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CURRICULUM VITAE
Charles E. Orser, Jr.
PERSONAL
Professional address: Department of Anthropology, 124 Garland Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
TN; [email protected]
Home address: 5811 Still Hollow Road, Nashville, TN 37215
Professional title: Research Professor
Additional titles: Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Illinois State University; Adjunct Research Professor,
Department of Anthropology, University at Albany (SUNY); Adjunct Professor, National University
of Ireland, Galway
EDUCATION
Ph.D., anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1980
Dissertation title: An Archaeological and Historical Socioeconomic Analysis of Arikara Mortuary
Practice
M.A., anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1975
Thesis title: The Kolmer Site: An Eighteenth-Century Michigamea Village
B.S., history, (geology, English literature minors), Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, 1972
EMPLOYMENT
August 1, 2013 to present, Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee
February 7, 2008 to July 31, 2013, Curator of Historical Archaeology, New York State Museum,
University of the State of New York, Albany, New York
August 16, 1999 to December 31, 2007, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Department of
Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University
August 16, 1994 to August 16, 1999, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, Illinois State University
June 5, 1989, to August 15, 1994, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Director, Midwestern
Archaeological Research Center, Illinois State University
August 18, 1988, to May 19, 1989, Associate Professor of Anthropology (tenured). Department of
Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
August 17, 1983, to August 17, 1988, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Geography
and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
January 15, to April 30, 1985, Adjunct Faculty, Division of Continuing Education, University of St.
Francis, Joliet, Illinois (for course taught in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
September 1, 1982, to June 30, 1983, Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology Program, University of
South Dakota, Vermillion
July 21, 1980, to June 30, 1982, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, Loyola University of Chicago
August 6, 1979, to July 18, 1980, Assistant State Archaeologist, Michigan History Division, Michigan
Department of State, Lansing
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SPECIAL AND VISITING APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New
Zealand, October-November 2011
Adjunct Professor, Department of Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-present
Visiting Professor, Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland, 2007-present
External Ph.D. Examiner, University of Queensland, Australia, 2000
Adjunct Professor, Department of Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway, 1994-2004
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago, 1993-2003
External Ph.D. Examiner, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, 1996
Visiting Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Lund, Sweden, 1996
Visiting Professor, Department of Archaeology, and the Culture and Colonialism Program, National
University of Ireland, Galway, 1995
Member, Advisory Board, Culture and Colonialism Program, National University of Ireland, Galway,
1994-95
Invited participant, School of American Research Advanced Seminar, “The Historical Archaeology of
Capitalism,” organized and chaired by Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr., 1993
Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1988
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Faculty of Arts Fellowship, Department of Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2002
Distinguished Professor, Illinois State University, 1999-2007
Arts and Science Lecturer, Illinois State University, 1998; Lecture: An Archaeological Look at Race and
Tradition in Pre-Famine Ireland, November
Founding Member, Delta Alpha Chapter, Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars,
Illinois State University, 1997
Outstanding University Researcher Award, Illinois State University, 1997
Outstanding College Researcher Award, Illinois State University, 1995
Faculty of Arts Fellowship, Department of Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway, 1995
Half-Million Club, for obtaining grants in excess of $500,000, Illinois State University, 1992
Award for Outstanding Research Accomplishments by a Non-Tenured Faculty Member, Honor Society
of Phi Kappa Phi, Louisiana State University Chapter, 1987
Summer Research Faculty Stipend, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1984
Dissertation Research Award, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1978-79
Graduate/Professional Award, Wayne State University, 1974-75
Michigan Higher Education Scholarship, 1971-72
RESEARCH GRANT OUTLINE
Funds generated from Field School in Historical Archaeology (Ireland) . . . . . .$ 615,684.00
Grants and contracts (Illinois State University) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 697,383.00
Grants pre Illinois State University (Louisiana State U; Loyola U) . . . . . . . . .$ 418,500.00
Total funds generated 1981-present . . . . . . .
SELECTION OF COURSES TAUGHT
Historical Archaeology (created; undergrad/grad)
Archaeological Theory (grad)
Archaeological Ethics and Law (grad)
$1,731,567.00
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Archaeological Thinking (undergrad)
Material Culture (undergrad/grad)
Archaeological Field School (undergrad)
Advanced Archaeological Field School (grad)
Theory, Interpretation, and Archaeology (National University of Ireland, Galway)
North American Prehistory (undergrad)
The Archaeology of the Inarticulate (grad seminar)
Key Concepts in Anthropology (grad)
North American Indians (undergrad)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (undergrad)
Cultures of the World (undergrad)
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AND SURVEYS DIRECTED
2013
2010
2007
2006
2005
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
August; Co-director (with Pedro Funari and Lúcio Menezes Ferreira), survey of beef jerky
plantations and maroon communities, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
June; Co-director (with Maggie Ronayne), mapping at Lios an Rú deserted village,
Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Republic of Ireland.
July; Director, excavation at Brogan House, Derrylahan townland, Glenveagh National Park,
County Dongeal, Republic of Ireland.
June-August; Director, excavation at Glenveagh Cottage, Glenveagh National Park, County
Donegal, Republic of Ireland.
August, Preliminary geophysical testing at Glenveagh Cottage, Glenveagh National Park,
County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.
June-August; Director, excavation at Barlow’s Field, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland;
Illinois State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
June-August; Director, excavation at Coopershill House, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland;
Illinois State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
June-August; Director, excavation at Coopershill House, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland;
Illinois State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
June-August; Director, excavation at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland;
Illinois State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
June-August; Director, excavation at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland;
Illinois State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
June-August; Director, excavation at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland;
Illinois State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
July-August; Director, excavation at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland;
Illinois State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
June-July; Director, excavation at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland;
Illinois State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
June-August; Director, excavation at Mulliviltrin, County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland;
funded by the Famine Commemorative Commission of the Office of the (Irish) Taoiseach;
Illinois State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
June-August; Director, Ireland Before the Famine, excavation at the Murray Site, Gorttoose,
County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland; funded by the Famine Commemorative Commission
of the Office of the Taoiseach, Irish Office of Public Works through the National Committee
for Archaeology, and Earthwatch; Illinois State University Field School in Historical
Archaeology
July; Co-director, with Kevin Barton, Applied Geophysics Unit, National University of Ireland,
Galway; magnetic susceptibility survey of Gorttoose, County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland
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1994
June-July; Director, survey and surface collection at Gorttoose, County Roscommon, Republic
of Ireland; Illinois State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
1993
July; Principal Investigator, excavation at Palmares, Serra da Barriga, State of Alagoas, Brazil;
funded by the National Geographic Society and the Social Science Research Council
1993
May-June; Director, excavation at Lytleville, Illinois; Illinois State University Field School in
Historical Archaeology
1992
July; Principal Investigator, preliminary archaeological investigation at Palmares, Serra da
Barriga, State of Alagoas, Brazil; funded by the National Geographic Society and the Illinois
State University Research Office
1992
May-June; Principal Investigator, archaeological survey of sites related to the Irish settlement
on the Illinois and Michigan Canal; funded by the Irish Research Fund, Irish American
Cultural Institute, St. Paul
1990
July-July; Director, excavation at Pleasant Hill, Illinois; Illinois State University Field School
in Historical Archaeology
1989
February-May; Principal Investigator; excavation at Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation,
Louisiana; funded by the Division of Archaeology, State of Louisiana
1987
May-July; Director, excavation at The Laboratory (Tabasco Brand Pepper Sauce factory),
Avery Island, Louisiana; funded by the McIlhenny Company, Avery Island; Louisiana State
University Field School in Historical Archaeology
1986
June-July; Principal Investigator, excavation at Marsh House, Petite Anse Plantation, Avery
Island, Louisiana; funded by Avery Island, Inc.; Louisiana State University Field School in
Historical Archaeology
1985
September; Principal Investigator, excavation of the Amanda Clark House, Shreveport,
Louisiana; funded by the Division of Archaeology, State of Louisiana
1985
June-August; Director, excavation at Magnolia Mound Plantation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana;
Louisiana State University Field School in Historical Archaeology
1984
May-July; Principal Investigator; excavation at Oakley Plantation, Audubon State
Commemorative Area, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana; funded by the Division of
Archaeology, State of Louisiana
1984
April; Co-Principal Investigator (with Douglas W. Owsley); salvage excavation at the St. Peter
Street Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1980-82 Principal Investigator; excavation at Millwood Plantation, Abbeville County, South Carolina
and Elbert County, Georgia; funded by the National Park Service, Atlanta
1979
April; Field Director; excavation at the Brouillet House, Vincennes, Indiana; funded by the Old
Northwest Corporation; principal investigator: Russell E. Lewis
1977
May-August; Field Director; excavation at the Old Shawneetown Bank Site, Old
Shawneetown, Illinois; funded by the Illinois Department of Conservation; principal
investigator: Edward B. Jelks
1975
June-August; Field Director, excavation at Fort de Chartres, Randolph County, Illinois; funded
by the Illinois Department of Conservation; principal investigator: Margaret K. Brown
1975
August; Field Director, excavation at Fort Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Illinois; funded by the
Illinois Department of Conservation; principal investigator: Margaret K. Brown
NON-FIELDWORK PROJECTS DIRECTED
1992
January-December; Principal Investigator, archival research in relation to Irish immigrant
settlement on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, Illinois; funded by the Irish American Cultural
Institute, St. Paul, and the South Side Irish Parade and Heritage Foundation, Chicago
1986-87 December-January; Principal Investigator; Oral History Project, Salt Mine Village, Avery
Island, Louisiana; funded by the International Salt Company, Avery Island, Louisiana
1982-83 September-June; Principal Investigator, Cultural Resources Survey and Inventory of all Indian
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lands in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska; funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
South Dakota Area Office, Aberdeen
1982-83 November-May; Co-Principal Investigator (with Karen Zimmerman) for archival and
curatorial work, James Cook and Harold Cook Archival Project; funded by the National Park
Service, Omaha
OTHER ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
1971-74 Archaeological field research projects with University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois Department
of Conservation, Detroit Historical Commission, Northwestern University, Illinois Department
of Transportation, National Trust for Historical Preservation, Michigan State University
GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS
Chair, Town of Normal, Illinois, Historic Preservation Commission, 1990-93
Member, Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council, 1990
Member, Louisiana Archaeological Survey and Antiquities Commission, 1985-88; appointed by
governor
MEMBERSHIPS IN MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Anthropological Association
World Archaeological Congress
Society for American Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology
Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology
Society of Australasian Historical Archaeology
Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction
CURRENT EDITORSHIPS
Founder and editor, International Journal of Historical Archaeology; 1996-present
Founding editor, book series, Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology, Springer, New York;
1995-present (30+ volumes in series to date)
Co-founding editor (with Michael Brian Schiffer), Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory, and
Technique, Springer, New York; 1997-present (4 volumes in series to date)
Editorial Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2010-present
Editorial Advisory Board, Post-Medieval Archaeology, 2005-present
Editorial Advisory Board, Australasian Historical Archaeology, 2011-present
Editorial Board, Cadernos do Lepaarq, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil, 2003-present
Editorial Board, Arqueologia Pública, Universidade de Campinas, Brazil, 2006-present
Editorial Board, Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 2011-present
PAST EDITORSHIPS
Senior Editor, Scientific American Discovering Archaeology, 2000-2001
Editorial Board, Irish Studies Review, 2001-2010
Regional editor, African American Archaeology, 1991-95
Founding newsletter editor, World Archaeological Congress Newsletter, 1991-95
Editorial Board and Associate Editor, Illinois Archaeology, 1990-92
Current Research Editor for the Gulf States, Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter, 1988-89
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Book Review Editor, Plains Anthropologist, 1986-89
OTHER SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Elected member, Board of Directors, Society for Historical Archaeology, 1996-98
Organizational liaison for the Society for Historical Archaeology to the World Archaeological Congress,
1991-97
Member, Ad-Hoc Committee for International Distribution of Journals, Society for Historical
Archaeology, 1994-95
Member, Secretariat, World Archaeological Congress, 1991-95
Member, Planning Committee, International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences,
1993-94
Member, Ad-Hoc Committee on Gender Issues, Society for Historical Archaeology, 1991-93
Member, National Membership Committee, Society for Historical Archaeology, 1989-93
Member, Membership Certification Committee, Documents Research emphasis, Society of Professional
Archaeologists, 1989-91
Membership Coordinator for Louisiana, Society for Historical Archaeology, 1983-89
Member, Membership Certification Committee, Historical Archaeology emphasis, Society of
Professional Archaeologists, 1984-87
Membership Coordinator for South Dakota, Society for Historical Archaeology, 1982
Chair, Historic Sites Committee, Illinois Archaeological Survey, 1978-81
SYMPOSIUM CHAIR OR MODERATOR
1999
1992
1989
1989
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1987
1984
1983
1980
Invited organizer, symposium “Race and the Archaeology of Identity” as part of the University
of Utah Press series Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry, Salt Lake City
Co-organizer and chair. Historical Archaeology: The End of Subordination.@ EuroTAG
(Theoretical Archaeology Group), Southampton, England
Co-chair. “Evidence from Burials in Archaeological Interpretations.” First Inter-Congress,
World Archaeological Congress, Vermillion, South Dakota
Co-organizer. Twenty-seventh Annual Workshop in Illinois Archaeology. Illinois
Archaeological Survey Annual Meeting, Normal, Illinois
Session organizer and chair. “Non-Traditional Sources in Historical Archaeology.” Twentyseventh Annual Workshop in Illinois Archaeology, Normal, Illinois
Roundtable moderator. “Ethnohistory.” Forty-fifth Plains Anthropological Conference,
Columbia, Missouri
Session moderator. “Plantations in World Perspective.” First World Plantation Conference,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Session organizer and chair. “Recent Research at Southern Plantations.” Fortieth Southeastern
Archaeological Conference, Columbia, South Carolina
Co-organizer and co-chair. “Archaeological Approaches to Plains Ethnohistory.” Thirty-eighth
Plains Anthropological Conference, Iowa City, Iowa
PUBLICATIONS
a. Books, authored
In prep Historical Archaeology. 3rd edition. Pearson, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
In prep How To Think Like an Archaeologist. Under contract with AltaMira Press, Lanham, MD.
In press A Primer on Modern-World Archaeology. Eliot Werner Publications, Clinton Corners, NY.
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2007
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1992
1988
The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America. University Press of Florida,
Gainesville. (peer reviewed)
Historical Archaeology. 2nd edition. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. (peer reviewed)
Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation. University of Pennsylvania Press,
Philadelphia. (peer reviewed)
Introducción a la Arqueología Histórica. Translated by Andrés Zarankin. Asociación Amigos
del Instituto Nacional de Antropología, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World. Plenum Press, New York. (peer reviewed)
(senior author with Brian M. Fagan). Historical Archaeology. HarperCollins, New York. (peer
reviewed)
Introdução à arqueologia histórica. Translated by Pedro Paulo A. Funari. Oficina de Livros,
Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
The Material Basis of the Postbellum Tenant Plantation: Historical Archaeology in the South
Carolina Piedmont. University of Georgia Press, Athens. Nominated for the James Mooney
Award, and the Society of Architectural Historians, Southeast Chapter Award. (peer reviewed)
b. Books, edited
2006
2005
2004
2002
2001
1996
(editor) Unearthing Hidden Ireland: Historical Archaeology in County Roscommon. Wordwell
Press, Bray, Ireland.
(second editor with Pedro P. A. Funari and Solange Nunes de Oliveira Schiavetto). Identidades,
Discurso e Poder: Estudos da arqueologia contemporâanea. FAPESP, São Paulo, Brazil.
(junior editor with Thomas C. Patterson). Foundations of Social Archaeology: Selected Writings
of V. Gordon Childe. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California. (peer reviewed)
(editor). Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology. Routledge, London. (peer reviewed)
(editor). Race and the Archaeology of Identity. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. (peer
reviewed)
(editor). Images of the Recent Past: Readings in Historical Archaeology. Altamira, Walnut
Creek, California. (peer reviewed)
c. Monographs and Edited Collections
2005
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1977
1977
(second editor with Pedro P. A. Funari and Solange Nunes de Oliveira Schiavetto). Identidades,
Discurso e Poder: Estudos da arqueologia contemporânea. Fapesp, São Paulo, Brazil.
(editor). Current Perspectives on Anthropology in Historical Archaeology. American
Anthropologist 103:621-704. (peer reviewed)
(editor). Current Perspectives on Historical Archaeology. World Archaeological Bulletin 7.
World Archaeological Congress, Southampton, England.
(editor). Historical Archaeology on Southern Plantations and Farms. Historical Archaeology
24(4):1-126. (peer reviewed)
(senior author with Annette M. Nekola and James L. Roark). Exploring the Rustic Life:
Multidisciplinary Research at Millwood Plantation, A Large Piedmont Plantation in Abbeville
County, South Carolina, and Elbert County, Georgia. 3 vols. National Park Service, Atlanta.
(editor). A Guide for Historical Archaeology in Illinois. Mid-American Research Center, Loyola
University of Chicago, Chicago.
The 1975 Season of Archaeological Investigations at Fort de Chartres, Randolph County, Illinois.
Southern Illinois Studies 16. Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale.
(senior author with Theodore J. Karamanski). Preliminary Archaeological Research at Fort
Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Illinois. Southern Illinois Studies 17. Southern Illinois University
Museum, Carbondale.
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d. Journal Articles and Book Chapters
In press The Tyranny of Silence and Invisibility. To appear in Northeast Historical Archaeology, special
issue on race edited by Christopher N. Matthews and Alison McGovern.
In press Archaeology and History: A Discussion on the Relationship Between the Two Over Time. To
appear in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by Claire Smith. Springer, New York.
(peer reviewed)
In press Archaeology and History: A Discussion of the Relationship Between the Two Over Time;
Interculturality; Historical Archaeology and Ceramics as Dating Tools; International Journal of
Historical Archaeology; Historical Archaeology of the Modern World; Race, and Historical
Archaeology of European Contact and Global Expansion. To appear in Encyclopedia of Global
Archaeology, edited by Claire Smith, Springer, New York. (peer reviewed)
In press Inferior Incorporation and Immigrant Racialization: An Archaeological Example from Irish
America. To appear in Archaeology, Syncretism, Creolization, edited by Timothy Clack. Oxford
University Press, Oxford. (peer reviewed)
In press Modern-World Historical Archaeology. To appear in The Oxford Companion to Historical
Archaeology, edited by James Symonds, Susan Lawrence, and Laurie Wilkie. Oxford University
Press, Oxford. (peer reviewed)
In press Historical Archaeology. To appear in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Neil
Asher Silberman. Oxford University Press, New York. (peer reviewed)
In press The Sociometrics of Nineteenth-Century Ceramics in Rural Ireland: Initial Thoughts about CutSponge-Decorated Vessels. To appear in Ten Years On: Papers of the Tenth Irish Post-Medieval
Archaeology Group, edited by Audrey Horning. Four Courts Press, Dublin. (peer reviewed)
2013 Historical Archaeology. Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, edited by John Jackson, Oxford
University Press, New York. (peer reviewed)
2013 The Politics of Periodization. In Reclaiming Archaeology: Beyond the Tropes of Modernity,
edited by Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal, pp. 145-154. Routledge, London. (peer reviewed)
2013 The Daily Lives of Immigrants. In Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and
Integration, edited by Elliott R. Barkan, vol. 4, pp. 1825-1837. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.
(peer reviewed)
2012 Why the Gilded Age . . . and Why Now? International Journal of Historical Archaeology
16:623-633. (peer reviewed)
2012 An Archaeology of Eurocentrism. American Antiquity 77:737-755. (peer reviewed)
2012 Ballykilcline. In Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, edited by John Crowley, William J. Smyth, and
Mike Murphy, pp. 318-323. Cork University Press, Cork. (peer reviewed)
2012 An Archaeological Perspective on the Irish Rural Interior. In Rural Ireland: The Inside Story,
edited by Vera Kreilkamp, pp. 61-66. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill,
MA.
2011 The Archaeology of Poverty and the Poverty of Archaeology. International Journal of Historical
Archaeology 15:533-543.
2011 Life Beneath the Surface: The Dialectics of Race and Poverty During America’s First Gilded
Age. Historical Archaeology 45(3):151-165. (peer reviewed)
2010 “Forget Me Not”: Archaeology Sites Expose Hidden History of the Famine. Irish America
25(4):114.
2010 Encounters with Postcolonialism in Irish Archaeology. Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology,
edited by Jane Lydon and Uzma Rizvi, pp. 199-214. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA. (peer
reviewed)
2010 Twenty-First-Century Historical Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 18:111-150.
(peer reviewed)
2010 Three 19th-Century House Sites in Rural Ireland. Post-Medieval Archaeology 44:81-104. (peer
reviewed)
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A Personal Statement about Twenty-First Century Modern-World Archaeology. In Desafios da
Arqueologia: Depoimentos, edited by Lourdes Dominguez, Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Aline Vieira
de Carvalho, and Gabriella Barbosa Rodrigues, pp. 233-239. Habilis Editora, Erechim, Brazil.
World-Systems Theory, Networks, and Modern-World Archaeology. In International Handbook
of Historical Archaeology, edited by Teresita Majewski and David Gaimster, pp. 253-268.
Springer, New York. (peer reviewed)
The Dialectics of Scale in the Historical Archaeology of the Modern World. In Sharing Tracks or
Crossing Paths: The Future of Historical Archaeology in Great Britain and Ireland, edited by
Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer, pp. 7-18. Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, UK.
Historical Archaeology as Modern-World Archaeology in Argentina. International Journal of
Historical Archaeology 12:181-194.
The Global and the Local in Modern-World Archaeology. In Constructing Post Medieval
Archaeology in Italy: A New Agenda, edited by S. Gelichi and M. Librenti, pp. 25-33. Edizioni
all’Insegna de Giglio, Florence, Italy.
The Archaeology of African American Slave Religion in the Antebellum South. (Reprint). In
Southern Crossroads, edited by Walter Conser and Rodger Payne, pp. 39-62. University of
Kentucky Press, Lexington.
Comment on “From an Archaeology of Iconoclasm to an Anthropology of the Body: Images,
Punishment and Personhood in England, 1500-1600” by C. Pamela Graves. Current
Anthropology 49:50-51.
Historical Archaeology, Methods of. Encyclopedia of Archaeology, edited by Deborah M.
Pearsall, pp. 1445-1447. Elsevier, Oxford, England. (peer reviewed)
(senior author with Colm Donnelly) Historical Archaeology in Ireland. Encyclopedia of
Archaeology, edited by Deborah M. Pearsall, pp. 1327-1332. Elsevier, Oxford, England. (peer
reviewed)
La promisa de una arqueología del munto moderno en América del Sur, con especial referencia a
Argentina. Revista de Arqueología Histórica Argentina y Latinoamericana 1:11-27.
Estate Landscapes and the Cult of the Ruin: A Lesson of Spatial Transformation in Rural Ireland.
In Estate Landscapes: Design, Improvement and Power in the Post-Medieval Landscape, edited
by Jonathan Finch and Kate Giles, pp. 77- 93. Boydell and Brewer, Suffolk, England. (peer
reviewed)
Foreword. Se Presume Culpable: Una Arqueología de Gauchos, Fortines y Technologías de
Poder en las Pampas Argentinas del Siglo XIX by Facundo Gómez Romero. De Los
Cuatrovientos Editorial, Buenos Aires.
Transnational Diaspora and Rights of Heritage. Cultural Heritage and Human Rights, edited by
Helaine Silverman and D. Fairchild Ruggles, pp. 92-105. Springer, New York. (peer reviewed)
Discovering Our Recent Pasts: Historical Archaeology and Early Nineteenth-Century Rural
Ireland, in Unearthing Hidden Ireland: Historical Archaeology at Ballykilcline, County
Roscommon, edited by C. E. Orser, Jr., pp. 1- 17, Wordwell, Bray.
(junior author with David Ryder). From Farmers to Defendants: Ballykilcline and Its Historical
Context, in Unearthing Hidden Ireland: Historical Archaeology at Ballykilcline, County
Roscommon, edited by C. E. Orser, Jr., pp. 18-36, Wordwell, Bray.
The People’s Pottery: Irish Coarse Earthenware and Their Cultural Significance, in in
Unearthing Hidden Ireland: Historical Archaeology at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, edited
by C. E. Orser, Jr., pp. 72-96, Wordwell, Bray.
Enter the Levellers: The Archaeology of the Ballykilcline Eviction, in Unearthing Hidden
Ireland: Historical Archaeology at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, edited by C. E. Orser, Jr.,
pp. 176-192, Wordwell, Bray.
Seeking Hidden Ireland: History, Meaning, and Material Culture, in Unearthing Hidden Ireland:
Historical Archaeology at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, edited by C. E. Orser, Jr., pp. 217228, Wordwell, Bray.
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(junior author with Stephen A. Brighton). English Goods in the American Market: The
Materialization of a Modern Irish Heritage. In Images, Representations, and Heritage: Moving
Beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology, edited by Ian Russell, pp. 61-88. Springer, New
York. (peer reviewed)
On Finding Focus: Comments on “Archaeology, Conflict, and Contemporary Identity in the
North of Ireland” by Audrey Horning. Archaeological Dialogues 13(2):20-23.
Symbolic Violence and Landscape Pedagogy: An Illustration from the Irish Countryside.
Historical Archaeology 40(2):28-44. (peer reviewed)
Symbolic Violence, Resistance, and the Vectors of Improvement in Early Nineteenth-Century
Ireland. World Archaeology 37:392-407. (peer reviewed)
(senior author with Pedro Funari). Arqueologia de Resisténcia Escrava. Cadernos do Lepaaro
1:11-25. Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil.
An Archaeology of a Famine-Era Eviction. New Hibernia Review 9:45-58. (peer reviewed)
The Material Implications of Colonialism in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland. In Was Ireland a
Colony?: Economics, Politics, and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Terrence
McDonough, pp. 66-83. Irish Academic Press, Dublin.
Network Theory and the Archaeology of Modern History. In Global Archaeological Theory:
Contextual Voices and Contemporary Thoughts, edited by Pedro P. A. Funari, Andrés Zarankin,
and Emily Stovel, pp. 77-98. Springer, New York.
(senior author with Thomas C. Patterson). V. Gordon Chile and the Foundations of Social
Archaeology. In Foundations of Social Archaeology: Writings of V. Gordon Childe, edited by
Thomas C. Patterson and Charles E. Orser, Jr., pp. 1-23. Altamira, Walnut Creek, California. (peer
reviewed)
Archaeological Interpretation and the Irish Diasporic Community. In Places in Mind: Public
Archaeology as Applied Anthropology, edited by Paul A. Shackel and Erve Chambers, pp. 171191. Routledge, London. (peer reviewed)
The Archaeologies of Recent History: Post-Medieval, Historical, and Modern-World. In The
Blackwell Companion to Archaeology, edited by John Bintliff, pp. 272-290. Basil Blackwell,
Oxford. (peer reviewed)
The Beads of Ballykilcline. In Lost and Found: Discovering Ireland’s Past, edited by Joseph P.
Fenwick, pp. 309-315. Wordwell, Bray, Ireland.
Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora. In The Encyclopedia of Ireland, edited by Brian Lalor, p. 296.
Yale University Press, New Haven.
Descendant Communities: Linking People in the Present to the Past (junior author with Theresa A.
Singleton). In Ethical Issues in Archaeology, edited by Larry J. Zimmerman, Karen D. Vitelli, and
Julie Hollowell-Zimmer, pp. 143-152. AtlaMira, Walnut Creek, California. (peer reviewed)
111 entries in the Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology. Routledge, London. (peer reviewed)
The Anthropology in American Historical Archaeology. American Anthropologist 103:621-632.
(peer reviewed)
Race and the Archaeology of Identity in the Modern World. In Race and the Archaeology of
Identity, edited by C. E. Orser Jr., pp. 1-23. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. (peer
reviewed)
Vessels of Honor and Dishonor: The Symbolic Character of Irish Earthenware. New Hibernia
Review 5:83-100. (peer reviewed)
(senior author with Pedro Paulo A. Funari). Archaeology and Slave Resistance and Rebellion.
World Archaeology 33:61-72. (peer reviewed)
The 15,000-Year Mistake: When the Facts Don’t Fit, Blame the Sun. Scientific American
Discovering Archaeology 3(1):24-25.
In Praise of Early Nineteenth-Century Coarse Earthenware. Archaeology Ireland 14(4):8-11.
Comment on “A Critical Archaeology Revisited” by Laurie A. Wilkie and Kevin M. Bartoy.
Current Anthropology 41:768-769.
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2000 The Father of Atlantis: Ignatius Donnelly Created the Modern Myth and Molded PseudoArchaeology. Scientific American Discovering Archaeology 2(5):24-25.
2000 Why Is There No Archaeology in Irish Studies? Irish Studies Review 8:157-165. (peer reviewed)
1999 A teoria de rede e a Arqueologia da História moderna. (Network Theory and the Archaeology of
Modern History). In Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, edited by M. I. D’Agostino
Fleming, pp. 87-101. Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
1999 Global Historical Archaeology. Techne 5:219-226. (Published in Portugal).
1999 Negotiating Our ‘Familiar’ Pasts. In The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical
Britain, edited by Susie West and Sarah Tarlow, pp. 273-285. Routledge, London. (peer reviewed)
1999 Archaeology and the Challenges of Capitalist Farm Tenancy in America. In Historical
Archaeologies of Capitalism, edited by Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr., pp. 143-167.
Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York. (peer reviewed)
1998 Archaeology of the African Diaspora. Annual Review of Anthropology 27:63-82. (peer reviewed)
1998 The Challenge of Race to American Historical Archaeology. American Anthropologist 100:661668. (peer reviewed)
1998 Epilogue: From Georgian Order to Social Relations at Annapolis and Beyond. In Annapolis
Pasts: Historical Archaeology in Annapolis, Maryland, edited by Paul A. Shackel, Paul R.
Mullins, and Mark S. Warner, pp. 307-324. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. (peer
reviewed)
1997 Expanding Historical Archaeology. In Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology: Papers of
the Medieval Europe Brugge 1997 Conference, vol. 10, edited by Guy De Boe and Frans
Verhaeghe, pp. 9-13. ZeUik, Belgium.
1997 Professionalism in Historical Archaeology. International Journal of Historical Archaeology
1:243-255.
1997 Letter from Ireland: Probing County Roscommon. Archaeology 50(5):72-75.
1997 Archaeology and Nineteenth-Century Rural Life in County Roscommon. Archaeology Ireland
11(1):14-17.
1997 Archaeology and Modern Irish History. Irish Studies Review 18:2-7. (peer reviewed)
1997 Of Dishes and Drains: An Archaeological Perspective on Irish Rural Life in the Great Famine Era.
New Hibernia Review 1:120-135. (peer reviewed)
1996 Historical Archaeology for the World. World Archaeological Bulletin 7:2-4.
1996 Historical Archaeology. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian M. Fagan,
pp. 279-280. Oxford University Press, New York. (peer reviewed)
1996 Beneath the Material Surface of Things: Commodities, Artifacts, and Slave Plantations.
Reprinted in Contemporary Archaeology in Theory, edited by Robert Preucel and Ian Hodder,
pp. 189-201. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
1996 Artifacts, Networks, and Plantations: Toward a Further Understanding of the Social Aspects of
Material Culture. In Historical Archaeology and the Study of American Culture, edited by Lu
Ann De Cunzo and Bernard L. Herman, pp. 233-256. The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur
Museum, Winterthur, Delaware. (peer reviewed)
1996 How the Difference Came to Be. Journal of the West 35(2):3-6.
1996 Can There Be an Archaeology of the Great Famine? In “Fearful Realities”: New Perspectives on
the Famine, edited by Chris Morash and Richard Hayes, pp. 77-89. Irish Academic Press,
Dublin. (peer reviewed)
1995 Midwestern Utopias. In Invisible America: Unearthing our Hidden History, edited by Mark P.
Leone and Neil Asher Silberman, pp. 156-157. Henry Holt, New York. (peer reviewed)
1995 The South: The Postbellum Plantation. In Invisible America: Unearthing our Hidden History,
edited by Mark P. Leone and Neil Asher Silberman, pp. 190-191. Henry Holt, New York. (peer
reviewed)
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1995 Is There a Behavioral Historical Archaeology? In Expanding Archaeology, edited by James M.
Skibo, William H. Walker, and Axel E. Nielsen, pp. 187-197. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake
City, Utah. (peer reviewed)
1994 In Zumbi’s Footsteps. The Explorers Journal 72:96-99.
1994 Toward a Global Historical Archaeology: An Example from Brazil. Historical Archaeology
28(1):1-18. (peer reviewed)
1994 Corn Belt Agriculture During the Civil War Period, 1850-1870: A Research Prospectus for
Historical Archaeology. In Look to the Earth: Historical Archaeology and the American Civil
War, edited by Clarence R. Geier, Jr. and Susan E. Winter, pp. 173-190. University of Tennessee
Press, Knoxville. (peer reviewed)
1994 The Archaeology of African-American Slave Religion in the Antebellum South. Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 4:33-45. (peer reviewed)
1994 Consumption, Consumerism, and Things from the Earth. Historical Methods: A Journal of
Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 27:61-70. (peer reviewed)
1994 Searching for Palmares at the Serra da Barriga, Brazil. National Geographic Research and
Exploration 10:480-482.
1993 Arqueologia histórica para os anos 90. Arqueologica Industrial (published in Portugal) 1:151152.
1992 A Bibliography of Slave and Plantation Archaeology (as of December 31, 1991). Slavery and
Abolition 13:316-337. (peer reviewed)
1992 The Illinois and Michigan Canal: Historical Archaeology and the Irish Experience in America.
Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies 27:122-134. (peer reviewed)
1992 (senior author with Pedro Paulo A. Funari). Pesquisa arqueológica initial em Palmares. Estudos
Ibero-Americanos 18:53-69.
1992 Beneath the Material Surface of Things: Commodities, Artifacts, and slave Plantations. In
“Meaning and Uses of Material Culture: Studies in Historical Archaeology,” edited by Barbara J.
Little and Paul A. Shackel. Historical Archaeology 26(3):95-104. (peer reviewed)
1991 The Continued Pattern of Dominance: Landlord and Tenant on the Postbellum Cotton Plantation.
In The Archaeology of Inequality, edited by Robert Paynter and Randall H. McGuire, pp. 40-54.
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, England. (peer reviewed)
1991 On Plantations and Patterns. Reprinted in Approaches to Material Culture Research for
Historical Archaeologists, compiled by George L. Miller, Olive R. Jones, Lester A. Ross, and
Teresita Majewski, pp. 371-383. Society for Historical Archaeology, Tucson.
1991 The Archaeological Search for Ethnicity in the Historic United States. Archeologia Polona
(published in Poland) 29:109-121.
1991 Historical Archaeology and the Capitalist Transformation of the Illinois countryside. In
Landscape, Architecture, and Artifacts: Historical Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Illinois,
edited by Erich K. Schroeder, pp. 14-21. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. (peer
reviewed)
1990 Archaeological Approaches to New World Plantation Slavery. In Archaeological Method and
Theory, vol. 2, edited by Michael B. Schiffer, pp. 111-154. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
(peer reviewed)
1990 Stretching Envelopes, Holding Up Elephants, and Asking questions that Don’t Count: Comments
about a Session in Critical Archaeology. In Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the
Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, edited by Toni Carrell pp. 43-45. Society for
Historical Archaeology, Tucson.
1990 (senior author with David W. Babson), Tabasco Brand Pepper Sauce Bottles from Avery Island,
Louisiana. Historical Archaeology 24(3):107-114. (peer reviewed)
1990 Historical Archaeology on Southern Plantations and Farms: Introduction. In “Historical
Archaeology on Southern Plantations and Farms,” edited by Charles E. Orser, Jr., Historical
Archaeology 24(4):1-6. (peer reviewed)
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1989 On Plantations and Patterns. Historical Archaeology 23(2):28-40. (peer reviewed)
1988 The Archaeological Analysis of Plantation Society: Replacing Status and Caste with Economics
and Power. American Antiquity 53:735-751. (peer reviewed)
1988 Toward a Theory of Power for Historical Archaeology: Plantations and Property. In The
Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States, edited by Mark P.
Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr., pp. 313-343. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. (peer
reviewed)
1987 Plantation Status and Consumer Choice: A Materialist Framework for Historical Archaeology. In
Consumer Choice in Historical Archaeology, edited by Suzanne Spencer-Wood, pp. 121-137.
Plenum Press, New York. (peer reviewed)
1987 Real or Imagined Confusion in Ethnohistorical Research? A Rejoinder to Thurman. North
American Archaeologist 8:319-328.
1987 (second author with Douglas W. Owsley, Robert W. Mann, Peer Moore-Jansen, and Robert L.
Montgomery). Demography and Pathology of an Urban Slave Population from New Orleans.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 74:185-197. (peer reviewed)
1986 What Good is Plantation Archaeology? Southern Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal of the
South 24:444-455. (peer reviewed)
1986 The Archaeological Recognition of the Squad System on Postbellum Cotton Plantations.
Southeastern Archaeology 5:11-20. (peer reviewed)
1986 (senior author with Douglas W. Owsley and J. Richard Shenkel). Gaining Access to New
Orleans’ First Cemetery. Journal of Field Archaeology 13:342-345. (peer reviewed)
1985 (senior author with Annette M. Nekola). Plantation Settlement from Slavery to Tenancy: An
Example from a Piedmont Plantation in South Carolina. In The Archaeology of Slavery and
Plantation Life, edited by Theresa A. Singleton, pp. 67-94. Academic Press, Orlando. (peer
reviewed)
1985 The Sorghum Processing Industry of a Nineteenth-Century Cotton Plantation in South Carolina.
Historical Archaeology 19:51-64. (peer reviewed)
1985 Artifacts, Documents, and Memories of the Black Tenant Farmer. Archaeology 39(4):48-53.
1985 A Young People’s Guide to Historical Archaeology. Division of Archaeology, State of Louisiana,
Baton Rouge.
1984 Trade Good Flow in Arikara Villages: Expanding Ray’s “Middleman Hypothesis.” Plains
Anthropologist 29:1-12. (peer reviewed)
1984 (senior author with Larry J. Zimmerman). A Computer Simulation of Euro-American Trade
Good Flow to the Arikara. Plains Anthropologist 29:199-210. (peer reviewed)
1984 The Past Ten Years of Plantation Archaeology in the Southeastern United States. Southeastern
Archaeology 3:1-12. (peer reviewed)
1984 (senior author with Claudia C. Holland). Let Us Praise Famous Men, Accurately: Toward a More
Complete Understanding of Postbellum Southern Agricultural Practices. Southeastern
Archaeology 3:111-120. (peer reviewed)
1984 Understanding Arikara Trading Behavior: A Cultural Case Study of the Ashley-Leavenworth
Events of 1823. In Rendevous: Selected Papers of the Fourth North American fur Trade
Conference, edited by Thomas C. Buckley, pp. 101-107. The North American Fur Trade
Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota.
1983 The Explorer as Ethnographer: James Mackay’s “Indian Tribes” Manuscript With a Test of His
Comments on the Native Mortuary Customs of the Trans-Mississippi West. Ethnohistory 30:1533. (peer reviewed)
1982 (senior author with Douglas W. Owsley). Using Arikara Osteological Data to Evaluate an
Assumption of Fur Trade Archaeology. Plains Anthropologist 27:195-204. (peer reviewed)
1981 Uniting Public History and Historical Archaeology. The Public Historian 3:75-83. (peer
reviewed)
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1981 Clues from the Recent Past: the Emergence and Development of American Historical
Archaeology. In A Guide for Historical Archaeology in Illinois, edited by Charles E. Orser, Jr.,
pp. 1-23. Mid-American Research Center, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago.
1980 Toward a Partial Understanding of Complexity in Arikara Mortuary Practice. Plains
Anthropologist 25:113-120. (peer reviewed)
1980 Relating James Mackay’s “Indian Tribes” Manuscript to Archaeological Manifestations of
Arikara Mortuary Practice. South Dakota Archaeology 4:45-54.
1980 Historical Archaeology in Michigan. Great Lakes Informant 8. Michigan History Division,
Michigan Department of State, Lansing.
1979 (junior author with Jerome S. Handler and Frederick W. Lange). Carnelian Beads in Necklaces
from a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies. Ornament 4(2):15-18. (peer reviewed)
1979 Ethnohistory, Analogy, and Historical Archaeology. The Conference on Historic Site
Archaeology Papers 13:1-24.
1978 Uncovering the Secrets Buried at the Old State Bank at Shawneetown. Illinois 17(3):37-41.
1978 (senior author with Michael J. McNerney). Assessing Late Historic Sites. Missouri
Archaeological Society Newsletter 325:1-3.
e. Review Articles
2003 The Archaeology of High Culture and Its Discontents. Reviews in Anthropology 32:125-139.
2000 Taking the Pulse of Emerging Modernity. International Journal of Historical Archaeology
4:275-280.
1998 Everyday Ritual, Past and Present. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8:134-135.
1994 Writing World History with Archaeology: From Sumer to Cape Town. Reviews in Anthropology
23:121-130.
f. Book Reviews
In press Review of Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island’s Sylvester
Manor Plantation, 1651-1884 by Katherine Howlett Hayes. American Anthropologist.
2013 Review of The Archaeology of Death and Burial in Post-Medieval Britain and Ireland, by Annia
Cherryson, Zoë Crossland, and Sarah Tarlow. Antiquity.
2013 Review of The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Postemancipation Life, edited by Jodi
A. Barnes. Journal of Southern History 79:195-197.
2009 “Archaeology and the Intangible in American History” Review of The Archaeology of Liberty in
an American Capital: Excavations in Annapolis by Mark P. Leone. H-Urban, H-Net www.hnet.org/reviews/ showrev. php?id=24685. Originally posted in May.
2009 Review of Port Essington: The Historical Archaeology of a North Australian Nineteenth-Century
Military Outpost by Jim Allen. Australian Archaeology 68:72-73.
2008 Review of Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Akinwumi
Ogundiran and Toyin Falola. International Journal of African Historical Studies 41:329-330.
2007 Review of The Sangamo Frontier: History and Archaeology in the Shadow of Lincoln by Robert
Mazrim. Journal of American History 94:564.
2006 Review of Archaeologies of the British: Explorations of Identity in Great Britain and Its
Colonies, 1600-1945 edited by Susan Lawrence. Australasian Historical Archaeology 11:116117.
2005 Review of The Man Who Found Thoreau: Roland W. Robbins and the Rise of Historical
Archaeology in America by Donald W. Linebaugh. Journal of American History 92:1499.
2004 Review of Public Benefits of Archaeology edited by Barbara J. Little. Journal of Field
Archaeology 28:464-466.
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2003 Review of Arqueologia by Pedro Paulo Funari. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Ethnologia
(Universidade de São Paulo) 13:307-308.
2002 Review of Politics, Archaeology, and the Creation of a National Museum of Ireland: An
Expression of National Life by Elizabeth Crooke. Irish Studies Review 10:218-220.
2002 Review of Ireland and the Classical World by Philip Freeman. Irish Studies Review 10:83.
2002 Review of Pathways and Ceremonies: The Cursus Monuments of Britain and Ireland, edited by
Alistair Barclay and Jan Harding. American Antiquity 67:393-394.
2001 Review of A World of Fine Difference: The Social Architecture of a Modern Irish Village by
Adrian Peace. Irish Studies Review 9:418-419.
2000 Review of Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland by Gabriel Cooney. Irish Studies Review 8:369-370.
2000 Review of Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739-1912
by B. W. Higman. Slavery and Abolition 21:170-171.
1999 Review of Talking to the Dead: A Study of Irish Funerary Traditions by Nina Witoszek and Pat
Sheeran. Irish Studies Review 7:392-393.
1998 Review of The Irish Ringfort by Matthew Stout. Irish Studies Review 6:69-70.
1998 Review of All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions by Edward L. Ayers. Patricia Nelson
Limerick, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Peter S. Onuf. Journal of the West 37(1):117.
1997 Review of Digging for Dollars: American Archaeology and the New Deal by Paul Fagette.
Journal of American History 84:282-283.
1997 Review of A New Deal for Southeastern Archaeology by Edwin A. Lyon. The Public Historian
19:110-113.
1996 Review of Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake, edited by Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J.
Little American Antiquity 61:173-175.
1995 Review of Public Archaeology in Annapolis: A Critical Approach to History in Maryland’s
Ancient City by Parker B. Potter, Jr. Public Archaeology Review 2(3):14-15.
1995 Review of The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France by R. David Edmunds and
Joseph L. Peyser. Ethnohistory 42:336-337.
1994 Review of Flowerdew Hundred: The Archeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864 by James
Deetz. Journal of American History 81:1285-1286.
1994 Review of African-American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South by Richard Westmacott.
Journal of American History 80:1552.
1993 Review of Agrarian Life, Romantic Death: Archaeological and Historical Testing and Data
Recovery for the I-85 Northern Alternative, Spartanburg, South Carolina by J. W. Joseph, et al.
The Public Historian 15:119-121.
1993 Review of Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800 by Leland
Ferguson. American Anthropologist 95:483-484.
1993 Review of Papers on Little Bighorn Battlefield Archaeology: The Equipment Dump, Marker 7,
and the Reno Crossing, edited by Douglas D. Scott. Plains Anthropologist 38:305-306.
1991 Review of The Politics of the Past, edited by P. Gathercole and D. Lowenthal. Plains
Anthropologist 36:181-184.
1991 Review of Excavation of the Donner-Reed Wagons: Historic Archaeology Along the Hastings
Cutoff by Bruce R. Hawkins and David B. Madsen. North American Archaeologist 12:277-279.
1991 Review of Pioneer Settlers, Tenant Farmers, and Communities: Objectives, Historical
Background, and Excavations, edited by Randall W. Moir and David H. Jurney; and Historic
Buildings, Material Culture, and People of the Prairie Margin, edited by David H. Jurney and
Randall W. Moir. Historical Archaeology 25(2):119-121.
1991 Review of The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination
of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica by Douglas V. Armstrong. Historical
Archaeology 25(3):123-124.
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1991 Review of The River L’Abbe Mission: A French Colonial Church for the Cahokia Illini on
Monks Mound by John A. Walthall and Elizabeth D. Benchley. Illinois Archaeology 3(1):103104.
1990 Review of Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories by T. H. Breen. Journal of American
History 77:631-632.
1990 Review of Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Douglas D. Scott,
et al. Plains Anthropologist 35:390-392.
1990 Review of Adobe Walls: The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post by T. Lindsay
Baker and Billy R. Harrison. North American Archaeologist 11:80-84.
1989 Review of Archaeology of Aboriginal Culture Change in the Interior Southeast: Depopulation
During the Early Historic Period by Marvin T. Smith. American Antiquity 54:439-440.
1988 Review of Mapping the North American Plains: Essays in the History of Cartography, edited by
Frederick C. Luebke, Frances W. Kaye, and Gary E. Moulton. South Dakota History 17:300-301.
1988 Review of Historical Archaeology of Plantations at Kings Bay, Camden County, Georgia, edited
by William H. Adams. American Anthropologist 90:1034-1035.
1987 Review of The Archaeology of Shirley Plantation, edited by Theodore R. Reinhart. Historical
Archaeology 21:117-118.
1987 Review of Indians, Colonists, and Slaves: Essays in Memory of Charles H. Fairbanks, edited by
Kenneth W. Johnson, Jonathan M. Leader, and Robert C. Wilson. Southeastern Archaeology
6:70-71.
1986 Review of Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders Among the Mandan and
Hidatsa Indians, 1738-1818 by W. Raymond Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen. Plains
Anthropologist 31:339-341.
1986 Review of Grassland, Forest, and Historical Settlement by Michael J. O’Brien; Euro-American
Pioneer Settlement Systems in the Central Salt River Valley of Northeast Missouri by Roger D.
Mason; and An Analysis of the Historical Ceramics from the Central Salt River Valley of
Northeast Missouri by Teresita Majewski and Michael J. O’Brien. Plains Anthropologist 31:259261.
1985 Review of Cannon’s Point Plantation, 1794-1860: Living Conditions and Status Patterns in the
Old South by John Solomon Otto. American Ethnologist 12:386-387.
1985 Review of Exploring Buried Buxton: Archaeology of an Abandoned Iowa Coal Mining Town
with a Large Black Population by David M. Gradwohl and Nancy M. Osborn. Plains
Anthropologist 30:359-361.
1984 Review of Indian Social Dynamics in the Period of European Contact: Fletcher Site Cemetery,
Bay County, Michigan by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. Historical Archaeology 18:118-120.
1984 Review of Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, The Lewis and Clark Expedition, Volume 1,
edited by Gary E. Moulton. Plains Anthropologist 29:344-345.
1982 Review of Excavations at Fort Michilimackinac: 1978-1979, The Rue de la Babillarde by
Donald P. Heldman and Roger T. Grange. Michigan History 66(2):47.
1982 Review of Fort Manual: The Archaeology of an Upper Missouri Trading Post of 1812-1813 by
C. Hubert Smith and John Ludwickson. South Dakota Archaeology 6:125-126.
1981 Review of The Village Indians of the Upper Missouri: The Mandans, Hidatsas, and Arikaras by
Roy W. Meyer. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 5(3):88-92.
1979 Review of Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men by Carl P. Russell. Historical
Archaeology 12:113-114.
g. Film Reviews
1995 Review of Unearthing the Slave Trade, Journal of American History 82:1305-1306.
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h. Technical Reports
2006 (junior author with Stephen A. Brighton). Archaeological Investigations at the Barlow’s Field
Site, County Sligo. Prepared for the Heritage Service, Dublin.
2005 Report on Activities Completed as Part of Heritage Council Grant 14053 (2005): Derryveagh
Village Project, County Donegal. Prepared for the Heritage Council, Kilkenny, Ireland.
2005 (senior author with Stephen A. Brighton). The Second Season of Archaeological Investigations at
Tanzyfort House: The First Coopershill Mansion, Riverstown, County Sligo. Prepared for the
Heritage Service, Dublin.
2004 (senior author with Katherine L. Hull, Stephen A. Brighton, and Kevin Barton). Archaeological
Investigations at Tanzyfort House: The First Coopershill Mansion, Riverstown, County Sligo.
Prepared for the Heritage Service, Dublin.
2001 (junior author with Katherine L. Hull). A Report of Investigations for the Third Season of
Archaeological Research at Ballykilcline Townland, Kilglass Parish, County Roscommon,
Ireland. Prepared for Dúchas, The Heritage Service, Dublin.
2000 (senior author with David S. Ryder, and Jessica Levon). A Report of Investigations for the
Second Season of Archaeological Research at Ballykilcline Townland, Kilglass Parish, County
Roscommon, Ireland. Prepared for Dúchas, The Heritage Service, Dublin.
1999 Investigating the Redware Industry of Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Prepared for the
Heritage Council, Tipperary, Ireland.
1999 A Report of Investigations for the First Season of Archaeological Research at Ballykilcline
Townland, Kilglass Parish, County Roscommon, Ireland. Prepared for Dúchas, The Heritage
Service, Dublin.
1998 (senior author with Katherine L. Hull) A Report of Investigations for Archaeological Research at
Mulliviltrin, County Roscommon, Ireland: A Tenant Village Destroyed During the Mass
Evictions of 1847. Prepared for the Office of Public Works, National Monuments Service,
Dublin.
1996 A Preliminary Report on Archaeological Investigations at Gorttoose, A Late Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century Village in County Roscommon, Ireland. Prepared for the Office of Public
Works, National Monuments Service, Dublin, and the National Committee for Archaeology,
Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
1993 In Search of Zumbi: The 1993 Season. Prepared for the National Geographic Society,
Washington, and the Social Science Research Council, New York.
1992 The Illinois and Michigan Canal, Historical Archaeology, and the Irish Experience in America.
Prepared for the Irish American Cultural Institute, St. Paul, Minnesota.
1992 In Search of Zumbi: Preliminary Archaeological Research at the Serra da Barriga, State of
Alagoas, Brazil. Prepared for the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
1989 (senior author with David W. Babson). The Search for the Birthplace of Tabasco Brand Pepper
Sauce: Archaeological Investigations at the Laboratory, Avery Island, Louisiana. Prepared for
Avery Island, Inc. and McIlhenny Company, Avery Island, Louisiana.
1989 (junior author with David W. Babson). The Avery Island Salt Mine and Village: An Oral History
and Architectural Report on Life and Work in South Louisiana. Prepared for the International
Salt Company, Avery Island, Louisiana.
1988 (junior author with David W. Babson). Report on Phase I Archaeological Investigations at the
Prairie Culture Center Site, Eunice, Louisiana. Prepared for Hamilton and Associates,
Opelousas, Louisiana.
1988 (junior author with David W. Babson). Report on Phase I Archaeological Investigations at the
Wetlands Culture Center, Thibodaux, Louisiana. Prepared for Hamilton and Associates,
Opelousas, Louisiana.
1987 Historical Archaeology at Marsh House (The Residence Hill Site, 16IB130), Avery Island,
Louisiana. Prepared for Avery Island, Inc., Avery Island, Louisiana.
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1986 Preface to Public Archaeology at a Late Nineteenth-Century to Late Twentieth-Century Urban
Housesite, Shreveport, Louisiana by Claudia C. Holland. Prepared for the Division of
Archaeology, State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge.
1985 (junior author with Douglas W. Owsley). An Archaeological and Physical Anthropological Study
of the St. Peter Street Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana. Prepared for the Division of
Archaeology, State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge.
1984 Annotated Bibliography of Archaeological Contract Surveys Conducted in Michigan from 1970
through 1979. Michigan History Division, Lansing.
1984 (junior author with Malcolm Shuman.) An Archaeological and Historical Assessment of William
Fort’s Sugar Mill, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Prepared for the River Bend Nuclear Power
Plant Commission, St. Francisville, Louisiana.
1984 (senior author with Claudia C. Holland). A Preliminary Archaeological Investigation of Oakley
Plantation, Audubon State Commemorative Area, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Prepared for
the Division of Archaeology, State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge.
1983 Analysis of Historic-Period Artifacts from Seventeen Sites Along the Northern Border Pipeline in
South Dakota. Prepared for the Archaeological Research Center, South Dakota State University,
Brookings.
1981 (with contributions by James L. Roark and Annette M. Nekola). Summary Report of Phase I
Testing and Evaluation of Millwood Plantation (38AB9), Abbeville County, South Carolina.
Prepared for the Interagency Archaeological Services, Atlanta.
1979 Archaeological Investigations at the Brouillet House Site, Vincennes, Indiana. Prepared for the
Old Northwest Corporation, Vincennes.
1978 Ethnohistorical Overview of Extreme Southern Illinois. In A Cultural Resource Overview of the
Shawnee National Forest, edited by Michael J. McNerney, pp. 33-37. Prepared for the U.S.
Forest Service, Milwaukee.
1978 Historical Research Procedure and Opportunities for Historical Archaeology. In An
Archaeological Inventory of Giant City State Park, Jackson and Union Counties, edited by David
P. Braun, pp. 78-85. Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper 7. Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale, Carbondale.
1978 Archaeological Explorations at Shawneetown Bank Historic Site, Southern Illinois. Prepared for
the Illinois Department of Conservation, Springfield.
PRESENTATIONS (US)
2012 Strategies Toward an Archaeology of Self-Liberation. Invited lecture, Department of
Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
2012 An Archaeology of Eurocentrism. Invited public lecture, New York State Museum, Albany.
2009 An Archaeological Look Inside the Irish Cabin. Invited public lecture, Irish Studies Program,
Boston College.
2009 The Archaeology of Immigration. Invited public lecture, New York State Museum, Albany.
2009 Students in Research: Lessons from the Rural Ireland Lifeways Project. Invited keynote address,
Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
2008 Has Marx’s Ghost Fled? Post-Columbian Historical Archaeology and the Capitalist
Metanarrative. Invited paper, American Anthropoogical Association annual meeting, San
Francisco.
2008 The Basket at the Center of the World. Invited lecture, New York State Museum, Albany.
2007 The Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora. Invited public lecture, New York State Museum, Albany.
2007 The Irish Lifeways Project: Archaeology Past, Present, and Future. Invited lecture, Department
of Anthropology and the Celtic Studies Center, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
2006 The Irish “Race” in Ireland and America. Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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2006 Theorizing Race for American Archaeology. Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
2006 Post-Medieval Archaeology in Rural Ireland. Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology,
University of Maryland, College Park.
2006 Transnational Diasporas and Heritage: Who Has Rights to What Where? Invited paper, Cultural
Heritage and Human Rights: An International Workshop, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign.
2006 Excavating Rural Ireland: Issues for Anthropological Archaeology, Invited lecture, Department
of Anthropology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
2005 Earthen Plates, Wooden Dishes, and Egg Shell Cups: Historical Archaeology and the Material
World of William Carleton. Contributed paper, American Conference of Irish Studies annual
meeting, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame.
2005 Modern-World Archaeology and Globalization: Looking Toward the Future of Knowing the
Recent Past. Invited Distinguished Scholar lecture, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
2005 In Zumbi’s Footsteps: Searching for Brazil’s Most Famous Runaway Slave Community. Invited
Distinguished Scholar lecture, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
2004 Race and Archaeology: An Example from Rural Ireland. Invited speaker for the National Science
Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates archaeological field school, New
Philadelphia, Illinois.
2004 Symbolic Violence and Everyday Life in the Irish Countryside. Contributed paper, Society for
Historical Archaeology annual meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.
2003 Race and Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Invited lecture, Department of
Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago.
2001 Unearthing Forgotten Ireland. Invited guest lecture for the symposium, Archaeology in
Annapolis, Annapolis, Maryland.
2001 Marx and Historical Archaeology: A Missing Link? Invited contribution to the American
Anthropological Association annual meeting, Washington, DC.
2001 Non-Linear Interpretations of Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Invited contribution to the
Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, New Orleans.
2001 Race, Color, and Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Invited contribution to Upheaval
and Change in Ireland’s Past, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2000 Historical Archaeology: Atlantic Dimensions. Invited contribution to the International Seminar
on Atlantic History, Harvard University, Cambridge.
2000 Unearthing a World of Goods in Nineteenth-Century Rural Ireland. Distinguished Professor
lecture, Normal, Illinois.
1999 Exploring the Nineteenth Century in the Green Fields of Modern Ireland. Invited contribution to
American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Chicago.
1999 The Archaeology of Traditional Ireland. Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, University
of Missouri, St. Louis.
1998 The Archaeology of Gorttoose and Mulliviltrin, County Roscommon. Invited guest lecture, The
Great Irish Famine Forum, Irish American Unity Foundation, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
1998 History, Archaeology, and the Invisible Irish. Invited guest lecture, Institute on History and
Social Science, Illinois State University, Normal.
1998 Archaeology and the Invisible Irish. Invited guest lecture, Irish Studies Program, Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale.
1997 Archaeology and the Tyranny of Documents. Invited guest lecture, “Breaking the Silences:
Legacies of the Irish Starvation” Seminar, New York City.
1997 A Future of Historical Archaeology. Invited guest lecture, Department of Anthropology,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
1996 Archaeology and the Search for the Invisible Irish. Special guest lecture, Department of
Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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1996 What Happened to the People’s Dishes? An Archaeological Perspective on the Great Famine.
Contributed paper to the annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies,
Carbondale, Illinois.
1996 The Archaeology of America’s Farms. Discussant paper delivered at the annual meeting of the
Society for Historical Archaeology, Cincinnati.
1993 (with Pedro Paulo A. Funari). Initial Research at Palmares, The Great 17th-Century African
Kingdom in Northeastern Brazil. Contributed paper delivered at the annual meeting of the
Society for Historical Archaeology, Kansas City.
1993 Profits in the Fields: Tenancy, Capitalism, and Historical Archaeology. Invited paper for the
School of American Research Advanced Seminar “The Historical Archaeology of Capitalism,”
Santa Fe.
1993 Inventing Palmares: Maroon Households in the Creation of the Americas. Invited lecture at the
Center for New World Comparative Studies, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University,
Providence.
1992 Notes on Plantations on the Periphery: The Archaeology of Small Slave-Holding Sites. Invited
discussant at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh.
1992 Preliminary Archaeological Research at Palmares, Brazil. Invited lecture presented to the
Departments of History and Anthropology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
1992 In Search of Zumbi: Preliminary Archaeological Research at Palmares, Brazil. Invited paper
delivered at the Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
1991 Historical Archaeology and the Social History of Things. Invited paper delivered at the
Winterthur Conference, “Historical Archaeology and the Study of American Culture,”
Winterthur, Delaware.
1990 The Archaeology of Commoners: Comments on the Session “New Light on Old Ground.”
Invited discussant at the Eleventh Illinois History Symposium, Springfield.
1990 Stretching Envelopes, Holding Up Elephants, and Asking Questions that Don’t Count:
Comments on a Symposium on Critical Archaeology. Invited discussant at the annual meeting of
the Society for Historical Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona.
1989 Critical Archaeology and Historical Materialism. Invited paper delivered in the session “Current
Issues in Archaeological Method and Theory” at the First Joint Archaeological Congress,
Baltimore.
1989 African-American Historical Archaeology in the South Carolina Piedmont. Invited lecture for the
Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, Black History Project, Bloomington, Illinois.
1989 Historical Archaeology and the Capitalist Transformation of the Illinois Countryside.
Contributed paper delivered at the Illinois Historical Archaeology Conference, Rock Island,
Illinois.
1989 Tabasco Sauce, Sugar, and Slaves: Historical Archaeology at Avery Island, Louisiana. Invited
paper delivered at the Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
1988 The Use of Plantation Archaeology in Local History. Invited paper delivered as part of the
exhibit “Plantations through the Louisiana Heartland,” Natchitoches, Louisiana.
1988 Plantations as Archaeological Units. Invited lecture for the Workshop in Historic Preservation
Technology and Plantation Culture, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana.
1988 The Nature and Scope of Plantation Archaeology. Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
1988 Finding a Theory for Plantation Archaeology. Invited graduate seminar lecture, Department of
Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
1986 The Death of the Southern Plantation: A Legend for Modern Archaeology. Invited paper
delivered in the session “The Past is the Present” at the annual meeting of the Society of
American Archaeology, New Orleans.
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1986 Out of Slavery: The Material Culture of Freedom. Invited paper delivered at “Learning from the
Material World of Slaves” at the Tenth Annual Symposium on Language and Culture in South
Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
1986 The Use of Plantation Archaeology. Invited paper delivered in the session “Buried Treasures:
Finding the History in Historical Archaeology” at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical
Association, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1985 (junior author with Douglas W. Owsley). Demography and Pathologies of Skeletons from New
Orleans’ First Cemetery. Paper delivered in the symposium “Afro-American Biohistory: The
Physical Evidence” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropology, Knoxville, Tennessee.
1985 Public Archaeology and Research in Baton Rouge and Shreveport. Invited paper delivered in the
symposium “The Current State of Archaeological Research in Louisiana” for the Foundation for
Historical Louisiana, Baton Rouge.
1983 The Spatial Organization of a Postbellum Plantation. Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the
Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Columbia, South Carolina.
1981 The Practical Union of History and Anthropological Archaeology. Invited paper delivered at the
Conference on Public History, Raleigh, North Carolina.
1980 “The Next Morning We Commenced Trading”: Studying Socioeconomic Change Among the
Arikara with Archaeological Data. Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Plains
Anthropological Conference, Iowa City, Iowa.
1980 Phase I Testing and Evaluation at Millwood Plantation, Abbeville County, South Carolina.
Invited paper delivered at the Richard B. Russell Workshop, National Park Service, Atlanta,
Georgia.
1980 Uniting History and Anthropological Archaeology: Lessons from Millwood Plantation. Invited
paper delivered at the History and Archaeology Symposium, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
1978 Early Historic Settlement of the Ouabache. Invited paper delivered at the Ninth Annual Meeting
of the Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archaeology, Mount Vernon, Illinois.
PRESENTATIONS (Outside US)
2013 What is Modern-World Archaeology, and Why? Invited lecture, Sociedade de Arqueologia
Brasileira annual conference, Aracaju, Brazil.
2013 Strategies Toward an Archaeology of Self-Liberation. Invited lecture, Federal Univerisity of
Pelotas, University of Campinas, and University of São Paulo, Brazil.
2013 The Singularization of History and Archeological Framing. Invited paper, Nordic TAG,
University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
2011 Postgraduate workshop on Historical and Modern-World Archaeologies. School of Social
Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia.
2011 What Is Modern-World Archaeology, and Why? Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of the
Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2011 An Archaeological Look Inside the Irish Cabin. Irish Studies Program, University of Otago,
Dunedin, New Zealand.
2011 Modern-World Archaeology. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of
Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2011 An Archaeology of Eurocentrism. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of
Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2010 The Archaeology of the Great Irish Famine. Invited public lecture, NUI Galway Summer School
Program and School of Geography and Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
2010 The Sociometrics of Sponge-Decorated Ceramics in Rural Ireland. Contributed paper, Irish PostMedieval Archaeology Group annual meeting, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
C E Orser, CV – page 22
2010 The Art and Archaeology of the Nineteenth-Century Farmhouse. Invited public lecture, School of
Geography and Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
2010 Cultural Patrimony and Descendant Communities in a Diasporic World. Invited lecture,
Discipline of Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
2009 The Dialectics of Race and Poverty and Their Relevance for the Archaeology of the Masses.
Invited lecture, University of York/York Archaeological Trust, York, UK.
2008 The Dialectics of Scale: The Micro/Macro Conundrum in Contemporary Historical Archaeology.
Invited keynote address, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History symposium,
University of Leicester, England.
2007 The Archaeology of Post-Medieval Ireland. Invited lecture, Donegal Historical Society, Church
Hill, County Donegal, Ireland.
2006 The International Journal of Historical Archaeology and the Cause of Global Historical
Archaeology. Invited lecture, Dipartimento di Scienze Dell’Antichità e del Vicino Oriente,
Università Ca’Forscari di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
2006 Ireland in Its 21st-Century Context. Invited lecture, Department of Archaeology, University
College Cork, Ireland.
2005 An Historical Archaeology of Consumerism: Lessons and Questions from Roscommon and
Sligo. Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2005 Eighteenth-Century Landscapes and Archaeology: Some Findings from Coopershill. Sligo
Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland.
2005 Archaeology and Rural Life in Post-Medieval Ireland. Donegal County Museum, Letterkenny,
Ireland.
2002 Race and Identity: Linking the Irish and the African Experiences. Invited lecture, The Ireland
Institute, Dublin.
2001 Nineteenth-Century Irish Identity and the Role of Archaeology. Invited guest seminar, National
University of Ireland, Galway.
2001 Internal Colonialism and Double Consciousness in Rural Ireland. Contributed paper delivered at
the meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, Dublin, Ireland.
2001 Irish Historical Archaeology. Invited lecture for summer course in Irish archaeology, National
University of Ireland, Galway.
2000 The Archaeology of Ballykilcline and What It Means. Public lecture, Strokestown, Ireland.
2000 Continuing the Archaeology of Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Invited lecture for summer
course in Irish archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
1999 Recent Archaeological Research at Ballykilcline. Invited roundtable discussion for the
Ballykilcline Society, Strokestown, Ireland.
1999 The Archaeology of Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Invited lecture for summer course in Irish
archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
1999 Unearthing Hidden Ireland. Invited lecture to the Ireland Institute for Historical and Cultural
Studies, Civic Museum, Dublin.
1999 The Material World of Colonialism. Contributed paper to the Third Galway Conference on
Colonialism, National University of Ireland, Galway.
1998 Global Historical Archaeology and the Study of Technology New and Old. Invited lecture for the
International Conference on Molinology, Amadora, Portugal.
1996 What is Global Historical Archaeology? Invited lecture, Institute of Archaeology, University of
Lund, Sweden.
1996 The Archaeology of History’s Invisible Men and Women: A Comparative Look at AfricanAmerican Slaves and Pre-Famine Irish Peasants. Invited lecture, Institute of Archaeology,
University of Lund, Sweden.
1996 Self-Reflection in Archaeology: What are an Archaeologist’s Responsibilities to the Present?
Lessons from Brazil and Ireland. Invited lecture, Institute of Archaeology, University of Lund,
Sweden.
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1995 Exploring the Invisible: The Great Famine and the Promise of Archaeology. Arts Faculty
Seminar, National University of Ireland, Galway.
1995 An Introduction to Archaeological Theory. Graduate program lecture, Department of
Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
1995 Historical Archaeology and Colonialism. Graduate seminar lecture, Program in Culture and
Colonialism, National University of Ireland, Galway.
1995 The Strokestown Archaeological Project. Invited lecture, Department of Archaeology Diploma
Class, National University of Ireland, Galway.
1995 The Archaeology of the Great Famine. Invited lecture, Archaeology Society, National University
of Ireland, Galway.
1994 Can There Be an Archaeology of the Great Famine? Contributed paper to the conference,
“Famine and Nineteenth-Century Ireland,” Maynooth College, Maynooth, Ireland.
1992 Broadening Historical Archaeology. Contributed paper delivered at EuroTAG (Theoretical
Archaeology Group), Southampton University, Southampton, England.
1991 Plantation Archaeology in the United States. Invited lecture delivered at the State University of
Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
1991 Current Trends in Plantation Archaeology. Invited lecture delivered at Santos Catholic
University, Santos, Brazil.
1991 Current Trends in Historical Archaeology. Invited lecture delivered at the Paulista Museum,
University of São Paulo, Brazil.
1990 Anthropology and Historical Archaeology. Invited lecture delivered at the Escola Superior de
Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Historical archaeology and anthropology; post-Columbian archaeology; practice, network, and
sociospatial theory; globalization and consumerism; slavery, maroonage, and indenture; the Atlantic
world