Every student will present one reading to the class. Presenters should prepare a powerpoint that summarizes the reading's main points, assess its strengths and weaknesses, and provide some initial ideas to guide the discussion. All students will be prepared to participate in class discussions of the readings, so the presenter's duty is to begin that discussion. 

Readings are assigned on a voluntary basis: if you do not volunteer to present one of the readings by September 8, I will assign you to one at random. The line ABOVE the reading indicates the person who is presenting that reading: please do not get confused and prepare the wrong reading for class.

All class readings are either online, on Oncourse, or in the course's single textbook; readings in In Small Things Forgotten are indicated by chapter number.

Email me if you have any questions.

Deetz, James 
1996 In Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early American Life. 2nd edition. Anchor Press, New York.  The earlier edition is not significantly different from the 1996 revision.

September 17

  Carolyn Harris                                      

• Towards a Critical Archaeology (Leone, Mark P., Parker B. Potter, Jr., and Paul A. Shackel Current Anthropology 28(3):283-302 [1987]).  Available on Oncourse

  Daniel Bever                        

• Consulting Stakeholders. (Zimmerman, Larry J. In Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analysis, edited by Jane Balme and Alistair Paterson, pp.39-58.  Blackwell, New York [2006]).  Available on Oncourse

September 24

  Grace Klosterman                                     

• Towards a Black Feminist-inspired Archaeology?  (Franklin, Maria, Journal of Social Archaeology 1(1):108-125 [2001])

  Madison McCarthy                                                            

• Race, Displacement, and Twentieth-Century University Landscapes: An Archaeology of Urban Renewal and Urban Universities (Paul Mullins and Lewis C. Jones, in The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Postemancipation Life, ed. Jodi A. Barnes, pp.250-262.  University of South Carolina Press, 2011)

October 1

  Amber Brzozowski                                                            

• In Small Things Forgotten, Chapter 1

   Kayla Knott                                                            

• In Small Things Forgotten, Chapter 2

October 8

   Ryan Roberts                                                       

• In Small Things Forgotten, Chapter 3

   Richard Todd                                                             

• In Small Things Forgotten, Chapter 4

October 15

   Andrea Huff                                                       

• Hidden in View: African Spiritual Spaces in North American Landscapes (Ruppel, Timothy, Jessica Neuwirth, Mark P. Leone and Gladys-Marie Fry Antiquity, 77(296):321-335 [2003]).  Available on Oncourse

   Ciarra Rinehart                                                          

• Embrace the Margins: Adventures in Archaeology and Homelessness (Rachael Kiddey and John Schofield Public Archaeology 10 (1):4-22 [2011]).  Available on Oncourse

November 3

    Anthony DeLoera                                                        

• Activism and Creating a Translational Archaeology of Homelessness (Larry J. Zimmerman, Courtney Singleton, and Jessica Welch World Archaeology 42(3):443-454 [2010]).  Available on Oncourse.

    Melissa Long                                                         

• Homelessness (Larry J. Zimmerman, in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World, eds Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison, and Angela Piccini, pp.336-350.  Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013).  Available on Oncourse. 

November 12

   Allison Linn                                                     

• Ideals and Lived Experience in the Pullman Community 1880–1900 (Jane Eva Baxter International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16:651–665 [2012]).

   Kaylee Moore                                                                 

• British Ceramics on the Northern European Periphery: Creamware Marketing in Nineteenth-Century Northern Finland (Paul R. Mullins, Timo Ylimaunu, Alasdair Brooks, Titta Kallio-Seppä, Markku Kuorilehto, Risto Nurmi, Teija Oikarinen, Vesa-Pekka Herva and James Symonds,  International Journal of Historical Archaeology 17:632–650[2013]).

November 19

   Jason Woodruff                                                          

• `Unrelenting Toil': Expanding Archaeological Interpretations of the Female Slave Experience (Jordan, Elizabeth Grzymala Slavery and Abolition 26(2):217-232 [2005]).

   Deanna Riley                                                            

• Flush with the Past: An Insight into Late Nineteenth-Century Hungate and its Role in Providing a Better Understanding of Urban Development (Peter A. Connelly, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15:607–616 [2011]).  

December 1

   Emily Duzan                                                                

• Forgotten in the Wilderness: WWII German PoW Camps in Finnish Lapland (Oula Seitsonen and Vesa-Pekka Herva, in Archaeologies of Internment, eds. Adrian Myers and Gabriel Moshenka, pp.171-190.  Springer, 2011).

   Alex Parode                                                                  

• Fascist Colonialism: The Archaeology of Italian Outposts in Western Ethiopia (1936–41) (Alfredo González-Ruibal, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 14(4):547-574 [2010]).  

December 8

   Thomasina Watts                                                             

• Identity and Violent Death: Contextualizing Lethal Gun Violence within the African-American Community of Dallas, TX (1900-1907) (James M. Davidson, Journal of Social Archaeology 8(3):320-354 [2008]).

      Devin Gay                                                           

• Making things public: Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War (Alfredo González-Ruibal, Public Archaeology 6(4):203-226 [2007]).  

Last Updated Sept. 22, 2014