Dr. M. Dores Cruz

Education

Areas of theoretical and field research: African archaeology, historical anthropology, archaeology of the recent past, political economy, ethnohistory and ethnoarchaeology, gender, ceramic studies, materiality, comparative colonialism, African anthropology.

2003	Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY). Dissertation: Shaping Quotidian Worlds: Ceramic Production and Consumption in Banda, Ghana c. 1780-1994. Fields of study: Historical Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Ethnoarcharchaeology, Ceramics.
1994	University of Porto (Portugal) MA. Thesis: Significado Social da Cerâmica Doméstica: fundamentos para uma classificação tipológica da cerâmica de Castelo Velho (Freixo de Numão). Fields of study: Portuguese Calcolithic, Ceramics, Specialization of Production
1987	Conimbriga National Museum (Portugal). Conservation and Restoration of Archaeological and Ethnographic Material, and Site Structures.
1986	University of Coimbra (Portugal) "Licenciatura" (B.A.) in History/ Archaeology

Research Interests and Regional Focus

Research Interests

African Historical Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Landscape Archaeology, Archaeology of the Recent Past, Ethnohistory and Ethnoarchaeology, Materiality, Indigenous Knowledge, Social Construction of Memory, Comparative Colonialisms, Postcoloniality, Identity, Ceramic Analysis, Heritage Studies

Regional Focus

Southern and West Africa, Mozambique, Ghana, São Tomé and Príncipe, Portugal

Current Research Projects

Long-term research projects in historical anthropology and archaeology of the recent past, ethnohistory, in Mozambique, Ghana, South Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Portugal and the USA, addressing topics such as landscape and social construction of memory, colonialism, materiality, heritage, identity and nation, gender, African American homestead communities.

2019-Present	Bitter Island: exploring Portuguese colonial landscapes and creole practices in São Tomé (16^th and 17th century): A regional, multi-scalar approach to the analysis of early plantation landscapes in the island of São Tomé; the archaeology of the origins of the Modern Atlantic world, early plantation systems, and the sugar cycle in São Tomé. Collaboration with the Department of History (University of São Tomé e Príncipe) to develop an MA program in History and Heritage, and funding applications for the preservation of the sugar plantation site of Praia Melão. Video 1 Video 2
2016-Present	“Terra de Heróis:” a landscape biography of Mandlakaze (Mozambique). A project on materialiy, temporal and landscape “collages.” (Book Project in progress)
2005- Present	“Terra de Heróis:” a landscape biography of Mandlakaze (Mozambique)
2009-Present	Colonial Landscapes in Portugal.

Previous Research Projects

2017-2018	Memory in the cityscape: socialist and vernacular street names in Maputo.
2012-2015	Rural Development policies and projects in Manjacaze (Mozambique)
2013	Speaking with Cloth: capulanas of Mozambique (DU Museum of Anthropology exhibition; and Anderson Commons Exhibition)
2010-2014	Archaeology of The Dry, an African American Homestead Community (Manzanola, SE Colorado)
2005-2015	Trees as ancestors: landscape and memory construction in Mandlakaze (Mozambique)
2007	W&M study abroad program (St. Nicolas Abbey Plantation, Barbados).
2006-18	Museum of the Revolution (Maputo) and construction of national identity
2005-06	Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology (Macupulane, Mozambique).
2005-06	Late Iron Age Enclosures in Mpumalanga (South Africa).
2004-06	Mapungubwe Collections (Univ. Pretoria, South Africa). Repatriation Committee.
2004	Northern Pemba (Tanzania) Archaeological Project. Field and Field School Director.
2003-04	New Dimensions of the African Diaspora: Ghanaian Immigrants in New York City.
2001-04	Portuguese Archaeological Ceramics: from the Middle Age to Modern Times.
1998, 2007	The Slaughtering of the Pig (Penafiel, Portugal): gendered relations of production in Northern Portugal. With Ilidio B. Pereira.
1994-2003	Ceramic Production in the Banda Area, Ghana. Ethnoarchaeological project.
1991-1993	Analysis of domestic ceramic from Castelo Velho (Freixo de Numão, Portugal).
1991	Ceramic Production in Raposeiras (Molelos, Portugal). Ethnographic research. With António M. Silva and Teresa P. Carvalho.

Employment Experience

Academic work (undergraduate and graduate teaching, supervision of graduate research in cultural anthropology, African studies, archaeology, museum studies, heritage); coordination of the Master program “Culture and Environment in Africa;” coordination of Erasmus for African Studies; critical theory of museums and museum practice (e.g., development of exhibitions, collection management); heritage work and research; implementation of outreach and educational public programs; collaboration with descendent communities; ethnoarchaeological and anthropological fieldwork (e.g., survey; collection of oral traditions and history; archival research, interviews); extensive participation in conferences and invited lectures; publication in international peer reviewed publications; grant writing and funding for projects; management of funding; leading of research teams; development of new research.

present	Researcher, CEAUP (Center for African Studies, University of Porto). Non-paid affiliation.
2023-present	Professora Convidada (Visiting Professor), University of São Tomé e Príncipe. Non-paid affiliation.
2018-09/2023	Researcher with Teaching function (Wissenschaftliche Angestellte) at the Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne (Germany)
2018	Visiting Scholar, Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz (April- May)
2017-present	Researcher. Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne. Non-paid affiliation.
2017	Visiting Scholar, Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 948, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg
2016-2017	Fellow, Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Universität zu Köln
2016-2017	Contributing faculty (Course developer), Master of Development Practice, Regis University
2013-present	Researcher [“Professora Auxiliar Convidada”], Interdisciplinary Center for Evolution of Human Behavior, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal. Non-paid affiliation
2009-2016	Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology. Curator, Museum of Anthropology University of Denver
2008-2009	Visiting Professor of Anthropology, School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
2007-2008	Senior Researcher Associate, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary
2004-06	Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
2003-04	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary
2001-03	Lecturer in the Africana Studies Department
2001	Lecturer. Cultural Resource Management. Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos (Portugal)
1996-98	Lecturer at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Viseu, Portugal)
1996	Instructor of Record. Binghamton University
1994	Teaching Assistant. Binghamton University
1989	Instructor of Record at Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
1987-90	Assistant Curator. Anthropological Museum at the University of Coimbra

Some Grants and Fellowships

2023	Rust Family Foundation
2023	Dumbarton Oaks Foundation
2020	Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Research Travel Grant (São Tomé e Príncipe)
2020-22	Global South Study Center Travel Grant (São Tomé e Príncipe)
2017	Visiting Scholar, Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 948 Heroes - Heroizations – Heroisms, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg
2016-2017	Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Universität zu Köln (Center for Advanced Studies)
2012 & 2015	Internationalization Grant
2012 & 2014	CCESL Grant for Community and Service Learning project
2013	Marsico Visiting Scholar grant for Exhibition on African Printed Cloth
2010-2013	Colorado State Historical Fund Research Grant
2009-2013	University of Denver Professional Development and Research Grants
2010 & 2012	Women Librarian Association
2009	Visiting Scholar, University of Leicester, Center for Historical Archaeology
2007	Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation
2005-2006	Archaeological Institute of America, Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship
2005-2006	University of Pretoria Reconstruction and Development Program
2003	Dissertation Fellowship. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Min. Education, Portugal
1998-2002	Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowship
1995	Missouri University Research Reactor Grant and Sigma Xi Grant
1991-1993	Fulbright IIE Fellowship and Louise Woods Memorial Scholarship Fund
1990-1991	Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica and Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica. MA Scholarship.
1984-1986	IPPC (Portuguese Institute of Cultural Resources, archaeological research grant)

Publications

Books and Book Projects

In Progress. “Terra de Heróis:” a landscape biography of Mandlakaze (Mozambique)
2022. Scale Matters: the quality of quantity in human culture and sociality. T. Widlok & M. Dores Cruz (eds.). Bielefeld, Transcript
2007 (with collaboration of V. Correia) Normas de Inventário de Cerâmicas Arqueológicas. Lisbon, Instituto de Museus e Conservação.

Articles and Book Chapters

In prep. “Doce Inferno do Engenho:” São Tomé’s Sugar Mills and colonial landscapes in the making of the modern Atlantic Word (16th-17th century). South African Archaeological Bulletin. To be submitted for publication Winter 2024.
In prep. Imagining Empire: materiality and the construction of Portuguese colonialism at Portugal dos Pequenitos, a children’s park in Coimbra. To be submitted to Journal of Public History
2024. (With Larissa Thomas). Unearthing the Origins of Plantation Slavery in São Tomé. SAPIENS, March 19, 2024.
2023. Bitter Legacy: archaeology of early sugar plantation and slavery in São Tomé e Príncipe. Antiquity, 97 (395): e30: 1-8.
2023. One size does not fit all: theory and practice of decolonizing archaeology in Africa. In FKA (Forum Critical Archaeology), 2023. Special issue: Activist Archaeology: 6-11.
2022. Fractured landscapes and the politics of space: remembrance and memory in Nwadjahane (Southern Mozambique). Museum Anthropology, 45 (1): 57-71
2022. São Tomé, die Wiege der Plantagensklaverei in der Zuckerwirtschaft der kolonialen Welt. DASP-Heft [Deutsche Gesellschaft für afrikanische Staaten portugiesischer Sprache],197:7-37.
2014. The nature of culture: sites, ancestors and trees in the archaeology of Southern Mozambique. In The Archaeology of the Colonized and its Contributions to Global Archaeological Theory. Neil Ferris and Rodney Harrison (eds). Oxford Press: 123-149.
2014. Gendered Taskscapes: Food, Farming, and Craft Production in Banda, Ghana in the 18^th-21^st centuries (W/ Amanda Logan, Michigan Univ.). In Comparing Craft and Culinary Practice, a special issue of African Archaeological Review, 31: 203-231
2013. Black homesteading in the US. Oxford African American Studies Center.
2011. Pots are pots, not people: material culture and ethnic identity in the Banda area (Ghana), 19th and 20th centuries. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Vol. 46 (3), Dec. 2011: 336-357
2009. “Portugal Gigante”: Nationalism, Motherland and Colonial Encounters in Portuguese School Textbooks. Habitus Revista [2007], Instituto Goiano de Pré-História e Antropologia, Universidade Católica de Goias, Brazil, 5 (2): 395-422.
2008. Ceramic Production, Consumption and Exchange in the Banda Area (Ghana). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 27: 363-381. (With Ann Stahl et al.)
2006. Macupulane Revisited: ceramic production fifty years after Margot Dias. Conimbriga, 45:
377-395.
1999. “Um Pai-Nosso e uma Avé Maria a Santo António pelos nossos bichinhos...”: o porco na economia doméstica de S.Martinho de Lagares (Penafiel). Mário Barroca (ed.), In Memoriam Carlos Alberto Ferreira de Almeida, Vol. 1, Porto, Faculdade de Letras: 265-278. (With Ilídio B. Pereira)
1997. Men and Women in a Market Economy: Gender and Production in West Central Ghana. In S. Kent (ed.), Gender in African Archaeology, Walnut Creek, Altamira Press: 205-226. (With Ann B. Stahl)
1997. O abandono das peças. Processos pós-deposicionais e distribuição cerâmica em povoados. In I. Fernandas e R.Teixeira (coord.), A Louça Preta em Portugal. Porto, CRAT: 121-123.
1995. Colecção Etnográfica. In Diamang: Estudo do Património Cultural da Ex-Companhia de Diamantes de Angola. Coimbra, Departamento de Antropologia: 29-97. (With M. R. Martins)
1992. Ritos e Ofícios. Algumas Notas para a Metalurgia do Ferro em Angola. Homenagem ao Professor Santos Junior, vol.2, Lisboa, IICT: 131-143.
1989. O Adorno Africano como Entidade Cultural. Coimbra, MLA. (With M.R. Martins)
1988. As Colecções do Museu e Laboratório Antropológico. Coimbra, MLA. (With M. R. Martins)
1988. Cestaria Tradicional em Africa. Coimbra, MLA. (With M.R. Martins)
1986. A Propósito de uma Inscrição Honorífica do Museu de Santarém. Arqueologia, 14: 115-121.

Some Talks and Presentations

Over 70 invited public lectures and presentations at universities, professional conferences, and community programs, addressing topics such as Landscape Anthropology; African Archaeology; Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology; African American Homesteads; Gender, Race and Development; Social Construction of Memory, Public Monuments and Toponymy. Many of the lectures and conference papers are developed into publications or integrated into my book project.

2024	(With A. Castilla-Beltrán et al.). First Paleoenvironmental and archaeological investigations in the Gulf of Guinea Islands and their potential to reveal land use change and human impacts. Spring Conference of the Association of Environmental Archaeology. Faro, May 3-5.
2024	Up From the Ruins: archaeology in the making in São Tomé (São Tomé e Príncipe). 57^th Annual Conference, Society for Historical Archaeology, Oakland, January 3-6.
2023	“Doce Inferno do Engenho:” archaeology of São Tomé’s sugar mills in the construction of colonial landscapes and the making of the modern Atlantic Word (16th-17th century). African Studies Association, Nov-Dec.
2023	Panel Org. (with Nik Petek-Sargeant and Oula Seitsonen) Landscapes and archaeologies of present communities: novel engagements towards enriching global and local histories, 29^th EAA meeting.
2023	Ghosts of a Ruin: place, materiality, and memory at the edge of empire. (with M. Nazaré Ceita, USTP) ECAS 2023, June 1.
2023	"Doce Inferno do Engenho:" Praia Melão e os engenhos de açúcar de São Tomé na construção do mundo Atlântico (século XVI-XVII). (with M.Nazaré Ceita, USTP), March 14, Instituto Camões, São Tomé
2022	Historical Archaeology: Global alterities and affinities. Panel Organization (With Natalie Swanepoel, University of South Africa). World Archaeological Congress, July 3-8.
2021	Bitter Island: exploring Portuguese colonial landscapes and creole practices in São Tomé (16^th-17^th century), Durham University, October 27
2020	Sugar, identity and class: São Tomé and Príncipe in the making of the early modern Atlantic world. Archaeological Institute of America, October 3.
2019	“Do outro lado do mundo:” arqueologia no território dos antepassados. Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Afrikanischen Staaten Portugiesischer Sprache (German Society for the African Countries of Portuguese Language. Berlin, November 27.
2019	Contested Landscapes: colonial and post-colonial historical archaeologies in Southern Mozambique. Prähistorisches Kolloquium, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Köln. July 1.
2019	Heróis nacionais como Antepassados: re-pensar localmente narrativas de libertação nacional no Sul de Moçambique. Invited Lecture. São Tomé University, March 26.
2018	Materializing Empire: colonial imagination and ideology in Portugal dos Pequenitos, a Estado Novo children’s park in Coimbra. Univ. Mainz, May 9.
2018	“A Luta Continua:” hegemonic culture and the nationalized past at the Museum of Revolution (Maputo, Mozambique). Workshop on Public History. Freie Universität ,Berlin. April 19.
2018	Hegemonic Culture: the Museum of Revolution in Maputo. Afrika Kolloquium, Goethe Universität. January 25
2018	Walking the socialist city: epistemology and ideology of commemorative street names in Maputo. Guest lecture, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Kolloquium: Erinnerung in der Stadt: Die Bedeutung von Straßennamen und –umbenennungen, January 21.
2018	Heroes and Martyrs: memories of war and violence in Mozambican politics of nation building. SFB 948 Jahreskonferenz (guest speaker), January 13.
2017	Ancestor(s) cult and hero worship: narrating the local and the national in Mandlakazi (Southern Mozambique). SFB 948 Plenum, University of Freiburg, December 11
2017	Walking the socialist city: epistemology and ideology of commemorative street names in Maputo. Workshop: After Socialism: forgotten legacies and possible futures in Africa and beyond. Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, October 13-14.
2017	Critical Discourse and Inequalities: Perspectives from the "Lusophone Global South." Invited participation. Portuguese Language and Culture program at the University of Cologne. September 25-26
2017	Past Heroes, Future identities: a heritage landscape biography in Mandlakazi . Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, July 27.
2017	National Heroes as Ancestors: locally re-thinking liberation struggle narratives in Southern Mozambique. Morphomata Annual Conference (Theme: Competing Perspectives: Figures of Image Control), Köln, July 3-6.
2017	Images of Power and the Power of Images: How is Image Control produced, subverted or countered? Panel organizer, with Thomas Widlok. Morphomata Annual Conference (Theme: Competing Perspectives: Figures of Image Control), Köln, July 3-6
2017	Toponimy of the city and the theater of memory: commemorative street names in Maputo during the colonial and socialist periods. European Conference in African Studies (ECAS), Basel, July 1.
2017	Imagining the colonial nation: a landscape of empire in Portugal dos Pequenitos (Portugal), Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History. Umeå, June 27.
2017	“Terra de Heróis:”* a landscape biography of Manjacaze (Mozambique). Morphomata Lecture, Köln. June 12-13.
2017	Dress Matters: transcultural perspectives on belonging and distinction. Morphomata Workshop (concept developer and organizer). Köln, June 1.
2016	Materiality, belonging, and the activation of difference. Panel discussant. American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, November 2016.
2016	“Terra de heróis:” collage and multitemporality in Mandlakazi (Mozambique). Society for Africanist Archaeologists, June 28.
2016	UnAfrican desires? Where do African intimacies and non-western gender views fit? In Panel: Internationalization and Gay Identity. April 15.
2016	Learning, not saving. An international project. Paper presentation. 3rd Internationalization Summit, University of Denver, April 15
2016	Against the Colonizing Gaze: intercultural learning and ethics of internationalization. Panel organizer. 3rd Internationalization Summit, University of Denver, April 15
2015	After-school Program in Manjacaze, November.
2015	“Do Outro Lado do Mundo:” arqueologia no território dos antepassados. Department of Archaeology, University of Algarve, March 18
2014-2015	Landscape, memory and colonial encounters in Mozambique (19^th – 21^st centuries), Archaeology of Portugal Lecture (Fresno, Portland and Boulder)
2014	Pots are pots, not people: material culture and ethnic identity in the 19th-20th centuries , AIA Lecture Program 2013/2014, March
2014	Mozambique; a tale of two countries. Rotary Club of Englewood, October
2014	The Dark Side of Development: gender and race at play in rural Mozambique, September, 30
2014	Mobility and Authority in Africa Panel and Workshop Discussion, Rice University, March. This panel will lead to an edited volume. Invited participation.
2013	Contesting Empire: power, resistance and the Gaza-Nguni as invaders in Southern Mozambique. African Studies Association, Nov. 29 (in Panel: Settling Mobility, Moving Authority)
2013	When “Mother” is respect and power: engendering narratives in African archaeology. TAG, May 9-11 (Invited contribution, Panel organized by Suzanne Spencer-Wood)
2012	Of Place and Power: landscape archaeology and contested narratives in Southern Mozambique, Society for Africanist Archaeologists, Toronto, June 20-24.
2012	Panel org. “There were no trees:” Archaeology at The Dry, an African American homesteading community in Southeast Colorado; papers by M.D. Cruz, Jessica Unger (Brown University) and Jennifer Moon (University of Denver), Colorado Preservation, Inc. Saving Places Conference, Denver, February 2.
2012	“There were no trees:” archaeology of an African American homesteading community (Manzanola, Colorado). Society for Historical Archaeology, Baltimore, January 7 (w/ Jessica Unger and M. Slaughter).
2012	Of Soldiers and Savages: social violence and memory in the age of Portuguese empire. Society for Historical Archaeology, Baltimore, January 6.
2011	Sites, ancestors and trees: landscapes of historical archaeology in Southern Mozambique. Archaeological Institute of America, Denver Chapter. Nov. 6
2011	Archaeology at The Dry. International Day of Archaeology. Public Presentation at the BAIE Center, Rocky Ford. July 29.
2011	Pots are pots, not people: material culture and ethnic identity in the 19th-20th centuries. Society for Historical Archaeology, Jan 2011.
2010	Once upon a far, far away land: a small place with a many histories or multiple narratives in Manjacaze (Mozambique). Society for Historical Archaeology, Jan 2010.
2009	The Nature of Culture: sites, ancestors and trees in the archaeology of Southern Mozambique. Society for Historical Archaeology, Jan. 2009.
2008	(w/ Pedro Redol) War, Death and Destiny: the monastery of Batalha (Portugal) as a stage of remembrance and identity. Society for Historical Archaeology, Jan. 2009
2008	Portugal de Aquém e Além-Mar: material culture and Portuguese colonialism (1926-1974). Society for American Archaeology, Vancover, April 2008
2007	“Portugal Gigante:” nationalism, motherland and colonial encounters in Portuguese school books. American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 29.
2007	Archaeology in Manjacaze (Mozambique). College of William and Mary, February 21.
2006	Memória e Pós-colonialidade em Moçambique. Univ. Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique), August 28; and Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal), December 14.
2006	Archaeology, Memory and Post-coloniality in Manjacaze (Mozambique). ASAPA, Pretoria.
2006	“We Prefer Metal Pots:” ceramic production in Banda (Ghana). South African Archaeological Society, Trans-Vaal Branch, August 7.
2005	Produção e consumo de cerâmicas de uso quotidiano: um estudo etnoarqueológico no centro-oeste do Gana (Séculos XVIII-XX). Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University Eduardo Mondlane (Maputo, Mozambique). August 24.
2005	Making Material Culture: socio-economic dynamics of technology in Banda (Ghana). 12^th Congress of the Pan-African Archaeological Association (Gaborone, Botswana). July 4.
2005	“Women spin and men weave:” gendered relations of labor in Banda (West-central Ghana) c. 1900-1994. Paper presented at the Gender Studies Seminar, University of Pretoria. April 15.

Degree supervision

Ph. D. Dissertations

Sarah Neeley, Iliff School of Theology (2013- 2018)
John Kwame River, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, 2013
S. Krusemark, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, 2009-2010

Honors Theses

Anna Arvidon (2015-16)
Joie Ha (2014-2015)
Tsion Goytom (2014-2015)
Margaret Miller (2011-2012)
C. Rossouw, Cindy Nelson, Adele Le Roux, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria, 2004-2005
Delia DeLang and Hannly Coetze. Geography Department. University of Pretoria, 2005.

Master Theses

Megan McCoy (2011-2015; Museum Studies)
Rebekah Marsh (2014-2016; Socio-cultural anthropology)
Kevin Ritt (2014-2016; Socio-cultural anthropology)
Taylor Morrison (2013-2016; Socio-cultural Anthropology)
Toyin Quichocho (2012-2016; Socio-cultural Anthropology)
Angela Rueda (2012-2014; Museum Studies)
Carly Santoro (2011-Winter 2014; Socio-cultural Anthropology)
Jennifer Moon (2010-2016; Historical Archaeology)
Dionisia Mathios (2012-2015; Museum Studies)
Barbabara Guglieminotti (2011-Winter 2014; Socio-cultural Anthropology)
Cornelia Frewn (2009-2012; Museum Studies)
Mary Connell (2010-2013; Historical Archaeology)
Mahshid Zandi (2009-2014; Socio-Cultural Anthropology)
Robin Locke and Alison Rexroth, University of Denver, (2010)
C. Kotzeen, N. Kruger and X. Anthonites (2006; Archaeology)
Cindy Nelson (2006; Archaeology). Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria, 2004-2006

Independent Study and Research in Other Departments

Sarah Neeley and Becky Chabot (Ph.D., Iliff School of Theology)
Jesse Morgan (MA, Media, Film and Journalism Studies)
Jessica Unger (John Nicholas Brown MA program in Public Humanities, Brown University)
Eric deCampos (Joseph Korbel School of International Studies)

Teaching

Taught courses in areas of Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Museum and Heritage Studies, African Studies, Material Culture, Memory and Memorialization, Landscape Anthropology, and Ethnoarchaeology.

Places, Monuments, Landscapes: postcolonialism and the politics of space in nation building
Context of Material Culture (The Social Life of Things)
Critical Perspectives in Museum Studies and Heritage
Landscape Anthropology
Anthropology of Colonialism
Anthropological Theory and Practice
Introduction to Anthropology (four-fields)
Pioneers of Anthropology (Women in Anthropology)
Ethnographic methods
Gender in Cross-Cultural perspectives
Dynamics of Culture Change (Colonialism)
Peoples and Cultures of Africa
Gender and Power in Africa
Introduction to Africana Studies
Africa: peoples and cultures
Memory and Memorialization
Ethnoarchaeology and Ethnohistory