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Christopher C. Fennell Department of Anthropology

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

109 Davenport Hall, MC-148

607 South Mathews Ave., Urbana, Illinois 61801

Phone: (217) 333-3616; Cell: (312) 513-2683

Fax: (217) 244-3490; email: cfennell@illinois.edu

EDUCATION

University of Virginia: Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2003.

Concentration in historical archaeology and African diaspora archaeology.

M.A. in Anthropology, 2000.

Georgetown University Law Center: J.D., 1989.

Research Editor, American Criminal Law Review, Volume 26 (1988-1989); managed final

review of all articles; chaired committee for selecting articles for publication.

University of Pennsylvania: M.A. in American Civilization, 1986.

Interdisciplinary program applying anthropological theories and methods to subjects in American

history, with concentration in historical archaeology.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL Associate Professor of Anthropology and Law, 2010 to present.

University Scholar, 2014-2017. Director of Graduate Studies & Associate Head of Department, 2010 to 2013.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Law, 2004-2010.

Designing and teaching courses in anthropology, archaeology, African diaspora studies, and law.

Faculty affiliate of the College of Law, teaching interdisciplinary seminars in anthropology, law,

social norms, and dynamics of racism; also faculty affiliate of the Department of Landscape

Architecture, the Center for African Studies, and the Department of African American Studies.

University of Chicago Law School

Visiting Professor of Law, 2010, 2013-present.

Offering courses in anthropology, law, social norms, and the dynamics of racism.

University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX

Adjunct Professor of Law and Senior Research Fellow, 2003-2004.

Designed and taught seminar in anthropology and law and course in social norms and the law.

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Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Fall 2003.

Designed and taught Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course, including elements of

anthropology’s four sub-fields, history of humankind, and diversity of cultures.

Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL

Instructor, School of Policy Studies, Spring 2001.

Designed and taught course on Cross-Cultural Anthropology, including analysis of diverse

cultures and economic, environmental, class, gender, and ethnic dynamics.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Summer 2000, Summer 1999.

Designed and taught course on Witchcraft and Magic and an intensive, six-week Field School in

Historical Archaeology theory and methods, including excavation, surveying, artifact and

documentary analysis.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL, RESEARCH & TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Society for Historical Archaeology, 2012-2015.

Member of the Board of Directors. Formed in 1967, the Society for Historical Archaeology is the

largest scholarly group concerned with the archaeology of the modern world.

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Archaeology Project Co-Director, 2009-present.

Archaeology of Edgefield, South Carolina Pottery Communities

Co-director, collaborating with George Calfas, Carl Steen, and Sean Taylor, conducting

archaeological investigations and field schools at nineteenth century sites in Edgefield County,

South Carolina, with support from the University of Illinois, Diachronic Research Foundation,

Edgefield County Historical Society, Edgefield Inn, South Carolina Department of Natural

Resources, South Carolina Humanities Council, and National Endowment for the Humanities.

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Archaeology Project Co-Director, 2008-present.

New Philadelphia Archaeology Project

Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Archaeologist, collaborating with Anna Agbe-Davies

(DePaul U.) and Terrance Martin (Illinois State Museum), conducting archaeological

investigations and field schools at nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois, and

surrounding region, with support from the University of Illinois, Illinois State Museum, New

Philadelphia Association, Archaeological Conservancy, Kinderhook Lodge, and the National

Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy, 2009-present.

Member of the Executive Committee of this strategic research center, which has the goal of

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facilitating critical studies of cultural heritage and museum practices on a global scale.

Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

Adjunct Research Associate in Anthropology, 2008-present.

Conducting research on nineteenth century history in Illinois and Midwest region, including

social history of New Philadelphia.

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Aerial Thermal Survey Research, 2007-2009.

New Philadelphia Archaeology Project

Principal Investigator and co-Principal Archaeologist, with Tommy Hailey (Northwestern State

University) and Bryan Haley (U. Mississippi), conducting low-altitude high resolution thermal

survey at nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois, under a grant award by the

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Archaeology Project Co-Director, 2004-2006.

New Philadelphia Archaeology Project

Co-Principal Archaeologist, with Paul Shackel (U. Maryland) and Terrance Martin (Illinois State

Museum), conducting archaeological investigations and field schools at nineteenth century town

site of New Philadelphia, Illinois, under a grant award by the National Science Foundation’s

Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Archaeology Project Director, 1997-2003.

Loudoun Valley Archaeology Project

Conducted excavations, research, and analysis of eighteenth and nineteenth century archaeology

sites at St. Peter’s Church and School House, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and Demory

farmstead site, Loudoun County, Virginia, with support from the West Virginia Humanities

Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia Historical Society, and Andrew

Mellon Foundation.

Guest Lecturer, Universities of Virginia, Illinois, and Notre Dame.

Presented guest lectures in courses on Witchcraft and Magic (U. Virginia, Spring, 1999),

Historical Ethnography (U. Virginia, Spring 1999), Reconstructing the Plymouth Colony (U.

Virginia, Fall 1998), North American Indians (U. Virginia, Summer 1998), American Material

Culture (U. Virginia, Spring 1998), Introduction to Archaeology (U. Illinois, Fall, 2004),

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Spring, 2005), Archaeology and the Public (Spring,

2005), Museum Studies Seminar (U. Illinois, Spring, 2005), Archaeology of Illinois (U. Illinois,

Spring 2006, 2008), Fundamentals of Archaeology (Notre Dame U., Spring 2012), Historical

Archaeology (UIPUI, Fall 2012, 2015), Critical Archaeology (Tel Aviv U., Fall 2012).

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EDITORIAL AND REFEREE EXPERIENCE

Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage

Founding Editor, 2011-present.

Editor of the Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, a peer reviewed journal

published by Taylor & Francis Press. This Journal provides a focal point for peer-reviewed

publications in interdisciplinary studies in archaeology, history, material culture, and heritage

dynamics concerning African descendant populations and cultures across the globe.

International Journal of Historical Archaeology

Editorial Board Member, 2005-present.

Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, a peer

reviewed journal published by Springer Press. This Journal provides current theoretical,

methodological, and site-specific research, exploring a wide-range of topics on the post-1492

period and global connections between sites, regions, and continents.

Slavery: Past and Present Book Series, Cambria Press

Editorial Board Member, 2012-present.

This peer reviewed series will feature high-quality, innovative, and peer-reviewed monographs

and edited books that examine the history of slavery and how its memories and legacies remain

alive in various regions of the globe.

African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter

Publisher and Editor, 2005-present.

Publisher, editor (2005-2011) and co-founder of the African Diaspora Archaeology Network and

Newsletter, providing a focal point for archaeological studies of African diasporas, with analysis

papers, news, and current research related to the archaeology and history of descendants of

African peoples. Available online at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/

Grant and Nomination Proposal Referee, 2007-present.

Providing peer review for: University of Illinois Research Board grants program; National

Science Foundation’s Doctoral Dissertation Improvement grant program; Fulbright Interview and

Evaluation Committee to judge graduate and professional student applications for Fulbright

awards; Icelandic Research Fund program, Icelandic Centre for Research; Fundação para a

Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal; Israel Science Foundation; and the National Park Service.

Article and Book Manuscript Referee, 2004-present.

Providing peer review for publication selection of article and book manuscripts submitted to the

American Anthropologist journal, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Historical

Archaeology journal, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Northeast Historical Archaeology

journal, University Press of Florida, University of Illinois Press, and MIT Press.

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Plymouth Colony Archive Project

Editor, 1998-present.

Editor, and co-founder in 1998 with James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz, of the Plymouth

Colony Archive Project, an internet publication of ethnohistorical and archaeological analyses

and historical texts; recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as “peer reviewed

for outstanding intellectual quality, superior design, and educational impact.” Available online at:

http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/

COURSES OFFERED

Anthropology and Law Social Norms and Law

Racism, Law, and Social Science Archaeology and Racialization

Introduction to Anthropology Introduction to Archaeology

African-American Archaeology World Archaeology

Illinois Archaeology Historical Archaeology

Archaeological Survey Methods North American Archaeology

Field School in Archaeology Landscape Archaeology

PUBLICATIONS

“Architecture and Landscape Art,” (with Shawn Fields and Rebecca Schumann) chapter in The

Routledge Handbook of the American South, edited by Maggi M. Morehouse, Routledge, New

York (in preparation).

“Introduction: Navigating Intersections in African Diaspora Archaeology,” article in thematic

issue entitled “Challenging Theories of Racism, Diaspora, and Agency in African America,”

edited by William A. White III, accepted after peer review by Historical Archaeology journal.

“Reflections on African-American Social Dynamics,” chapter in peer reviewed book entitled

Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic, edited by Michael J. Gall and

Richard F. Veit, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa (2016).

Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities, peer reviewed book in

press with University Press of Florida (2016).

“Fighting Despair: Challenges of a Comparative, Global Framework for Slavery Studies,” invited

chapter in The Archaeology of Slavery: A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion,

edited by Lydia Wilson Marshall, pp. 391–399, peer reviewed publication of Center for

Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale (2014).

“Cultural Creativity, Rebellions, and Comparative Questions for Afro-Brazilian Archaeology,”

invited chapter in Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America,

edited by Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Charles E. Orser, Jr., pp. 99–116, peer reviewed publication

of Springer Press (2014).

“Artifacts to Invoke, Direct, and Deflect,” peer reviewed article in Manifestations of Magic: The

Archaeology and Material Culture of Folk Religion, guest editors C. Fennell and M. Chris

Manning, special thematic issue, Historical Archaeology 48(3): 196–200 (2014).

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Manifestations of Magic: The Archaeology and Material Culture of Folk Religion, editor (with

M. Chris Manning) of a special thematic issue of 11 articles in Historical Archaeology 48(3): 1–

200 (2014).

“Dexterous Creation: Material Manifestations of Instrumental Symbolism in the Americas,”

invited chapter in Materials, Meanings, and Modernities of Rituals in the Black Atlantic, edited

by Akin Ogundiran and Paula Saunders, pp. 216–235, peer reviewed publication of Indiana

University Press (2014).

“Kongo and the Archaeology of Early African America,” invited chapter in Kongo Across the

Waters, edited by Susan Cooksey, Robin Poynor, and Hein Vanhee, pp. 229–237, peer reviewed

publication of University of Florida Press, accompanying an exhibition by the Harn Museum of

Art and Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (2013).

“Paradoxes in Designs for a National Historic Landmark’s Presentation” (with Kathryn O. Fay)

peer reviewed article in a thematic issue entitled “Community Relevance and Engagement in

Participatory Museums,” edited by Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, Natalye B. Tate, and Robert P.

Connolly, in Museums and Social Issues 7(2): 323–340 (2012).

“African Diaspora Archaeology” and “African Diaspora Archaeology Network,” invited articles

in the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by Claire Smith, Paul Lane, et al., Springer

Press (2012).

“Introductory Statement” from the Editor, Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and

Heritage 1(1): 5–8 (2012).

“Examining Structural Racism in the Jim Crow Era of Illinois,” an invited chapter in The

Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Post-Emancipation Life, edited by Jodi Barnes, pp.

173–189, peer reviewed publication of University of South Carolina Press (2011).

“Literate Inversions and Cultural Metaphors in Edgefield Stoneware,” an invited article in a peer-

review forum entitled “Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery,”

edited by Charles R. Ewen, Historical Archaeology 45(2): 156–162 (2011).

“Carved, Inscribed, and Resurgent: Cultural and Natural Terrains as Analytic Challenges,”

introductory chapter in Revealing Landscapes, textbook compiled by Christopher Fennell, in

Perspectives from Historical Archaeology series, Society for Historical Archaeology, Tucson, AZ

(2011).

“Early African America: Archaeological Studies of Significance and Diversity,” an invited

synthesis and review article for peer reviewed Journal of Archaeological Research 19(1): 1–49

(2011).

“Archaeological Investigations and LiDAR Aerial Survey in Edgefield, South Carolina,” African

Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter (Dec. 2010).

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“Damaging Detours: Routes, Racism and New Philadelphia,” peer reviewed article in New

Philadelphia: Racism, Community, and the Illinois Frontier, a specially edited thematic issue,

Historical Archaeology 44(1): 138–154 (2010).

New Philadelphia: Racism, Community, and the Illinois Frontier, editor (with Terrance J. Martin

and Paul A. Shackel) of a specially edited thematic issue, Historical Archaeology 44(1): 1–157

(2010).

“Combating Attempts of Elision: African American Accomplishments at New Philadelphia,

Illinois,” invited chapter in Intangible Heritage Embodied, edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles and

Helaine Silverman, peer reviewed publication by Springer Press, pp. 147–168 (2009).

“New Philadelphia: Free African-American Historical Site, Southern Illinois,” in Archaeology in

America: An Encyclopedia (with Paul Shackel, Michael Hargrave, and Terrance Martin), edited

by Francis McManamon, Linda S. Cordell, Kent G. Lightfoot, and George R. Milner, Greenwood

Press (2008).

“African Diaspora Archaeology in Multiscalar and Multivariate Perspectives,” introductory

chapter in African Diaspora Archaeology, an invited textbook compiled by C. Fennell, in

Perspectives from Historical Archaeology series, peer reviewed publication by the Society for

Historical Archaeology, Tucson, AZ (2008).

“Excavating Strata of Memory and Forgetting,” an invited article in SAA Archaeological Record

8(1): 17–21. Society for American Archaeology (Jan. 2008).

Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World, with a foreword

by Robert Farris Thompson, peer reviewed publication by University of Florida Press (2007).

“BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Expression in the Americas,” an invited chapter in The

Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Toyin Falola and Akin

Ogundiran, pp. 210–250, peer reviewed publication by Indiana University Press (2007).

“Free Frank’s Community, New Philadelphia,” with Terrance J. Martin and Paul A. Shackel,

Outdoor Illinois 13(10): 26–28 (2005).

“New Philadelphia: The XYZs of the First Excavations,” with Terrance J. Martin and Paul A.

Shackel, Living Museum 66(4): 8–13 (2004/2005).

Consuming Mosaics: Mass-Produced Goods and Contours of Choice in the Upper Potomac

Region, PhD Diss., University of Virginia. Ann Arbor: UMI (2003).

“Group Identity, Individual Creativity and Symbolic Generation in a BaKongo Diaspora,”

International Journal of Historical Archaeology 7(1): 1–31, peer reviewed publication by Kluwer

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Academic & Plenum Publishers (2003).

“Molded Malevolence: Instrumental Symbolism Rendered in Clay,” invited article in Ceramics in

America 3: 270–273, peer reviewed publication by University Press of New England and the

Chipstone Foundation (2003).

“Fear and Greed in Tax Policy: A Qualitative Research Agenda,” with Lee A. Fennell,

Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 13: 75–138 (2003).

“Proximate Inventions,” AnthroGlobe Journal, AnthroTech Publications (Jan. 2002).

“Assessing Criticisms of Faunal Analyses and Environmental Reconstructions in the Tehuacán

Valley Project,” Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal 29(3): 349–359, peer reviewed

publication by Kluwer Academic & Plenum Publishers (2001).

“Conjuring Boundaries: Inferring Past Identities from Religious Artifacts,” International Journal

of Historical Archaeology 4(4): 281–313, peer reviewed publication by Kluwer Academic &

Plenum Publishers (2000).

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

As described in more detail below, from 2004 to the present I have been grateful to receive the

support of: $217,681 in competitive, peer reviewed research grants awarded by the University of

Illinois Research Board and grant programs of the Andrew Mellon Foundation and Community

Informatics Initiative; and $536,656 in competitive, peer reviewed research grants awarded by

external agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the

Humanities, and the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

University Scholar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2014-2017, honor and funding

enhancement in recognition of excellence in research, scholarship, and teaching.

Campus Award for Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research, nominee, University of

Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2015, nominated for this award by the College of Liberal Arts and

Sciences.

Gender and Minority Affairs Diversity Field School Competition Award, Society for Historical

Archaeology, Second Place Award (with Jamie Arjona and Tatiana Niculescu) for advancing

diversity in the sciences through the 2013 Archaeology of Edgefield, South Carolina Pottery

Communities Field School.

Award for Distinguished Service 2012-2013, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois,

Urbana-Champaign.

Cultural Creativity, History & Heritage in Edgefield, South Carolina, Speaker Series, 2013, as

Project Director, supported by a grant from the Humanities Council of South Carolina and the

National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Archaeological and Historical Examination of a Nationalist Mythology of an Authentic Irish

Past, 2013, as Principal Investigator, awarded by the University of Illinois Research Board.

Memory and Heart: Pasts and Presents of African American Communities, Speaker Series, 2011,

as Project Director, supported by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, the National

Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General Assembly.

New Philadelphia Archaeology and the Digital Archaeological Record, 2011, as Principal

Investigator, awarded by the Digital Antiquity initiative.

Gustave O. Arlt Award recipient, 2010, for outstanding contribution to scholarship in the

humanities, awarded by the Council for Graduate Schools.

LiDAR and Archaeological Analysis of the Pottersville, SC Production and Village Site, 2010-

2011, as Principal Investigator, for Edgefield, SC Archaeology Project, awarded by the

University of Illinois Research Board.

LiDAR and Archaeological Analysis of the New Philadelphia National Historic Landmark, 2010-

2011, as Principal Investigator, for New Philadelphia Archaeology Project.

Community Informatics Initiative, 2010-2011, as Principal Investigator, in a project concerning

civic engagement among researchers and local and descendant communities of Brooklyn, Illinois.

John L. Cotter Award recipient, 2009, for outstanding scholarly achievement in African diaspora

studies, awarded by the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Community Engagement with Lincoln’s Legacies, Speaker Series, 2009, as Project Director,

supported by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the

Humanities, and the Illinois General Assembly.

National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Grant, 2008-

2012, as Principal Investigator and co-Principal Archaeologist with Anna Agbe-Davies (DePaul

U.) and Terrance Martin (Illinois State Museum), conducting archaeological investigations and

NSF funded field schools at nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois.

Community Informatics Initiative, 2008-2010, as Principal Investigator, in a project concerning

civic engagement among researchers and local and descendant communities of New Philadelphia,

Illinois.

African-American Heritage in the Midwest, Speaker Series, 2008, as Project Director, supported

by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and

the Illinois General Assembly.

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, 2007-2010, as Principal Investigator

and co-Principal Archaeologist, with Tommy Hailey (Northwestern State University) and Bryan

Haley (U. Mississippi), conducting low-altitude high resolution thermal survey at nineteenth

century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Faculty Fellowship, 2006-2007, to conduct interdisciplinary

work in the humanities, focusing on nineteenth century history in the midwest region.

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National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Grant, 2004-

2006, as co-Principal Archaeologist with Paul Shackel (U. Maryland) and Terrance Martin

(Illinois State Museum), conducting archaeological investigations and NSF funded field schools

at nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois.

University of Illinois, Research Board Grants, 2004-2010, supporting archaeological and

historical research projects concerning African diaspora subjects and social histories of nineteenth

century communities of New Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Equal Rights in Illinois, and the

Edgefield pottery district of South Carolina.

University of Illinois, included in List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for seven courses, Fall

2004, Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, and Fall 2012.

Voted Outstanding Anthropology Faculty member by the Undergraduate Anthropology Students

Association, 2004-2005.

West Virginia Humanities Council Grants, 2000-2001, 2002-2003, from state affiliate of the

National Endowment for the Humanities, supporting continuing archival research as part of an

historical archaeology study of St. Peter’s Church and School House sites, Harpers Ferry, West

Virginia.

DuPont Fellowship, 2001-2002, University of Virginia, Department of Anthropology, supporting

write-up of doctoral dissertation.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Research Fellowship, 2000, supporting study of aspects of

Virginia economic history in the 18th and 19th centuries, utilizing resources of the Virginia

Historical Society.

Governor’s Fellowship, 1997-2000, University of Virginia, Department of Anthropology,

supporting doctoral studies.

American Jurisprudence Awards, 1988, 1989, for Antitrust and Employment Discrimination

courses, Georgetown University Law Center.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Investigating African Diaspora History,” invited paper presented

for Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Esteticas, Patrimonio e Instituto Historico de la

Ciudad de Buenos Aires, and Urbania: Revista Latinoamericana de Arqueología e Historia de las

Ciudades, March 11, 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Forum panelist for “Catching Up With Caches: The Latest on African Diasporic Spirit Practices

in the Archaeological Record,” at the 49th Conference of the Society of Historical Archaeology,

presented January 7, 2016, Washington, DC.

“Commemorating African America and Confronting White Privilege: 100 Years of National

Challenges,” invited paper presented Jan. 6, 2016, in the Plenary Session of the 49th Conference

of the Society of Historical Archaeology, Washington, DC.

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“New Philadelphia, Illinois: From Research Project to National Historic Landmark,” paper

presented Nov. 5, 2015, at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“Tradition and Modernity on Great Blasket Island, Ireland,” invited paper presented Oct. 7, 2015,

to the Archaeology Division of the Vienna Museum, Austria.

“Atlantic Traverses, Contrastive Illuminations,” paper to be presented in a symposium entitled

“Making Waves: A Celebration of the Scholarship of Marley R. Brown III,” at the 48th

Conference of the Society of Historical Archaeology, January 9, 2015, Seattle, Washington.

Forum panelist for “Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minorities in Anthropology

Programs,” at the 48th Conference of the Society of Historical Archaeology, January 8, 2015,

Seattle, Washington.

Forum panelist for “Ethics in Historical Archaeology,” at the 48th Conference of the Society of

Historical Archaeology, January 8, 2015, Seattle, Washington.

“Nationalism, Romance, and Realities on Great Blasket Island, Ireland,” invited paper presented

to the Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, October 23, 2014,

Williamsburg, Virginia.

“Paradoxes in Designs for a National Historic Landmark's Presentation,” invited paper (with

Kathryn Fay) presented at the Tenth Annual Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference,

September 27, 2014, Niles, Michigan.

“Interdisciplinary Investigations in African Diaspora Archaeology,” invited lecture presented at

the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, September 5, 2014, Boulder, Colorado.

“Racism and Archaeology,” paper presented in the Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference,

May 24, 2014, Urbana, Illinois.

“NAGPRA and Undisplaying the Indigenous Dead,” paper presented in The Controversial Dead:

A Colloquium, annual conference of the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and

Policy, May 1, 2014, Urbana, Illinois.

“Tradition and Modernity on Great Blasket Island, Ireland,” paper presented in a session entitled

Medieval and Postmedieval Europe, April 24, 2014, at the Society for American Archaeology's

79th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.

“Dragons in America: Industry and Innovation in Edgefield, South Carolina,” invited keynote

presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archaeology Conference, presented

March 14, 2014, Langhorne, Pennsylvania.

“Archaeology and Kongo Legacies in the Americas,” invited paper scheduled presented in a

colloquium entitled Kongo Atlantic Dialogues: Kongo Culture in Central Africa and in the

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Americas, the 2014 Gwendolen M. Carter Conference, February 21, 2014, Center for African

Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville.

Invited panel discussant in a forum entitled A Question that Counts: Why Is Achieving Diversity

and Confronting Racism in the SHA Important for the Future of Our Organization, Profession,

and Theoretical Understanding of the Past, Present, and Future? at the Annual Conference of the

Society for Historical Archaeology, Jan. 11, 2014, Quebec City, Canada.

Invited discussant for a symposium entitled Theorizing the African Diaspora Archaeology, at the

Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Jan. 10, 2014, Quebec City,

Canada.

Chair and Organizer of symposium entitled Good Questions Met by Archaeological Revelations,

at the Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Jan. 10, 2014, Quebec City,

Canada.

“Confronting a Dragon’s Offspring in the Americas,” paper presented, with George W. Calfas, in

a symposium entitled Good Questions Met by Archaeological Revelations, at the Annual

Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Jan. 10, 2014, Quebec City, Canada.

“From the Palatinate to Virginia: European Ethnicities Created in America,” paper presented in

the Annual Conference of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology and the 375th

Anniversary New Sweden Conference, in a symposium entitled Continuity, Change, and an

Evolving Identity: German-Speakers in Colonial and Early American Contexts, Nov. 9, 2013,

Newark, Delaware; and presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual

Conference, in a symposium entitled Bodies in Motion: Making a Place for Archaeological

Migration, November 22, 2013, Chicago.

“Trans-Atlantic Entanglements and Cultural Transformations,” paper presented in a symposium

entitled Archaeology of Africa and Diaspora Community Formation in the Society for American

Archaeology Annual Conference, April 5, 2013, Honolulu, Hawaii.

“Innovation, Industry, and African-American Heritage in Edgefield, South Carolina,” invited

lecture presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, February 1,

2013.

“Diversity, Antiracism, and the Future of SHA,” discussant in a forum scheduled convened at the

Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, UK, January 12, 2013.

“Individual Creativity, Instrumental Symbolism, and the Constituents of Social Identity

Construction,” paper presented in a symposium entitled Reconsidering Archaeologies of

Creativity, Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, UK, January

10, 2013.

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Short Course on “Law and Anthropology” presented at Radzyner School of Law,

Interdisciplinary Center University (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, December 16-27, 2012.

“Trans-Atlantic Entanglements, Diasporas, and Archaeological Insights,” invited lecture

presented December 24, 2012, to the Nadler Institute of Archaeology and the Department of

Archaeology and Ancient Near East, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

“Communicating Archaeology at New Philadelphia,” with Terrance J. Martin and Anna Agbe-

Davies, paper presented at the 58th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing,

Michigan, October 18-20, 2012.

“A Dragon Kiln in the Americas: 19th Century Innovations in Edgefield, South Carolina,” invited

lecture presented at the Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary,

Williamsburg, Virginia, October 12, 2012, and presented in the Archaeology Workshop program,

Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 5, 2013.

Co-organizer of “Archaeological Insights and Civic Engagement: Learning from Midwest

Historical Sites,” the 2012 Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference, in Urbana, Illinois,

October 5-6, 2012.

“New Philadelphia Archaeology: The First Ten Years,” with Terrance J. Martin, paper presented

in “Archaeological Insights and Civic Engagement: Learning from Midwest Historical Sites,” the

2012 Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference, in Urbana, Illinois, October 6, 2012.

“Tangibility and Significance: Paradoxes in Designs for a National Historic Landmark’s

Presentation,” paper presented at the Illinois Archaeological Survey’s Annual Conference,

Urbana, Illinois, September 8, 2012.

“African Diaspora Archaeology and Interdisciplinary Challenges,” invited lecture presented to

the Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, August 13, 2012.

“Racism and Resilience in a 19th Century American Heartland: New Philadelphia and the

Vagaries of Prejudice,” invited paper presented in the South African Contemporary History and

Humanities Seminars program, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa,

August 7, 2012, and presented in the interdisciplinary roundtable program IDC Law and Culture

Series: Margins and Minorities, at the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center

University (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, December 27, 2012.

“From Dragon Kilns in China to Early Industry in South Carolina,” invited lecture presented at

the Department of Anthropology, National University of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, June 15, 2012.

“Multidisciplinary Approaches to African Diaspora Studies,” invited lecture presented at the

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 15, 2012.

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“Using the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) for Management, Research, and Education,”

discussant for forum convened at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, April 22, 2012, Memphis, Tennessee.

“Spatial Variables and 19th Century Pottery Communities in Edgefield, South Carolina,” paper

presented in a symposium entitled Prehistory and History of Interaction in the Carolinas, at the

77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 20, 2012, Memphis,

Tennessee.

“Fighting Despair,” discussant presentation at a conference entitled The Archaeology of Slavery:

Toward a Comparative, Global Framework, March 31, 2012, at Southern Illinois University,

Carbondale, Illinois.

“Multiscalar Analysis of Racism’s Impacts on New Philadelphia, Illinois, a 19th Century

Integrated Town,” invited lecture presented March 22, 2012, to the Department of Anthropology,

Syracuse University, New York.

“Diverse Methods and Landscape Analyses at the New Philadelphia National Historic

Landmark,” paper presented (with Jamie Arjona) in symposium entitled Knowledge Woven of

Many Threads: Interdisciplinary Investigations at the National Historic Landmark Site of New

Philadelphia, Illinois, convened at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology,

January 6, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland.

“Manifestations of Magic: The Archaeology and Material Culture of Magic and Folk Belief,”

discussant for symposium convened at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical

Archaeology, January 5, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland.

“Examining Structural Racism in the Jim Crow Era of Illinois,” paper presented in symposium

entitled The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of the Recent African American Past,

convened at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, January 5, 2012,

Baltimore, Maryland.

“African Diaspora Archaeology and Interdisciplinary Challenges,” invited paper presented

October 13, 2011, to the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.

“Archaeology and African Diaspora Legacies in the Americas,” invited keynote presentation at

the XVI Congress of the Brazilian Archaeological Society (SAB) and the XVI Worldwide

Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP),

September 9, 2011, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil.

“Serving Descendant Community and Research Constituents in the New Philadelphia Digital

Archaeological Archive,” invited presentation as part of forum entitled Using the Digital

Archaeological Record (tDAR) for Management and Research, presented April 1, 2011, at the

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California.

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“The Stoneware Pottery Communities of Edgefield: Archaeological and Historical

Investigations,” presented (with George Calfas) March 23, 2011 to University of South Carolina

at Aiken; “Edgefield, South Carolina Pottery Communities: Field School and Research,”

presented (with George Calfas) March 24, 2011 to University of South Carolina at Columbia;

“The Stoneware Pottery Communities of Edgefield: Archaeological, Elemental, and LiDAR

Investigations,” presented March 24, 2011 (with George Calfas) at Founders Hall, Charles Towne

Historic Landing, Charleston, South Carolina.

Discussant for symposium entitled Material Boundaries and Outreach in Religious Innovation

and Conversion, convened at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology,

January 8, 2011, Austin, Texas.

“African Histories and Diasporas: A Conversation with Robert Farris Thompson,” organizer and

chair of the Annual Forum of the African Diaspora Archaeology Network, convened at the

Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, January 7, 2011, Austin, Texas.

“Contours of Ceramic Production and Social Space in Edgefield Potteries,” paper presented in a

symposium entitled New Perspectives on Carolina Ceramic Traditions, at the Annual Meeting of

the Society for Historical Archaeology, January 7, 2011, Austin, Texas.

“Crossroads and Cosmologies,” acceptance lecture for Gustave Arlt Award in the Humanities,

presented at the 50th Annual Conference of the Council of Graduate Schools, December 2, 2010,

Washington, D.C.

“Cultural Innovations at the Crossroads,” invited lecture presented in the Frontiers Colloquium,

Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, October 25, 2010, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania.

“Archaeology, Remote Sensing, and Contours of Racism in the American Midwest,” invited

lecture presented to Boston University’s Department of Archaeology, September 21, 2010,

Boston, Massachusetts.

“African Atlantic Archaeology, Cultural Complexities, and Multiscalar Dynamics,” invited

lecture presented in Harvard University’s Africa Seminar, September 20, 2010, Cambridge,

Massachusetts.

“Stealing Away: Ingenuity and Strategy in the Paths from Slavery to Freedom,” lecture presented

with Terry Ransom, June 29, 2010, in the Marvin J and Thomas Leo Likes Memorial Lecture

Series, Springfield, Illinois.

“Multivalent Histories and Archaeology of a Diverse Frontier Town,” invited paper presented

April 16, 2010, in symposium entitled Historical Archaeology of the Middle and Upper

Mississippi Valley, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis,

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Missouri.

“Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to African Diasporas,” invited lecture presented March 25,

2010, to the Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

“Challenges and Methods in African Atlantic Archaeology,” invited lecture presented March 17,

2010, to the Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

“African Diaspora Archaeology, Coherence, Hybridity, and Multivariate Dynamics,” invited

paper presented February 11, 2010, in the University of Chicago’s Interdisciplinary Archaeology

Workshop.

“Coherence, Randomization, and Disjuncture in African Diasporas,” paper presented January 9,

2010, in symposium entitled African Historical Archaeology: Diasporic Conversations, at the

Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Amelia Island, Florida.

“African Diasporas in the South: A Conversation with John Michael Vlach,” serving as chair,

organizer, and moderator, January 7, 2010, of the annual forum of the African Diaspora

Archaeology Network, at the Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Amelia

Island, Florida.

“Archaeology of African Diaspora and European Colonial Dynamics,” invited paper presented

December 21, 2009, to the Nadler Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Archaeology

and Ancient Near East, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

“Combatting Attempts of Elision: African-American Accomplishments at New Philadelphia,

Illinois,” paper presented September 26, 2009, at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Illinois

Archaeological Survey, Springfield, Illinois.

“Combating Systemic Racism and Shifting Lines of Inequality: Lessons from African-American

Communities in Illinois,” paper presented in Community Engagement with Lincoln’s Legacies

speaker series, June 30, 2009, Barry, Illinois.

“Archaeological Perspectives on Structural Racism in the Jim Crow Era of the American

Midwest,” invited paper presented February 27, 2009, at the conference on the Archaeology of

the Recent African American Past, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology,

University of South Carolina, Columbia.

“Dexterous Creation: Material Manifestations of Instrumental Symbolism in the Americas,”

invited paper presented January 10, 2009, in a symposium entitled Materials and Meanings of

Rituals in Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora, at the Annual Conference of the Society for

Historical Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario.

“African Heritage in Canada,” organizer, chair, and moderator of the Annual Forum for the

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African Diaspora Archaeology Network, convened January 8, 2009, at the Annual Conference of

the Society for Historical Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario.

“Footprint of Freedom: What Archaeology Tells Us about the New Philadelphia Community,”

invited lecture presented October 21, 2008, to the University of Illinois Alumni Association,

Springfield, Illinois.

“African Diaspora Archaeology in Multiscalar and Multivariate Perspectives,” invited lecture

presented to the Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, October 17, 2008,

Williamsburg, Virginia.

“Midwestern African-American Archaeology,” invited organizer and moderator of forum as part

of the Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference, convened October 4, 2008, Indiana

University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana.

“Collaborative Studies and Interdisciplinary Data in the New Philadelphia Project,” invited

lecture presented in the Paul Mickey Science Series, Illinois State Museum, July 9, 2008,

Springfield, Illinois.

“Cultural Heritage and Economic Dynamics in Western Illinois,” invited lecture presented to the

Pike County Chamber of Commerce, June 11, 2008, Pittsfield, Illinois.

“Civic Engagement and Interdisciplinary Data in the New Philadelphia Project,” invited lecture

presented to the Community Informatics Initiative, University of Illinois, April 23, 2008,

Champaign, Illinois.

“A View from Above: Surveying New Philadelphia’s History,” paper presented in a syposium

entitled Post-Emancipation Transitions in the African Diaspora, January 12, 2008, at the Annual

Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

“Routes, Racism, and New Philadelphia: Archaeology of an Interracial Town in the 19th

Century,” invited lecture presented to the Central Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute

of America, October 25, 2007, Urbana, Illinois.

“Archaeological Explorations of African Diasporas and Symbolism in the New World,” paper

presented in a symposium entitled Rituals, Symbols, and Community in the Diaspora at the

Fourth Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, October

10, 2007, St. Michael, Barbados.

“Rituals, Symbols, and Community in the Diaspora,” chairperson for symposium panel convened

at the Fourth Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora,

October 10, 2007, St. Michael, Barbados.

“New Philadelphia and Landscapes of History,” invited lecture presented June 19, 2007, New

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Philadelphia Association Speaker Series, Kinderhook, Illinois.

“Terrains of African-American Accomplishment at New Philadelphia,” invited paper presented

March 30, 2007, at “Intangible Heritage Embodied,” Annual Workshop of the Collaborative for

Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

“African American and German Heritage in the Loudoun Valley: Communities, Conflicts, and

Cosmologies,” invited lecture presented February 23, 2007, for the Loudoun Museum, in

Leesburg, Virginia.

“Research Designs for Atlantic Africa and African Diaspora Archaeologies,” organizer, chair,

and moderator of the Annual Forum for the African Diaspora Archaeology Network, convened

January 12, 2007, at the 40th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology,

Williamsburg, Virginia.

“Multivalent Histories of the Recent Past: Archaeology and Racialization in the American

Midwest,” paper presented November 10, 2006, at the 2006 Conference on Contemporary and

Historical Archaeology in Theory, University of Bristol, England.

“Creolization and Ethnogenic Bricolage in African Diasporas,” invited lecture presented October

26, 2006, to the Department of Anthropology’s Archaeology Workshop, University of Virginia,

Charlottesville, Virginia.

“Regional Dynamics and Racialization on a Midwestern Frontier,” invited lecture presented

September 20, 2006, to the Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary,

Williamsburg, Virginia.

“Guile, Stratagems, and the Contours of Success in Transatlantic Trade Spheres,” chair,

organizer, and commentator for symposium panel convened July 21, 2006, at the Annual Meeting

of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Montreal, Canada.

“Crossroads, Cosmologies, and Ethnogenesis in the New World,” invited paper presented at

Colloquium of the Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, February 25, 2006.

“Patriarchy Performed: The Value of Women’s Labor in Peripheral Links of a Commodity

Chain,” paper presented December 3, 2005, at a session panel entitled Archaeologies of American

History, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

“Identity and a Sense of Place” (with C. Christman and P. Shackel), paper presented by C.

Christman, December 3, 2005, at a symposium entitled Dialogues in Context: Perspectives on

Applied Work in African Diaspora Archaeology, Annual Meeting of the American

Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

“Archaeology at New Philadelphia: Multivalent Histories and Heritage of a Diverse Frontier

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Town,” paper presented September 17, 2005, at a symposium entitled Ethnic and Racial

Identities in the Archaeological Record, Forty-Ninth Annual Conference in Illinois Archaeology,

Champaign, Illinois.

“Geophysical Investigations at New Philadelphia, Pike County, Illinois” (with M. Hargrave, T.

Martin, and P. Shackel), paper presented by M. Hargrave, September 17, 2005, at a symposium

entitled Ethnic and Racial Identities in the Archaeological Record, Forty-Ninth Annual

Conference in Illinois Archaeology, Champaign, Illinois.

“Archaeology of New Philadelphia: Histories of a Multiracial Frontier Town,” invited lecture

presented to the Central Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, April 20,

2005, Urbana, Illinois, and invited lecture presented October 1, 2004, at the University of

Virginia, Department of Anthropology Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the University of

Virginia’s Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology, Charlottesville, Virginia.

“Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence of BaKongo Diasporas in the Caribbean Region,”

paper presented April 2, 2005, at a session panel entitled History and Historic Archaeology,

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah.

“Multivalent Histories and Heritage of a Diverse Frontier Town” (with P. Shackel and T. Martin),

invited paper presented January 9, 2005, at a symposium entitled After Archaeology: Problems in

the Management of Living Sites, Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology,

York, England.

“New Philadelphia, Race and the American Frontier” (with P. Shackel and T. Martin), paper

presented by P. Shackel, January 8, 2005, at the Annual Conference of the Society for Historical

Archaeology, York, England.

“Use of Internet Technologies in Public History and Public Archaeology,” paper presented

December 3, 2004, at a symposium entitled Finding the Unseen, Twenty-Fifth Annual Illinois

History Symposium, Springfield, Illinois.

“Progress Report on the 2004 Excavations at the New Philadelphia Site” (with T. Martin, P.

Shackel, and M. Hargrave), paper presented by T. Martin, October 21, 2004, at combined Fiftieth

Midwest Archaeological Conference and Sixty-First Southeastern Archaeological Conference, St.

Louis, Missouri.

“Bound Up in Commodity Chains: The Value of Women’s Labor in Backcountry Farmsteads and

Local Stores,” paper presented January 9, 2004, at a symposium entitled Marginalized in the

Past, Dismissed in the Present?, Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology,

St. Louis, Missouri.

“Structure and Scales of Reciprocity: Implications from Anthropological Studies and Game

Theory Experiments,” invited paper presented at the October 2003 Faculty Workshop, School of

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Law, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.

“Group Identity, Individual Creativity and Symbolic Generation in a BaKongo Diaspora,” paper

presented June 22, 2003, at a symposium entitled The Politics of Representation, Fifth World

Archaeological Conference, Washington, D.C.

“Fear and Greed in Tax Policy: A Qualitative Research Agenda,” invited paper presented at the

February 2003 Faculty Workshop, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia.

“The Supply is Willing But the Demand is Weak: Contours of Choice in the Upper Potomac

Region, 1750-1865,” paper presented January 18, 2003, at a session panel entitled Trade and

Consumption, Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Providence, Rhode

Island.

“Style, Choice and Consuming Mosaics: Challenges to the Spread of Mass-Production

Economies in the Mid-Atlantic,” paper presented November 24, 2002, at a session panel entitled

Archaeological Investigation of Materials, Craft Production and Use, Annual Meeting of the

American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

“Consuming Mosaics: Contours of Choice in the Upper Potomac Region,” paper presented March

24, 2002, at a session panel entitled New World Historical Archaeology, Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.

“Common Grounds and Creative Dynamics in the Instrumental Symbolism of Religious

Artifacts,” invited paper presented January 11, 2002, at a symposium entitled Religion, Ritual,

and Magic: The Archaeology of Spiritual Life, Annual Conference of the Society for Historical

Archaeology, Mobile, Alabama.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, TX

Volunteer, 2002.

Provided volunteer research to develop claims in civil rights impact litigation.

Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC

Associate Attorney, 1991-1997.

Conducted seminars for corporate managers and personnel on applicability of antitrust, contract,

trade and environmental laws and regulations to their business activities and strategies; trial work

in complex cases involving antitrust, contracts, products liability, torts, false claims, commercial

real estate, and securities disputes; provided pro bono services to obtain benefits for elderly

persons and individuals disabled by AIDS.

D.C. Superior Court, Multidoor Dispute Resolution Division, Washington, DC

Court-appointed Mediator, 1995-1997.

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Provided mediation services on pro bono basis for D.C. Superior Court’s civil docket cases.

Conducted confidential conferences with parties in litigation to evaluate nature of disputes and

formulate basis for settlement before trial.

Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA

Associate Attorney, 1990-1991.

Experience in trial and appellate litigation of complex antitrust, intellectual property, and contract

disputes.

Honorable Jane R. Roth, Wilmington, DE

Judicial Clerk, 1989-1990.

Researched and wrote bench memoranda and opinions for Hon. Jane R. Roth of U.S. District

Court for District of Delaware, now on United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

Register of Professional Archaeologists

American Anthropological Association

Society for American Archaeology

Society for Historical Archaeology

Society of Africanist Archaeologists

African Diaspora Archaeology Network

Illinois Archaeological Survey

Association for Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora

Member (non-practicing) of the bars of state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and the District

of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court.