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Joanna Louise Casey
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208
USA
Phone: 803 777 6700
Fax: 803 777 0259
Email: [email protected]
Citizenship: Canadian, British (Dual); USA Permanent Resident
Education
1993 Doctor of Philosophy. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
1987 Master of Arts. Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
1980 Bachelor of Arts, Archaeology Major, Simon Fraser University
Academic Appointments
2001-present Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of South Carolina
2003
Visiting Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Ghana
1995-2001
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of South Carolina
1994-1999
Adjunct Professor, Anthropology, University of Toronto
1992-1994
Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Toronto
Courses Taught
Archaeology in Film and Popular Culture (ANTH 291F)
Development of Anthropological Archaeology (ANTH 720 USC)
Archaeological Laboratory Techniques (ANTH 550 USC)
Archaeology Theory (ANTH 320 USC)
Ethnoarchaeology (ANTH 325 (591E) USC; and University of Ghana)
Cultures of Africa (ANTH 307 USC)
Lithics (ANTH 591L)
Panorama of Prehistory (ANTH 205 (201) USC)
Primates, People and Prehistory (ANTH 101 USC)
Principles of Archaeology (ANTH 320 USC (renumbered as ANTH 319))
Thesis Skills (ANTH 712 USC)
Visual Communication (ANT 301 U of T)
Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (ANT 204 U of T)
Introduction to Anthropology (4 fields) (ANT 100 U of T)
Traditional and Contemporary Cultures of Africa (ANT 212 U of T)
The Evolution of Man in Africa (University of Ghana)
Research Grants and Awards
2015 Walker Institute Faculty Research Grant $4000
2008 College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor Professional Development Award
Value: $11,100
2006 Walker Institute, Faculty Research Award $1500
2004 Walker Institute, Faculty Research Award $1500
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2004
College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award. University of South Carolina.
Value: $3200
2001 College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award. University of South Carolina.
Value: $2600
2000 College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award. University of South Carolina.
Value: $10,000
1998 Carol Jones Carlisle Award. Women’s Studies, University of South Carolina
Value: $500
1998 College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award. University of South Carolina.
Value: $3100
1997 Sponsored Programs and Research Award. University of South Carolina
Value: $8500
1996 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant. (Principal
Investigator: Dorothy Godfrey-Smith. Co-Investigators: Joanna Casey, Lynn Wadley and
Ofer Bar-Yosef). Value: $81000.
1994-1998 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant.
Value: $149,746 (Award #756 94 0551)
1989 International Development Research Centre Young Researchers of Canada Award.
Value: $19,884
Scholarships, Fellowships, Honours and Awards
2007 Nominee: Michael J. Mungo Graduate Teaching Award
2004 Two Thumbs Up Award for making a difference for students with disabilities, USC.
2004 Citation, University of Ghana
2001 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program. The Impact of Globalization in Morocco and
Tunisia.
1995 Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia
1994-1996 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Value: $55,968
1991 Ontario Graduate Fellowship. Value: $11,800
1990 Melissa J. Knauer Award for Feminist Research in Anthropology. University of Toronto.
Value: $500
1988-1990 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship.
Value: $24,960
1986-1988 University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship. Value: $8100.
1985 Simon Fraser University Graduate Student Stipend. Value: $2400
1984 Simon Fraser University Open Graduate Scholarship. Value: $8500.
Publications
Monograph:
Casey, Joanna
2000 The Kintampo Complex: The Late Holocene on the Gambaga Escarpment, Northern
Ghana. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology No. 51; BAR International No. 906.
Oxford: Archaeopress.
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Peer Reviewed Articles:
Casey, Joanna
2013 The Stone to Metal Age in West Africa. In The Oxford Handbook of African
Archaeology edited by Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane. Pp. 603-614. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Owen, J. Victor, Joanna L. Casey, John D. Greenough and Dorothy I. Godfrey-Smith
2013 Mineralogical and Geochemical Constraints on the Sediment Sources of Late Stone Age
Pottery from the Birimi Site, Northern Ghana. Geoarchaeology 28(4):394-411.
Casey, Joanna and Rachele Burruss
2010 Social Expectations and Children’s Play Places in Northern Ghana. Ethnoarchaeology
2(1):49-72.
Casey, Joanna
2008 Early Holocene Foragers of the Forest and Savanna. Encyclopedia of Archaeology Vol.
1, pp. 93-96. London: Elsevier Press.
Godfrey-Smith, D.I. and J. Casey
2003 Thermoluminescence dates for an early Iron Age smelting technology on the Gambaga
Escarpment, Ghana. Journal of Archaeological Science 30(8): 1037-1050.
Quickert, N., D.I.Godfrey-Smith and J. Casey
2003 Optical and thermoluminescence dating of Middle Stone Age and Kintampo bearing
sediments at Birimi, a multi-component archaeological site in Ghana. Quaternary Science
Reviews 22(10-13):1291-1297.
D’Andrea, A.C. and J. Casey
2002 Pearl Millet and Kintampo Subsistence. African Archaeological Review 19(3):147-173.
D’Andrea, A.C., M. Klee and J. Casey
2001 Archaeobotanical Evidence for Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) in Sub-Saharan West
Africa. Antiquity 75:341-348.
Casey, Joanna
1987 Aboriginal and Modern Mussel Assemblages from the Lower Cumberland River.
Southeastern Archaeology 6(2): 114-125.
Hayden, B., M. Deal, A. Cannon and J. Casey
1986 Ecological Determinants of Women’s Status Among Hunter-Gatherers. Human Evolution
1(5):449-474.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters:
Casey, Joanna
2005 Holocene Occupations of the Forest and Savanna. In African Archaeology: A Critical
Introduction edited by Ann B. Stahl. Pp. 225-248. London: Blackwell.
Casey, Joanna
2003 The Prehistory of West Africa from the Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene. Under the
Canopy: Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers in Prehistory. Edited by Julio Mercader. Pp. 35-63 New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Hawkins, A., J. Casey, L. Pavlish and R. Hancock
2002 Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Siliceous Mudstone from the Birimi Site,
Northeastern Ghana. Archaeometry 98: Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on
Archaeometry, Budapest, April 26-May 3 1998. Edited by Erzebet Jerem and Datalin T. Biro.
Pp. 737-741. BAR International 1043 (II). Oxford: Archaeopress.
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Casey, Joanna
1998 The Ecology of Food Production in West Africa. Transformations in Africa. Edited by
Graham Connah. Pp. 46-70. London: University of Leicester Press.
Casey, Joanna
1998 Just a Formality: The Presence of Fancy Projectiles in a Basic Tool Assemblage. Gender
in African Prehistory. Edited by Susan Kent. Pp. 77-95. Walnut Creek: Altimira
Casey, Joanna
1991 One Man No Chop: Gender Roles in the Domestic Economy in Northern Ghana. The
Archaeology of Gender. Edited by D. Walde and N. Willows. Pp. 137-143. Calgary: University
of Calgary Press.
Lazenby, R.A. and J.L.Casey
1989 The Human Skeletal Remains from DBZ, Daboya, Northern Region, Ghana. The
Archaeology of Gonja, Ghana. Edited by P.L. Shinnie and F.J. Kense. Pp. 333-362. Calgary:
University of Calgary Press.
Non Peer Reviewed Articles:
Casey, Joanna
In press Small Scale Trade with Large Scale Implications: Or How to Produce a Surplus in a
Fragile Environment. Trading Spaces: The Archaeology of Interaction, Migration and
Exchange. University of Calgary Press.
Casey, Joanna
In Press God Will Help You: Sadaka Offerings in Daily Life in Northern Ghana, West Africa.
In Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research, S.Biagetti, F.Lugli, &
A.A.Stoppiello (eds). Springer Verlag.
Casey, Joanna
2010 Between the Forest and the Sudan: The Dynamics of Trade in Northern Ghana. West
African Archaeology: New Developments, New Perspectives edited by Philip Allsworth-Jones.
Pp. 83-92. British Archaeological Reports International Series No. 2164. Oxford:
Archaeopress.
Casey, Joanna
2009 Shea Butter, Dawadawa and the Gendered Economy in Northern Ghana. Que(e)rying
Archaeology edited by Susan Terendy, Diane Lyons, and Michelle Jansen-Smekal. Pp, 83-89.
Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
Casey, Joanna L., and J. Ako Okoro
2007 A Preliminary Archaeological Survey of the Oti-Daka Corridor, Northern Ghana. Nyame
Akuma 67:37-43.
Casey, Joanna and A.C. D’Andrea
2004 The Kintampo Complex and Agricultural Origins in West Africa. Proceedings of the
11th Congress of the Panafrican Association for Prehistory and Related Fields. Edited by S.
Sanogo and Tereba Togola. Pp. 96-104. Bamako: Institut des Sciences Humaines.
Hawkins, A. L., J. L. Casey, L. A. Pavlish and R. G. V. Hancock
2001 A Comparison of Siliceous Mudstone Artefacts from the Birimi Site (Ghana) Using
Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis. A Collection of Papers Presented at the 33rd Annual
Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association. Edited by Jean-Luc Pilon, Michael Kirby
and Caroline Thérialt. Ontario Archaeological Society and the Canadian Archaeological
Association, pp. 278-291.
Casey, Joanna and Roland Sawatzky
1997 Obituary for Boyasi Hill: A Kintampo Site in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Nyame Akuma
46:34-36.
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Casey, Joanna, Roland Sawatzky, Dorothy I. Godfrey-Smith, Nicole Quickert, A. Catherine
D’Andrea, Michèle Wollstonecroft and Alicia Hawkins
1997 Report of Investigations at the Birimi Site in Northern Ghana. Nyame Akuma 48:32-38.
Hawkins, A., J. Casey, D. Godfrey-Smith and A.C. D’Andrea
1996 A Middle Stone Age Component at the Birimi Site, Northern Region, Ghana. Nyame
Akuma 46:34-36.
Casey, Joanna
1993 Geometric Microliths from Northern Ghana and Notes for a Tentative Morphological
Typology. Nyame Akuma 40:23-29.
Casey, Joanna
1992 The Kintampo Complex in Northern Ghana. Archaeology in Ghana 3:18-23.
Casey, Joanna
1991 Late Holocene Human Ecology on the Gambaga Escarpment, Northern Ghana, West
Africa. Antaeus II: 68-69.
Pavlish, L.A., R.G.V. Hancock and J.L. Casey
1989 INAA of Chert and Quartzite Materials from Archaeological and Potential Quarry
Outcrops in Northern Ghana. University of Toronto SLOWPOKE Reactor Facility Annual
Report. P. 44.
Review Essays
2013 Fearless Archaeologist: Susan Kent’s Vision for Ethnoarchaeology. Ethnoarchaeology
5(2):119-139.
Reviews
2015 Arkaios Film Festival. Anthropology Newsletter (American Anthropological Association).
March 2015. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2015/03/10/arkhaios-cultural-heritage-andarchaeology-film-festival-held-in-hilton-head-sc-23-25-october-2014/
2015 Contesting Archaeologies: Traditions, Theories, Prospects by A. Marciniak and N. Yalman.
Ethnoarchaeology 7(1): 80-82.
2015 Temporalizing Anthropology: Archaeology in the Talensi Tong Hills, Northern Ghana by
Timothy Insoll, Rachel MacLean and Benjamin Kankpeyeng (2013) Anthropos 110:234.
2010 Post Colonial Archaeologies in Africa edited by Peter Schmidt (2009). International Journal
of African Historical Studies 43(3): 522-523.
2010 Africa and Archaeology by Merrick Posnansky (2009) International Journal of African
Historical Studies 43(1): 382-183.
2010 African Ways of Silk: Ancient Threads - New Possibilities. Edited by Ole Zethner, Rie
Koustrup, Suresh Kumar Raina (2008). The African Book Publishing Record XXXVI(3): 227228.
2009 Current Archaeological Research in Ghana edited by Tim Insoll (2009). The African
Archaeological Review 26:247-249
2009 Living with Pottery by John Arthur (2006). American Anthropologist 111(1):113-114.
2008 Ghanaian Cook Book: Favourite Recipes from Ghana by Sophia Manu (ed). Accra: Adaex
Educational Publishers(2006) The African Book Publishing Record XXXIV(2) : 96
2008 Plants from the Niger Delta by B.L. Nyananyo. Port Harcourt: Onyoma Research Publishers
(2006). The African Book Publishing Record. XXXIV(2) :95-96.
2008 The Terrace Builders of Nyanga by Soper Robert (2006) The African Book Publishing
Record XXXIV (4): 296-297.
2007 Ghanaian Video Tales (2005) directed by Tobias Wendl. Video Review, American
Anthropologist 109(3):543-544.
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2006 South African Indigenous Foods: A Collection of Recipes of Indigenous Food Prepared by
Generations of Women by Bomme Basemzanse. Pretoria: STE Publishers and IndiZAFoods
(2004). The African Book Publishing Record XXXII (1): 16.
2006 Ethnoarchaeological Analysis of the Functional Dynamics in the Volta Basin in Ghana:
Before and After the Akosombo Dam by K. Agorsah (2003). Journal of African History 47:
170-171.
2005 The Pride of Ewe Kente by B.D. Ahiagble (2004). The African Book Publishing Record
XXXI(3): 219-220.
2002 The Exploitation of Plants in Ancient Africa by Marijke van der Veen. American Antiquity
48(1): 186-188.
Papers Presented
2014 What Would You Do? Or the Tyranny of Rationality in Archaeological Interpretation.
Chacmool Conference, 7-10 November, University of Calgary, Canada.
2014 Systems of Household Trade in Northern Ghana and Tigray, Ethiopia. PanAfrican
Archaeological Association/Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference. University of
the Wittwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 12-18 July 2014.
2014 Luxurious Foods in Tigray, Ethiopia. Women’s and Gender Studies Conference,
University of South Carolina 20-21 February 2014
2013 Women and Children First: Trade and the Domestic Economy in Northern Ghana.
46th Annual Chacmool Conference, November 7-9, Calgary, AB, Canada
2013 Between Archaeology and Anthropology: How do we Understand Women’s Work and
Lives in the Past? Women’s and Gender Studies Conference. University of South Carolina,
28 Feb – 1 March 2013.
2012 Trade and Interaction Across Environmental Zones in Ghana, West Africa. Society of
Africanist Archaeologists Conference. Toronto ON, 21-23 June 2012.
2012 God will Bless You: Sadaka Gifting in Northern Ghana, West Africa. Italian Society for
Ethnoarchaeology, Rome, 21-23 November 2012.
2009 Trade in the Savannas of West Africa: Two Millennia of Culture Contact. New Approaches
to West African Archaeology. Invited Conference. University of Sheffield. 27 June 2009.
2009 Little Blessings: Sadaka offerings in daily life in Gambaga, Northern Ghana, West Africa.
Southern Anthropology Society Conference 12-14 March. Wilmington, North Carolina.
2008 An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Shea Butter Production in Northern Ghana. Society of
Africanist Archaeologists 7-12 September, Frankfurt, Germany.
2008 Women and Trade in Northern Ghana in Historical Perspective. Society for American
Archaeology Conference, 26-30 March, Vancouver BC.
2007 Gendered Landscapes: Men’s Farms and Women’s Resources in Northern Ghana. American
Anthropological Association Conference, 28 November – 2 December, Washington, DC.
2005 Women, Men and Wild Trees in Northern Ghana. Women’s Studies Conference, University
of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 18 March 2005
2004 Shea Butter, Dawadawa and the Gendered Economy in Northern Ghana. Presented at the
Chacmool Conference: Que(e)rying Archaeology, Calgary, Alberta. 10-14 November.
2002 Macrolithic and Microlithic Stone Tools from the Birimi Site: A Case for the Middle Stone
Age in Northern Ghana. Presented at the Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference,
Tucson, Arizona. 18-21 May. (With Alicia Hawkins) (Poster)
2001 The Kintampo Complex and the Origins of Food Production in Sub-Sahelian West Africa.
Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Related Disciplines. Bamako, Mali. 7-12 February
2001. (With A.C. D’Andrea)
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2000 The Value of Stone During the Kintampo Complex in Northern Ghana, West Africa. The
Society of Africanist Archaeologists conference, Cambridge, England. 12-15 July.
2000 Kintampo Subsistence: Archaeobotanical Evidence from Northern Ghana. The Society of
Africanist Archaeologists conference, Cambridge, England. 12-15 July. (With A.C.
D’Andrea and M. Klee).
2000 A Comparison of Siliceous Mudstone Artifacts from the Birimi Site (Ghana) Using
Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis. Canadian Archaeological Association
conference. Ottawa, Ontario, 3-7 May. (With A. Hawkins, L.A.Pavlish and R.G.V.
Hancock).
1999 Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Siliceous Mudstone from the Birimi Site,
Northeastern Ghana, West Africa. 31st International Symposium on Archaeometry,
Budapest, Hungary. 17 April – 1 May. (With A. Hawkins, L.A.Pavlish and R.G.V.
Hancock).
1998 Wild Resource s in the Domestic Economy in Northern Ghana. Society of Ethnobiology
conference, Oaxaca, Mexico 12-14 March.
1998 Report of Investigations at the Birimi Site: Multidisciplinary Research at a Multi-Component
Site in Northern Ghana. Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference, Syracuse, New
York 21-24 May.
1998 A Middle Stone Age Component at the Birimi Site, Northeastern Ghana, West Africa.
Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference, Syracuse, New York, 21-24 May.
1998 Visualizing Whole Technologies. Technology: Material, Thought and Action Conference in
Honour of Maxine Kleindienst and Bruce Schroeder. Toronto, Canada, 16-17 May.
1998 Three Stories about Women and Power in Northern Ghana. Women’s Studies Conference,
University of South Carolina, 27-28 February.
1997 First Evidence for Multiple Phases of the Kintampo Complex: Thermoluminescence
Chronology of Burnt House Daub at Birimi, Ghana. Geological Sciences Conference, Salt
Lake City, Utah, 20-24 October. (With D.I.Godfrey-Smith and R. Sawatzky).
1997 Direct Chronologies for Early Iron Smelting on the Gambagha Escarpment, Ghana.
International Symposium on Metals in Antiquity. Harvard University, 10-13 September.
(With D.I. Godfrey-Smith).
1997 Wild Trees and Human Relationships in Northern Ghana. Society of Ethnobiology
Conference. Athens, Georgia, 26-29 March.
1995 The Ecology of Food Production in West Africa and its Implications for the Origins of
Agriculture. Africa: Precolonial Achievements. Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia. 10-12 July.
1995 The Use of Wild Resources in the Agricultural Economy in Northern Ghana. Australian
National University, Canberra, Australia, 3 August.
1995 Kintampo and Mamprusi: The Past and Present Use of the Environment in Northern Ghana.
Toronto Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society 15 March.
1992 It Ain’t The Meat, it’s the Motion: Subsistence and Mobility During the Late Holocene in
Northeastern Ghana, West Africa. Canadian Archaeology Association Conference.
London, Ontario, April.
1992 The Kintampo Complex in Northern Ghana: The Analysis of an Expedient LSA Lithic
Assemblage. Society of Africanist Archaeologists. Los Angeles, California, 26-29 March.
1991 Factors Controlling the Use of Indigenous Resources in Northeastern Ghana, West Africa.
Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 7-10 November.
1989 One Man No Chop: Gender Roles in the Domestic Economy in Northeastern Ghana.
Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 9-11 November.
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1989 Women, Small Business and Independence: The Changing Economic Relationship Between
Men and Women in Northern Ghana. Forum for African Students in Toronto. 7 October.
1982 Aboriginal and Modern Mussel Assemblages on the Lower Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio
Rivers. Southeast Archaeology Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, 29-31 October.
Conference Sessions Organized
1992 Expedient Technologies. Canadian Archaeology Association Conference, London, Ontario,
Canada. 10 April. With Julian Siggers.
1988 Ecological and Social Approaches to Interpreting Material Culture: Recent Research in
Africa. Canadian Archaeology Association Conference, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. 13
May. With Diane Lyons
Conference Sessions Chaired
1998 Ethnoarchaeology and the Domestic Economy. Society of Ethnobiology Conference,
Oaxaca, Mexico. 12 March
Invited Lectures, Presentations, Public Outreach
The Evolution of Technology. To Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Columbia SC. Sept. 2014.
Archaeology – presentation to the Talented and Gifted Program, Grade 3, Richland 1 Schools.
Shea Butter and the Global Economy. Second Annual Anthropology Lecture Series. Greenville
Technical College, Greenville SC. March 2007.
Shea Butter Production in Northern Ghana: A Tale of Three Communities. African Studies
Colloquium Series, University of South Carolina. 8 November 2006.
Preliminary survey of the Oti-Daka Corridor, northern Ghana. WASCL (student colloquium
series), University of South Carolina. 11 October 2006.
The Dynamics of Trade in the Later Stone Age of West Africa. Invited lecture, Department of
Archaeology, University of Ghana. 22 July 2004.
Archaeological Research in Northern Ghana. Foothills Chapter, Archaeological Society of South
Carolina. 14 November 2002.
Cloth as an Art Form in Ghana. The Anthropology of Art (ANTH 356), University of South
Carolina. March 2002.
Globalization in Morocco. Department of Anthropology, USC Colloquium series, 28 February
2002.
The Late Stone Age Global Village in West Africa. African Studies Seminar, Yale University, 29
January 2002; Department of Anthropology, USC Colloquium series, 14 February 2002.
The Late Stone Age in West Africa. Appalacian State University, Boone, North Carolina. 12
October 1999.
Archaeological Investigations at the Birimi Site, Northern Ghana, West Africa. Department of
Anthropology, USC colloquium series. 14 October 1997.
Doing Archaeology in West Africa. Alleluia Middle School. Augusta, Georgia. November 1997.
The Use of Wild Resources In The Agricultural Economy In Northern Ghana. Humanities
Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia. 3 August 1995
What is an Archaeologist? Montroyal Elementry School, North Vancouver, BC Canada. 26 April
1995.
Kintampo and Mamprusi: The Past And Present Use of The Environment In Northern Ghana.
Ontario Archaeological Society, Toronto Chapter. 15 March 1995. Canberra Archaeological
Society 21 June 1995.
The Status Of Women In Northern Ghana. York University, Toronto, Ontario. 11 February 1990.
Archaeology and Ethnography in West Africa. Ontario Archaeological Society, Ottawa Chapter.
11 October 1989.
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Related Work Experience
2009 Research Assistant Ethnoarchaeological research on marginalized potters in Tigray,
Northern Ethiopia. Principal Investigator: Diane Lyons, University of Calgary
1994-1998 Principal Investigator Birimi Archaeological Project. Directing a multidisciplinary
research project in northern Ghana. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada Grant.
1993-1994 Faunal Analyst/Laboratory Assistant. Ontario Heritage Foundation, Toronto,
Ontario.
1990 Assistant Director St Mary’s River Archaeological Survey, Nova Scotia. Principal
Investigator: Carol Krol, University of Calgary
1988-1989 Director Ethnoarchaeological research in Northern Ghana. International Development
Research Center grant.
1988 Assistant Director. Gambaga Archaeological Research Project. Principal Investigator: Dr.
F.J. Kense.
1987 Assistant Director. Gambaga Archaeological Research Project. Principal Investigator: Dr.
F.J. Kense.
1985-1986 Laboratory Assistant Whalen Archaeology Project. Principal Investigator: Dr. J.D.
Nance, Simon Fraser University.
1982-1985 Faunal Analyst/ Laboratory Supervisor/Senior Research Assistant Lower
Cumberland Archaeology Project. Survey, excavation of Archaic and Mississippian Sites,
faunal analysis and cataloguing of sites in Western Kentucky. Principal Investigator Dr.
J.D.Nance, Simon Fraser University.
1983 (Sept-May) Physical Anthropologist/Faunal Analyst. Daboya, Ghana. Principal
Investigator: P.L. Shinnie, University of Calgary.
1982 Laboratory Assistant. Radiocarbon Laboratory. Simon Fraser University.
1981 Research Assistant. Library Research for paper on women’s status in Hunter-gatherer
societies. Principal Investigator: Dr. Brian Hayden, Simon Fraser University.
1981 Senior Field Assistant. Liard River Survey. Principal Investigator: Dr. D. Mitchell,
University of Victoria.
1980 Field Assistant. ARESCO Ltd (Archaeological Contractors). Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1980 Camp Cook. Field School, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University.
1980-1981 Program Coordinator. Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology. Supervisor: Dr. M.E. Stephens.
Reports
1996 Report Of Investigations At The Birimi Site, Northern Region, Ghana. On file with the
Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.
1994 Faunal Remains From The Bethune-Thompson House, Southern Ontario. Report on file with
the Ontario Heritage Foundation.
1993 Faunal Remains From The McMartin House, Southern Ontario. Report on file with the
Ontario Heritage Foundation.
1989 The Use Of Indigenous Resources In Northern Ghana. Report on file with Dr. OrraccaTetteh, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra,
Ghana.
1989 Report On Fieldwork On The Use Of Indigenous Resources Undertaken In Gambaga,
Northern Ghana. Report on file with the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa.
1988 Report On The Molluscan Remains From The Wickliffe Mounds Archaeological Site,
Kentucky. Report on File at the Wickliffe Mounds Site, Wickliffe, Kentucky.
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1987 Faunal Remains From The Winking Bull Site (AiHa 20), Southern Ontario, Canada. Report
on File, Howard Savage Faunal Lab, University of Toronto.
Manuscripts Reviewed:
2010 For Human Ecology, Journal of African Archaeology
2009 For Human Ecology, African Archaeological Review, Journal of African Archaeology,
Ethnoarchaeology
2008 For Human Ecology, African Archaeological Review
2007 For Human Ecology
2006 For Current Anthropology, Journal of African Archaeology
2005 For Journal of African Archaeology
2001 For Human Organization.
Text Books Reviewed
2007
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology by Lewis, Jermain and Kilgore
2005 Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge by W. Haviland, D. Walrath and B.
McBride. Wadsworth.
2005 Biological Anthropology and Archaeology 1st Edition by P. Rice and Maloney. For Allyn
and Bacon.
2001 Human Evolution and Prehistory 5th edition by W.A. Haviland. New York: Harcourt Brace.
(2000). In preparation for the 6th edition.
Graduate Supervision
Graduate Students in Progress:
PhD
Director: 1
Master of Arts in Progress
Director: 1
Completed Dissertations and Theses
Doctoral Dissertations
Reader:
Jakob Crockett "A Democracy of Goods": An Archaeology of Commodity Landscapes in Columbia,
South Carolina, 1870-1930 (2011)
Steven Smith Archaeological Perspectives on Partisan Communities: Francis Marion at Snow's
Island in History, Landscape, and Memory (2010)
Completed Master of Arts Theses
Thesis Director
Sean Taylor Investigation of the Effects of Timber Harvest on Artifact Locations (2010)
Erika Shofner “That Belongs in a Museum”: Archaeology and Audiences (2010)
David Rigtrup Technology and Settlement During the Early Archaic in the Middle Savannah River
Valley: A Techno-Functional Analysis of 17 Debitage Assemblages (2009)
Kelsey Hanrahan Becoming a Wife: An Ethnoarchaeological Look at Food Processing and
Kitchenspace in Northern Ghana. (2007)
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Sarah Kautz, The Late Ceramic Age and Protohistory in Tobago, West Indies: A Study in Critical
Method and Theory (2005)
Jennifer Wendeln, Liquid Gold: Shea Butter, Globalization, and Rural Women's Economy in
Northern Ghana (2004)
Rachele D. Burruss, Searching for Children: An Ethnoarchaeological Study (1999)
Roland Meyer Sawatsky, Kintampo Atchitecture (1998)
Reader
Boulware, Jessica, Maize Consumption and Dental caries in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin During the
Formation of the Tarascan State (2008)
Dowers, Lois, Marbles Lost and Found: Children and the Material Culture of Marbles (2008)
Kevin Fogle, Unlocking the Household: Ceramic and Stratigraphic Analyses as Keys to Developing
Discrete Chronological Occupation Sequences for an Eighteenth Century Plantation (2008)
Michal Wigal, "Voices From the Past: The Use of Narratives and Material Cultures in
Constructing Taino Identity in Puerto Rico (2008)
Nicole Isenbarger, Potters, Hucksters and Consumers: Placing Colonoware Within the Internal
Slave Economy Framework (2007)
Shannon Kicza, External Auditory Exostoses as a Means of Tracking Migration Patterns from El
Pantano (2006)
Geoffrey Ryan Hughes, Salem Asleep: A Discoursive Archaeology of God's Acre, 1771-1815
(2005)
Rebecca Ann Barrera, The Impact of Site Formation Processes, Method and Theory: Inter-site
Comparisons of 16th Century Spanish Santa Elena and St. Augustine (2005)
Melissa Diana Boling, A Contextual Study of Expedient Glass Tool Use by European and African
Americans at Late 18th - Early 20th Century Historic Sites in the Southeastern United States
and Caribbean (2005)
Jamie A. Civitello, Anthropogenic Landscapes at Spratt's Bottom (38YK3), South Carolina (2005)
Jakob David Crockett, Consumption and Identity: The Archeology of a Nineteenth-Twentieth
Century Urban, African American Neighborhood (38RD1083) in Columbia, South Carolina
(2005)
Michele Anne Hughes, The Formation and Development of an Ideology of Racism in Salem, North
Carolina: 1816-1859 (2005)
Joseph Jeremy Samolis, Public Engagement at the Seibel's House: Applied Archaeolgical
Methodologies and Techniques in Columbia, South Carolina (2005)
Margaret E. M. Tyler, The Schumann/Alexander House: Archaeological Investigations of
31FY1085 (2005)
Katrina Small Epps, Intra-Regional Interaction in the Lowcountry of South Carolina (2004)
Susan MacPeek, Dental Caries in the Tarascan Administrative Center of Urichu (2004)
Christine Michelle Crabtree, Antebellum Slave Life on the Aiken Plateau (2003)
Jennifer M. King, Agency, Ritual and Religious Experience: Temple Artwork and the Construction
of Jewish Identity (2002)
Linda Margaret Ziegenbein, Ties that Bind: Community Identity and Landscape in Moravian North
Carolina (2002)
Susan Christine Taylor Langley, Marginalization and Response: The Lingering Effects of the
Kariba Dam Project in Zimbabwe (2001)
Julie Michelle Schohn, A Lodge of Their Own: A Look at Vessel Function at a Possible
Cofitachequi Women's Lodge(2001)
Sara J. Morby, Pritchard's Shipyard: A Landscape Analysis of South Carolina's Largest Colonial
and Antebellum Shipyard (2000)
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Neil Lindsey Norman Through the Medium of the Vessel: An Ethnoarchaeological Investigation of
Ritual Earthenwares in Southern Benin, West Africa (2000)
Kerry Saige Barile, Causes and Creations: Exploring the Relationship Between Nineteenth Century
Slave Insurrections, Landscape and Architecture at Middleburg Plantation, Berkeley County,
South Carolina (1999)
Ingrid Christensen, It's So Much More Than Just A Slogan, or a Mark Drawn on my Hand": An
Ethnographic Analysis of Straight Edge (1999)
Suzanne Abel Coyle, The Cranial Non-Metric Traits of Hierakonpolis, Egypt (1998)
Sarah Evans Eargle, Mortuary Data as Indicators of Social Organization at the Incinerator Site
(33My57) (1998)
Rachel Anne Campo, What's in a Kitchen? The Early Formative Kitchen Food Production, and
Women in Yutopian (1997)
External Examiner, PhD Dissertations
Clement Abas Apaak, 2008 The socio-economic role of salt in Northern Highland Ethiopia.
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
Undergraduate Research Supervision
Director:
Samantha Groenberg: Hipsters and Material Culture in Brooklyn NY. Independent Field Study.
Sarah Nowell: Faunal Remains from Fort Congaree, South Carolina. Senior Thesis
Joseph Wilkenson: Archaic Beveled Points from the Kolb Site, Darlington Co., South Carolina.
Allison Atchley. The biface technology of the Kintampo people (LSA 3000-4000 bp) at the Birimi
Site in Northern Ghana. Senior thesis.
Christopher Young, Petrographic Analysis of Rhyolite from the Kolb Site (2010) Magellan Scholar
Erika Heimbrook, Analysis of Kintampo Ceramics (2007) Honors Thesis
Claudia Carriere: Terra Cotta Cigars – A Commitment to Agriculture? Senior Thesis (2000)
Reader:
Mary Ann Fanning, Analysis of Historic Ceramics in Martinique (2008) Honors Thesis
Matthew Sisk, Survey of Phoenician Mortuary Practices at Ghajn Klieb, Rabat, Malta (2001)
Honors Thesis
Keitha McCall, The White Man’s Africa: (Mis)perceptions of a continent in Selected works of Saul
Bellow and Graham Greene (2001) Honors Thesis
Committees and Service Appointments
2014
Search Committee for Archaeology faculty position SCIAA
2013
Chair, Search Committee for Archaeology faculty position USC and SCIAA
2011
Search Committee: Linguistic Anthropology faculty position USC
2009 - present Faculty Senator USC
2006 - 2010 Grants Committee, Walker Institute for International and Area Studies, USC
2001 - 2009 Graduate Director, Department of Anthropology, USC
2003 - present Curriculum Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, USC
2004 - 2010 Library Liaison, Department of Anthropology, USC
2006 - 2010 Judge: Region II Science and Engineering Fair
2005 - 2007 Academic Planning Council, College of Arts and Sciences, USC
2005 - 2006 Group Leader, First Year Reading Experience, USC
2004
Judge, Graduate Student Day, USC
2003- 2005 Faculty Advisor, Catholic Hill History Project
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2002
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2000 - 2004
2000 - 2007
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1998 - 2000
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1996 - 2000
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1995
Student Grievance Committee USC
Application reviewer for the USC Study Abroad Program
Organizer, Comprehensive Exams, Anthropology, USC
Selection Committee South Carolina State Review Board for the National Register of
Historic Places.
Treasurer, Society of Africanist Archaeologists
Faculty selection committee for USC Film Library’s NEH grant application.
Department Liaison, Women’s History Month, USC
Organizer, Comprehensive Exams, Anthropology, USC
Search Committee, Department Chair, Anthropology, USC
Search Committee, Bioanthropology faculty position, Anthropology, USC
Advisor, Beaver Creek Pee Dee Tribal Council
Judge, Student Paper Competition. Southern Studies Conference
Search Committee, Archaeology faculty position, Anthropology, USC
Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Student Association, USC
Evaluator, Fulbright Fellowship Program
Committee to revise Tenure and Promotion Guidelines, Anthropology, USC.
Memberships
American Anthropological Association: Archaeology Division, Visual Anthopology
Society of Africanist Archaeologists
Society for American Archaeology
African Studies Association
South East Regional Middle East & Islamic Studies Society
Society of Ethnobiology
Society for Economic Botany