Rob Mann

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Southeast Regional Archaeologist

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology
119 Foster Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Email: rmann1@lsu.edu
Telephone: 225-578-6739
Fax: 225-578-3075

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY), 2003

RESEARCH INTERESTS

historical archaeology
colonialism
fur trade
ethnohistory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2007 “From Ethnogenesis to Ethnic Segmentation: Constructing Identity and Houses in Great Lakes Fur Trade Society. International Journal for Historical Archaeology, in press.

2007 “True Portraitures of the Indians, and of Their Own Peculiar Conceits of Dress:” Discourses of Dress and Identity in the Great Lakes, 1830-1850. Historical Archaeology, in press.

2005 “Intruding on the Past: The Reuse of Ancient Earthen Mounds by Native Americans.” Southeastern Archaeology 24(1):1-10.

2004 (co-editor with Sean M. Rafferty) Smoking and Culture: The Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes in Eastern North America, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

2004 “Smokescreens: Tobacco, Pipes and the Transformational Power of Fur Trade Rituals.” In Smoking and Culture: The Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes in Eastern North America, edited by Sean M. Rafferty and Rob Mann, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

2004 (with Ann B. Stahl and Diana DiPaolo Loren) Writing for Many: Interdisciplinary Communication, Constructionism and the Practices of Writing. Historical Archaeology

38(2):83-102.

1999 “The Silenced Miami: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence for Miami-British Relations, 1795-1812.” Ethnohistory 46(3):399-427.

COURSES TAUGHT

Louisiana Archaeology

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