Visiting Scholar Program

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The Visiting Scholar in Archaeology Program is currently on hiatus. When active, the program supported motivated scholars to organize and conduct the annual Visiting Scholar Conference. Each conference resulted in an edited volume of selected papers that the Visiting Scholar assembled and edited while in residence at SIU Carbondale. Conference proceedings were published through CAI’s Occasional Papers series. The Visiting Scholar also pursued his/her own research during the period of the award, taught one seminar in his/her specialty, and interacted productively with colleagues and students in the CAI and the Department of Anthropology.

Past Visiting Scholar Conferences

Past Visiting Scholar Conferences include the following titles:

2010s

  • 2013 ~ Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Reorganization in Complex Societies • Ronald "Sonny" Faulseit
  • 2012 ~ The Archaeology of Slavery: Toward a Comparative, Global Framework • Lydia Wilson Marshall
  • 2010 ~ Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology • Jo Day

2000s

  • 2009 ~ Hybrid Material Culture: The Archaeology of Syncretism and Ethnogenesis • Jeb J. Card
  • 2008 ~ Human Variation in the New World: A Meeting of Archaeology • Benjamin M. Auerbach
  • 2007 ~ Anthropogenic Environments: The Cultural Modification of Landscapes and Ecological Systems • Rebecca Dean
  • 2006 ~ Religion in the Material World: A Conference on the Archaeology of Religion • Lars Fogelin
  • 2005 ~ The Durable House: Architecture, Ancestors, and Origins • Robin A. Beck
  • 2004 ~ We Are What We Eat: Archaeology, Food, and Identity • Katheryn Twiss 
  • 2003 ~ Leadership and Polity in Mississippian Society • Brian Butler and Paul Welch
  • 2002 ~ Biomolecular Archaeology: Genetic Approaches to the Past • David Reed
  • 2001 ~ Hunters and Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology • George M. Crothers
  • 2000 ~ The Dynamics of Power • Maria O’Donovan

1990s

  • 1999 ~ Archeometry • Prudence Rice
  • 1998 ~ Fleeting Identities: Perishables • Penelope Drooker
  • 1997 ~ Hierarchies in Action • Michael Diehl
  • 1996 ~ Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory • John Robb
  • 1995 ~ Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change and Archaeology • James Cusick
  • 1994 ~ Archaeological Demography • Rick Paine
  • 1993 ~ Geographic Information Systems • Herb Maschner
  • 1992 ~ Paleonutrition • Kristin Sobolik
  • 1991 ~ From Bones to Behavior • Jean Hudson
  • 1990 ~ The Future of the Past • LuAnn Wandsnider

1980s

  • 1989 ~ New Directions in Archaeology • Robert Preucel
  • 1988 ~ Between Bands and States • Susan Gregg
  • 1987 ~ The Historiography of Archaeology • Andrew L. Christenson
  • 1986 ~ Emergent Horticultural Economics • William Keegan
  • 1985 ~ Eastern Archaic Subsistence Systems • Sarah Neusius
  • 1984 ~ Lithic Resource Procurement • Susan Vehik