals of a collaborating community. For Spring 2014, this includes an archaeological study of the “Hogan-Rogers” farm, now owned by St. Paul AME Church.

This course is designed to be relatively horizontal in its organization, and will require substantial input from all members in order to shape the course itself, as well as the final project.

Readings

Required readings come primarily from two books, both of which are on reserve in the library. Additional readings are listed in the schedule, below. We will add further readings as the need arises.

Little, Barbara J., ed.

2002 Public Benefits of Archaeology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

 

Shackel, Paul A., and Erve J. Chambers, eds.

2004 Places in Mind: Public Archaeology as Applied Anthropology. New York: Routledge.

Assessment

Grades will be based participation, a number of incremental assignments, and a final product. Our activities and outputs may include

• Contributions to the research plan
• Identification of additional reading for the group
• Fieldwork at the site
• An individual research journal (may also use Sakai forums for something similar)
• Analysis of data generated by fieldwork
• An annotated bibliography, in support of the specific needs of the project (may cover topical [e.g. plantation archaeology], methodological [e.g. surface survey], or theoretical [e.g. digital archaeology] themes)
• A final paper, suitable for conference presentation.
• A collectively written website (an expressed interest of the pastor of St. Paul AME)
• A summary presentation (also requested by St. Paul AME)

The weight and form of these activities and outputs will be established collectively early in the semester.

Do note, that while we are each going to have to be unusually adaptable and creative as we participate in this class, this does not mean that anything goes. If anything, we will be more accountable to each other for timely completion and fair distribution of work than in a more typical course.

Draft Schedule[1]
Session 1: introduction; organization of the course; ethics. Required reading: CITI training; Chambers; Little; Caulkins; SfAA; SAA.

https://research.unc.edu/offices/human-research-ethics/researchers/training/

http://www.sfaa.net/sfaaethic.html

http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/PrinciplesofArchaeologicalEthics/tabid/203/Default.aspx

Chambers in Places in Mind (PM)

Little in Public Benefits of Archaeology (PBA)

Session 2: preparing to engage.[2] Required reading: Preservation Society of Chapel Hill; Poole; Orser; Birt; Kuwanwisiwma; Praetzellis.

Preservation Society of Chapel Hill

2012 Hogan-Rogers House Preservation Project. Chapel Hill, NC: Preservation Society of Chapel Hill (Preservation Chapel Hill).

Poole, Lauren

2012 Hogan-Rogers House Research Report. Chapel Hill, NC: Preservation Society of Chapel Hill (Preservation Chapel Hill).

Orser and Birt in PM

Kuwanwisiwma and Praetzellis in PBA

Session 3: applied anthropology. Required: Shackel, Rylko-Bauer, et. al., Recommended: Sanday; Bennett.

Rylko-Bauer, Barbara, Merrill Singer, and John Van Willigen

2006 Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future. American Anthropologist 108(1):178-190.

Bennett, John W.

1996 Applied and Action Anthropology. Current Anthropology 36(Supplement):S23-S53.

Sanday, Peggy Reeves

2003 Public Interest Anthropology: A model for engaged social science: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthro/CPIA/PAPERS/Chicago.2003.pdf.[3]

Shackel in PM

Session 4: public archaeology—strategies. Required: Lamphere, Watkins et. al., Reeves, Wall et. al., SAA.

Lamphere, Louise

2004 The Convergence of Applied, Practicing, and Public Anthropology in the 21st Century. Human Organization 63(4):431-443.

Watkins, Joe, K. Anne Pyburn, and Pam Cressey

2000 Community Relations: What the Practicing Archaeologist Needs to Know to Work Effectively with Local and/or Descendant Communities. In Teaching Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century. S. Bender and G.S. Smith, eds. Pp. 73-81. Washington, D.C.: The Society for American Archaeology.

http://www.saa.org/publicftp/PUBLIC/forArchaeologists/forArchaeologists.html

Reeves in PM

Wall, et. al. in PM

Session 5: public archaeology—theoretical strands. Required: Singer; Potter (x2); McDavid; McKee; Farnsworth; Lipe. Recommended: Leone, et. al. (as background)

Potter, Parker B., Jr.

1991 What is the Use of Plantation Archaeology? Historical Archaeology 25(3):94-107.

Farnsworth, Paul

1993 “What is the Use of Plantation Archaeology?” No Use at All, if No One Else is Listening! Historical Archaeology 27(1):114-116.

McKee, Larry

1994 Is It Futile to Try and Be Useful? Historical Archaeology and the African-American Experience. Northeast Historical Archaeology 23:1-7.

Potter, Parker B., Jr.[4]

1994 Critical Theory, Archaeology, and Annapolis. In Public Archaeology in Annapolis: A Critical Approach to History in Maryland’s Ancient City. Pp. 26-44. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Singer, Merrill

1994 Community-Centered Praxis: Toward an Alternative Non-dominative Applied Anthropology. Human Organization 53(4):336-344.

Leone, Mark P., Parker B. Potter, Jr., and Paul A. Shackel

1987 Toward a Critical Archaeology. Current Anthropology 28(3):283-345.

McDavid in PM

Lipe in PBA

Session 6: heritage needs assessment. Required: Marshall; Hantman; Warner and Baldwin, Mullins

Marshall, Yvonne

2002 What is community archaeology? World Archaeology 34(2):211-219.

Hantman, Warner and Baldwin, Mullins in PM

 

Interim sessions TBD[5]

 

Session 13?: the role of the state. Required: Barile; McManamon; Smith and Ehrenhard.

Barile, Kerri S.

2004 Race, the National Register, and Cultural Resource Management: Creating an Historic Context for Postbellum Sites. Historical Archaeology 38(1):90-100.

McManamon and Smith and Ehrenhard in PBA

Session 14?: further applications. Required: Slick; White; Goddard; Thomas. Recommended: Moyer.

Slick, White, Goddard, and Thomas in PBA

Moyer in PM

Session 15?: writing (for the public). Required: Young; Allen; Fagan.

Young, Allen, and Fagan in PBA

 

 

 

[1] This schedule is not tied to dates. This sequence is optimal, but we will need to make time for meeting with collaborating organizations/individuals, site visits, etc. We will have more class meetings than the numbered sessions listed here.

[2] Sometime after this session, we will schedule a meeting or meetings with representatives of St. Paul AME and Preservation Chapel Hill.

[3] Link no longer active—post to Sakai

[4] On reserve

[5] At some point we will need to read this article and commentary: Shannon Lee Dawdy, 2009, Millennial archaeology: Locating the discipline in the age of insecurity. Archaeological Dialogues 16(2):131-142.

Archaeologists and linguists have worked together for many years to understand the origins of Indo-European languages, such as English.

Michigan State University has a terrific campus archaeology program.  Recently (during Black History Month) their blog included a post on John Wesley Gilbert, who may have been the first African American with an advanced archaeology degree–I certainly don’t know of any earlier!  Archaeology still isn’t very racially diverse, but check out the Society of Black Archaeologists to learn about what his “descendants” are doing.

John Jackson offers his ethnographic insights on the academy.  This article is available to subscribers of The Chronicle of Higher Education.  If you can’t access it from your device, try using a computer at a nearby college or university.

The presidents of the Society for American Archaeology and American Anthropological Association team up to demonstrate that archaeology and anthropology, far from being “frivolous,” are crucial to understanding our world today.  If you agree, let the National Science Foundation know that you support funding for the social sciences!

Savage Minds breaks down the significance behind the date chosen for National Anthropology Day.  Why is the establishment trying to hide the truth?