Paul Farnsworth
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
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