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 | Rob Mann, Ph.D.
Southeast Regional Archaeologist
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology
119 Foster Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Email: rmann1@lsu.edu
Telephone: 225-578-6739
Fax: 225-578-3075 |
Bio:
I am originally from Indiana and attended Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis as an undergraduate, earning a B.A. in anthropology in 1988. I worked as a field archaeologist on contract projects in IL, PA, and TX before returning to Indiana for graduate study at Ball State University. I received an M.A. in anthropology from Ball State in 1994 and worked for two years as Senior Archaeologist for a small contract archaeology firm in central Indiana. In 1996 I enrolled in the Ph. D. program in anthropology at Binghamton University (SUNY) and completed my Ph.D. in 2003. In May 2001 I accepted the position of Southeast Regional Archaeologist at the Museum of Natural Science at LSU, which has hosted the Regional Archaeology Program since 1991 through an ongoing grant agreement with the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, Division of Archaeology. I have conducted archaeological fieldwork in IL, IN, LA, NY, OH, PA, and TX.
Research Interests
In general, I am an anthropological archaeologist with interests in historical archaeology, historical anthropology, Native America archaeology, and the North American fur trade. My current research centers on colonialism and the process of ethnogenesis (the formation of new cultural identities). I am particularly interested in the French colonization of North America and the resulting creation of “fur trade society” in the Great Lakes region and “creole societies” in Louisiana. I am also interested in the archaeology and political economy of the aboriginal cultures that inhabited southeast Louisiana before the arrival of Europeans. As a Regional Archaeologist I conduct archaeological surveys and test excavations at archaeological sites in southeastern Louisiana based on my research interests, inquiries and requests from the public, and management issues. An important part of my job is sharing information about archaeology with the public, local cultural resource management firms, local Native American groups, and with governmental representatives.
Courses
Louisiana Archaeology, ANTH 4017, co-taught with Rebecca Saunders, Fall 2004
Courses
Louisiana Archaeology, ANTH 4017, co-taught with Rebecca Saunders, Fall 2004
Selected Publications:
Books and Book chapters
2004 (co-editor with Sean M. Rafferty) Smoking and Culture: The Archaeology of Tobacco
Pipes in Eastern North America, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
2004 “Smokescreens: Tobacco, Pipes and the Transformational Power of Fur Trade Rituals.” In Smoking and Culture: The Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes in Eastern North America, edited by Sean M. Rafferty and Rob Mann, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Articles in refereed journals
2007 “From Ethnogenesis to Ethnic Segmentation: Constructing Identity and Houses in Great Lakes Fur Trade Society. International Journal for Historical Archaeology, in press.
2007 “True Portraitures of the Indians, and of Their Own Peculiar Conceits of Dress:” Discourses of Dress and Identity in the Great Lakes, 1830-1850. Historical Archaeology, in press.
2005 “Intruding on the Past: The Reuse of Ancient Earthen Mounds by Native Americans.”
Southeastern Archaeology 24(1):1-10.
2004 (with Ann B. Stahl and Diana DiPaolo Loren) Writing for Many: Interdisciplinary
Communication, Constructionism and the Practices of Writing. Historical Archaeology
38(2):83-102.
2001 (with Diana DiPaolo Loren) “Keeping Up Appearances: Dress, Architecture,
Furniture and Status At French Azilum.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology
5(4):281-307.
1999 “The Silenced Miami: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence for Miami-British Relations, 1795-1812.” Ethnohistory 46(3):399-427. |
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