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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY-ST. LOUIS

  1. Institution Name:
    Washington University–St. Louis
  2. Department Title:
    Department of Anthropology
  3. Faculty involved in Historical Archaeological studies
    1. Browman, David L. (Ph.D., Harvard 1970; Prof.) Andean area; disciplinary history.
    2. Frachetti, Michael (Ph.D. Pennsylvania 2004, Asst. Prof.) GIS, central Asia and nomads
    3. Freidel, David (Ph.D., Harvard 1976; Prof) Classic Maya epigraphy and history
    4. Kelly, John (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1980, Senior Lecturer) central Mississippi valley
    5. Kidder, T. R. (Ph.D., Harvard 1988; Prof.) GIS, geoarchaeology, central Mississippi Valley.
    6. Marshall, Fiona (Ph.D., UC-Berkeley 1986; Prof.) historical zooarchaeology, North America and Africa
  4. General Statement:
    Current research includes rural settlers in Missouri (1800-1860), Midwestern historical zooarchaeology, relations between historic Native American tribes and early Western colonists, historic archaeology of Russian and East African pastoralists, epigraphic studies of Classic Maya states. Interested students must utilize and integrate their studies with the other strengths of the faculty (such as paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology, geoarchaeology, GIS, ceramic analysis, and agricultural productivity). This is a small program, admitting 3-4 archaeology graduate students per year, but with all receiving full funding. We have students from the American Culture Studies program also taking training in historical archaeology, and this sister program is a resource for our students. We are a Ph.D. granting department.
  5. For More Information Contact:
    David L. Browman, Department of Anthropology, Campus Box 1114, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 USA; phone: 1-314-935-5231; fax: 1-314-935-8535; email: dlbrowma@artsci.wustl.edu; Web page: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~archae/archpage.htm.