MARIA FRANKLIN, Ph.D.
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Anthropology
2101 Speedway Avenue, C3200
Austin, TX 78712–1086
Office Phone: 512.471.8513
Email: mfranklin@mail.utexas.edu
Academic Appointments:
2005–present Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin. Joint appointments in the
Department of Anthropology and the African and African Diaspora Studies
Department (AADS). Core faculty member of the African Diaspora Anthropology
graduate program.
2002–present Extended Faculty, UT School of Law.
1997–2005
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin.
Elected Position (Professional Organization):
2010–2013
Board of Directors, Society for Historical Archaeology.
Education:
1997
1991
1989
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
B.A., Anthropology, Auburn University, Alabama.
Past Research Positions:
1996–2008
1993–1996
Research Fellow, Department of Archaeological Research (DAR),
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CWF), Williamsburg, VA.
Field Tech (1993), Project Archaeologist (1994-1996), DAR, CWF.
Fellowships:
2000–2001
2000
19971998
19961997
1995
1992–1994
American Association of University Women Postdoctoral American Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellow
Carolina Minority Postdoctoral Fellow, Vice Provost of Graduate Studies and
Research, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, National Research Council
The College of William and Mary MultiCultural Teaching Fellowship
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, National Research Council
UT Fellowships and Grants:
Spring 2012
2011
College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, $36,000.
College of Liberal Arts and Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services,
LabSpace Research Grant, $2,916.
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UT Fellowships and Grants (continued):
2001–2003
2000
2000
ITAC (Information Technology Advisory Committee) grants. Secured two
consecutive grants ($11,000 total) with James Denbow and Mariah Wade to
develop web-based materials for course instruction in introductory archaeology.
Dean’s Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, $25,000.
Summer Research Assignment, College of Liberal Arts, $11,000.
Publications (“*” indicates a peer-reviewed publication):
Journal Articles
Race, Class, and Gender Dynamics within African American Households, circa 18701950. In preparation.
2008* S. Mrozowski, M. Franklin, and L. Hunt. Archaeobotanical Analysis and Interpretations
of Enslaved Virginian Plant Use at Rich Neck Plantation. American Antiquity 73(4)699728.
2004 *M. Franklin and L. McKee. African Diaspora Archaeologies: Present Insights and
Expanding Discourses. Historical Archaeology 38(1):1-9.
2001
*A Black Feminist–Inspired Archaeology? Journal of Social Archaeology 1(1):108-125.
1997
*Power to the People: Sociopolitics and the Archaeology of Black Americans.
Historical Archaeology 31(3):36-50.
1997
*Why are there so few Black American archaeologists? Antiquity 71(274):799–801.
1995 Rethinking the Carter’s Grove Slave Cabin Reconstruction: A Proposal. Kroeber
Anthropological Society Papers 79:147–164.
Research Monographs
“I’m Proud to Know What I Know”: Oral Narratives of Life in Travis and Hays
Counties, Texas. To be submitted to the Texas Department of Transportation in
compliance with Contract No. 579 XX SA002. In preparation.
2004
An Archaeological Study of the Rich Neck Slave Quarter and Enslaved Domestic Life
(324 pp.). Colonial Williamsburg Research Publications. Dietz Press, Richmond, VA.
Book Chapters
2010
*M. Franklin and R. Paynter. The Archaeology of Social Inequality, In Voices in
American Archaeology: The 75th Anniversary Volume of the Society for American
Archaeology, edited by Wendy Ashmore, Dorothy Lippert, and Barbara Mills, pp. 94130. SAA Press, Washington D.C.
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Book Chapters (continued):
2005
*Historical Archaeology that Matters Beyond Academics. In Unlocking the Past:
Historical Archaeology in North America, Lu Ann De Cunzo and John Jameson (eds).
University Press of Florida.
2001 *The Archaeological and Symbolic Dimensions of Soul Food: Race, Culture and AfroVirginian Identity. In Race and the Archaeology of Identity, Charles Orser (ed.), pp. 88107. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1999 G. Fesler and M. Franklin. The Exploration of Ethnicity and the Historical
Archaeological Record. In Historical Archaeology, Identity Formation, and the
Interpretation of Ethnicity, M. Franklin and G. Fesler (eds.), pp. 1-10. Colonial
Williamsburg Research Publications. Dietz Press, Richmond.
Co-edited Volumes
2004
*M. Franklin and L. McKee. Transcending Boundaries, Transforming the Discipline:
African Diaspora Archaeologies in the New Millenium. Special edition of Historical
Archaeology 38(1).
1999 M. Franklin and G. Fesler. Historical Archaeology, Identity Formation, and the
Interpretation of Ethnicity. Colonial Williamsburg Research Publications. Dietz Press,
Richmond, VA.
Technical Report:
Oral History and the Investigation of African American Households in Travis and Hays
Counties, Texas, c. 1920s-1950s. Submitted to the Texas Department of Transportation in
compliance with Contract No. 579 XX SA002. Under review.
Other Publications:
2011 Foreword to Black Feminist Archaeology, Whitney Battle-Baptiste. Left Coast Press, CA.
2009 Book review, African Re-genesis: Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora, Jay Haviser
and Kevin MacDonald (eds.). Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 44(1): 147-149.
2004 Foreword to The Archaeology of Household Chores and Household Choices, K. Barile
and J. Brandon (eds.), pp. xiii-xiv. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2002 Diaspora. In Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology, Charles Orser (ed.), pp. 152-153.
Routledge, London.
2002 Historical Documents. In Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology, Charles Orser (ed.),
pp. 267-270. Routledge, London.
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Other Publications (continued):
1999 Book review of “Race and Affluence: An Archaeology of African America and
Consumer Culture,” (Paul Mullins, 1999). Northeast Historical Archaeology 28:111-113.
1998 Early Black Spirituality and the Cultural Strategy of Protective Symbolism: Evidence
from Art and Archaeology. In African Impact on the Material Culture of the Americas
Conference Proceedings. Diggs Art Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, NC.
1997 Ywone Edwards and Maria Franklin. Archaeology and the Material Culture of Enslaved
Africans and African Americans. Maryland Humanities. Summer 1997, pp. 5–7.
Editorial Service:
2011–present Editorial Board, Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, Left
Coast Press.
2005–present Editorial Board, Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress.
2000–2007
Advisory Board, Journal of Social Archaeology.
Conference Organizing:
2008–2011
Co-chair, with Jim Bruseth, of the January 2011 annual meeting of the Society for
Historical Archaeology (Austin, TX). Number of attendees: 1,200. Budget: $260,000+.
Responsible for oversight of conference site committee activities, overseeing program
structure and content, planning and logistics (conference venue, volunteers, media
equipment, public relations, etc.), budget, and fundraising.
Research and Teaching Interests:
Historical archaeology, comparative colonialism and slavery, African Diaspora studies, ethics
and politics of archaeology, archaeological theory, public history and cultural politics, race and
racism, gender and feminist theory, Black cultural studies.
Research Areas:
Texas, Middle Atlantic and Southern U.S regions.
Teaching Experience:
1998–present UT Anthropology, Center for African and African American Studies
2002–present UT School of Law
Undergraduate Courses: Intro to World Prehistory; Intro to Historical Archaeology; Archaeology
and History of Slavery in North America; African American Material and Expressive
Culture; Theories of Archaeology (ANT senior seminar); African Diaspora Studies (AFR
senior seminar); Intro to African American Culture.
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Teaching Experience (continued):
Graduate Seminars: Household Archaeology; African Diaspora Anthropology (team taught);
Feminist Anthropology (team taught); Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology,
African Diaspora Archaeology, Theorizing Race in the Social Sciences (UT Law), Race
and American Popular Culture (UT Law).
98–99 Field School Instructor, College of William and Mary and Colonial Williamsburg
Archaeology (CWF) Field School. Taught four field schools, and trained students in
archaeological field methods, artifact analysis, and theory in historical archaeology.
1998
Visiting Instructor, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill.
1995 Graduate Student Instructor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley.
1995 Visiting Instructor, Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary.
1994 Field School Instructor, College of William and Mary and CWF Field School.
93–94 Graduate Student Reader, Anthropology, UC Berkeley.
1992 Graduate Student Instructor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley. Introduction to Archaeology.
Chair, Dissertation Committees:
2011
2010
2009
2004
2004
2004
2004
Jennifer Babiarz, ABD
Nedra Lee, ABD
Peggy Brunache
Jodi Skipper (Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi at Oxford)
Lisa Kraus (Archeologist, Maryland State Highway)
Kerri Barile (Co-owner, Dovetail Cultural Resources, VA)
James Davidson (Associate Professor, University of Florida at Gainesville)
Jamie Brandon (Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville)
Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Chair, MA:
Jannie Scott
2009 Nedra Lee
2005 Lisa Kraus
Chair, Honors Theses:
2008
2006
2005
2004
Ashley Lemke (PhD program, Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Keara Goin (PhD program, Radio/TV/Film, UT-Austin)
Matthew Peeples (PhD program, Anthropology, Arizona State University)
Colleen Morgan (PhD program, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
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Research Experience:
2011–present Principal Investigator, Robertson Plantation Site (41BL244), Salado, Bell
County, TX. Geophysical survey of a 19th-century plantation to determine site
boundaries and to identify areas for future test excavations.
2009–present Community Outreach Coordinator, Oral Historian, and Archaeological
Consultant, Prewitt & Associates, Ransom Williams Farmstead Site (41TV1051),
Travis County, TX. Project sponsor: Texas Department of Transportation.
Conducted community outreach and oral history project with African American
descendant community; organized and implemented public education efforts;
provided archaeological consulting on excavation, data analysis and interpretation
of site. Contract No. 579 XX SA002, $64,280.
2009–present Principal Investigator. Antioch Colony, Buda, Hays County, TX. This multidisciplinary project includes geophysical survey, future archaeological
excavation, oral history, and community outreach of a “freedom colony”
established in c. 1870. Magnetometer and ground penetrating radar survey of the
community’s historic black cemetery (c. 1880-present) has already been
completed to determine locations of unmarked graves, as has the digital mapping
of the area’s historic features. Fourteen oral histories were conducted with
descendants of the original settlers.
2002
Co-Principal Investigator (w/J. Brandon and J. Davidson), Cole Household site
(41DL413), Dallas, TX. Excavated African–American domestic site in former
Freedman’s Town (ca. 1880s-1960s). Community–based project working with
members of St. Paul UM church.
1998–1999
Project Archaeologist, Dept. of Archaeological Research (DAR), Colonial
Williamsburg (CW). Governor’s Palace Lands site, Williamsburg, VA. Oversaw
Phase III excavation and data recovery of slave-related site occupied from c.
1750-1780. Project received internal grant of $65,000.
1994–1995
Project Archaeologist, DAR, CW. Rich Neck Slave Quarter, Williamsburg, VA.
Supervised Phase II survey and Phase III excavation of slave-related site (c. 17401770s). Trained volunteers and coordinated public education and outreach efforts.
Project received internal grant of $100,000.
1993
Field Technician, DAR, CW. Advanced Summer Field School in Contextual and
Environmental Archaeology. Co-sponsored by Colonial Williamsburg and the
National Park Service, Jamestown Island, VA.
1993
Field Technician (P. I.: Dr. M. R. Brown III), DAR, CW. Geophysical surveying
and testing of 17th-century English colonial sites on Jamestown Island, VA.
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Research Experience (continued):
1991–1993
Field Supervisor and Instructor (P. I.: Prof. James Deetz), Flowerdew Hundred
plantation, Hopewell, VA. Supervised excavations of 17th- and 18th-century
English and enslaved Virginian domestic sites.
1991
Research Assistant (P. I.: Prof. J. Deetz). The Observatory Museum,
Grahamstown, South Africa. Joint project of the Albany Museum (RSA) and UC
Berkeley. Excavated 19th-century, Anglo–African residence.
1991
Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley Archaeology Field School (P.I.: Prof.
Kent Lightfoot), Fort Ross Historic Park, Jenner, CA. Excavated 19th-century,
Native Alaskan middens and surveyed historic and prehistoric Pomo Indian sites.
1989–1990
Archaeology Lab Supervisor, Auburn University, AL.
1989–1990
Field Assistant (P.I.s: Profs. C. Sheldon and J. Cottier), Auburn University.
Excavated at Fusihatchee, a historic Creek Indian village near Montgomery, AL.
1989–1990
Field Surveyor (Supervisor: Dr. J. Cottier). Conducted surveys for cultural
resource management projects for various state and private agencies in Alabama.
1988–1989
Field Assistant (P.I.: Dr. J. Cottier), Auburn University. Participated in survey and
excavation of Hickory Ground (historic Creek Indian village), and Fort Mitchell
National Historical Landmark.
Professional Consulting:
2011
National Register of Historic Places nomination for Greenwood Historic District,
Tulsa, OK. Oral historian and consultant with Preservation Central, Inc., Austin,
TX, to nominate the site of the 1921 Tulsa race riot to the NRHP.
2000
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH. Advised on
Center’s exhibits and educational programs during the initial planning process.
1998–1999
Dallas Freedmen’s Cemetery Project, Geo-Marine and Texas Dept. of
Transportation. Advised Geo-Marine archaeologists on final report writing, and
public education and outreach plans for major historic reburial project.
Invited Lectures and Presentations:
2011 “Ransom Williams Site: Public Archeology at a 19th-Century African American
Farmstead” w/Doug Boyd. LAMP (Learning Activities for Mature People) Speaker
Series, UT-Austin, Feb. 1.
2003
“The Archaeology of Virginia Plantation Slavery.” Department of New Humanities for
Social Justice, California State University, Monterey Bay, Nov 24.
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Invited Lectures and Presentations (continued):
2003 “The Society for American Archaeology’s MATRIX Project and Revising Undergraduate
Curricula in Archaeology” seminar, Michigan State University, Sept. 16.
2003
“Historical Consciousness, Identity Formation, and Racial Politics.” Visiting Minority
Faculty Program, the College of Social Science, and the Dept. of Anthropology,
Michigan State University, Sept. 16.
2003 Diversity Forum on “Teaching Multicultural Issues to Undergraduates,” Department of
Anthropology, Michigan State University, Sept. 15.
2003 “Black Cultural Politics and Archaeology.” 9th Annual Academic Conference for the
Minority Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, UNC–Chapel Hill, July 26.
2003
“Archaeology’s Black Eye: A Discourse on Race, Culture, and US Blacks.” Museum of
Anthropology, University of Michigan, March.
2002 “Gender Matters: Feminist Perspectives in Archaeology.” American Association of
University Women, Texas State Convention, Laredo, April 6.
2001 “Archaeology, Descendant Communities, and the Past as Property” workshop. Dept. of
Anthropology, and African and African-American Studies, Notre Dame, Sept. 21.
2001 “Notes from the Plantation: Recovering Black Experiences Through Archaeology.”
College of Arts and Letters Young Scholars Series, Dept. of Anthropology, and African
and African-American Studies, Notre Dame, Sept. 20.
2001 “The Politics of Historical Archaeology in the Chesapeake.” Dept. of Cultural and Social
Anthropology, Stanford University, Feb. 5.
2000 “The Pitfalls and Potentialities of African Diaspora Archaeology.” Archaeology at
Oatlands Plantation seminar, co–sponsored by Northern Virginia Community College
and Oatlands Plantation, Leesburg, VA, April 29.
2000 “African Diaspora Archaeology: Re-visiting the Past and Empowering the Future.”
Keynote for the Innovative Perspectives in History Conference, Dept. of History,
Virginia Tech U., Mar. 4.
2000 “The Role of Material Culture in Early Afro–American Identity Formation.” Black
Studies and Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Tech U., Mar. 3.
2000 “Anthropological Perspectives on Material Culture.” Seminar
sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Faculty Program, Austin, March 2.
1999 “African–American Cultural Production.” Seminar sponsored by the Smithsonian
Institution’s National Faculty Program, Austin, TX, Nov. 7.
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Invited Lectures and Presentations (continued):
1999 “African–American Women Quilters.” Texas Folklife Resources, Austin, Sept. 21.
1999 “African Diaspora Archaeology.” MURAP Conference, Mellon Foundation and the
Economics Dept. of UNC–Chapel Hill, July 23-25.
1999 “The Exploration of Slavery through Archaeological Research.” Division of Social
Work, Behavioral and Political Sciences, Prairie View A&M College, TX.
1998 “The Archaeology and History of Rich Neck Plantation, Virginia.” Brown Bag
Colloquium, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, April 15.
1998 “Viewing Black History and Culture Through Archaeology.” Public session of the
annual conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Atlanta, GA, January 10.
1997 “Out of Site, Out of Mind: The Archaeology of an Enslaved Virginian Household.”
Center for African and African American Studies and the African Diaspora Program in
Anthropology, University of Texas–Austin, March 28.
1997 “Gender and Culture at the Crossroads: Enslaved Afro–Virginian Families and
Communities.” The Fulbright College Gender Studies Program, University of Arkansas
at Fayetteville, Nov. 13.
1997 “An Archaeological Perspective of the Colonization of the Chesapeake and the
Transformation of Plantation Slavery.” Robert L. Stigler, Jr., Lectureship in Archaeology.
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Nov. 12.
Session Organizer/Chair/Discussant for Professional Meetings:
2001 Discussant, “Household Archaeology” session. Society for Historical Archaeology
(SHA) annual conference, Long Beach, CA, January 10–14.
1999 Co–organizer and co–chair (w/G. Smith and S. Bender), “Initiating a National Dialogue
on Teaching Archaeology in the New Millenium” panel. Annual meeting of the
American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, Nov.
1998 Co–organizer and co–chair (w/K. Slocum), “Black Women Anthropologists and African
Diaspora Research: Negotiating Culture and Consciousness in the Field.” Annual
meeting of the AAA, Philadelphia, Dec. 2–6.
1998 Co–organizer and co–chair (w/L. McKee), “Transcending Boundaries, Transforming the
Discipline: African Diaspora Archaeology into the New Millenium.” SHA annual
conference, Atlanta, GA Jan. 7–10.
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Session Organizer/Chair/Discussant for Professional Meetings (continued):
1998 Discussant, “Perspectives on the Evolution of African–American Culture at Levi Jordan
Plantation.” SHA annual conference, Corpus Christi, January 7–10.
1997 Organizer and Chair, “Enslaved, Indentured, and Free: Testimonies to the Evolution of a
Plantation.” SHA annual conference, Corpus Christi, January 7–10.
1996 Co–organizer and co–chair (w/ G. Fesler), “The Melting Pot, the Tossed Salad, and
Other Ways to Cook Up Ethnicity.” SHA annual conference, Cincinnati, Jan. 3–7.
1995 Co–organizer (w/ E. Prine and R. Sewell), “Appropriating the Past: The Sociopolitics
of Archaeology.” Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual conference,
Minneapolis, May 3–7.
1995 Co–organizer and co–chair (w/ Y. Edwards), “Aspirations and Accomplishments in
African American Archaeology.” SHA annual conference, Washington D.C., January 6.
1994 Co–organizer (w/ Y. Edwards and A. Agbe–Davies), “Slave Material Culture” workshop.
Council for Northeastern Historical Archaeology conference, Williamsburg, Oct. 21.
Presentations at Professional Meetings:
2011 Introduction to session “Reinterpreting the ‘Domestic’: Household Archaeology Across
Boundaries of Space, Time, and Disciplinary Divisions.” Society for Historical
Archaeology annual conference, Austin, TX January 6.
2011 Forum Panelist, “African Histories and Diasporas: A Conversation with Robert Farris
Thompson.” Society for Historical Archaeology annual conference, Austin, TX Jan. 7.
2010 “African Diaspora Archaeology and the Politics of Identity.” Society for Historical
Archaeology annual conference, Amelia Island, FL, January 7.
2004 “Remembering North Dallas’ Freedman’s Town: First Steps Towards Public
Archaeology Within an African-American Community in Dallas, Texas” (w/J. Davidson
and J. Brandon). SHA annual conference, St. Louis, January 9.
2000 “Critical Perspectives and Black Feminist Reflections of Historical Archaeology.”
Annual meeting of the AAA, San Francisco, Nov. 15–19.
1999 A. Pyburn and M. Franklin, “Teaching Archaeology in the 21st Century: The Graduate
Curriculum.” Annual meeting of the AAA, Chicago, Nov.
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Papers Presented at Professional Meetings and Symposia (continued):
1998 “If These Walls Could Talk: Family and Household Relationships at the Rich Neck
Plantation Quarter.” SAA annual conference, Seattle, March 25–29.
1998 “The Racial Divide and its Influence on Creole Cultures of the Chesapeake.” SHA annual
conference, Atlanta, January 7–10.
1997 “Share and Share Alike: Reassessing the Relevance of Historical Archaeology.” Annual
meeting of the AAA, San Francisco, Nov. 22.
1997 “All for One and One for All?: Realities of the Black Household at Rich Neck.”
SHA annual conference, Corpus Christi, January 9.
1996 “The Material Expressions of Black American Protective Symbolism in Art and
Archaeology.” African Impact on the Material Culture of the Americas Conference,
Winston-Salem State University, NC, May 30.
1996 “Owners and Stewards, and Innocent Bystanders: Archaeologists and the Past as
Property.” SHA annual conference, Cincinnati, January 5.
1995 “Power to the People: African American Archaeology and Another Case of Us Against
Them.” Society for American Archaeology annual conference, Minneapolis, May 5.
1995 “On the Medieval Side of the Georgian Threshold: Excavations of an Eighteenth Century
Post Dwelling at Flowerdew Hundred, Virginia,” (w/ A. Bell). Middle Atlantic
Archaeological Society annual meeting, Ocean City, MD, April 8.
1995 “Shocker and Hester were here: The On–going Investigations of the Rich Neck Plantation
Quarter.” SHA annual conference, Washington D.C., January 6.
1994 “Current Excavations at the Rich Neck Plantation Slave Quarter.” Annual Jamestown
Conference, Jamestown Island, VA, November 4.
1994 “Pots, Probates, and Pictorials: Using a Non–Partisan Approach to Refurnish the Carter’s
Grove Slave Cabins.” SHA annual conference, January 8.
1992 “Assessing Acculturation Theories in Culture Contact Studies.” Annual Chacmool
Conference, University of Calgary, Nov.12.
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Academic Advising Service:
2002–2005
2001–2004
Assistant Graduate Advisor, Department of Anthropology
Undergraduate Advisor, Center for African and African American Studies
UT Service:
2010–2012
2009–2010
2005–2006
2004–2005
2004–2005
COLA Promotions and Tenure Committee
COLA First Generation Committee
UT Police Oversight Committee
Faculty Council
UT Parking and Traffic Appeals Panel
UT Departmental Service:
Department of Anthropology
2010–2012
2010–2011
2010
2008–2009
2008–2009
2007–2008
2004–2006
2003–2005
2004–2005
2003–2004
2002–2003
1998–2004
2001–2003
2001–2002
2000–2001
Admissions Committee
Promotions and Tenure Committee
Departmental Governance Committee
Chair, faculty search committee (Archaeology)
Undergraduate Studies
Executive Committee
Executive Committee
Graduate Studies Committee
Faculty search committee (Archaeology)
Minority Liaison
Faculty search committee (Archaeology)
Undergraduate Studies Committee
Executive Committee
Faculty search committee (Archaeology)
Faculty search committee (Folklore and Public Culture)
Center for African and African American Studies
2008–2009
2007–2009
2006–2007
2001–2005
2001–2002
2001–2002
Faculty search committee (with Department of Religious Studies)
Curriculum Committee
Faculty search committee (with Department of Geography)
Executive Committee
Steering Committee
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Memberships in Professional Organizations:
Society for Historical Archaeology
Society for American Archaeology
World Archaeological Congress
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Committees:
2011–2013
2007–2009
2001–2004
1998–2002
1998–2002
Society for American Archaeology, Minority Scholarship Committee.
Society for American Archaeology, Dissertation Award Committee.
Advisor, MATRIX (Making Archaeology Teaching Relevant in the XXIst
Century) project. Project funded by the National Science Foundation.
Society for American Archaeology, Task Force on Curriculum.
Society for American Archaeology, Ethics Committee.
Professional Service:
2002–2006
Advisory Board, Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site, TX Parks & Wildlife.
Responsibilities include the evaluation of archaeological reports submitted to
TPWD, and participating in the planning process of the site’s transition to a
heritage site for public visitation.
1999–2005
Project Steering Committee, Digital Archaeological Archive of Slavery in the
Chesapeake (DAAACS), Thomas Jefferson’s Memorial Foundation and the
Department of Archaeology at Monticello, VA. Project funded by the A.W.
Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Other Professional Service:
2010
2010
2009
2006
2004
2001
2001
2000
2000
1999
1998
1998
Reviewer, Great Plains Quarterly.
Reviewer, Archaeologies.
Reviewer, University of Florida Press.
Reviewer, American Anthropologist.
Reviewer, Historical Archaeology.
Reviewer, Mayfield Press (introductory textbook on archaeology).
Reviewer, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Reviewer, American Anthropologist.
Reviewer, Journal of Southeastern Archaeology.
Reviewer, McGraw-Hill Press (introductory textbook on archaeology)
Reviewer, International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
Reviewer, University of North Carolina Press.