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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-5942 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: gafarn@lsu.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Historical Archaeology
Caribbean
U.S. South & West
18th-20th centuries
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Wilkie, Laurie A. and Paul Farnsworth. 2003. "The
Archaeology of 700 Years of Occupation at Clifton Plantation, Bahamas." Proceedings
of the XIX International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Aruba, July 22-28,
2001, 2:172-81. International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Publications
of the Archaeological Museum of Aruba, Volume 9, Aruba.
Farnsworth, Paul. 2002. "Missions." In Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology,
Charles E. Orser Jr., ed., pp.161-64. London: Routledge.
Farnsworth, Paul. 2001. "Beer Brewing and Consumption in the Maintenance of African Identity by the Enslaved People of the Bahamas 1783 1834." Culture & Agriculture 23(2):19-30.
Farnsworth, Paul. 2001. "Negroe Houses Built of Stone Besides Others Watl'd + Plaistered." In Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean, Paul Farnsworth, ed., pp. 234-271. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Farnsworth, Paul, ed. 2001. Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press (in press).
Farnsworth, Paul. 2000. "Brutality or Benevolence in Plantation Archaeology." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 4(2):145-58.
Silliman, Stephen W., Paul Farnsworth, and Kent G. Lightfoot. 2000. "A Test of Magnetometer Survey Instruments and Implementation in Archaeological Investigations." Historical Archaeology 34(2):89-109.
Farnsworth, Paul. 1999. "From the Past to the Present: An Exploration of the Formation of African-Bahamian Identity During Enslavement." In African Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean, Jay B. Haviser, ed., pp 94-130. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers and Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers.
Wilkie, Laurie A. and Paul Farnsworth. 1999. "Trade and the Construction of Bahamian Identity: A Multi-Scalar Exploration." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3(4):283-320.
Farnsworth, Paul and Robert H. Jackson. 1995. "Cultural, Economic, and Demographic Change in the Missions of Alta California: The Case of Nuestra Senora de la Soledad." In The New Latin American Mission History, Erick Langer and Robert H. Jackson, eds., pp.109-29. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Farnsworth, Paul and Jack S. Williams, eds. 1992. "The
Archaeology of the Spanish Colonial and Mexican Republican Periods." Columbian
Quincentenary Issue, Historical Archaeology 26(1).
SUPPORTED RESEARCH
1999. Innovative Teaching, Learning, and Research
Using the Global Positioning System Technology, with Michael Leitner, Heather
McKillop, and Kam-biu Liu. LSU Center for Faculty Development.
1998. Archaeological Reconnaissance and Excavations at Clifton Plantation, New Providence, Bahamas, with Laurie A. Wilkie. The Government of the Bahamas, Nassau.
1997. Archaeological Research behind the E.D. White House,
Lafourche Parish, LA. The Friends of the Edward Douglas White Historic Site,
Thibodaux, LA.
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
Spring 2000. Visiting Associate Professor, Department
of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
Summer and Fall 1997. Visiting Associate Professor, Department
of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
Spring 1997. Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University
of California, Berkeley.
Registered Professional Archaeologist.
Fellow, American Anthropological Association.
COURSES TAUGHT
World Archaeology
Old World Archaeology (European Archaeology)
Historical Archaeology
Public Archaeology
Seminar in Historical Archaeology
Field Methods in Archaeology
Advanced Field Methods in Archaeology
Materials Analysis in Historical Archaeology
Department of Geography & Anthropology
Louisiana State University
227 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105
Phone: (225) 578-5942
Fax: (225) 578-4420
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