conference papers & panels

Brandon, Jamie C.
2009  Decoration Day: A Glimpse at the Hybridity of Materials and Meanings Beyond Racial Constructions and Beyond this Veil of Tears. Paper presented as a part of the “Materialities and Meanings of Rituals in Atlantic Africa and the African Diasporasymposium (Akin Ogundiran and Paula Saunders, organizer) to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Brandon, Jamie C. and John R. Samuelsen
2008  Recent Geophysical and Archeological Investigations at the Royston House (3HE236-91), Historic Washington State Park, Washington, Arkansas. Poster presented to the Southeastern Archeological Conference, Charlotte, NC.

 

Brandon, Jamie C.
2008  African-American Archeologies in the Midwest.  Forum at the Midwest Historical Archeology Conference, Indianapolis, IN (Christopher Fennell, moderator and organizer).

 

Brandon, Jamie C.
2008  A Different Kind of “Old Roman” Archeology: Investigations at the Royston House (3HE236-91), Historic Washington State Park, Washington, Arkansas.. Paper presented to the South Central Historical Archeological Conference, Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, Morrilton, AR.

 

Brandon, Jamie C.
2008  From Monumental Mounds to Forgotten Forts: Ongoing Collaborative Archeological Projects in Southwestern Arkansas.  Paper presented to the East Texas Archaeological Conference, Tyler, TX.

 

Jamie C. Brandon
2008  Engendering Archaeology in the Arkansas Ozarks and the Old Southwest. Paper presented as a part of the "Engendering the Historical Archaeology of the Trans-Mississippi West" symposium (Elizabeth Scott, organizer) to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.

 

Leslie C. Stewart-Abernathy and Jamie C. Brandon
2008  What Does Post-emancipation African-American Archaeology Look Like in Arkansas? Paper presented as a part of the "Post-Emancipation Transitions in the African Diaspora" symposium (Terrance Weik and and Florie Bugarin, organizers) to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.

 

Jamie C. Brandon
2007  That Was Then, This is Now: Revisiting the Archaeologies of Fort George Island, Florida. Paper presented as a part of the "Re-assessing the Archaeology of Fort George Island, Florida: 1587-2007" symposium (Clete Rooney and Rebecca Gorman, organizers) to the Southeastern Archeological Conference, Knoxville, TN.

 

Jamie C. Brandon

2007 Historical Archaeology and Ozark Tourism: Hillbillies in the Natural State,. Paper presented as a part of the "The Archaeology of Tourism" symposium (Chris Matthews and Matthew Palus, organizers) to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Williamsburg, VA.

Jamie C. Brandon and Jerry E. Hilliard

2006 Remembering Frontier Fort Smith: The President or the Prioress.  Paper presented to the South Central Historical Archaeology Conference, Memphis, TN.

Jamie C. Brandon and Jerry E. Hilliard

2006 Zachary Taylor and the Sisters of Mercy: Nineteenth Century Archaeology in Downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Arkansas Archeological Society, Little Rock, AR.

Jamie C. Brandon

2006 Race, Identity, Capitalism and Competing Concepts of Freedom in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century South. Paper presented as a part of the "The Political Economy of Freedom" symposium (Chris Matthews and Paul Mullins, organizers) to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Sacramento, CA.

Jerry Hilliard and Jamie C. Brandon

2006 Zachary Taylor and the Sisters of Mercy: Negotiating the Landscape of Cultural Memory in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Paper presented as a part of the "A HIdden Diversity: Historical Archaeology in the Ozark Uplands" symposium (Alicia Valentino and Carl Carlson-Drexler, organizers) to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Sacramento, CA.

Jamie C. Brandon
2005 Cultural Memory and Descendant Communities: A Look at Diverse Stakeholders, Historical Narratives and the Archaeology of the African Diaspora. Paper presented as a part of the "Dialogues in Context: Perspectives on Applied Work in African Diaspora Archaeology" symposium (Jennifer Babiarz, Matthew Palus and Mark Leone, organizers) to the American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, DC.

Jamie C. Brandon
2005 "The Black Atlantic and African Diaspora Archaeology" forum sponsored by the African-American Archaeology Network (Jamie Brandon and Carol McDavid, organizers; Richard Benjamin and Jamie Brandon, moderators) at the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, York, England.

Jamie C. Brandon
2004 Rural Landscapes in the Modern World: Historical Archaeology and Cultural Memory in the Arkansas Ozarks. Paper presented to the joint meeting of the Midwestern Archaeological Conference and the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.

Jamie C. Brandon
2004 An Overview of the Van Winkle's Mill Project: Modernity and Historical Memory in the Arkansas Ozarks. Paper presented as a part of the "Neighbors Working Together: Historical Archeology in Arkansas" symposium (Leslie Stewart-Abernathy and Jamie C. Brandon, organizers) to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, St. Louis, Mo.

James M. Davidson, Maria Franklin and Jamie C. Brandon
2004 Remembering North Dallas/Freedman's Town: First Steps Towards Public Archaeology within an African-American Community in Dallas, Texas. Paper presented as a part of the "Can Archaeology Save The World? The Benefits of Public Archaeology" symposium (Jay Stottman, organizer) to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, St. Louis, Mo.

James M. Davidson and Jamie C. Brandon
2003 Excavations on Juliette Street: Public Engagement and Archaeology in Downtown Dallas, Texas. Paper presented to the sixth annual South Central Historical Archaeological Conference, Natchitoches, LA.

Jamie C. Brandon
2003 Archaeology of the "Most Deliberately Unprogressive Region in the United States": Recent Historical Archaeology in Northwest Arkansas. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Arkansas Archeological Society, Fort Smith, AR.

Jamie C. Brandon
2003 An Archaeology of "Ozarkness": Beyond Historical Tropes and Toward Lived Experience. Paper presented as a part of the "Revisiting Rural Contexts: Dispelling Agrarian Myths in Historical Archaeology" symposium (Deborah L. Rotman and Lou Ann Worst, organizers) to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Providence, RI.

Jamie C. Brandon
2001 Van Winkle's Mill Revisited: A Report on Ongoing Excavations at a Late Nineteenth Century Sawmill Community in the Arkansas Ozarks. Paper presented to the 4th annual meeting of the South Central Historical Archaeological Society, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Jamie C. Brandon
2001  Death and the Parkin Phase: Finding "Difference" Among Mortuary Populations in Late Prehistoric Northeast Arkansas.  Paper presented to the 66th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.

James M. Davidson and Jamie C. Brandon
2001  The Field of Dreams: Problematizing Urban Households in Turn-of-the-Century Dallas, Texas.  Paper presented to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Long Beach, CA.

Jamie C. Brandon
2000  Constructions of Race, Class, and Gender in Dallas, Texas, 1870-1930: Views from the Historical and Archeological Records.  Paper presented to the 44th annual meeting of the American Studies Association of Texas, Waco, Texas.

Jamie C. Brandon, James M. Davidson and Jerry E. Hilliard
2000  Excavations at Van Hollow 1997-1999: Industry, Race and Landscape in the Ozark Upland South.  Paper presented to the SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Jerry E. Hilliard, Jamie C. Brandon and James M. Davidson
1999  The Van Winkle Mill: A Mid-19th Century Cultural Landscape in Northwest Arkansas.  Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Arkansas Archeological Society, Fayetteville, AR, Sept. 26th.

Jamie C. Brandon and R. Joe Brandon 
1998  Late Prehistoric Subsistence Shifts in Eastern Arkansas: Evidence from Landscape/GIS Analysis.  Paper presented to the 55th Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville, SC.

R. Joe Brandon and Jamie C. Brandon 
1998  Agricultural Transitions in the Central Mississippi Valley: Considerations of GIS Data Source, Scale, and Method.  Paper presented to Union Internationale Des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP) Commission 4 meeting: Data Management and Mathematical Methods in Archaeology, Scottsdale, AZ.

Mary Evelyn Starr and Jamie C. Brandon
1998  Investigations at the Irby Site (22DS516): The Walls phase in Northwest Mississippi.  Paper presented as a part of the "Papers in Honor of Charles H. McNutt" symposium at the 19th Mid-South Archaeological Conference, Memphis, TN.

Robert F. Cande, Jamie C. Brandon, Steven M. Imhoff, Michael C. Sierzchula, and John Arnold 
1997  Diversity and Function of WPA and CCC Native Stone Structures in Western Arkansas: Water Under the Bridge.  Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Arkansas Archeological Society, Little Rock, AR.

Jamie C. Brandon
1996  CRM Survey Strategy in Archaeology: An Example from the Uwharrie National Forest, NC.  Paper presented to the Tennessee River Archaeological Society, Big Sandy, TN.

Jamie C. Brandon
1994  Fabric Impressed Ceramics in the Mid-South:  Wickliffe, Mound Bottom and the Oliver Site.  Paper presented to the fifteenth Mid-South Archaeological Conference, Memphis, TN.


invited lectures

“Of Machines and Men: Archeology and Technology in Southern Arkansas” gallery talk presented to the Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources, Smackover, Arkansas, May 11, 2007.


“The Archeology of Arkansas’s African-American Past” talk presented at the Arkansas Historic Museum as a part of a lecture series sponsored by the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center and associated with Arkansas Heritage Month, Little Rock, Arkansas, May 5, 2007.


“African-American Cemeteries and Archeology in Arkansas” talk to the Preserving African American Cemeteries (PAAC) Workshop and Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, May 4-5, 2007.


“Southwestern Arkansas Archeology and the Arkansas Archeological Survey” talk presented to Southern Arkansas Community College, El Dorado, Arkansas, April 11, 2007.


“Historical Archeology in Arkansas: Why Do We Dig Up the Recent Past?” talk sponsored by the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives and presented at Historic Washington State Park, Washington, Arkansas in association with Arkansas Archeology Month, March 6, 2007.


“The Van Winkle’s Mill Project: Nine Years of Archeology in an Ozark Holler” presented to the University of Arkansas at Monticello and the Tunica Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society, Thursday, November 2, 2006.

 

"Finding a Lost Industrial Heritage in the Ozark Mountains: The Archaeology of Van Winkle's Mill" presented to Michigan Technological University's Department of Social Sciences, Friday, March 24, 2006.

 

"The Archaeology of St. Anne's Convent, 2004-2005: Zachary Taylor, the Sisters of Mercy and Fort Smith Arkansas" presented to the Arkoma Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society, Fort Smith, Arkansas, March 16, 2006.

 

"Historical Archaeology at Van Winkle's Mill: Confronting Hillbilly History in the Ozark Mountains" presented to the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Department of Anthropology and Social Work, Tuesday, March 14, 2006.

 

"Confronting Hillbilly History at Van Winkle's Mill" presented to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University, South Carolina, Thursday, March 9, 2006.

 

"Van Winkle's Mill: Mountain Modernity, Cultural Memory and Historical Archaeology in the Arkansas Ozarks" presented to the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Toltec Mounds State Park, Wednesday/Thursday, February 22, 2006.

 

"Public Archaeology in the Ozark Mountains" presented to the University of West Florida and the Florida Public Archaeology Network, Pensacola, FL, Thursday, February 16, 2006.

 

"Van Winkle's Mill: Mountain Modernity, Cultural Memory and Historical Archeology in the Arkansas Ozarks" presented to the Indiana University Department of Anthropology and the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Bloomington, IN, January 20, 2006.

 

"Zachary Taylor, The Sisters of Mercy and the Historical Archaeology of Fort Smith, Arkansas." Presented in conjunction with University of Arkansas at Fort Smith's celebration of American Heritage Week, Thursday, February 24, 2005.

 

Local panelist and discussion facilitator for "(Mis)understanding History: Shaping Modern Myth and Popular Values" Phi Theta Kappa Satellite Seminar presented to NorthWest Arkansas Community College, Tuesday, September 28, 2004.

 

"Recent Historical Archaeology in Northwest Arkansas: Archaeology of the 'Most Deliberately Unprogressive Region in the United States'" Presented to the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in conjunction with Arkansas Archaeology Month, Saturday, March 13, 2004.

 

"Mountain Modernity & Van Winkle's Mill: Archeology, Race and Historical Memory in the Arkansas Ozarks." Presented to Virginia Commonwealth University, School of World Studies. Friday, March 5, 2004.

 

"The Late Prehistoric & Postbellum Arkansas: Revisiting Sites and Exploring New Data in the Parkin Phase and at Van Winkle's Mill." given to the University of Oklahoma Anthropology Department, February, 2004.

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