Last Updated 2020 Uzi Baram Division of Social Sciences New College of Florida 5800 Bay Shore Road Sarasota, FL 34243 (o) 941-487-4217 (fax) 941-487-4475 Baram@ncf.edu EDUCATION 1996 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1989 MA Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1986 BA Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton RESEARCH INTERESTS Heritage, representations of the past, heritage tourism; Historical Archaeology, method and theory, commodities and consumption; Race and Ethnicity. Areas: eastern Mediterranean: Israel; North America: historic New England and Southwest Florida TEACHING INTERESTS General Anthropology; Archaeology (Old and New World); Cultural Anthropology and History; Middle Eastern Cultures and Identities; Race and Ethnicity; Material Culture. PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT 2011 to present Professor of Anthropology. New College of Florida 2010 to present Director, New College Public Archaeology Lab 2003 to 2011 Associate Professor of Anthropology. New College of Florida 1997 to 2003 Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2001- 2003) New College of Florida (1997-2001) New College of the University of South Florida 1996-1997 Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Assumption College Visiting Instructor, International Development and Social Change Program. Clark University 1991-1996 Instructor, Division of Continuing Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1994-1996 Academic Advisor, University Advising Center University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1987-1989 Teaching Assistant Department of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Introduction to Anthropology; Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Introduction to Archaeology; Method and Theory in Archaeology; Historical Archaeology; Archaeology of the Middle East; Archaeology of the Holy Land; Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East; The Colonial Encounter: Culture, Power, Place; Tourism: Culture, Power, Place; Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective; Heritage: History and the Past Today; Landscapes: Past and Present; Culture through Film; Sex Roles and the Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Ancient Civilizations; Ancient North America; Archaeology of Florida; Discover SRQ: History, Archaeology, Heritage; North American Indians. PUBLICATIONS Books Edited 2004 Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past. Yorke Rowan and Uzi Baram. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California. 2000 A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground. Uzi Baram and Lynda Carroll. Plenum/Kluwer Academic Press, New York. Translated into Turkish in 2004 as Osmanlı Arkeolojisi, by Bilgi Altinok. Kitap Yayinevi, Istanbul. 2012 Cosmopolitanism and Ethnogenesis, Colonialism and Resistance: Themes in the Historical Archaeology of Florida. Uzi Baram and Dan Hughes. Thematic issue of Historical Archaeology Volume 46, number 1. 2007 Between Art and Artifact. Diana DiPaolo Loren and Uzi Baram. Thematic issue of Historical Archaeology Volume 41, number 1. Articles and Book Chapters 2021 On the Trail of Early 19th-century Freedom-Seeking People Across Gulf Coast Florida: Archaeological Clues to a Robust Heritage Hidden in Plain Sight. Journal of Florida Studies http://www.journaloffloridastudies.org/files/vol0109/baram-trail-toward-liberty.pdf 2019 In an Age of Heritage Signs, Encouraging Archaeological Sites to be Cosmopolitan Canopies. Present Pasts 9(1): 1–8. 2019 Archaeological Recovery of Identity. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 1–2 (1):163–171. 2019 Like Ripples Across a Pond: Catalyzing Heritage Programs through Radical Openness. In Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century: Contributions from Community Archaeology, edited by John H. Jameson and Sergiu Musteaţă, pages 387-398. One World Archaeology series, Springer. 2019 Gentrification and Nostalgia: Archaeology of Memory for the Segregated Past in a Coastal Florida City. International Journal of Heritage Studies 25(7):722-735. 2018 Value and Values in Heritage Tourism from the Grand Tour to the Experience Economy. In Relevance and Application of Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Society, edited by in Pei-Lin Yu, Chen Shen, George S. Smith, pages 66-78. Routledge, New York. 2015 Including Maroon History on the Florida Gulf Coast: Archaeology and the Struggle for Freedom on the Early 19th-Century Manatee River. In The Limits of Tyranny: Archaeological Perspectives on the Struggle against New World Slavery, edited by James A. Delle, pages 213-240. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. 2014 Radical Openness in Preserving Regional Heritage. Anthropology News 55(5-6):28-29. 2013 Visiting the Near East from the Grand Tour to Heritage Tourism. The Ancient Near East Today Volume 6 (September): http://asorblog.org/?p=5691 2012 Out of Time: Erasing Modernity in an Antique City. Archaeologies 8(3):330-348. 2012 Cosmopolitan Meanings of Old Spanish Fields: Historical Archaeology of a Maroon Community in Southwest Florida. Historical Archaeology 46(1):108-122. 2012 Florida and Its Historical Archaeology. Senior author with Dan Hughes. Historical Archaeology 46(1):1-7. 2011 Transformative Transportation: The Early Twentieth-Century Railroad on the Southwest Florida Frontier. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15(2): 236-253. 2011 Neighborhood Archaeology: Exploring the Significance of Volunteers, Communities, and Local Politics for Contemporary Archaeology. Senior author with Robert Austin. Present Pasts 3(1):9-11. 2011 Community Organizing in Public Archaeology: Coalitions for the Preservation of a Hidden History in Florida. Present Pasts 3(1):12-18. 2011 Archaeology in the Public Interest: Tourist Effects and Other Paradoxes that Come with Heritage Tourism. In Ideologies in Archaeology, edited by Reinhard Bernbeck and Randall H. McGuire, pages 107-129. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 2009 Above and Beyond Ancient Mounds: The Archaeology of the Modern Periods in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. In International Handbook of Historical Archaeology, edited by Teresita Majewski and David Gaimster, pages 647-662. Springer, New York. 2009 Learning Service and Civic Engagement: A Historic Cemetery as a Site for Grappling with Community, Politics, and Commemoration. In Archaeology and Community Service Learning, edited by Michael Nassaney and Mary Ann Levine, pages 110-121. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 2008 A Haven from Slavery on Florida's Gulf Coast: Looking for Evidence of Angola on the Manatee River. African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter June 2008. Available at http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0608/news0608.html. 2007 Archaeological Surveys, Excavations, and Landscapes of the Ottoman Imperial Realm: an Agenda for the Archaeology of Modernity for the Middle East. In Constructing Post-Medieval Archaeology in Italy: A New Agenda. Proceedings of the International Conference (Venice, 24th and 25th November 2006), edited by Sauro Glichi and Mauro Librenti, pages 11-19. Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità e del Vicino Oriente, Insegnamento di Archeologia Medievale, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia. 2007 Appropriating the Past: Heritage, Tourism, and Archaeology in Israel. In Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts, edited by P.L. Kohl, M Kozelsky, and N. Ben-Yehuda, pages 299-325. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 2007 Filling a Gap in the Chronology: What Archaeology is Revealing about the Ottoman Past in Israel. In Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine, edited by Sandy Sufian and Mark LeVine, pages 15-40. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham. 2007 Images of the Holy Land: The David Roberts Paintings as Artifacts of 1830s Palestine. Historical Archaeology 41(1):106-117. 2007 Between Art and Artifact: Approaches to Visual Representation in Historical Archaeology. Second author with Diana DiPaolo Loren. Historical Archaeology 41(1):1-5. 2006 Global Markets, Local Practice: Ottoman-period Clay Pipes and Smoking Paraphernalia from the Red Sea Shipwreck at Sadana Island, Egypt. Second author with Cheryl Ward. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 10(2):135-158 2005 A New Route in Heritage Tourism on Florida's Southwest Coast. The SAA Archaeological Record 5(3):20-22. 2004 Archaeology after Nationalism: Globalization and the Consumption of the Past. Senior author with Yorke Rowan. In Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past, edited by Y. Rowan and U. Baram, pages 3-23. AltaMira, Walnut Creek. 2002 Seeing Differences: Travellers to Ottoman Palestine and Accounts of Diversity. Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 3(2):29-49. 2002 The Development of Historical Archaeology in Israel: An Overview and Prospects. Historical Archaeology 36(4):12-29 2001 Localised Capitalism in Global Historical Archaeology: A Discussion of the Archaeology of Improvement in Scotland. Archaeological Dialogues 8(1):24-27. 2000 Entangled Objects from the Palestinian Past: Archaeological Perspectives for the Ottoman Period, 1500-1900. In A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground, edited by U.Baram and L.Carroll, pages 137-160. Kluwer/Plenum, New York Translated into Turkish as 2004 Filistin Geçmişinden Dolaşki Objeler. Osmanlı Arkeolojisi pages 142-163. Kitap Yayinevi, Istanbul. 2000 The Future of the Ottoman Past. Senior author with Lynda Carroll. In A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground, edited by U.Baram and L.Carroll, pages 3-36. Kluwer/Plenum, New York. Translated into Turkish as 2004 Osmanlı Geçmişinin Geleceği. Osmanlı Arkeolojisi pages 15-48. Kitap Yayinevi, Istanbul. 1999 Clay Tobacco Pipes and Coffee Cup Sherds in the Archaeology of the Middle East: Artifacts of Social Tensions from the Ottoman Past. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3(3):137-151. 1996 Guns and Roses: Time Capsules, Ritual Activity, and the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Second author with Michael Nassaney, James C. Garman, and Michael Milewski. Old Time New England 74(262):59-80. Reprinted in 2010 Beneath the Ivory Tower: The Archaeology of Academia, edited by Russell K. Skowronek and Kenneth E. Lewis, pages 74-96. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 1995 Notes on the Preliminary Typologies of Production and Chronology for the Clay Tobacco Pipes of Cyprus. In The Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. Pages 299-309. Ministry of Communications and Works, Nicosia. 1995 Questions and Answers for the Material Culture of Cyprus: The Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. In Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus, edited by P.W. Wallace, pages 125-134. Institute of Cypriot Affairs, University at Albany, State University of New York. Encyclopedia Entries 2018 Tourism and Archaeological Education. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology: Living Edition, edited by Claire Smith, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3004-1 2018 Marketing Heritage. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology: Living Edition, edited by Claire Smith, Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1208-2 2014 Marketing Heritage. In The Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by Claire Smith, pages 4673-4679. Springer, New York. 2012 Historical Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology of the Mediterranean. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology second edition, edited by Neil Silberman, pages 309-311. Revision of the 1996 entry in the first edition. 2007 Tourism and Archaeology. In Encyclopedia of Archaeology, edited by Deborah M. Pearsall, Volume 3, pages 2131-2134. Academic Press, New York. 1996 Historical Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology of the Mediterranean. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian M. Fagan, pages 424-425. Oxford University Press, New York. Book Reviews 2019 Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East, For Post-Medieval Archaeology 53(3):443. 2015 Clarifying Heritage. Review of Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage. For the Anthropology Book Forum http://www.anthropology-news.org/?book-review=clarifying-heritage 2015 The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. For Archaeological Journal http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2014.985032 2012 Sweet Cane: The Architecture of the Sugar Works of East Florida. For The Florida Historical Quarterly 90(3):367-369. 2008 Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean. For Renaissance Studies 22(1):133-134. 2007 A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwest Morea in the 18th century. For American Journal of Archaeology 111(2):387-388. 2006 The Florida Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing and The Lost Florida Manuscript of Frank Hamilton Cushing. For The Florida Anthropologist 59(3-4):266-267 2005 The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine. For The Journal of Field Archaeology 30(4):471-474. 2002 Jerusalem in Original Photographs, 1850-1920: Photographs from the Archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund. For Near Eastern Archaeology 65(4):287-288. 2002 Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine. For International Journal of Middle East Studies 34(4): 748-750. 1999 Reader in Archaeological Theory: Postprocessual and Cognitive Approaches. For American Antiquity 64(3):562. 2021 Saving Angola: Community-based Archaeology as Grassroots Activism. Adventures in Florida Archaeology 32-39 2020 Life Underground: Excavations at Shiqmim, in Israel’s Negev Desert. Time Sifters Archaeology Society Newsletter August 2020:2 https://online.pubhtml5.com/ahzv/anln/#p=2 2020 Archaeology is a Process. Time Sifters Archaeology Society Newsletter June 2020:2 https://online.pubhtml5.com/ahzv/vviw/#p=1 2020 Uncovering History by the Manatee Mineral Spring Preliminary Archaeological Excavation Report for 8MA103 Field Report for the January 2020 Excavations. For Reflections of Manatee, Inc. 2020 A New Chapter in Revealing the Heritage of the Freedom-Seeking People of the Florida Gulf Coast. Time Sifters Archaeology Society Newsletter. January 2020:2-3. 2019 Back to Angola for Time Sifters. Florida Anthropological Society Newsletter 235:2, 6-7. 2019 Coexistence Activism in Sarasota: A Participant-Observation Perspective. Report Prepared by for the “Prayer Protection Family,” the 2017 to present prayer protection vigil for the Islamic Center of Sarasota Bradenton. 2019 Heritage as Social Action: Sarasota/Manatee in an Age of Rising Sea Levels. Senior author with Jeff Moates. New College Public Archaeology Lab Research Report #5. 2018 “Tidally United: Sarasota/Manatee in an Age of Rising Sea Levels” Time Sifters Archaeological Society Newsletter August http://online.pubhtml5.com/ahzv/donz/ 2017 “Climatic Amnesias: Sarasota and Its Stormy Folklore” Time Sifters Archaeological Society Newsletter October. http://www.timesifters.org/sarasota-stormy-folklore/. Reprinted in Southwest Florida Archaeological Society (SWFAS) November 2017 Newsletter http://fasweb.org/swfas/ 2017 The Many Histories by Phillippi Creek Final Report on Community Heritage Awareness and Management Program (CHAMP) at Phillippi Estate Park, 2014-16. Submitted to Sarasota County Historical Resources. On file at the New College Public Archaeology Lab. 2016 Tragedy and Survival: Bicentennial of the Southward Movement of Black Seminoles on the Florida Gulf Coast Commemorated through Virtual Worlds of Early 19th-century Maroon Landscapes at the Apalachicola and Manatee Rivers. Final Report on grant GR_0615-4142_2386 to the Florida Humanities Council 2015 Experiments in Public Archaeology as Civic Engagement: My Five Years with the New College Public Archaeology Lab in Sarasota, Florida. Public Archaeology 14(1):66-74. 2015 Interim Report on Community Heritage Awareness and Management Program (CHAMP) at Phillippi Estate Park: The First Steps. On file with Sarasota County Historical Resources. 2015 A Theme for Archaeology. Time Sifters Archaeological Society Newsletter. February https://files.ctctcdn.com/d1e1db8f001/c3115c5a-4412-4659-9662-31b161366d88.pdf 2015 Community Conscious Archaeology. Time Sifters Archaeological Society Newsletter. January http://box669.bluehost.com/~timesift/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Community-Conscious-Archaeology.pdf 2014 Another Lesson that Provenience Matters: The Little Manatee River Drum found in 1967. Time Sifters Archaeological Society Newsletter. October http://box669.bluehost.com/~timesift/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Baram-2014-Little-Manatee-River-Drum-for-Time-Sifters.pdf 2014 The Historical Archaeology of Looking for Angola at 8Ma103: Excavations and Public Outreach by the Manatee Mineral Spring, Manatee County, Florida. Report on the Public Anthropology Program Looking for Angola as an Update to 8Ma103, prepared for Reflections of Manatee, Inc; available at the Florida Master Site Files. 2014 Many Histories by the Manatee Mineral Spring. Time Sifters Archaeological Society Newsletter. March http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1103684771357-189/The+Many+Histories+by+the+Manatee+Mineral+Spring+for+Time+Sifters+2014.pdf 2014 Why Finding an English King Matters for the Archaeology of Sarasota/Manatee. Time Sifters Archaeological Society Newsletter. January http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1103684771357-169/Why+King+Richard+Matters+for+Time+Sifters.pdf 2013 Before the Jews of Sarasota/Manatee: Some Thoughts on Public Memory and Florida’s Jewish Heritage. Time Sifters Archaeological Society Newsletter. December http://box669.bluehost.com/~timesift/?p=1085 2013 Partners in Search of History. Time Sifters Archaeological Society Newsletter. October http://box669.bluehost.com/~timesift/?p=1037 2013 Two Ancient Springs in North Port, Sarasota County. Time Sifters Archaeological Society Newsletter. September http://box669.bluehost.com/~timesift/?p=1014 2013 Deepening Understandings of the Manatee Mineral Spring Site (8MA32): January 2013 Excavations. On file with Reflections of Manatee, Inc.2012 Report on the 2010-21012 Survey of the Galilee Cemetery in Sarasota, Florida: Community, Race, and Commemoration. Submitted to the Woodlawn-Galilee Cemetary Restoration Task Force. On file at the New College Public Archaeology Lab. 2010 “2010 New College of Florida Survey of Galilee Cemetery, Sarasota, Florida” Florida Anthropologist 63(3-4):183-185. 2010 Testing Radar Tomography at the Manatee Mineral Spring: Exploratory Excavations. On file with Reflections of Manatee, Inc. 2008 Finding Lost Settlements with Multi-channel 3D GPR: Examples from North Carolina and Florida, third author with Ralf Birken and Eric Klingelhofer. FastTIMES: News for the Near-surface Geophysical Sciences 13(3):42-50. 2008 Testing Radar Tomography at the Manatee Mineral Spring: A Small View from March 2008. On file with Reflections of Manatee, Inc. 2006 Historical Archaeology in Italy. The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction Newsletter 10(1):3 2006 “Looking for Angola” The Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter 39(1):43-44. 2001 Historical Archaeological Investigations of Site #8SO585 in Venice, Florida: The Venice Train Depot (VTD) Excavations of 2001. Senior author with Susan Lynn White and Erin Westfall. On file at Sarasota County Historical Resources. 1999 Khirbet Zeitah al-Kharab G-38/1999 L.10.D26 Final Report.The Inaugural Season for the Zeitah Expedition, edited by R.Tappy. On file at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. 1999 Historical Archaeology in Akko. The Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter 40(1):40. 1995 Analysis of the Clay Tobacco Pipes. For The Morasha Neighborhood Excavations in Jerusalem, edited by S. Wolff and D. Amit. On file at the Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem. 1994 George A. Barton and Anita Cecil O'Donovan Fellow Report. American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter 44(1):6-7 1994 Current Research: Eastern Mediterranean. The Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter 27(3):34. 1994 Ottoman-Era Ceramics in Jerusalem. For Mamilla Excavations, edited by R.Reich. On file at Israeli Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem. 1990 Excavations at the Khouri Farmstead. For Ramat Hanadiv Excavations, Season 6, edited by Y.Hirschfeld. Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem. 1989 Preliminary excavations at the Khouri Farmstead. For Ramat Hanadiv Excavations, Season 5, edited by Y.Hirschfeld. Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem. CONFERENCES Conference and Symposium Organizer 2018 Tidally United, third annual summit on heritage and rising sea levels, co-organized with Florida Public Archaeology Network West-central Region Director Jeff Moates, Sarasota. 2015 Many Faces of Florida, Past and Present, the 67th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, co-organized with Time Sifters Archaeological Society President Sherry Svekis, Sarasota. 2013 New Insights into African Diaspora Archaeology. Co-organized with Edward González-Tennant. Southeastern Archaeological Conference annual meeting Tampa. 2011 Five Years of Looking for Angola: Accomplishments and New Objectives for the Public Anthropology Study of an early 19th-century Maroon Community on the Manatee River, Florida, a symposium at New College of Florida. 2010 Neighborhood Archaeology: Volunteers, Communities, and Local Politics. Co-organized with Robert Austin. Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, St. Louis. 2010 Cosmopolitanism and Ethnogenesis, Colonialism and Resistance: Florida in Global Perspective. Co-organized with Dan Hughes. Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting, Amelia Island, Florida. 2003 Between Art and Artifact: Approaches to Visual Representations in Historical Archaeology. Co-organized with Diana Loren. Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting, Providence, Rhode Island. 2000 Accounts of Travelers to the Holy Land. American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. Nashville. 1999 Material Culture and History. American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. Boston. 1996 Breaking New Ground for an Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: A Prologue and A Dialogue. A conference, co-organized with Lynda Carroll at the State University of New York at Binghamton. 1995 Historical Archaeology in the Mediterranean. Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting. Washington, D.C. 1992 Marxism and Archaeology. The New World Order: Crises and Possibilities, an international conference sponsored by Rethinking Marxism. Amherst, Massachusetts. 1992 Symposium: Ten Years of Post-Processual Archaeology. A regional conference co-organized with James C. Garman at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1992 Critical Perspectives on Material Culture. Co-organized with James C. Garman. Northeastern Anthropological Association annual meeting. Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Conference Presentations 2020 Politics, People, and Pots: Historical Archaeology in Israel, and Beyond. For Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Peasants in the Near Past, Tel Aviv University 2019 Fragments of Memory and Legacies of Inequalities on the Changing Landscape of a Coastal Florida City. Paper for the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Marginalized: Challenges and Resilience in Facing "Climate" Change session at the joint American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society conference/Congrès conjoint de la Société canadienne d’anthropologie et l’American Anthropological Association, Vancouver 2018 Revealing Hidden Histories and Confronting the Segregated Past: The Political and Social Dynamics of Memory in a Coastal Florida City. Paper presented for the Making American Memory Great Again session, at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans 2016 Anniversaries and Commemorations: Digital Archaeology and the Prospect Bluff Fortification on the Apalachicola River. Annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, Jupiter. 2016 Video Games, Virtual Reconstructions, and other Digital Avenues to Engage Children of All Ages in a Cosmopolitan Past. For the Symposium: Strategic Approaches to Digital Public Archaeology, sponsored by the Public Archaeology Interest Group, at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando. 2015 Dynamic Identities during the Flight for Freedom: Archaeological Traces of Marronage at Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. For Connecting Continents: Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade, and Colonialism, first joint meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists and the Society for American Archaeology, Curaçao. 2015 Local Politics and Site Ownership: Archaeology in the Age of Lawfare. For the Managing Archaeological Heritage in the 21st Century session at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco. 2014 Community-based Heritage Research and Outreach: Terminology and Observations. For the Cultural Resource Management: Beyond Compliance and Beyond the U.S. session at the annual meeting of American Cultural Resources Management Association, St. Pete Beach. 2014 Modernity, Identity, and Materiality across the Ottoman Empire: Putting the Pieces Together. Senior author with Lynda Carroll. For the Questions that will Count in the Future: Global Perspectives on Historical Archaeology session at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Quebec City. 2013 A New Chapter in African Diaspora History in Southwest Florida: The Evidence for a Maroon Community on the Manatee River. For the New Insights into African Diaspora Archaeology session at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa. 2013 Another Way to Inspire: Digital Natives and the Peopled Past of Florida. For the Public Archaeology Session at the annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, St. Augustine. 2012 Situating Sarasota: points de repère archèologiques et historiques. Welcoming session for the biennial meeting of the American Council for Québec Studies, Sarasota. 2012 Including Maroon History on the Florida Gulf Coast: Recovering a Haven for Freedom on the Manatee River. For Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom along the Southern Borderlands. National Underground Railroad Conference. St. Augustine. 2011 Out of Time: Erasing Modernity in an Antique City. For The Materiality of Traces and Legacies: Papers Celebrating the Work of H. Martin Wobst session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Montreal. 2011 A Search for the Materiality of a Community of Freedom-seeking People in Southwest Florida: the First Five Years of Excavations, Public Archaeology, and Collaborations. Five Years of Looking for Angola: Accomplishments and New Objectives for the Public Anthropology Study of an early 19th-century Maroon Community on the Manatee River, Florida, Sarasota. 2010 Organizing Archaeology: Community Outreach and Civic Engagements in the Commemoration of the Past. For Neighborhood Archaeology: Volunteers, Communities, and Local Politics session at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. St. Louis. 2010 A Maroon Community in Southern Tampa Bay, Florida: Resistance during the Transition from Spanish to American Rule. For the Cosmopolitanism and Ethnogenesis, Colonialism and Resistance: Florida in Global Perspective session at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Amelia Island, Florida. 2009 Marketing Ethnic Heritage: Tourism and Cosmopolitanism in Pursuit of the Past. For the Tourism, Archaeology, and Development Session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia. 2009 Remembering a Community of Self-Emancipated Africans in Spanish La Florida: Historical Archaeology and Public Anthropology in Southern Tampa Bay. Annual meeting of the Florida Folklore Society, Family Heritage House Museum, Bradenton. 2008 Revealing a Hidden History: Looking for Angola’s Public Archaeology Program. The Public Anthropology through Cross Disciplinary and Cross Cultural Collaboration, Inclusion and Engagement: “Looking for Angola” in Florida and the Bahamas Session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco. 2008 A Haven from Slavery on Florida’s Gulf Coast: Looking for Evidence of Angola on the Manatee River. The Underground Railroad, Marronage, Armed Struggle, and Beyond Symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Albuquerque. 2007 Hidden Histories Along the Manatee River: Heritage Outreach and Interpretation with Traces of Our Past. Senior author with Sherry Svekis. Florida Maritime Heritage Preservation Conference. Bradenton. 2007 The Archaeological Process: Research and Ethics Today. Archaeology: Basic Concepts in Practice and Public Outreach session of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation annual meeting. Sarasota. 2007 A Historic Cemetery as a Site for Grappling with Community, Politics, and Commemoration. Archaeological Practice and Community Service Learning Symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Williamsburg. 2006 Lessons Learned from the Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire. Constructing Post Medieval Archaeology in Italy: A New Agenda, an international conference sponsored by Universitá Ca’Focari. Venice, Italy. 2005 Pursuing Social Justice: Civic Engagement and the Potential for Expanding the Public Sphere. With Keith Fitzgerald. Pedagogies in Teaching session at the Consortium for Innovative Environments for Learning (CIEL) annual meeting. Buffalo. 2005 Looking for Angola: Public Archaeology and Public Education. Second author with Vickie Oldham, Canter Brown Jr., Bill Burger, Rosalyn Howard, and Louis Robinson. Florida Anthropological Society annual meeting, Gainesville. 2005 In the Public Interest: Paradoxes and Possibilities of Heritage Tourism. Archaeological Theories as Ideologies session at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Salt Lake City. 2003 The Complexities of Modernity in the Middle East: Historical Archaeology and Its Contributions. Shining the Light: The Illumination of History and Cultural Processes through Archaeology - The Differing Approaches and Foci of `Historical Archaeology' Worldwide session at the fifth World Archaeological Congress. Washington, DC. 2003 The Ibis Archaeological Field School at Little Salt Spring. Senior author is Traci Ardren. Florida Anthropological Society annual meeting. Tallahassee. 2003 Images of the Holy Land: Travelers and Their Landscapes of Nineteenth-Century Palestine. Between Art and Artifact: Approaches to Visual Representations in Historical Archaeology Session at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Providence. 2002 Transportation and the Development of a Florida Town: Excavations and Memories at the 1927 Seaboard Railroad Depot in Venice, Florida. Senior author with Susan Lynn White. Public Archaeology session at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Mobile. 2001 Layers of Meaning from the Clay Tobacco Pipes of the Ottoman Middle East. Recent Developments in the Archaeology of the Smoking and Tobacco Pipes session at the annual meeting of Society for American Archaeology. New Orleans. 2000 A Legacy of the Grand Tour: Travelers to Palestine during the Nineteenth Century, and what they saw that we miss. Accounts of Travelers to the Holy Land session at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Nashville. 2000 Contributions to a Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Artifacts of Trade and Social Change from Palestine. Archaeology of Cities and Trade session at the Forum for European Expansion and Global Interactions. St. Augustine. 1999 Where Napoleon’s Dreams Vanished: Historical Events and Material Changes in Akko During the Ottoman Period. Material Culture and History session at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Boston. 1998 New Directions in the Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe: Typologies, Material Variation, and Social Change. Pottery Analysis session at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Orlando. 1998 An Archaeology of Middle Eastern Pleasures: Coffee and Tobacco in the Ottoman Empire. Commodities in Global Perspective session at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Atlanta. 1996 Consuming Habits of the Ottoman Empire: Archaeological Perspectives on Consumption and Commodities in the Middle East. Social Change and Material Culture Session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco. 1996 The Habits of Modernity: Entangled Commodities from the Palestinian Past. Breaking New Ground of an Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire. Binghamton, New York. 1995 Material Culture and Consumption in Palestine - Changes over the Ottoman Period, 1516-1917. Historical Archaeology in the Mediterranean Session at the annual meeting of Society for Historical Archaeology. Washington, DC. 1994 Steps toward an Archaeology of Ottoman Palestine. New Directions in Islamic Art and Archaeology session at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Chicago. 1994 Questions and Answers for the Material Culture of Cyprus: The Sixteenth through Nineteenth Century. Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus, an international conference sponsored by the Institute of Cypriot Affairs. Albany, New York. 1994 Time Capsules, Ritualism, and the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Second author with Michael Nassaney and James Garman. Northeast Anthropological Association annual meeting. Geneseo, New York. 1992 Bordercrossing: An Archaeology of Ottoman Palestine. Marxism in the New World Order: Crises and Possibilities, an international conference sponsored by Rethinking Marxism. Amherst, Massachusetts. 1992 Palestine's Post-Columbian Material Culture: A Consideration of Turkish Tobacco Pipes. Northeastern Anthropological Association annual meeting. Bridgewater, Massachusetts. 1991 “Palestine is desolate and unlovely": The Potential of Historical Archaeology in Israel. Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting. Richmond, Virginia. 1987 Material Culture in a New Light: Stone Fences in Bellingham, Massachusetts. Second author with J. Edward Hood and Mark Bograd. Northeastern Anthropological Association annual meeting. Amherst, Massachusetts. 2021 Freedom’s Heritage Over Two Centuries: Angola, Tampa Bay’s Maroon Community. Warning Distinguished Lecture, University of West Georgia, via webinar 2021 Heritage at Risk: Tabby House Ruins at De Soto National Memorial for Introduction to Microbiology Lab, New College of Florida 2021 Radical Openness for Recovery: Critical Approaches to Heritage, Monuments, and Memory in the Academy. Monuments, Markers, and Memory: 2021 Symposium Series, via Zoom 2020 The Urban Past as a Site of Struggle and Social Action: Anthropological Perspectives on Historic Preservation and Heritage Revitalization in Cities. For Introduction to Urban Studies, New College of Florida 2020 Before History is Washed Away: The Imperative to Reveal the Heritage of Racial Coastal Formations across Gulf Coast Florida. For Introduction to Environmental Studies, New College of Florida 2020 Heritage as Social Action in Newtown, Sarasota: Resilience in the Face of the COVID-19 Crisis. For Multicultural Health Institute Strategic Invention. 2020 Decolonizing Archaeology: Excavating Angola, an Early 19th-century Haven of Liberty on the Manatee River. For Postcolonial and DeColonial Geographies, New College of Florida. 2019 Rising Sea Levels and Cultural Heritage at Risk. For Introduction to Environmental Studies, New College of Florida. 2019 Scholars Panel for Back to Angola Festival, Florida Humanities Council funded presentation, Bradenton. 2019 Encountering Angola - an Early 19th-century Haven of Liberty on the Manatee River: History, Archaeology, Heritage for Florida Planning and Zoning Association (FPZA), Sarasota (participants received American Planning Association credit) 2019 Panel Discussion: Coastal Heritage at Risk Taskforce. Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, Crystal River. 2019 Trust in Public Archaeology: Creating New Public Interpretations at a Sarasota County Park with Radical Openness. Senior author with Steven Koski. Poster for the Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, Crystal River. 2019 Reimagining an Annotated Bibliography with the Use of an Interactive Story Map: George Luer’s Contribution to the Florida Anthropologist. Second author with Zachary Enfinger and Jeffrey Moates. Poster for the Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, Crystal River. 2019 Chair for Sources of Historical Knowledge. Florida Conference of Historians, New College of Florida. 2018 Sarasota’s African Diaspora Archaeology, History, and Heritage Today for “Touring Black Religion in the `New' South” Williams College Winter Session Course. 2018 Ask Archaeologists about Climate Change, We have Thousands of Years of Experience: Manatee County's Heritage in an Age of Rising Sea Levels. For the Manatee County Green Team, Bradenton. 2018 Archaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast: Ancient Springs, Contemporary Concerns. For Introduction to Environmental Studies. New College of Florida. 2018 What We Gain from Heritage and What We Might Lose from Rising Sea Levels, a dialogue with Vickie Oldham, Community Scholar. Opening Event for Tidally United 2018, Sarasota. 2018 Archaeology and Rising Sea Levels: Local Concerns for southwest Florida. For the Intergovernmental Climate Working Group of Sarasota and Manatee counties, Sarasota City Hall. 2018 Folklore of (Safety From) Hurricanes on the Florida Gulf Coast: Bringing Archaeology to Climate Conversations. Environmental Summit 2018, Sarasota 2018 Popular Beliefs of Safety in an Age of Rising Sea Levels: Public Archaeology as a Means to Counter Exceptionalism on the Florida Gulf Coast. Poster for Fighting Anti-Science Hysteria Through Public Archaeology session at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington DC. 2018 Chair for the Archaeology of Early Medieval Italy session of New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Sarasota. 2018 Heritage as Social Action: Archaeology and Rising Sea Levels. Introduction to the Tidally United Round Table. South Florida Museum, Bradenton. 2017 Archaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast: Little Salt Spring. For Introduction to Environmental Studies. New College of Florida. 2017 Seeking Freedom on the Early 19th-Century Florida Gulf Coast: New Insights on Marronage from the Apalachicola River to Tampa Bay and Beyond. Florida Council for History Education, Sarasota 2017 New Technologies for the Past Coming Fast in the Future: Digital Archaeology on Florida’s Gulf Coast. STEMinar hosted by Whitaker Center for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers. 2017 Tragedy and Survival: Archaeology and History on the Florida Gulf Coast for “Touring Black Religion in the `New' South” Williams College Winter Session Course. 2016 Invited Participant in Relevance and Application of Heritage in Contemporary Society Workshop, funded by Wenner-Gren and Boise State University, held at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. 2016 Managing Archaeological Heritage in the Experience Economy. Departmental (Anthropology) Seminar, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. 2016 What Matters in Archaeology for Sarasota/Manatee?: Displays, Puzzles, and Videos for a Florida Archaeology Month Exhibit, with Kris Brzostek, Rachel Ceciro, Alexander Koutelias. New College New Scholars. 2016 Heritage Tourism and the Global Economy: The Values of Archaeology in the Experience Economy. Poster for Heritage Values in Contemporary Society session at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando. 2015 From Past to Present: Heritage as an Avenue to Contemporary Social Concerns. Poster presentation for the Eighth Annual Florida Statewide Symposium - Engagement in Undergraduate Research, Orlando. 2015 Anthropology and the Media. Panel at the Florida Anthropological Society annual meeting, Sarasota. 2015 A Digital Past for the Present. For Digital Pedagogy Seminar, New College of Florida. 2015 A New Chapter in African Diaspora History in Southwest Florida: Collaborative Research in the Recovery of an Early 19th-century Maroon Community. Poster presentation for the Academic, Research, and Creative Scholarship Faculty Conference, New College of Florida. 2015 Sarasota’s African Diaspora History. For “Touring Black Religion in the `New' South” Williams College Winter Session Course. 2014 Teaching Controversial Issues in Anthropology and Archaeology: What Can't We Teach. Panel at the Florida Anthropological Society annual meeting, Punta Gorda. 2014 Approaches and Experiences in Teaching Race and Ethnicity Panel Discussion at the first annual Academic, Research, and Creative Scholarship Faculty Conference, New College of Florida. 2014 Ancient Waters Community Forum Panel Discussion: Little Salt Spring and Warm Mineral Springs, North Port. 2013 Academic and Public Sector Issues in Anthropology Panel Discussion: Teaching, Working, and Serving. Panel at the Florida Anthropological Society annual meeting, St. Augustine. 2013 Sarasota/Manatee’s African American Heritage for “Touring Black Religion in the `New' South” Williams College Winter Session Course. 2012 Chair for History and Archaeology session of the American Council for Québec Studies, Sarasota. 2012 Preserving Regional Heritage with the New College Public Archaeology Lab. Senior author with Sherry Svekis. Poster for the Sarasota Bay Watershed Symposium, Sarasota. 2011 Archaeology of Florida’s Recent Past. Panel at the Florida Anthropological Society annual meeting. Orlando. 2010 Collaboration in Theory and Practice: Regional Heritage and Civic Engagement. Session organized for The Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning (CIEL) annual meeting, Sarasota; senior presenter with New College of Florida students Lee Bloch, Christina Chavez, Alexis Santos, and Michael Waas. 2010 Rebuilding Pride and Purpose through the Arts: History, Heritage, Education, Community, Economic Development. Panel discussion at the Ringling College of Art and Design. 2010 Chair for Cross-Cultural Currents in Mediterranean Literature session of New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Sarasota. 2008 Community-based Research: From Tampa Bay to Red Bays. Invited lecture at the College of Bahamas. Nassau. 2008 Public Archaeology on Florida’s Southwest Coast: A Rich Heritage and New Opportunities. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society. Ybor City. 2008 Chair for Europeans Imagine the World session of the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Sarasota. 2007 Invited Participant for Rethinking Weeden Island: Designing Research for the 21st Century. St. Petersburg, Florida 2007 Invited Participant in a focus group for Florida Humanities Council: a new research grant. Orlando. 2007 Discussant for Cultural Heritage Preservation in Action: The Florida Public Archaeology Network session of the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting. Tampa. 2006 Chair for Expanding the Idea of Europe session of the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Sarasota. 1996 Chair for Social Change and Material Culture session of the American Anthropological Association annual meeting. San Francisco. PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS 2021 "Finding Angola: Manatee County's First Black Community" Questions and Answers panel for Sarasota Native American Film Festival 2021 Archaeo Arcade interview with FPAN Northwest region on youtube. Archaeology Arcade (Episode 18) - Tragedy and Survival Virtual Landscapes 2021 Angola on the Manatee River: New Insights Revealing Bradenton’s Ties to the Underground Railroad. For Think + Drink (science) organized by the Bishop Museum, Bradenton. 2021 A Heritage of Struggle on the Florida Gulf Coast from Angola to Newtown, and Beyond. Conversations on Race and Ethnicity. Black History Month. New College of Florida, via Zoom 2020 Archaeo Arcade interview with FPAN Northwest region on youtube. Archaeology Arcade (Episode 9): Sarasota Bay Rancho Game 2020 Resilience in the Face of the COVID-19 Crisis: Heritage as Social Intervention. For Multicultural Action Team orientation, with the Multicultural Health Institute, via Zoom 2020 Finding Liberty: What Archaeology Finds Out about Freedom-Seeking People, in Sinai and Gulf Coast Florida. For Temple Emanu-El, via Zoom 2020 As Sea Levels Rise, How Do We Want Sarasota History to be Remembered? For Friends of Sarasota County History Center. 2020 Thinking about the Next Generations: Sea Level Rise and Heritage Sites in Florida and around the World for Plymouth Harbor on Sarasota Bay 2020 Archaeology of Freedom: The Maroon Communities of 19th-century Gulf Coast Florida. For Mary Todd Lincoln Union Daughters Tent #10 of Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (DUVCW), Lakewood Ranch 2020 Rising Sea Levels and Cultural Heritage on the Florida Gulf Coast. For the Sierra Club, Sarasota/Manatee chapter 2020 Archaeology and the Climate Crisis. Interview on Waterkeepers program, WSLR - Sarasota Community Radio 2019 The Politics of Rising Sea Levels and Heritage. For The Environmental Caucus of the Sarasota Democrats. 2019 Tragedy and Survival on the early 19th-century Florida Gulf Coast: The Heritage of Black Seminoles before 1821. For Charlotte Harbor Anthropological Society, Port Charlotte. 2019 The Sands of Time: How the Environment Shapes History. For The Lovably Local Podcast produced by Compass Rose Experience. 2019 Once Hidden, Now an Attraction: Newtown Heritage is Alive in Sarasota. Jane Bancroft Cook Library summer series. 2019 Tragedy and Survival: Archaeology and Commemoration of Freedom at the Manatee River. For Freedom Seekers at the Manatee: Exhibit and Speakers at Reflections of Manatee, Bradenton. 2019 Archaeology and Heritage as Social Action in an Age of Rising Sea Levels, with Jeff Moates for Conversation at the Crocker. Sarasota Historical Society. 2019 Sea Level Rise Threatening Heritage Sites: The Challenges of the Anthropocene in Florida. Archaeology and Environmental Change on the Gulf Coast. 31st Annual Manasota Beach Club Monday Lecture Series, Manasota 2018 Heritage in an Age of Rising Sea Levels: Archaeological Perspectives on the Anthropocene. Archaeology Lecture Series, Historic Spanish Point, Sarasota. 2018 Looking for Angola Scholars Panel. For Back to Angola Festival, held at Manatee Mineral Spring Park, Bradenton. 2018 Archaeology and Rising Sea Levels: Global Perspectives and Local Concerns. For Time Sifters Archaeology Society, Sarasota. 2018 Coastal Inspirations: How Cuban Fishing Ranchos Created Modern Sarasota and Manatee. With Jeff Moates, for Conversations at the Crocker, Sarasota Historical Society. 2018 Archaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast. For Think + Drink (science) organized by the South Florida Museum, Bradenton. 2017 The Archaic Matters: Archaeology, Rising Sea Levels and History in Sarasota. For Archaic Period Interpretative Panel Dedication, Phillippi Estate Park, Sarasota. 2017 Tragedy and Survival on the early 19th-century Florida Gulf Coast: History and Archaeology of the Freedom-Seeking Peoples Known as Black Seminoles. For Southwest Florida Archaeological Society, Fort Myers. 2017 A History No Longer Silenced: Angola on the Manatee River. Joint Meeting of the Vassar Club and the Wellesley Club, Sarasota. 2016 Anti-Semitism on CampusToday: What's Going On? Adult Education Program, Temple Emanu-El, Sarasota. 2016 The Many Histories along Phillippi Creek. Dedication of Interpretive Signage at Phillippi Estate Park, Sarasota. 2016 Piecing the Sherds Together: Archaeology in the Pursuit of Heritage and Social Justice. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. 2016 Remembering the Manatee River Maroons of 1821: Heritage, Archaeology, and Digital Reconstructions. With Vickie Oldham and Edward Gonzalez-Tennant. Manatee County Central Library, Bradenton. 2016 Remembering the Apalachicola River Maroons of 1816: Heritage, Archaeology, and Digital Reconstructions. With Vickie Oldham and Edward Gonzalez-Tennant. Center for History, Culture, and Art, Apalachicola, Florida. 2016 A River Runs Through Sarasota: Honoring the Many Histories Along the Phillippi Creek. For Plymouth Harbor, Sarasota. 2016 Rivers of Freedom, Landscapes of Liberty: An Update on “Looking for Angola” and the Archaeology of Maroons in Florida. Time Sifters Archaeology Society, Sarasota. 2016 Piecing the Sherds Together: Archaeology in the Pursuit of Heritage and Social Justice. St. Mary’s College of Maryland. 2015 The Politics of the Past: Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. For the Lunch with Scholars series at Temple Emanu-El, Sarasota. 2015 A River Runs through Sarasota: Archaeological Insights into Phillippi Creek. Warm Mineral Springs/Little Salt Spring Archaeological Society, North Port, Florida. 2015 Interviewed on Let’s Talk about the Middle East. WSLR. 2015 Who Used to Live There?: More than Three Thousand Years on Phillippi Creek. Gulf Gate Public Library, Sarasota, and Frances T. Bourne Jacaranda Library, Venice, Florida. 2014 Sarasota’s Hidden Heritage of Freedom: Excavating the Life of Luis Fatio Pacheco from our Region’s Past. For Plymouth Harbor, Sarasota. 2014 The Heritage under Our Feet: The Early 19th century Freedom-Seeking Peoples of Southern Tampa Bay. Manatee Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Bradenton. 2014 Our Past and Present: Archaeology at Manatee Mineral Spring. Tour for Florida Archaeology Month, Bradenton. 2014 Archaeology of Freedom: The Anti-Slavery Havens of 19th-century Gulf Coast Florida. For the series Digging into History. Bonita Springs Historical Society, Bonita Springs. 2014 Co-moderator for We Are Not Where We Were, How Do We Get Back; The Relationship between the African-American and the Jewish Communities Through Today. Thurgood Forum: Let’s Have a Conversation, Florida Studio Theater, Sarasota. 2014 Politics of the Past in Israel Today: Archaeology as a Tool of Nationalism or as Tikkun Ha-Olam. For Hadassah, Sarasota. 2013 The Many Histories around the Manatee Mineral Spring. For Viva Florida Pioneer Annual Heritage Festival, Bradenton. 2013 Why Warm Mineral Springs Matter. For Plymouth Harbor, Sarasota. 2013 Panel discussion of Clyburn Park, at the Asolo Theater. Sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. 2012-13 Introductions for Voices from Native Florida. A two-part lecture series co-sponsored by the New College Public Archaeology Lab and Time Sifters and supported by the Florida Humanities Council, held at New College. 2013 Looking for Angola with the New College Public Archaeology Lab. Poster presentation at Archaeology Fest, Sarasota. 2012 Presentation for National Archaeology Day at Manatee Mineral Spring, Bradenton. 2012 Heritage Beneath Our Feet. For 10 X 10. State of the Arts Gallery, Sarasota. 2011-12 Introductions for Archaeology of La Florida. A three-part lecture series co-sponsored by the New College Public Archaeology Lab and Time Sifters and supported by the Florida Humanities Council, held at New College. 2010-11 Introductions for Dialogue with Florida’s Past. A three-part lecture series co-sponsored by the New College Public Archaeology Laboratory and Time Sifters and supported by the Florida Humanities Council, held at New College. 2011 Panelist for Five Years of Looking for Angola: A Retrospective on the Journey and Future Paths to Explore, Sarasota. 2011 Interviewed on Sarasota’s WWSB (Channel 7) Black Almanac program regarding Looking for Angola. 2010 Collaboration and Transnational Research in Looking for Angola: New Approaches and Evidence in the Archaeological Search for an Early 19th Century Maroon Community on the Manatee River, Florida. For Warm Mineral Spring/Little Salt Spring Archaeological Society, North Port. 2010 Honoring the Dead, Keeping History Alive: Sarasota’s Galilee Cemetery. For the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation annual meeting, Sarasota. 2010 The Future of the Past. For the Ground breaking ceremony for the New College Public Archaeology Lab. 2010 Archaeo-heritage sites as Cosmopolitan Canopies. For the History and Preservation Coalition of Sarasota County. 2009-10 Introductions for Traces of Our Past: Florida’s History Through Archaeology. A six-part lecture series co-sponsored by the New College Public Archaeology Laboratory and Time Sifters and supported by the Florida Humanities Council, held at New College. 2009 Archaeology and History Hidden in Plain Sight. For the Temple Emanu-El Brotherhood, Sarasota. 2009 Looking for Angola: New Approaches & Evidence in the Search for an Early 19th Century Maroon Community on the Manatee River. For the Gulf Coast Archaeological Society, St. Petersburg, Florida. 2009 Politics of the Past: New Discoveries and Controversies in the Archaeology of Israel’s Ancient Kings. For Time Sifters, Sarasota’s local archaeology society. 2007 To Dig or Not To Dig: A Discussion of Ethics in Archaeology. For Traces of Our Past at Manatee Mineral Spring, sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council. 2007 A Hidden History: the Exiles living on the Manatee River. For Temple Emanu-El, Sarasota. 2007 Politics of the Past: Biblical Archaeology in Israel. For The Program for Arts and Humanities, Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning, Sarasota. 2007 Looking for Angola on the Manatee River: Filling a Gap in History. For the Sarasota Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 2006 Looking for Angola. For the Sarasota Reading Festival, Sarasota. 2006 Looking for Angola. For Florida Conversations, sponsored by Tampa Bay History Center and USF Florida Studies Center. 2006 Public Archaeology and Hidden Histories. For Traces of Our Past program at DeSoto National Memorial (NPS), sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council. 2005 Looking for Angola. A series of six presentations in Sarasota and Manatee counties on the early 19th century maroon community, sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council. The presentations included a panel with an archaeologist, ethnographer, historian, and educator for the general public; other presentations were directed toward various communities in the region. The endeavor included interviews with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Africa Portuguese-language service and WMNF (Tampa Bay's 88.5) as well as several newspaper articles. 2005 Visions and Voyages: Travelers to the Middle East and What They Saw. For The Program for East and West: Cultural Exchange and Conflict in the Mediterranean, Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning, Sarasota. 2004 The Coexistence Project, introductory remarks and concluding thoughts for the community program, Sarasota. 2003 The Historical Registry Designation for Rosemary Cemetery. For Time Sifters. 2002 The Politics of the Past: Biblical Archaeology Today. For Time Sifters. 2002 The Politics of the Past: Archaeology in Jerusalem. For the virtual university at Temple Beth Am in Margate, Florida. 2001 The Power of Passions and the Possibilities for Peace in the Middle East. For the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club at Bird Key. 2000 Archaeology and Politics in Israel. For the salon series of Temple Beth Sholom. 2000 Realignment in the Middle East: New Directions for the New Millennium. For the Venice Great Decisions group. 1999 Race in the community for Channel 40 News (along with Professor Hernandez). Channel 40 used more excerpts from the interviews for an extended segment on the six o'clock news called "Race Relations: A Special Report." 1999 Multiculturalism in the Community. For the Venice Great Decisions group. 1999 The Election in Israel. For the Salon Series of Temple Beth Sholom. 1999 What are We Remembering?: History, Collective Memory, and the New Past of Israel. For the Society for Humanistic Judaism. 1998 Discussion of the Current Middle Eastern situation focused on Israeli/Palestinian conflict. For the salon series for American Friends of Peace Now. 1998 Fifty Years of Israeli Archaeology. For a community group on Siesta Key. GRANTS, AWARDS, and RECOGNITION 2020 New College of Florida Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence recognition for Community Engagement 2020 Virtual Guided Tour of the Archaeology of Sarasota/Manatee as a Public Humanities Program. Florida Humanities 2020 Recovering History by the Manatee Mineral Spring. Florida Division of Historical Resources Grant 2019 Cross College Alliance/Environmental Discovery Awards Internship Program for a paid intern at the New College Public Archaeology Lab 2019 The History and Preservation Coalition of Sarasota County’s Archaeological Conservancy Award 2018 Administrator for Immediate Impact Grant from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, via the New College Foundation, for the Newtown Student Project. 2016 Visiting Scholar and Artist Program, sponsored by departments of Anthropology, History, and Geography. Western Michigan University. Presented a public lecture and a departmental seminar. 2016 Distinguished Scholar Program, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Presented a public lecture and participated in two classes at the Public Honors College of Maryland. 2015-16 Principal Investigator for Investigator for Florida Humanities Council grant for Tragedy and Survival: Bicentennial of the Southward Movement of Black Seminoles on Florida’s Gulf Coast. 2013-15 Principal Investigator for FPAN Outreach coordination at NCPAL, contract funded by the University of South Florida 2014 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research for completing report on the Looking for Angola archaeological excavations. 2013 Recognition of the New College Public Archaeology Lab presented by the City Commission of the City of Sarasota for the work devoted to the Galilee Cemetery 2013 New College Faculty Development Grant to create a course on the archaeology of Florida 2012 Principal Investigator for EdExploreNext grant to create Sarasota Bay Rancho Video Game 2012 New College Faculty Development Grant to create a course on landscape archaeology 2011 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research to create “Coastal Peoples of 19th-century Sarasota Pass: Teaching Archaeology and the Environment for Elementary Schoolchildren” 2008-2011 Principal Investigator for Preserving Regional Heritage: New College Public Archaeology Laboratory. FIPSE Programs: Grant P116Z080257. US Department of Education 2008 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research into Public Archaeology 2007 Co-sponsor for Traces of Our Past at Manatee Mineral Spring, funded by Florida Humanities Council 2006 Co-sponsor for Traces of Our Past at DeSoto National Memorial, funded by Florida Humanities Council 2005 New College Faculty Development Grant for a new course offering - Heritage: History and the Past Today 2002 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Sarasota County 2002 Certificate of Recognition to the Rosemary Committee for the Survey and Rehabilitation of the Historic Rosemary Cemetery, presented by the Sarasota County Historical Commission, the Sarasota County Historic Preservation Board, the City of Sarasota Historic Preservation Board, the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation, the Historical Society of Sarasota, and the Historic Preservation Coalition of Sarasota County 2001 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research in the Historical Archaeology of Sarasota County 2000 Instructional Development Grants: Support for Faculty Innovation. USF Center for Teaching Grant for Centering Florida in a course on North American Prehistory 1999 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research in Israel 1998 University of South Florida Research and Creative Scholarship Grant Program for fieldwork in Israel 1998 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research in Israel 1996 Conference Support Grants from the Institute for Turkish Studies, Department of Anthropology at UMass, UMass Graduate School, and Department of Anthropology at SUNY Binghamton for Breaking New Ground for an Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire. 1995 Twentieth-fifth Anniversary Graduate Research Grant for Dissertation Graphics. Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts 1993 George A. Barton Fellowship for the William F. Albright Institute in Jerusalem. American Schools of Oriental Research 1993 Anita Cecil O'Donovan Fellowship for the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institution. American Schools of Oriental Research PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Anthropological Association Society for Historical Archaeology Association for Critical Heritage Studies World Archaeological Congress Florida Archaeological Council Florida Anthropological Society Time Sifters Archaeology Society, the Sarasota Chapter of the Florida Anthropological Society PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Associate Editor for Historical Archaeology (2012 – present) Editorial Board for Present Pasts, Journal of the Institute of Archaeology Heritage Studies Section (2011 - present) Editorial Board for Journal of Archaeology and Education (2017-present) Research Coordinator for Middle East for The SHA Newsletter (2003 - present) Society for American Archaeology Excellence in Public Education Award Committee (2011-13) Education Committee of the Florida Anthropological Society (2013-present) Traces of our Past Advisory Board (2006 - 2010) Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education Board (2008-present) Trail of Lost Tribes (now Trail of Native American Heritage) - Founding Board of Directors (2000-2003) Florida Humanities Council exhibit reviewer (2004) Grassroots Anthropology - Board of Directors (2003- 2004) Looking for Angola Advisory Board (2004 - 2013) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Manuscript Reviewer for the Following Journals/Publishers: Advances in Archaeological Practice American Anthropologist Antiquity Archaeological Dialogues `Atiqot Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR) Colonial Settler Studies Current Anthropology Heritage and Society International Journal of Historical Archaeology International Journal of Middle East Studies Island Studies Journal Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage Journal of Field Archaeology Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology Journal of Social Archaeology Northeast Historical Archaeology Palestine Exploration Quarterly Post-Medieval Archaeology Present Pasts Tourism Recreation Research World Archaeology Wadsworth/Thomson Higher Education Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books Westview Press American School of Classical Studies at Athens Publications Pine Forge Press/Sage Publications Pearson Prentice Hall Grants Reviewed: Council for the Humanities, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Israel Science Foundation University of Cyprus Research Committee External Reviewer of Tenure and/or Promotion Candidates for: Land of Israel Studies at Ashkelon Academic College (2021) Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University Anthropology/Sociology at Assumption College Honors College of the University of New Mexico Florida Atlantic University University of West Florida NEW COLLEGE COMMITTEE SERVICE Faculty Advisor for Hillel 1997-2004; 2007-2011; 2012-2013; 2018-present) Campus Space Committee (1998-1999; co-chair) Campus Blueprint Task Force on Diversity (Summer 1999) Student Academic Standards Committee (1999 - 2001; secretary) Educational Policy Committee (Spring 2002) Faculty Academic Status Committee (2002-2003; Spring 2006, 2011-2013) International Studies Committee (2003- Fall 2004; chair) Provost Advisory Committee (Spring 2005, 2010-2011) Ad-hoc committee for the Visiting Fulbright Scholar: Direct Access to the Muslim World Program (Spring 2005) New College Child Center, Inc. (2006- 2007) United Faculty of Florida Bargaining Team (2007-2009; chief negotiator Spring 2009) United Faculty of Florida Chapter President (2014-2015); Interim President (2016-2017) New College Representative to the University of Florida Press editorial board (2007–present) Committee on Diversity, Community and College Life (Spring 2013-Spring 2019) New College Alumnae/i Fellows Program (2017-2018) REFERENCES Available upon request |
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