CURRICULUM VITAE
KENNETH GOODLEY KELLY
Nationality:
Languages:
Current Position:
Professor, Department Chair
Dept. of Anthropology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(803) 777-2616
American
French
Address:
3726 Monroe St.
Columbia, SC 29205
United States
(803) 252 7812
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
1995
Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology Department, University of California, Los Angeles.
Dissertation title: "Transformation and Continuity in Savi, an African Trade Town: The
Archaeological Investigation of Culture Change on the Coast of Bénin During the 17 th and
18th Centuries."
1989
Master of Arts in Anthropology (Historical Archaeology), College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Virginia. Thesis title: "Historic Archaeology of Jamaican Tenant-Manager
Relations: A Case Study from Drax Hall and Seville Estates, St. Ann, Jamaica."
1985
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
2014-Present
EMPLOYMENT
Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
2010-Present
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
2004-2010
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
1998-2004
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
1996-98
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University.
1989-1994
Teaching Assistant, Teaching Associate, Teaching Fellow, Department of
Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
1991
Instructor, UCLA Department of Anthropology 495; Teaching Assistant Training.
1988-1990
Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University Archaeological Field School at Seville
RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., International Collaborative Research Grant.
“Landlords and Strangers: Entanglement, Archaeology and the 19 th Century “Illegal” Slave Trade on the Rio
Pongo, Guinea.” $34,932 awarded.
2012
American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, “Landlords, Traders and the 19th Century
“Illegal” Slave Trade: Historical Archaeology along the Rio Pongo, Guinea.” $6000 awarded.
2012
USC ASPIRE Program “Landlords, Traders, and the 19 th Century Illegal Slave Trade: Archaeologies of
Entanglement along the Rio Pongo, Guinea, West Africa.” $14,885 awarded.
2012
The Initiative for South Carolina’s Future “Developing a Gullah-Centered Community Archaeology in South
Carolina.” $2,500 awarded.
2011
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PI for Diane Wallman’s NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant “A Zooarchaeological Investigation at
Crève Cœur.” $18,500 awarded.
2011
Finalist, Ada B. Thomas Faculty Advisor Award, University of South Carolina
2011
USC Promising Investigator Research Award: “Sugar and slavery in the French West Indies: Surviving
Slavery at Habitation Crève Cœur.” $9380 awarded.
2010
USC Social Sciences Grant Program: “Sugar and slavery in the French West Indies: Surviving Slavery at
Habitation Crève Cœur.” $10,710 awarded.
2010
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles,
Martinique, France. Support for fieldwork in 2010 (9,900€)
2010
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles,
Martinique, France. Support for fieldwork in 2008 (9,900€)
2008
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles,
Martinique, France. Support for fieldwork in 2007 (9,900€)
2007
PI for Magellan Award (University of South Carolina) to Mary Ann Fanning ($3000)
2007
Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of South Carolina
2005
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles,
Martinique, France. Support for fieldwork in 2005 (5000€)
2005
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles,
Guadeloupe, France. Support for fieldwork in 2005 (16,000€)
2005
Archaeological Society of South Carolina Recognition for Outstanding Service 1999-2004
2005
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles,
Guadeloupe, France. Support for fieldwork in 2004 (10,000€)
2004
College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award for Archaeological
Fieldwork in Guadeloupe and Martinique in 2004, University of South Carolina ($4765)
2004
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., Post-Ph.D. Research Grant. “The African
Diaspora in the French Caribbean: An Historical Archaeology of the African Guadeloupean Experience.
($22,040)
2003
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles,
Guadeloupe, France. Support for fieldwork in 2003 (9,900€)
2003
Finalist, Ada B. Thomas Advisor Award, University of South Carolina
2002
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles,
Guadeloupe, France. Support for fieldwork in 2002 (50,000 French francs [7500€])
2002
College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award for Archaeological
Fieldwork in Guadeloupe in 2001, University of South Carolina ($4500)
2000
College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award for Archaeological
Fieldwork in Bénin in 1999, University of South Carolina ($5000)
1998
Nominated for Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Social and
Behavioral Sciences, Northern Arizona University
1997
University of California Research Expedition Program (UREP)
Grants for Archaeological Fieldwork in Bénin (total approx. $20,000)
1992-1996
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Dissertation Year Award: UCLA Department of Anthropology ($16,396)
1994-1995
Fulbright/ Institute of International Education Award
for Archaeological Research and Study in Bénin ($21,155)
1992-1993
Research Grants for Archaeological Research in Jamaica, Brazil, and
Bénin: UCLA Department of Anthropology (total $1850)
1992, 1991, 1990
Research Grants for Archaeological Research in Jamaica, Brazil, and
Bénin: UCLA Friends of Archaeology (total $1820)
1992, 1991, 1990
Travel Grant: UCLA Department of Anthropology ($1000)
1991
Grant-in-Aid of Research in Bénin from Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society ($350)
1991
Ivor Noël Hume Endowment for Historic Archaeological Research
in Jamaica: Institute of Archaeology, UCLA ($500)
1990
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Historical Archaeology, Archaeology, African Diaspora, Culture Contact and Change, Caribbean, Africa,
Ethnohistory, Transformation and Origin of Complex Societies, Archaeological History.
PUBLICATIONS
Kenneth G. Kelly
Edited Books and Journals
2015
Kelly, KG. Guest Editor, Journal of Atlantic Studies Global Current Special Issue Connecting
Continents: South Carolina and the Guinea Coast.
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjas20/current
2014
Kelly, KG. and Benoit Bérard, eds. Bitasion: Archéologie des Habitations-Plantations des
Petites Antilles/Lesser Antilles Plantation Archaeology. Taboui no. 1, Caribbean Archaeology
Series, Sidestone Press.
2011
Kelly, KG. and Meredith D. Hardy, eds. French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and
Caribbean. University Presses of Florida. 250 pages.
2009
Mark Hauser, and Kelly, KG., eds. “Scale and locality in the Caribbean.” International Journal
of Historical Archaeology 13(1) 216 pp.
2004
Kelly, KG. Guest Editor, Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Issue No. 1. Historical
Archaeology in the French Caribbean. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/jca/
Consulting Editorial Contributor
2014
Voyage of the Echo: The Trials of an Illegal Trans-Atlantic Slave Ship.
http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/voyage-of-the-echo-the-trials
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2015
Kelly, KG. “Rice and its consequences in the greater “Atlantic” world.” Atlantic Studies 12(3):
273-275.
2015
Kelly, KG. and Elhadj Ibrahima Fall “Employing archaeology to (dis)entangle the nineteenthcentury illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, Guinea.” Atlantic Studies 12(3): 317-335.
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2014
Kelly, KG. and Diane Wallman “Enslaved Laborer Plantation Foodways in the FWI,” Afriques
[on line], 05 | 2014, mis en ligne le 15 décembre 2014, consulté le 05 janvier 2015. URL :
http://afriques.revues.org/1608
2013
Kelly, KG. “La Vie Quotidienne des Habitations Sucrières aux Antilles: l’archéologie à la
découverte d’une histoire cachée.” In Situ—Revue de patrimoines. [En ligne], 20 | 2013, mis en
ligne le 14 février 2013, consulté le 27 avril 2013. URL : http://insitu.revues.org/10160
2011
Kelly, KG. CA Comment on “’In the Belly of Dan’: Space, History and Power in Precolonial
Dahomey.” In Current Anthropology 52(6): 787-788. December 2011
2009
Kelly, KG. “Where is the Caribbean? French Colonial Archaeology in the English Lake.” In
Special issue edited by Mark Hauser and Kenneth G. Kelly. International Journal of Historical
Archaeology 13(1):80-93.
2009
Kelly, KG. and Mark Hauser “Preface.” In Special issue edited by Mark Hauser and Kenneth G.
Kelly. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 13(1):1-2.
2008
Kelly, KG., Mark Hauser, Christophe Descantes, and Michael D. Glascock “Cabotage or
Contraband: Compositional analysis of French colonial ceramics.” Journal of Caribbean
Archaeology Special Publication 2:85-107. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/JCA/kelly_etal.pdf
2008
Kelly, KG. “Creole Cultures of the Caribbean: Historical Archaeology in the French West
Indies.” Special issue “The Archaeology of French Colonial and Post-Colonial Settlements” edited
by Elizabeth Scott. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 12(4) 388-402.
2008
Kelly, KG. “Plantation archaeology in the French West Indies.” In Rêves d’Amériques: Regard
sur l’archéologie de la Nouvelle-France / Dreams of the Americas: Overview of New France
Archaeology, Archéologiques, Hors série 2, Christian Roy and Hélène Côté, editors. Quebec.
Pages 55-69.
2004
Norman, Neil, and Kelly, KG. “Landscape Politics: The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West
Africa (with).” In American Anthropologist 106(1):98-110.
2004
Kelly, KG. “Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean: An Introduction to a Special
Volume of the International Journal of Caribbean Archaeology.” In Journal of Caribbean
Archaeology Special Issue No. 1: 1-10.
Kenneth G. Kelly, guest editor.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/jca/
2002
Kelly, KG. “African Diaspora Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies.” Antiquity, 76
June 2002:333-334.
2000
Armstrong, Douglas V., and Kelly, KG. “Settlement Pattern Shifts in a Jamaican Slave Village,
Seville Estate, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica”. Ethnohistory 47(2): 369-397.
1997
Kelly, KG. “Using Historically Informed Archaeology: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
Hueda / European Interaction on the Coast of Bénin.” Journal of Archaeological Method and
Theory (3/4): 353-366.
1997
Kelly, KG. “The Archaeology of African-European Interaction: Investigating the Social Roles of
Trade, Traders, and the Use of Space in the 17 th and 18th c. Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin.”
World Archaeology 28 (3): 77-95.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
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Forthcoming Kelly, KG. “The Slave Trade and Coastal West Africa.” In Oxford Handbook of
Historical Archaeology. James Symonds, Susan Lawrence, and Laurie Wilkie (eds). Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
In review
Kelly, KG. “Sugar plantations in the French West Indies: Archaeological perspectives
from Guadeloupe and Martinique.” In With or Without Empire: Archaeology of France in the
Americas, Elizabeth Scott (ed.), University Press of Florida.
In review
Wallman, Diane, and Kelly, KG. “An Investigation of Daily Practice among Slave and
Sharecropper Households on an 18th-19th century French-Caribbean Plantation.” In XXXX, Todd
Ahlman (ed.), University of Alabama Press.
2014
Kelly, KG. “Les ‘Rues Cases Nègres:’ archeology de la vie des esclaves dans les Antilles
françaises.” In Archéologie de l’esclavage colonial, André Depuech and Jean-Paul Jacob (eds).
Paris: La Découverte /INRAP, pp. 199-213.
2014
Kelly, KG. “The Context of Plantation Archaeology in the Lesser Antilles: Multi-disciplinary,
Multi-cultural, Pluri-national.” In Kelly, KG. and Benoit Bérard, eds. Bitasion: Archéologie des
Habitations-Plantations des Petites Antilles/Lesser Antilles Plantation Archaeology. Taboui no.
1, Caribbean Archaeology Series, Sidestone Press, pp. 165-174.
2014
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology, Plantations, and Slavery in the French West Indies.” In Kelly, KG.
and Benoit Bérard, eds. Bitasion: Archéologie des Habitations-Plantations des Petites
Antilles/Lesser Antilles Plantation Archaeology. Taboui no. 1, Caribbean Archaeology Series,
Sidestone Press, pp. 17-31.
2013
Kelly, KG. “Connecting the archaeologies of the Atlantic World: African and the African
Diaspora.” In Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Peter Mitchell and Paul J. Lane (eds).
Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp 999-1012.
2011
Kelly, KG. “Archaeological Perspectives on the Atlantic Slave Trade: Contrasts in Time and
Space in Bénin and Guinea.” In Slavery in Africa: Archaeology and Memory. Paul J. Lane and
Kevin C. MacDonald (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, Proceedings of the British
Academy 168: 125-146.
2011
Kelly, KG. “La Vie Quotidienne: Historical Archaeological Approaches to the Plantation Era in
Guadeloupe, French West Indies.” In French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and
Caribbean. Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy (eds). University Presses of Florida. Pages
189-205.
2011
Kelly, KG. and Meredith D. Hardy “Introduction.” In French Colonial Archaeology in the
Southeast and Caribbean. Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy (eds). University Presses of
Florida. Pages 1-16.
2011
Hauser, Mark, and Kelly, KG. “Colonies without Frontiers: Inter-Island Trade in the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Century Caribbean.” Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and
Interaction in the Caribbean. L. Antonio Curet and Mark W. Hauser (eds) University of Alabama
Press. Pages 41-56.
2011
Kelly, KG., Mark Hauser and Douglas Armstrong “Identity And Opportunity in Post-Slavery
Jamaica.” In Out of Many, One People: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica.
James A. Delle, Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas V. Armstrong (eds). University of Alabama Press.
Pages 243-257.
2010
Kelly, KG. “Arenas of Action: Trade as Power, Trade as Identity.” In Social Archaeologies of
Trade and Exchange: Exploring Relationships among People, Places, and Things, edited by
Anna Agbe-Davies and Alexander Bauer. Left Coast Press. Pages 99-117.
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2009
Kelly, KG. “Controlling Traders: Slave Coast Strategies at Savi and Ouidah.” Chapter Seven in
Bridging Early Modern Atlantic Worlds: People, Products, and Practices on the Move (ed.
Caroline A. Williams). Ashgate. Pages 151-171.
2007
Kelly, KG., and Neil L. Norman “Historical Archaeologies of Landscape in Atlantic Africa.”
Chapter 8 in Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage.
Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney and Graham Fairclough, editors. Left Coast Press. Pages 172193.
2007
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology of the Creole Cultures of the French West Indies.” In Proceedings of
the XXI International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies,
Trinidad. Vol. 2, pp 588-595.
2007
Kelly, KG., Mark Hauser and Douglas V. Armstrong “What to do with ‘other’ ceramics: Intercolonial trade of French coarse earthenware.” In Proceedings of the XXI International Congress
of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, Vol. 2, pp 579-587.
2007
Lomer, Sylvie, and Kelly, KG. “’C'était bien là’: Local Responses to Archaeological
Investigations at La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe.” In Proceedings of the XXI International Congress
of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Vol. 1, pp 170-176.
2006
Kelly, KG., and Neil L. Norman “Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée.” In African ReGenesis: Confronting Social Issues of the African Diaspora. Jay Haviser and Kevin MacDonald,
editors. Routledge, pages 223-234.
2005
Kelly, KG., and Heather Gibson “Plantation Village Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West
Indies.” In Congreso Internacional de Archeologica del Caribe, Vol. II, edited by Clenis Tavarez
and Manuel A. Garcia-Arevalo, pp. 789-798. Santo Domingo: Museo del Hombre Dominicano
and Fondacion Garcia Arevalo.
2005
Kelly, KG. “Historical Archaeology.” In The Handbook of Archaeological Methods, Herbert
Maschner and Christopher Chippendale, editors. Altimira Press, pages 1108-1137.
2004
Kelly, KG. “The African Diaspora Starts Here: Historical Archaeology in Coastal West Africa.”
In African Historical Archaeologies, edited by Paul Lane and Andrew Reid. Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Press, New York, pages 219-241.
2002
Kelly, KG. “Indigenous Responses to Colonial Encounters on the West African Coast: Hueda and
Dahomey from the 17th through 19th Centuries.” In The Archaeology of Colonialism, edited by
Claire L. Lyons and John Papadopoulos. Issues and Debates series, Getty Research Institute, Los
Angeles, CA., pages 96-120.
2001
Kelly, KG. “Change and Continuity in Coastal Bénin.” In West Africa During the Atlantic Slave
Trade: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by Christopher DeCorse, Leicester University Press,
pages 81-100.
2001
Kelly, KG. “La Diáspora Africana desde sus Fundamentos.” In Rutas de Esclavitud en Africa y
América Latina,” edited by Rina Caceres, Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, San José,
pages 167-183.
1996
Kelly, KG. “Trade Contacts and Social Change: the Archaeology of the Hueda Kingdom,
Republic of Bénin.” In Aspects of African Archaeology. R. Soper and G. Pwiti, editors, Harare;
University of Zimbabwe Press, pp. 687-691.
1991
Kelly, KG, and Douglas V. Armstrong “Archaeological Investigations of a 19th Century Free
Laborer House, Seville Estate, St. Ann's, Jamaica.” In Proceedings of the 13th International
Congress of Caribbean Archaeologists. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles; pp. 429-435.
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Other Publications (Encyclopedia Entries, Minor Publications, etc.)
Submitted Kelly, KG. “Habitation Crève Cœur, Martinique,” In "Chronique des fouilles", Archéologie
Médiévale, t. 38 (2008).
2015
Kelly, KG., Kelly Goldberg, Elhadj Fall, Diane Wallman, and Vincent Rousseau. “Seeking the
« illegal » slave trade on the Guinea Coast : Archaeological work on the Rio Pongo.” Nyame
Akuma 83 :11-22
2010
Kelly, KG. and Mark Hauser “PCR Céramique colonial aux antilles.” In Bilan Scientifique de la
Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe 2006, 2007, 20088, edited by Christian
Stouvenot. Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. Pages 127-129
2009
Kelly, KG. “Habitation Crève Cœur, Ste Anne,” In Bilan Scientifique de la Direction régionale
des affaires culturelles, Martinique 2007, edited by Henri Marchesi. Fort de France, Martinique.
Pages 17-19.
2008
Kelly, KG. “Habitation La Mahaudière, Anse Bertrand,” In Bilan Scientifique de la Direction
régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe 2005, edited by Marie-Armelle Paulet-Locard.
Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe.
2008
Kelly, KG. “Poteries de la Guadelouope et la Martinique” In Bilan Scientifique de la Direction
régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, 2005, edited by Marie-Armelle Paulet-Locard.
Basse Terre, Guadeloupe.
2008
Kelly, KG. “Habitation Crève Cœur, Ste Anne,” In Bilan Scientifique de la Direction régionale
des affaires culturelles, Martinique 2005, edited by Henri Marchesi. Fort de France, Martinique.
2006
Kelly, KG. “Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance of Sites Related to the Slave Trade Era
Along the Upper Rio Pongo, Guinea.” In Nyame Akuma 65:24-32
2006
Kelly, KG. “Current Research, Guinea, West Africa.” In SHA Newsletter, Spring 2006 39(1):
18-19.
2004
Kelly, KG. “Habitation La Mahaudière, Anse Bertrand.” In Bilan Scientifique 2004 de la
Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, edited by Antoine Chancerel. Basse
Terre, Guadeloupe. Pages 13-16.
2003
Kelly, KG. “An archaeologist of the African Diaspora.” Cornerstone: the magazine of the
College of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina, Winter 2003, vol. 4(3):10, 11, 15,
21.
2003
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology in the Atlantic World: African Diaspora in Guadeloupe, French West
Indies.” Global Connections (The Newsletter of the Richard L. Walker Institute for International
Studies, College of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina), Vol. 8(2) March 2003: 7, 8.
2003
Kelly, KG. “Habitation La Mahaudière, Anse Bertrand.” In Bilan Scientifique 2003 de la
Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, edited by Antoine Chancerel. Basse
Terre, Guadeloupe. Pages 12-16.
2003
Kelly, KG. “Habitation La Mahaudière, Anse Bertrand,” “Habitation Grande Pointe, Trois
Rivières.” In Bilan Scientifique 2002 de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles,
Guadeloupe, edited by Antoine Chancerel. Basse Terre, Guadeloupe. Pages 13-15 (La
Mahaudière), 51-53 (Grande Pointe).
2002
Kelly, KG. “Benin City, Nigeria.” In The Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology, edited by C.
Orser, London, Routledge, pages 55-6.
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1999
Kelly, KG. and Peggy Brunache and Neil Norman “Report on the 1999 Field Season at Savi,
Republic of Bénin.” Nyame Akuma 52: 2-10.
1997
Kelly, KG. “Trade in West Africa and the Western Sahara” and “Slavery in Africa.” In The
Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: Archaeology, History, Languages, Culture, and
Environments, Edited by J. Vogel, Walnut Creek, CA; Altamira Press, pp. 529-535.
1997
Kelly, KG. “Benin”, “Slave Entrepots”, “Slave Coast”, and “Trade Goods” entries in The
Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, two vols, J. P. Rodriguez, ed. Santa Barbara, CA:
ABC-CLIO Press.
1996
Kelly, KG. “Report on the 1996 Field Season: Savi, Republic of Bénin.” Nyame Akuma 46: 2-5.
1994
Kelly, KG. “Recent Excavations at Savi: an 18th Century West African trade town,” Nyame
Akuma 41:2-8, June.
1988
Kelly, KG. A Bibliography of Caribbean Archaeology.
Anthropology, College of William and Mary.
Williamsburg, VA; Department of
REVIEWS
2015
Kelly, KG. “Ethnic Ambiguity and the African past: materiality, history, and athe shaping of
cultural identites.” In Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.
2013
Kelly, KG. “Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa.” In The Journal of African
Archaeology 11(2):277-8.
2012
Kelly, KG. “Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean.” In The Journal of Anthropological
Research 68: 289-290.
2010
Kelly, KG. “Back to Africa: Volume 1. Afro-Brazillian Returnees and their Communities.” In
The African Book Publishing Record XXXVI (3):126-27.
2010
Kelly, KG. “Back to Africa: Volume 1. Afro-Brazillian Returnees and their Communities.” In
The African Book Publishing Record XXXVI (2):125-26.
2009
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora.” In Azania:
Archaeological Research in Africa 44(2): 269-270.
2008
Kelly, KG. “The Garden of the World”: A Historical Archaeology of Sugar Landscapes in the
Eastern Caribbean. In The African American Archaeology Newsletter.
2007
Kelly, KG. Slave Routes and Oral Tradition in Southeastern Africa In The African Book
Publishing Record XXXIII (2):112.
2007
Kelly, KG. Mapungubwe: Ancient African Civilisation on the Limpopo In The African Book
Publishing Record XXXIII (2):111-12.
2006
Kelly, KG. Review of Ancient Middle Niger. In American Anthropologist 108(4):911-12..
2006
Kelly, KG. Review of The Archaeology of Islam in Africa. In Historical Archaeology 40(4):156157
2006
Kelly, KG. Race and the Archaeology of Identity. In American Antiquity 71 (4):787-788.
2006
Kelly, KG. Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to Its Archaeology. In African Studies Review 49
(1):144-145.
2005
Kelly, KG. From Calabar to Carter’s Grove for African Diaspora Archaeology Network
Newsletter May 2005 http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0505/news0505.html
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2005
Kelly, KG. Lucy’s Knee In The African Book Publishing Record XXXI (1):11
2005
Kelly, KG. Just Add Dust In The African Book Publishing Record XXXI (1):27
2003
Kelly, KG. Review of Archaeology and History in Ìlàrè District (Central Yorubaland, Nigeria)
1200-1900 AD. In Journal of African Archaeology 1(2):249-50.
2003
Kelly, KG. Review of Making History in Banda. In African Studies Review 46(2):100-101
2003
Kelly, KG. Review of Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean. In Historical
Archaeology 37(2): 113-114.
2001
Kelly, KG. Review of Cattle for Beads: The Archaeology of Historical Contact and Trade on
the Namib Coast. In The African Book Publishing Record.XXVII (4):307.
2001
Kelly, KG. Review of Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom,
1739-1912. In Historical Archaeology 35(2): 130-131.
2001
Kelly, KG. Review of Plundering Africa’s Past. In Discovering Archaeology.
2000
Kelly, KG. Review of Heaven’s Things. In The African Book Publishing Record. XXVI (3):195.
2000
Kelly, KG. Review of War and Peace in Nigeria. In The African Book Publishing Record. XXVI
(3):197.
1999
Kelly, KG. Review of The Slave Trade in Northern Ghana. In The African Book Publishing
Record. XXV (3):231.
1999
Kelly, KG. Review of Africa: The Challenge of Archaeology. In The African Book Publishing
Record XXV (1):11.
1999
Kelly, KG. Review of The Monuments of Aksum. In The African Book Publishing Record. XXV
(1):12..
1998
Kelly, KG. Review of Aspects of African Archaeology. In The African Book Publishing Record
XXIV (4).
1998
Kelly, KG. Review of Snakes and Crocodiles: Power and Symbolism in Ancient Zimbabwe. In
The African Book Publishing Record XXIV (1): 15.
1998
Kelly, KG. Review of Digging Through Darkness: The Chronicles of an Archaeologist. In The
African Book Publishing Record XXIV (1): 13
1998
Kelly, KG. Review of A Brief Guide to the Archaeological Heritage of Zimbabwe. In The
African Book Publishing Record XXIV (1): 14.
1998
Kelly, KG. Review of From Lucy to Language. In The African Book Publishing Record XXIV
(1): 14.
1997
Kelly, KG. Review of The Archaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas. In American
Antiquity 62 (2): 384-385.
1997
Kelly, KG. Review of Growing up in the Shadows of Great Zimbabwe. In The African Book
Publishing Record XXIII (4): 302.
1997
Kelly, KG. Review of Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen. In The African Book
Publishing Record XXIII (4): 311.
1997
Kelly, KG. Review of Decorated Homes of Botswana. In The African Book Publishing Record
XXIII (4): 303.
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1997
Kelly, KG. Review of The Painted Hills: Rock Art of the Matopos. In The African Book
Publishing Record XXIII (2): 131.
1997
Kelly, KG. Review of Ndebele Archaeology of the Pietersburg Area. In The African Book
Publishing Record XXIII (1): 17.
1996
Kelly, KG. Review of Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 6/e. For West
Educational Publishing, Agoura Hills, CA.
1996
Kelly, KG. Review of Contested Images: Diversity in Southern African Rock Art Research. In
The African Book Publishing Record, XXII (3): 184.
1996
Kelly, KG. Review of Kings, Commoners and Cattle at Zimbabwe Tradition Sites. In The
African Book Publishing Record, XXII (3): 184.
1996
Kelly, KG. Review of The Dove's Footprints: Basketry Patterns in Matabeleland.
African Book Publishing Record, XXII (2): 107.
1996
Kelly, KG. Review of Ouidah: à Travers ses Fêtes et Patrimoines Familiaux. In The African
Book Publishing Record, XXII (1): 7.
1995
Kelly, KG. Review of Archaeological Investigations of Itagunmodi Potsherd Pavement Site,
Ijesaland, Osun State, Nigeria. In The African Book Publishing Record, XXI (4): 255.
Reprinted in IFRA Ibadan, Newsletter, Volume 2:16-17.
1995
Kelly, KG. Review of Nigerian Heritage. In The African Book Publishing Record, XXI (2): 124.
2015
In The
PAPERS PRESENTED
Kelly, KG. “Colonial Encounters, Atlantic Creoles, and the African Atlantic: the 19th Century Rio
Pongo.” Paper presented at the Connecting Continents: Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery,
Trade, and Colonialism, Curaçao, November 2015.
2015
Kelly, KG. “Sugar Plantations in Guadeloupe and Martinique: Transformations from the Ancien
Régime to Revolutionary Period.” Paper presented at the Emerging Histories of the Early Modern
French Atlantic conference, Williamsburg, VA, October 2015.
2015
Kelly, KG. “The House without the Yard: African Caribbean housing in precipitous places.”
Paper presented at the 26th Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology,
Sint Maarten, July 2015.
2015
Kelly, KG. “’The City’s gone—nought…remaining to disclose the site of this forgotten Babylon:’
Ephemeral Architecture and Identity at Black Rock City. (Apologies to Horace Smith;
“Ozymandias”)” Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology meeting, San
Francisco, CA, April 2015.
2015
Goldberg, Kelly, and Kelly, KG. “Identifying the ‘Illicit Slave Trade:’ Exploration of Exchange
Networks in 19th Century Guinea.” Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology
meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2015.
2014
Kelly, KG. “Entangled Traders: archaeological research at three 19th century slave trade localities
on the Rio Pongo, Guinea, West Africa.” Paper presented at the Society for American
Archaeology meeting, Austin, TX, April 2014.
2014
Wallman, Diane, Kelly Goldberg, and Kelly, KG. “Settlement and Exchange During the 19th
Century Illegal Slave Trade in the Rio Pongo, Guinea.” Paper presented at the Society for
American Archaeology meeting, Austin, TX, April 2014.
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2014
Rousseau, Vincent, Kelly, KG. “Sanya Paulia’s rock shelter: Prehistoric contexts in coastal
Guinea.” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meeting, Austin, TX, April
2014.
2014
Kelly, KG. “Seeking the Slave Trade in 19th C Guinea: Archaeology and a South Carolina
Connection.” Keynote presentation at the South Carolina State Parks Archaeology conference
“Digging through Boundaries: Archaeology and History of African America”, Charleston, SC,
February 22, 2014.
2014
Kelly, KG. “Entanglement on the Guinea Coast: Archaeological research at three 19 th c. slave
trade localities on the Rio Pongo, Guinea.” Paper presented at the Society for Historical
Archaeology meeting, Quebec City, Canada, January, 2014.
2013
Kelly, KG. “(Dis)entangling the 19th c. illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, Guinea.” Paper
presented at the Studying Carolina, Africa, Rice and Slavery (SCARS) small workshop, Walker
Institute for International and Area Studies, USC. September 16-17, 2013.
2013
Kelly, KG. “Les rues case-nègres en Guadeloupe et en Martinique.” Paper presented at the
Journée d’étude : Archéologie de l’esclavage en Guadeloupe et en Martinique—un thème de
recherche, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, May 17, 2013.
2013
Kelly, KG. “The heritage of plantation slavery in the French West Indies.” Paper presented at the
Archaeologies of Frenchness Conference, University of Chicago, April 19, 2013.
2013
Kelly, KG. “Exploration de la traite négrière clandestine au 19ème s.: Archéologie, Guinée, et la
Caroline du sud.” Presentation for the United States Embassy, Conakry, Guinea, March 27, 2013.
2013
Kelly, KG. Discourse de l’ouverture. Presentation at Université Nelson Mandela, Conakry,
Guinea. January 20, 2013.
2013
Kelly, KG. “Slave village organization in the French West Indies.” Paper presented at the Society
for Historical Archaeology meeting, Leicester, United Kingdom, January, 2013.
2012
Kelly, KG. “Les rues cases-nègres aux Antilles françaises.” Paper presented at the Colloque
international Archéologie de l’esclavage colonial, Paris, France, May, 2012.
2011
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology, Plantations, and Slavery in the French West Indies.” Paper presented
at the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology meeting, Fort-de-France, Martinique,
July, 2011.
2011
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology of Plantations and Slavery in the French West Indies.” Paper presented
at the Society for Historical Archaeology meeting, Austin, TX, January, 2011.
2010
Gibson, Heather, and Kelly, KG. “Caribbean Contradictions: entangled networks, slavery, and
the French West Indies.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association meeting,
New Orleans, LA, November, 2010.
2010
Kelly, KG. “It had better be more than cannonball typologies: Historical Archaeology as
comparative anthropology.” Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association
meeting, New Orleans, LA, November, 2010.
2010
Kelly, KG. “(African) Atlantic Creoles and late 18th and 19th century coastal Guinea.” Paper
presented at the Society for Africanist Archaeology meeting, Dakar, Senegal, November, 2010.
2010
Kelly, KG. “Archéologie de la diaspora africaine.” Paper presented in the series Archéovendredis,
Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada, February 2010.
2010
Kelly, KG. “Multi-Sited Archaeology in the Atlantic World.” Paper presented at the 43rd annual
meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Amelia Island, FL, January 2010.
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2009
Kelly, KG. and Mark W. Hauser “Ceramic production and Economic Networks in the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Century Eastern Caribbean,” Paper presented at the 23rd Congress of the
International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Antigua, West Indies. July 2009.
2009
Kelly, KG. “Ceramics, Plantations, and Slavery in the French West Indies.” Paper presented at
the 42nd annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Toronto, Canada, January
2009.
2008
Kelly, KG. “Atlantic perspectives on the African Diaspora: Archaeological research in French
West Africa and the French West Indies.” Paper presented at the 73 rd Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, Canada, March 2008.
2008
Kelly, KG., Mark W. Hauser and Douglas V. Armstrong “Identity and Opportunity in Post
Slavery Jamaica (with).” Paper presented at the 41th annual meeting of the Society for Historical
Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM, January 2008.
2007
Kelly, KG. "Identity and Opportunity in Post-Slavery Jamaica" in the session "200 Years: The
impact of the epochs in Jamaican historical archaeology." World Archaeological Congress (WAC)
Intercongress, Kingston, Jamaica, May 25, 2007.
2007
Kelly, KG. “Working Space: Archaeological Perspectives on Plantation Villages in the French
West Indies.” Built Environments of Atlantic Slavery, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghampton
University, April 27, 2007.
2007
Kelly, KG. “From French West Africa to the French West Indies: Arcaheological Approaches to
a Neglected Region.” Archaeological Society of South Carolina, Hilton Head Chapter, April 17,
2007.
2007
Kelly, KG. “Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean: Archaeology, Slavery, and Trade.”
Explorers Club, Greater Piedmont Chapter, Columbia, April 13, 2007.
2007
Kelly, KG. “From French West Africa to the French Caribbean: Archaeology, Slavery, and an
Africanist Perspective.” Abolition 2007: Archaeology and Heritiage of Africans in the New
World conference, University College London, March 31, 2007.
2007
Kelly, KG. “Archaeological Perspectives on the Atlantic Slave Trade: Contrasts in Space and
Time in Bénin and Guinea.” The Archaeological and Historical Dimensions of Slavery conference,
University College London, March 24, 2007.
2007
Kelly, KG. “Caribbean Connections: Implications of French colonial archaeology for
understanding trade.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference on South Carolina
Archaeology, February 17, 2007.
2007
Kelly, KG. “Off the beaten path: Archaeology and the African Diaspora in the French Caribbean
and Francophone West Africa.” Paper presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for
Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, VA, January 2007.
2007
Kelly, KG. and Mark Hauser “Cabotage in the Eastern Caribbean: Analysis of regional trade
through INAA of island-made ceramics.” Paper presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society
for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, VA, January 2007.
2006
Kelly, KG. “The Challenges of Introducing African Diaspora Archaeology in the French West
Indies.” Paper presented at the conference “La herencía afrícana en el récord arqueológíco”
sponsored by the Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November
2006.
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2006
Hauser, Mark, and Kelly, KG. “Colonies without frontiers: inter-island trade in the eighteenth and
nineteenth century Caribbean.” Paper presented in the opening plenary session “Islands in the
Stream: Interisland and Continental Interaction in the Caribbean” at the 71st annual meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.
2006
Kelly, KG. and Mark Hauser “Cabotage or Contraband: Compositional Analysis of French
Colonial Ceramics.” Paper presented at the 71st annual meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.
2006
Kelly, KG. “L’importance de l’archeologie historique pour la diaspora africaine en Afrique et
Amerique.” Paper presented at a conference presenting results of initial work along the Rio Pongo,
Guinea. Universite de General Lansana Conte de Sonfonia de Conakry, Guinea, January 2006.
2005
Kelly, KG. “Controlling Traders: Slave Coast Strategies at Savi and Ouidah.” Paper presented at
the Colston Research Society Symposium: Pioneers, Adventurers and the Creation of the Atlantic
World. University of Bristol, September 2005
2005
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology of the Creole Cultures of the French West Indies.” Paper presented at
the 21st Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad and
Tobago, West Indies. July 2005
2005
Kelly, KG., Mark Hauser and Douglas V. Armstrong “What to do with “other” ceramics: Intercolonial trade of French Coarse Earthenwares.” Paper presented at the 21st Congress of the
International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. July
2005
2005
Lomer, Sylvie, and Kelly, KG. “’C’était bien là’: Local Responses to Archaeological
Investigations at La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe.” Paper presented at the 21st Congress of the
International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. July
2005
2005
Kelly, KG. “Plantation Archaeology in the French West Indies: Two Examples from
Guadeloupe.” Paper presented at the 2005 Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Conference,
Nevis, West Indies. June 2005
2005
Kelly, KG. and Mark Hauser “Memory, Archaeology, and a Diasporic Past ().” Paper presented
at the 2005 Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Conference, Nevis, West Indies. June 2005
2005
Kelly, KG. “French Colonial Archaeology in the Caribbean: Investigating an under-researched
region.” Paper presented in the symposium entitled Defining the Local for the 2005 Society for
Historical Archaeology Conference, York, United Kingdom. January 2005
2004
Kelly, KG. “Arenas of Action: Trade as Power, Trade as Identity.” Paper presented in the
session “Rethinking Trade as Social Activity” at the 69th annual meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.
2004
Kelly, KG. ““La Vie Quotidienne” Historical Archaeological Approaches to Plantation Slavery in
Guadeloupe, FWI.” Paper presented in the session “French colonial archaeology of the
southeastern United States, Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean region,” Society for Historical
Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri, January 2004.
2003
Kelly, KG. and Heather Gibson “Historical Archaeology of Slavery in Guadeloupe, French West
Indies.” Paper presented at the Ste. Genevieve Conference on French Settlements and Cultures in
North America and the Caribbean, Ste. Genevieve, MO, November 2003.
2003
Kelly, KG. and Heather Gibson “Plantation Village Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West
Indies.” Paper presented at the 20th biannual meeting of the International Congress of Caribbean
Archaeology, Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic, June 2003.
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2003
Kelly, KG. “Windows on Atlantic Identities: West Africa / East Caribbean.” Paper presented at
the 68th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April
2003.
2003
Kelly, KG. “African Diaspora Archaeology in Guadeloupe: Initial Excavations at Two Sugar
Plantation Village Sites. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference,
Providence, Rhode Island.
2002
Kelly, KG. and Neil L. Norman “Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée: Ritual Pottery in the
African Diaspora.” Paper presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Society for Africanist
Archaeologists, Tucson, AZ, May 13-21, 2002.
2002
Kelly, KG. and Peggy Brunache “The Other Caribbean: Historical Archaeology in Guadeloupe,
French West Indies.” Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference,
Mobile, Alabama.
2001
Kelly, KG. “And How Did the Other Half Live? The Potential for Historical Archaeology of the
African Diaspora in the Francophone Caribbean.” Paper at the Archaeology of the African
Diaspora Conference, Univeristy of Michigan. November 30-December2, 2001.
2001
Kelly, KG. and Neil L. Norman “Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée.” Paper presented in the
Symposium “Global Processes and Local Identities in the African Diaspora” at the World
Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress on the African Diaspora, Willemstad, Curaçao,
Netherlands Antilles. April 23-29, 2001.
2000
Kelly, KG. “Historical Archaeology in Coastal Bénin: Savi and Its Place in the Atlantic Trade.”
Paper presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Society for Africanist Archaeologists,
Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2000
Kelly, KG. “African Archaeology : Diaspora Archaeology: The Importance of African Historical
Archaeology in a Diasporic Perspective.” Paper presented at the Society for Historical
Archaeology Conference, Quebec City, Canada.
1999
Kelly, KG. “The African Diaspora from the Ground Up: The Importance of Historical
Archaeology for Diaspora Studies.” Paper presented at the conference “La Ruta del Esclavo en
Hispanoamérica,” University of Costa Rica, San José.
1999
Kelly, KG. “Indigenous Responses to Colonial Encounters on the West African Coast: Hueda
and Dahomey from the 17th through 19th Centuries.” Paper presented at the World Archaeological
Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.
1998
Kelly, KG. “Long Distance Trade and State Formation: the Archaeology of the Hueda State,
Bénin, West Africa.” Paper presented at the 14th Biennial Conference of the Society for Africanist
Archaeologists, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
1998
Kelly, KG. “Masters of Opportunity: Political and Economic Responses to European Contact on
the West African Coast.” Paper presented at the 62nd Society for American Archaeology Meeting,
Seattle, WA.
1996
Kelly, KG. “African History / African Archaeology: Towards an Understanding of the Social
Consequences of European/African Trade in West Africa.” Paper presented at the 60th Society for
American Archaeology Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
1995
Kelly, KG. “The Archaeology of Interregional Interaction: Towards an Understanding of the
Social Roles of Trade in the 17th and 18th c. Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin.” Paper presented
at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington, D.C.
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1995
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology and African-European Interaction: the Role of Trade in the 17th and 18th
C. Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin.” Paper presented at the Archaeology in Africa Day
Meeting, British Museum, London.
1995
Kelly, KG. “Trade Contacts and Social Change: the Archaeology of the Hueda Kingdom,
Republic of Bénin.” Paper presented at the 10th Congress of the Pan African Association for
Prehistory and Related Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe.
1995
Kelly, KG. “Understanding the Social Effects of Trade: an Example from West Africa.” Paper
presented at the 28th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Washington, D.C.
1994
Kelly, KG. “Archaeological Research at Savi, a West African Trade Town: Transformation and
Continuity in Early 18th Century African Town Life.” Paper presented at the 12th Biennial
Conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Indiana University.
1994
Kelly, KG. “Recent Excavations at Savi, an 18th Century West African Trade Town in Bénin.”
Paper presented at the 58th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Anaheim, CA.
1994
Kelly, KG. “Recent Excavations at Savi, an 18th Century West African Trade Town.” Paper
presented at the UCLA Friends of Archaeology Symposium, UCLA.
1994
Kelly, KG. “Savi, an 18th Century West African Trade Town.” Paper presented at the 27 th Society
for Historical Archaeology Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.
1993
Kelly, KG. “The Portuguese Impact on West Africa: Archaeological and Historical Information
from the West African Coast.” Paper presented at the 26 th Society for Historical Archaeology
Conference.
1992
Kelly, KG. “Preliminary Historic Archaeological Research at Ouidah, Bénin.” Paper presented at
the 11th Biennial Conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, UCLA, Los Angeles,
California.
1992
Armstrong, Douglas V., and Kelly, KG. “Spatial Transformations in African Jamaican Housing
at Seville Plantation.” Paper presented at the 25th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference,
Kingston, Jamaica.
1991
Armstrong, Douglas V., and Kelly, KG. “Processes of Change and Patterns of Meaning in a
Jamaican Slave Village.” Paper presented at the 55th Society for American Archaeology
Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1990
Armstrong, Douglas V., and Kelly, KG. “Settlement Pattern Shifts in a Jamaican Slave Village,
Seville Estate, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.” Paper presented at the 23rd Society for Historical
Archaeology Conference, Tucson, Arizona.
1989
Kelly, KG. “Between Slave and Free: the Historic Archaeology of Jamaican Tenant-Manager
Relations.” Paper presented at the First Joint Archaeological Congress, Baltimore, Maryland.
1989
Kelly, KG. and Douglas V. Armstrong “Archaeological Investigations of a 19th Century Free
Laborer House, Seville Estate, St. Ann's, Jamaica.” Paper presented at the 13th International
Congress of Caribbean Archaeologists, Willemstad, Curaçao.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Invited Lectures
2014 Kelly, KG. “(Dis) Entangling the 19th century illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, Guinea. ”
Invited by Anthropology Graduate Student Organization, Syracuse University, NY May 1, 2014.
Kelly CV Page 16
2013
Kelly, KG. “L’archéologie et le Patrimoine Culturel comme un Aspect du Patrimoine
Environnemental. ” Presentation at the Programme de Gouvernance Environnementale en Guinée
pour le Renforcement de Capacités et la Conservation de la Biodiversité (PGEG). Conakry,
Guinea, April 2, 2013.
2010
Kelly, KG. “Seeking the Slave Trade in 19th century Guinea: Archaeology and a South Carolina
Connection.” For the Palmetto Forum, Columbia, SC, April 4, 2012.
2010
Kelly, KG. “Sugar: The Taste of Bitterness.” Paper presented at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, in the American Institute of Archaeology series “The Sugar Project”, February 25, 2010.
2008
Kelly, KG. “Preliminary research along the Rio Pongo, Guinea.” Invited lecture for the
Department of Anthropology, Anthropology Student Association, USC. October 30, 2008.
2006
Kelly, KG. “The Missing Continent: Seeking the African in African Diaspora Archaeology.”
Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Part of
the Visiting Lecture Series on Race and Ethnicity. October 4, 2006.
2006
Kelly, KG. “The Other Caribbean: Archaeology of the Creole Cultures of the French West
Indies.” Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Part of the Visiting Lecture Series on Race and Ethnicity. October 3, 2006.
2004
Kelly, KG. “Recent Research in the French West Indies.” Invited lecture for the Department of
Anthropology, Syracuse University, New York. September 22, 2004
2002
Kelly, KG. “Historical Archaeology and the African Diaspora: Perspectives from West Africa
and the Caribbean.” Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA, March 21, 2002
2000
Kelly, KG. “Historical Archaeology at Seville Estate: Revealing African Jamaican Culture.”
Invited lecture, Department of History, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, June 7,
2000.
2000
Kelly, KG. “From West Africa to Virginia.” Invited presentation to the Delegation of
Government Ministers from Bénin, at Carter’s Grove Plantation, Colonial Williamsburg,
Williamsburg, VA, April 29, 2000.
2000
Kelly, KG. “The Archaeology of the African Diaspora: A View from West Africa.” Invited
presentation to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, March
27, 2000.
1999
Kelly, KG. “West Africa in the Diaspora: Investigating Cultural Interactions.” Invited
presentation to the Department Anthropology, University of Florida, January 29, 1999.
1995
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology and History: Excavation at an Eighteenth Century West African Trade
Town.” Invited Seminar in GAO/Committee for Archaeology Seminar Series, Michaelmas Term.
Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK, November 2, 1995
Seminars Organized/Chaired/Participant
2014 Kelly, KG. “Archaeology and the “illegal” slave trade of the 19th c. on the Guinea
coast/l’Archéologie et la traite négrière du 19è siècle sur la côte de la Guinée.” EUROTAST
symposium “Slave raiding, trading, and ownership in West Africa and beyond: Reflections on
origins and transatlantic connections. Gorée Island, Senegal. April 12, 2014.
2014
Kelly, KG. Discussant for EUROTAST symposium “Slave raiding, trading, and ownership in
West Africa and beyond: Reflections on origins and transatlantic connections. Gorée Island,
Senegal. April 12, 2014.
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2013
Organizer of the session “Historical (Colonial) Archaeology in the French Départements d’Outre
Mer.” Society for Historical Archaeology meeting, Leicester, United Kingdom, January, 2013..
2011
Organizer of the session “Plantation Archaeology” International Association for Caribbean
Archaeology meeting, Fort-de-France, Martinique, July, 2011.
2011
Kelly, KG. “Les Habitations en Martinique: l’archéologie à la découverte d’une histoire cachée.”
Les Patrimoines de la Traite Négrière et de l’Esclavage, Université de La Rochelle, France, April
28, 2011.
2010
Kelly, KG. “The Archaeology of Plantation Slavery and the Slave Trade.” University of
Houston, February 26, 2010.
2010
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology, History, and Plantation Slavery in the French Caribbean.” Rice
University, Houston, February 25, 2010.
2010
Kelly, KG. “Archaeology, History, and Plantation Slavery in the French Caribbean.” Houston
Community College, NWC, February 24, 2010.
2010
Kelly, KG. “Archéologie de la diaspora africaine Université Laval, Québec, February 5, 2010.
2010
Discussant for Symposium “The Life and Times of Leland Ferguson: From Mississippian to
Moravia” at the 43rd Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Amelia Island, FL, January
2010.
2009
Kelly, KG. “(African) Atlantic Creoles.” Paper presented at the Syracuse—Chicago Seminar
Common Ground, Different Meanings: Archaeology, History, and the Interpretation of the
African Past. Syracuse University, October 8-10, 2009.
2009
Kelly, KG. “Historical Archaeology in the African Atlantic.” Paper presented at the seminar
Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1500-1700. Organized by the Omohundro Institute of Early
American History and Culture and the International Institute for Advanced Studies, Accra, Ghana.
July 12-26, 2009.
2009
Kelly, KG. “Atlantic Networks in the African Diaspora: Archaeological Research in French
West Africa and the French West Indies.” Paper presented in the UCLA Mellon Seminar in Black
Atlantic Studies Excavating the Past: Archaeological Perspectives on Black Atlantic Regional
Networks. UCLA Wm Andrews Clark Memorial Library, April 3-4, 2009.
2009
Co-organizer (with Catherine Losier) of session “Archaeological Aspects of Caribbean Colonial
Exchange Networks” for the 2009 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Toronto,
Canada. January 2009
2008
Organizer and chair of the session “Archaeology and the African Diaspora--Papers in honor of
Merrick Posnansky” at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Vancouver, Canada, March 2008.
2008
Kelly, KG. “Créolité thoughts.” Prepared for the French Atlantic History Group Workshop 4:
Creole Histoires—Histoires creoles: Practices and poetics. McGill Univeristy, May 1-3, 2008.
2007
Invited participant at the “Premier Forum de l'Institut Interuniversitaire de Recherche" (organized
by Louis Hearns Marcelin), Port au Prince and Jacmel, Haiti, May 3-5, 2007.
2007
Chair of session “Material Culture Studies from Colonial New France, 1600-1800 (organized by
Brad Loewen) at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg,
VA, January 2007.
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2005
Co-organizer (with Mark Hauser) of session “Defining the Local: Archaeologies of Scale in the
Historic Caribbean” for the 2005 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, York, United
Kingdom. January 2005
2003
Co-organizer (with Meredith Hardy) of session “French Colonial Archaeology of the Southeastern
United States, Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean Region” for the Society for Historical Archaeology
meeting, St. Louis, MO, January 2004.
2000
Discussant for Symposium “Social Archaeology” at the Society for Historical Archaeology
Conference, Quebec City, Canada.
1998
Organizer and Chair of session “Indigenous Responses to Colonial Encounters: Archaeological
Explorations of Contact Between Europeans and Indigenous Peoples at Varying Levels of Social
Complexity,” held at the 62nd Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Media Interviews
2013 Radio France International interview, Guinea, March 2013. http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20130403guinee-americains-descendant-esclaves-guineens
2013
Radio Television Guinée interviews, Guinea, January, March, April 2013.
2012
Radio France Le Salon Noir interview, Paris, May 2012.
2012
Radio France Outremer radio interview, Paris, May 2012.
2010
Radio France Outremer Televised interview, Martinique, July 2010.
2008
Radio France Outremer Televised interview, Martinique, July 2008.
2007
Radio France Outremer Televised interview, Martinique, July 2007.
2007
RFI radio broadcast interview, Martinique, July 2007.
2005
Radio France Outremer Televised interview, Martinique, July 2005.
1999
Televised interview for Benin television, August 1999.
Professional Service
2012Editorial Board, Taboui.
2010-
Editorial Board, Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage.
University Service
2009Graduate Director, Department of Anthropology
2010-2012
Carolina Core Committee content consultant, University of South Carolina.
2006-2009
College of Arts and Science Curriculum Committee.
2004-2009
Undergraduate Director, Department of Anthropology
2008-Present
First Year Scholar mentor
2004-Present
Faculty Associate, African Studies Program, University of South Carolina.
2004-Present Faculty Associate, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, University of South
Carolina.
2001-Present
Faculty Associate, African American Studies Program, University of South Carolina.
2000-Present
Faculty Member, School of the Environment, University of South Carolina.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD EXPERIENCE
Guinea, West Africa
2006, 2012-13
Initiated an archaeological reconnaissance of sites associated with the slave trade the
Rio Pongo region, Prefecture de Boffa.
Eastern Caribbean
2004-Present
Initiated (with Mark Hauser) a long-term historical ceramic production and trade study
exploring the intersections of trade and empire in Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique
and St. Lucia.
Martinique, French West Indies
2004-Present
Initiated a long-term historical archaeological survey and excavation project
investigating slavery and plantation life in Martinique.
Guadeloupe, French West Indies
2001-Present
Initiated a long-term historical archaeological survey and excavation project
investigating African Guadeloupean life during the plantation period.
Republic of Bénin, West Africa
1991-Present
Project Leader and Director, Hueda Archaeological Project. Cooperative project with
the Université Nationale du Bénin emphasizing excavation within the center of the 17 th
and 18th century capital of the Hueda state. Directed research of undergraduate and
graduate students from the U.S., Britain, and Bénin.
Jamaica
1987-1990
Assistant Director, Seville Afro-Jamaican Archaeological Project, St. Ann's Bay,
Jamaica. Professor Douglas V. Armstrong, Syracuse University, Director.
Togo, West Africa
1985
Participant, Presidents International Youth Exchange Program Archaeological and
Ethnographic Project. Professor Merrick Posnansky, UCLA, Instructor/Director.
United States
1982-1992
Extensive field experience (over two years as a full-time, and eight years as a part-time
professional archaeologist) directing and participating in historic and prehistoric
archaeological projects in Southern California, New Mexico, and Louisiana.
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MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
1995
Senior Museum Preparator, Fowler Museum of Culture History, UCLA. Aided in
preparation of the UCLA inventory of Native American and Native Hawaiian remains
and funerary objects pursuant to Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation
Act (NAGPRA) requirements.
1995
Museum Researcher, Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. Catalog verification and
documentation of prehistoric Southern California archaeological collections.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Society for American Archaeology
The Society for Historical Archaeology
The Society for Post Medieval Archaeology
The Society of Africanist Archaeologists
The International Association of Caribbean Archaeologists
The World Archaeological Congress
The Societé d’Histoire de la Guadeloupe
GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED
2014
2012
2011
2010
Diane Wallman, PhD. Tenure track Assistant Professor, U South Florida
Catherine Losier, PhD. (U. Laval). Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Memorial U.
Jakob Crockett, PhD. Historic Columbia Foundation.
Steven Smith, PhD. Director, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (USC).
2011
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2005
2005
2005
2005
2004
2004
2004
2004
2001
2001
2000
2000
Brooke Brilliant, MA.
Helena Ferguson, MA. South Carolina Archaeology Public Outreach Division.
Lisa Randle, MA.
Lauran Riser, MA.
Kevin Fogle, MA. PhD student, USC.
Lois Dowers, MA.
Rebecca Barrera, MA.
Melissa Boling, MA.
Jakob Crockett, MA. Historic Columbia Foundation.
Lauren Davis, MA.
Audrey Dawson, MA. PhD student, USC.
Katrina Epps, MA.
Stephen Lenik, MA. Adjunct Faculty, St. Mary’s College, ML.
Margaret Tyler, MA.
Peggy Brunache, MA.
Catherine Shumpert, MA.
Sarah Morby (Chicone), MA. Assistant Director, Museum Studies, Johns Hopkins U.
Neil Norman, MA. Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary.