Contributors
- Contributors
David G. Anderson is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has spent most of his career working on prehistoric and historic archaeological research in the Southern United States, with occasional projects in the Southwest, Midwest, and Caribbean.
N. N. Augusté is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina–Lancaster specializing in English and Native American Studies. She also sits as an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies department at the University of South Carolina–Columbia. She earned her PhD in English from the University of North Carolina–Greensboro in 2006, focusing on the rhetoric of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Her current research explores Southeastern Indian women narratives, particularly Catawba Indian women, and the Catawba pottery-making tradition. Her other interests involve cultural and folk art traditions.
Robin A. Beck Jr. is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is currently codirecting research in the upper Catawba Valley of western North Carolina. His work has appeared in the journals Current Anthropology, American Antiquity, Latin American Antiquity, Ethnohistory, and Southeastern Archaeology, and his edited volume, The Durable House: House Society Models in Archaeology, was published by CAI Press in 2007.
Charles R. Cobb is the director of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. His current research involves studies of Mississippian warfare and health in central Tennessee and practices of hybridity along the Carolina frontier during the colonial era. [End Page 175]
Robbie Ethridge is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi. Her current research interests are on the collapse of the Mississippian world with European contact and the reformation of Indian societies that occurred afterward. She is the author of Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World (2003) and coeditor of Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South (2009). She is a coeditor of Native South.
David J. Hally is a professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia. His research interests focus on the Mississippian culture of northern Georgia and adjacent portions of Alabama, Tennessee, and the Carolinas and across the entire settlement and sociopolitical spectrum from individual households to interpolity relations on the regional level. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. His most recent publication is King: The Social Archaeology of a Late Mississippian Town in Northwestern Georgia (2008).
Jay Johnson is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Mississippi. Research interests include remote sensing, GIS, lithic analysis, and ethnohistory. He has edited or coedited three books: The Organization of Core Technology (1987), The Development of Southeastern Archaeology (1993), and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: An Explicitly North American Perspective (2006).
Malinda Maynor Lowery (Lumbee) was born in Robeson County, North Carolina, and is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research concerns Native American identity and politics in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in North Carolina. She has published articles about migration and identity, school desegregation, and religious music in books and journals, including American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2005), Southern Cultures (2004), and Confounding the Color Line: Indian-Black Relations in a Multidisciplinary Perspective (2002). Lowery has produced three documentary films about Native American issues, including the award-winning In the Light of Reverence, which won the 2005 Henry Hampton Award for social change documentary from the Council on Foundations. Her two previous films, Real Indian and Sounds of Faith, both concern Lumbee identity and culture.
Greg O’Brien is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750–1830 (2002), coeditor of George Washington’s South (2004) and editor of Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths (2008). He is a coeditor of Native South. [End Page 176]
James W. Parins is associate director of the Sequoyah National Research Center and professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has published extensively in American...
