Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology

About the Editors

299 About the Editors Maxine Oland received her PhD in anthropology and Certificate in gender studies from Northwestern University in 2009. She is currently Visiting Lecturer at Smith College and has also taught at Amherst College, Williams College , and Keene State College, New Hampshire. Her research interests include the archaeology of Mesoamerican peoples, colonialism, historical political economy, gender and feminist theory, and household archaeology. Her research to date has focused on the long-term history of Maya communities in northern Belize during the Postclassic and colonial eras, and the role that local Indigenous histories played in influencing colonial period conflicts and outcomes. Her work has been published in Chungara, Lithic Technology, Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, and the SAA Archaeological Record. Siobhan M. Hart received her PhD in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University and Co-Director of the Pocumtuck Fort Archaeology and Stewardship Project in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on early colonial era Native American history and archaeology in New England with an emphasis on the intersections of heritage work and social justice efforts, particularly confronting historical erasures through archaeological research and community collaborations. She is coeditor of Indigenous Archaeologies : A Reader on Decolonization (2010) and has recently published in the journals Collaborative Anthropologies and Present Pasts. Liam Frink is an associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Frink received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2003. He has worked in Indigenous Alaska since 1996 and has focused on the interplay of subsistence, technology, identity, and cultural change. Frink has coedited two books, Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous About the Editors 300 Northern Communities (University Press of Colorado, 2002) and Gender and Hide Production (AltaMira Press, 2005). He is currently coeditor of the journal Ethnoarchaeology and the University of Arizona Press book series Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America. His research has been published in American Anthropologist, American Antiquity, Current Anthropology, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, and North American Archaeology. ...