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CHRIS RODNING

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EDUCATION
GRANTS
  • 2004 In Search of Fort San Juan: Sixteenth-Century Spanish and Native Interaction in the North Carolina Piedmont. National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration. (with David G. Moore and Robin A. Beck)
  • 2003 Radiocarbon Dates from Aboriginal Structures in Southwestern North Carolina. North Carolina Archaeological Society, Grant in Aid of Research.
AWARDS
  • 2001 Mooney Fellowship from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, UNC-CH
  • 2001 Summer Dissertation Stipend from the Center for the Study of the American South, UNC-CH
  • 1999 Nomination for Student Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNC-CH
  • 1997 Stephen Polgar Prize in Applied Anthropology, UNC-CH
  • 1994 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  • 1993 Ford Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship
  • 1992 Harvard College Honorary Scholarship
  • 1990 Harvard Book Prize
POSITIONS HELD
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK
  • 2001-2004 Project Codirector, Upper Catawba Archaeology Project, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC (with David G. Moore and Robin A. Beck, Jr.)
  • Summer 2000 Archaeological Survey, Historic Ayr Mount Plantation, Hillsborough, NC (with E. Anthony Boudreaux III and H. Trawick Ward)
  • 1995-1997 Graduate Assistant, Siouan Project, Hillsborough, NC (with H. Trawick Ward and R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr.)
  • Summer 1995 Graduate Assistant, Black Warrior River Valley Archaeological Survey, AL (with C. Margaret Scarry and John F. Scarry)
  • Summer 1993 Crew Member, Bottle Creek Mound Project, AL (with Ian W. Brown and Richard S. Fuller)
  • Summer 1992 Archaeology Intern, Big Horn National Forest, Sheridan, WY (with Richard Wardlow and Richard Laurent)
COEDITED VOLUMES
JOURNAL ARTICLES
BOOK CHAPTERS
  • In prep "Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cherokee Houses at Coweeta Creek in Southwestern North Carolina. In The Durable House: Architecture, Ancestors, and Origins, edited by Robin A. Beck, Jr., in prep. Southern Illinois University, Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper 35, Carbondale.
  • 2005 "Afterword: Pardo, Joara, and Fort San Juan Revisited." In The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Explorations of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568 (1990), by Charles M. Hudson, pp. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. (with David G. Moore and Robin A. Beck, Jr.)
  • 2003 "Water Travel and Mississippian Settlement at Bottle Creek." In Bottle Creek: A Pensacola Culture Site in South Alabama, edited by Ian W. Brown, pages 194-204. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
  • 2002 "William Bartram and the Archaeology of the Appalachian Summit." In Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast, edited by Cameron B. Wesson and Mark A. Rees, pages 67-89. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
  • 2002 "Reconstructing the Coalescence of Cherokee Communities in Southern Appalachia." In The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760, edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson, pages 155-175. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson.
  • 2001 "Architecture and Landscape in Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Western North Carolina." In Archaeology of the Appalachian Highlands, edited by Lynne P. Sullivan and Susan C. Prezzano, pages 238-249. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
  • 2001 "Gender, Tradition, and Social Negotiation in Southern Appalachian Chiefdoms." In The Archaeology of Traditions: History and Agency Before and After Columbus, edited by Timothy R. Pauketat, pages 107-120. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. (with Lynne P. Sullivan)
  • 2001 "Mortuary Ritual and Gender Ideology in Protohistoric Southwestern North Carolina." In Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States, edited by Jane M. Eastman and Christopher B. Rodning, pages 77-100. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
  • 2001 "Reconstructing Gender in the Ancient Southeast." In Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States, edited by Jane M. Eastman and Christopher B. Rodning, pages 1-9. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. (with Jane M. Eastman)
BOOK REVIEWS
  • In press American Antiquity | review of James River Chiefdoms: The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake, by Martin D. Gallivan, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003.
  • 2001 North Carolina Archaeology 50:91-97 | review of Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces: Searching for an Architectural Grammar, edited by R. Barry Lewis and Charles B. Stout, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 1998.
  • 2001 North Carolina Archaeology 50:85-91 | review of A World Engraved: The Archaeology of Swift Creek Culture, edited by J. Mark Williams and Daniel T. Elliott, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 1998.
  • 1999 Southeastern Archaeology 18:83-84 | review of Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, written by Lewis Henry Morgan and edited by Elisabeth Tooker, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997
  • 1998 North Carolina Archaeology 47:112-119 | review of The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the Revolutionary Era, written by M. Tom Hatley, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995.
  • 1997 North Carolina Archaeology 46:121-125 | review of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians, edited by Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1995.
  • 1996 Southern Indian Studies 45:78-82 | review of The Prehistory of the Chickamauga Basin, edited by Thomas M. N. Lewis, Madeline D. K. Lewis, and Lynne P. Sullivan, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1995.
  • 1995 Southern Indian Studies 44:70-74 | review of Ocmulgee Archaeology, 1936-1986, edited by David H. Hally, University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1994.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
  • 2005 "The Cycle of Building and Rebuilding the Cherokee Townhouse at Coweeta Creek." Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Columbia, South Carolina.
  • 2005 "Qualla Pottery from Coweeta Creek." Paper presented at the Cherokee Ceramics Workshop, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
  • 2005 "Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cherokee Houses at Coweeta Creek in Southwestern North Carolina." Paper presented at the 35th Annual Visiting Scholars Conference, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
  • 2004 "Exploring Joara and Fort San Juan: Continuing Excavations at the Berry Site in Western North Carolina." Paper presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri. (with David G. Moore and Robin A. Beck, Jr.)
  • 2004 "Spanish Expeditions and the Native Chiefdoms of the Upper Catawba Valley in Western North Carolina." Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Quebec. (with David G. Moore and Robin A. Beck, Jr.)
  • 2003 "Mississippian Chiefdoms and the Spanish Frontier: An Overview of Recent Excavations at the Berry Site in Western North Carolina." Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina. (with Megan S. Best)
  • 2003 "Spanish Expeditions and the Native Chiefdoms of the Upper Catawba Valley in Western North Carolina." Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (with David G. Moore and Robin A. Beck, Jr.)
  • 2002 "Berry Site Excavations 2002: The Search for Fort San Juan." Paper presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Biloxi, Mississippi. (with David G. Moore and Robin A. Beck, Jr.)
  • 2002 "Early European Trade and Trade Goods at Coweeta Creek." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Asheville, North Carolina.
  • 2002 "Public Architecture and Native Towns in Southwestern North Carolina." Paper presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Mobile, Alabama.
  • 2001 "In Search of Buried Buildings at the Berry Site." Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee. (with David G. Moore)
  • 2000 "Cherokee Pottery and Domestic Architecture in Southwestern North Carolina." Poster presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (with Gregory D. Wilson)
  • 1999 "Gender, Tradition, and Social Negotiation in Southern Appalachian Chiefdoms." Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, Illinois. (with Lynne P. Sullivan)
  • 1998 "Mortuary Practices at Coweeta Creek." Poster presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville, South Carolina.
  • 1998 "Gender Duality in Southern Appalachian Chiefdoms." Paper presented at the 5th Gender and Archaeology Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (with Lynne P. Sullivan)
  • 1998 “Spatial Patterning in the Archaeology of the Upper Little Tennessee River Valley.” Poster presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, Washington.
  • 1997 "Reconsidering the Relationship Between the Pisgah and Qualla Phases in Western North Carolina." Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (with H. Trawick Ward)
  • 1996 "Gender and Social Institutions of Native Communities in the Appalachian Summit." Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham, Alabama.
  • 1995 "Late Prehistoric Water Travel on the Northern Gulf Coastal Plain." Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee.
SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
INVITED LECTURES
COAUTHORED WEB PAGES
SERVICE
CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
  • 2002 Recent Avocational Excavations of a Prehistoric Site at Carolina Friends School, Hillsborough, North Carolina. Report submitted to the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh. (with Mintcy D. Maxham)
  • 2001 An Archaeological Survey of the Black Road Park, Rowan County, North Carolina. Report submitted to the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh. (with R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr.)
  • 2001 Test Excavations of a Stone Foundation at Ayr Mount Historic Site, Hillsborough, North Carolina. Report submitted to the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh. (with E. Anthony Boudreaux III)
  • 2000 An Archaeological Survey of the Fox Creek Subdivision, Davidson County, North Carolina. Report submitted to the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh. (with H. Trawick Ward)
TEACHING INTERESTS
  • the archaeology of North America
    • Eastern Woodlands
    • The Southeast
  • architecture
  • the archaeology of gender
  • archaeological method and theory
  • field schools in archaeology
  • general anthropology
  • world prehistory
  • death and mortuary ritual
  • settlement patterns
  • history of archaeology
  • research strategies in archaeology
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Chris Rodning 12 October 2005 Tulane University