PAUL A. SHACKEL, RPA
1.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Work Address
1111 Woods Hall
Department
of Anthropology
301-405-1422
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Professor: Department of Anthropology,
Aug. 2002
to present.
Director: University of
Series Editor: Cultural Heritage Studies, University Press of
Florida, Sept. 2001 to present.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Anthropology -‑
M.A. Anthropology
‑- State
Master's Title: Patterning
at the Nicoll House,
B.A. Anthropology
and Sociology -‑
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Professor: Department of Anthropology,
Associate Professor: Department of Anthropology,
Assistant Professor: Department of Anthropology,
Other Teaching Experience:
Visiting Assistant
Professor, Department of Anthropology:
Lecturer, Department of
Anthropology:
Instructor, Department of
Social Sciences:
Instructor, Department of
Anthropology:
SUNY-Buffalo. Fall 1984 and Spring 1986.
Adj. Instructor,
Department of Anthropology:
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Co-Principal
Investigator:
National Park Service
cooperative projects with the Department of Anthropology, and Center for
Heritage Resource Studies,
Park Archaeologist:
United
States Department of the Interior, National Park Service,
Archaeologist:
United
States Department of the Interior, National Park Service,
Administrator of
Archaeology:
Archaeology in
Project Director:
Nicoll
Archaeological Project,
2.RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES (*indicates senior or sole author)
BOOKS:
*1993 Personal
Discipline And Material Culture: An Archaeology of
*1996 Culture
Change And The New Technology: An Archaeology of The
Early American Industrial Era. Plenum Publishing Corp,
*2000 Archaeology
and Created Memory: Public History in a National Park. Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Publishing,
*2003 Memory
in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape.
“They Worked Regular”: Craft, Labor, Family and
the Archaeology of an Industrial Community (with Matthew Palus). Submitted to
“To
Preserve the Evidences of a Noble Past”:
Labor’s Heritage, and The Historical Archaeology of the American Industrial
Landscape. For a series “
BOOKS EDITED:
*1994 Historical
Archaeology of The
*1998
*2001 Myth,
Memory and The Making of The American Landscape. University Press of Florida,
*2004 Places
in Mind: Archaeology as Applied Anthropology, (with Erve Chambers).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
*1985 Conspicuous
Consumption and Class Maintenance: An Example From the
Nicoll House Excavations. In The Historical Archaeology of
1987 Forks, Clocks and Power (with Mark P. Leone).
In Mirror And Metaphor: Material And Social
Construction of Reality, edited by Daniel Ingersoll and Gordon Bronitsky,
pp. 45-61. University Press of
1990 Plane and Solid Geometry in
*1991 Consumerism
and the Structuring of Social Relations: An Historical Archaeological
Perspective. In Digging Into Popular Culture: Theories And
Methodologies in Archeology, Anthropology And Other Fields, edited by Ray
Browne and Pat Browne, pp. 31-41.
*1992 Probate
Inventories in Historical Archaeology: A Review and Alternatives. In Text-aided Archaeology, edited by Barbara J. Little, pp.
205-215. CRC Press,
*1994 Archaeological
Perspectives: An Overview of
*1994 Town
Planning, and Everyday Material Culture: An Archaeology
of Social Relations in Colonial
*1994 Memorializing
Landscapes and the Civil War in
1994 Early European Settlement (with Barbara
Little) In Historical Archaeology of The Chesapeake,
edited by Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little, pp. 17-21. Smithsonian
Institution Press,
1994
1994 Eighteenth-Century Life (with Barbara Little).
In Historical Archaeology of The Chesapeake,
edited by Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little, pp. 149-153. Smithsonian Institution Press,
1994 Nineteenth-Century Life (with Barbara Little).
In Historical Archaeology of The Chesapeake,
edited by Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little, pp. 247-250. Smithsonian Institution Press,
*1998 Maintenance
Relationships in Early Colonial
*1998 Introduction:
The Archaeology In
*1999 Town
Planning and Nineteenth-Century Industrial Life in
*2000 Craft to
Wage Labor: Agency and Resistance in American Historical Archaeology. In Agency Theory in Archaeology, edited by John Robb and
Marcia-Anne Dobres, pp. 232-246. Routledge Press,
*2000 Labor and
Racism in Early Industrial Society (with David Larsen). In Lines
That Divide: a Historical Archaeology of Inequality, edited by James Delle,
Robert Paynter, and Stephen Mrozowski, pp. 22-39.
*2001 Introduction:
Contested Memories and the Making of the American Landscape. In Myth, Memory
and The Making of The American Landscape, edited
by Paul A. Shackel, pp. 1-16. University Press of
*2001 Redefining
the Role of the
2001 Four Years of Hell: Domestic Life in
2002 Broadening
the Interpretations of the Past at
Valuing Heritage and the Heritage of Value. In Heritage
of Value, Archaeology of Renown: Reshaping Archaeological Assessment and
Significance, edited by William Mathers, Timothy Darvill, and Barbara
Little. University Press of
John Brown’s Fort: A
Contested National Symbol. In ‘Terrible Swift Sword’: Interdisciplinary
Reflections on the Life of John Brown, edited by Paul Finkelman and Peggy
Russo.
Defining
Capitalism in American Historical Archaeology. In International
Handbook of Historical Archaeology, edited by Teresita Majewski and Charles
E. Orser, Jr. Plenum Publishing Corporation, NY. Forthcoming,
2005.
Heritage,
Conflict and the American Landscape. In Mediterraneum. Tutela
e Valorizzazione dei Beni Culturali ed Ambientali,
edited by Fabio Maniscalco, Istituto per lo Sviluppo, la Formazione e la
Ricerca nel Mediterrane (I.S.FO.R.M).
REFEREED JOURNAL VOLUMES
EDITED:
1992 Meanings and Uses of Material Culture (with
Barbara J. Little). Historical Archaeology 26(3).
*1994 An Archaeology of
*2003 Remembering
Landscapes of Conflict. Historical Archaeology 37(3).
ARTICLES IN REFEREED
JOURNALS:
1987 Toward A Critical
Archaeology (with Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter Jr.). Current
Anthropology 28(3):283-301.
Reprinted: 2000, In Interpretive
Archaeology: A Reader, edited by Julian Thomas,
pp. 458-473.
1989 Scales of Historical Anthropology: An
Archaeology of Colonial Anglo‑America (with Barbara J. Little). Antiquity (62)240:495-509.
1990 The Georgian Order in
1991 A Reconstruction of 19th‑Century
Surgical Techniques: Bones in Dr. Thompson's Privy (with Robert Mann and
Douglas Owsley). Historical Archaeology (25)1:
106-112.
1992 Introduction (with Barbara J. Little). In Meanings and Uses of Material Culture, edited by Barbara J.
Little and Paul A. Shackel. Historical Archaeology 26(3):1-4.
*1992 Post-Processual
Approaches to Meanings and Uses of Material Culture (with Barbara J. Little). In Meanings and Uses of Material Culture, edited by Barbara J.
Little and Paul A. Shackel. Historical Archaeology 26(3):5-11.
*1992 Modern
Discipline: Its Historical Context in the
*1994 Interdisciplinary
Approaches to the Meanings and Uses of Material Goods in
1994 Changing Social and Material Routine in
19th-Century
*1995 Terrible
Saint: Changing Meanings of the John Brown Fort. Historical Archaeology
29(4):11-25.
*1996 Archaeology
in
1997 Importance of Historical Archaeology in the
1997 Commemorating a Rural African-American Family
at a
*1998 Classical
and Liberal Republicanism and the New Consumer Culture. International
Journal of Historical Archaeology 2(1):1-20.
*1999 Public
Memory and the Rebuilding the Nineteenth-Century Industrial Landscape at
*2001 Public
Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology. American
Anthropologist 102(3):1-16.
*2003 Public
Memory and the Making of the Civil War in
*2003 Archaeology, Memory and Landscapes of Conflict. In
Remembering Landscapes of Conflict, edited by Paul A. Shackel. Historical
Archaeology 37(3):3-13.
*2003 Heyward Shepherd: The Faithful Slave Memorial. In
Remembering Landscapes of Conflict, edited by Paul A. Shackel. Historical
Archaeology 37(3):138-148.
*2004 Rediscovering
*2004 Labor’s Heritage: Remembering
the American Industrial Landscape. Historical Archaeology 38(4):43-57.
*Approaches
to the Recent Past. Reviews
in Anthropology. Forthcoming, 2005.
*Race, Memory and the
Meaning of the Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry Memorial. Journal of Black Studies.
Under peer review.
* Industry, Entrepreneurship and
Patronage: Lewis Wernwag and the Development of
MONOGRAPHS:
*1993 (Editor).
Interdisciplinary Investigations of Domestic Life in Government Block
B: Perspectives on
*1994 (Editor).
Domestic Responses to Nineteenth-Century Industry: An Archeology of
2004 “To
Preserve the Evidence of a Noble Past:” An Administrative History of
*2004 (Editor). New Philadelphia 2004 Archaeology
Report. http://www.heritage.umd.edu/CHRSWeb/New%20Philadelphia/2004%20report/2004%20report.htm
BOOK REVIEWS:
*1990 The Meaning of Material Culture in a Materialistic Society. Anthropology
and Humanism Quarterly 15(2&3):80-81.
*1990 Review of
Documentary Archaeology of the New World, edited by Mary C. Beaudry,
Cambridge University Press. In Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology
(6):125-126.
*1992 Review of
Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology, edited by Valerie
Pinsky and Alison Wylie, Cambridge University Press. American Antiquity
57(1):167-168.
*1993 Review of
The Annales School and Archaeology, edited by John Bintliff, New York University
Press. American Antiquity 58(4):790-791.
*1993 Review of
The Buried Past: An Archaeological History of Philadelphia, by John L.
Cotter, Daniel G Roberts, and Michael Parrington, University of Pennsylvania
Press, Philadelphia. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 9:171-172.
*1993 Review of
Experiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology, by Michael
Shanks, Routledge, Chapman & Hall. Historical
Archaeology 27(3):114-115.
*1993 Review of
Valuing Cultural Landscapes in the
*1994 Review of
Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African
*1994 Review of
Fragments from Antiquity: An Archaeology of Social Life in
*1996 Review of
Merchants and Shopkeepers: A Historical Anthropology of an Irish Market
Town, 1200-1991, by P.H. Gulliver and Marylyn Silverman. American Anthropologist 98(3):680.
*2002 Review of
Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City,
by Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerga Wall, Yale University Press.
*2002 Review of
Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces, edited by R. Barry Lewis and
Charles Stout.
*2003 Review of
I, Too, Am America: Archaeological Studies of African-American Life,
edited by Theresa A. Singleton, University Press of Virginia. American
Antiquity 68(1):195-196.
*2003 Review of
Ruins and Rivals: The Making of Southwest Archaeology, by James E.
Snead. The
*2003 Review of
An Archaeology of History and Tradition:
Monuments of Danger in the
*2004 Review of
Landmarks of the American Revolution, by Gary B. Nash and Landmarks
of the Civil War by Nina Silber, Oxford University Press. Public
Historian 25(1):86-88.
*2004 Exhibit
Review of “Looking for
*2005 Web Site
Review of The Labor Project: Dedicated to the Preservation of Labor and
Working-Class History of the
OTHER ARTICLES:
*1983 Archaeological
Dig at the Nicoll Homestead.
*1984 Archaeology
and History: A Case Study with the William Nicoll Homestead.
*1985 Quantitative
Patterning at the Site Level: A Case Study in Historical Archaeology. American
Archaeology 5(1):55-65.
*1986 Mean
Ceramic Dating and Its Applicability to the Nicoll House. Long Island
Archaeological Project Newsletter, edited by Laurie Schroeder, Stephanie
Rippel‑Erikson, and Edward Johannemann. Published by
the
*1989
*1993 An Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century
*1993 Resilient
Shrine. Archaeology 46(3):72.
*1994 Archaeology
of an
*1994 Archaeology
of Nineteenth-Century Industrial Life. SOPA Newsletter 18(1):1-3.
*1995 Mass
Production: Workers and
*1995 An Archaeology of
*1996 Transforming
Craft to Wage Labor: Archaeology of a Worker's Houselot. CRM
19(5):27-30.
*1996 An Archaeology of the Garden and the Machine at the
*1997 The John
Brown Fort: African-Americans' Civil
*1997 A
Long-Overdue Salute: African-American Troops Who Fought in the Civil War are
being Honored in a National Monument. The
*1998
*2000 Comments
on A Critical Archeology Revisited by Laurie A. Wilkie
And Kevin M. Bartoy. Current Anthropology 41(5):469-470.
2001 Postmodernism Has a Place in Applied
Anthropology (with Nancy R. Rosenberger). SfAA Newsletter 12(4):15-17.
*2001
*2002
*2002 New
Technology. In Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology,
edited by Charles E. Orser, Jr., 387-388. Routledge Press,
*2002 Social
Stratification (with Matthew Palus). In Encyclopedia of Historical
Archaeology, edited by Charles E. Orser, Jr., pp. 531-534. Routledge
Press,
*2002 The
John Brown Fort: Memory in Black and White. The Catoctin History: The
Magazine of the Catoctin Center for Regional History 1(1):29-33.
*2003 National
Parks at Risk. The
*2003 Current
Research at
*2004 Memory
in Black and White. Civil
War Book Review. www.cwbr.com.
*2004 The National Science Foundation –Research Experiences For
Undergraduates At
*2004 We’ve Only Just Begun. The
*2004 Delving
for Truth. The Diamondback,
*2004 Response
to Noble. SHA Newsletter. Winter.
2005
The
*2005 Introduction: The Public Meaning of Archaeology. Posted on www.heritage.umd.edu.
*2005 The
Public Meaning of Archaeology. SAA Archaeological Record, March.
*2005 Local
Identity, National Memory and Heritage Tourism: Creating A
Sense Of Place With Archaeology. SAA
Archaeological Record,
May.
2005 The Public Meaning of Archaeology. Posted on
www.heritage.umd.edu.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS:
*1984 Artifact
Pattern Recognition at the Nicoll House,
*1984 Artifact
Pattern Recognition at the Nicoll House,
*1986 Conspicuous
Consumption and Class Maintenance. Society for American
Archaeology meetings,
*1986 The
Creation of Individuality and Segmentation in Anglo‑America. Northeastern Anthropological meetings,
*1987 The
Development of a Hierarchical Society in 18th ‑Century
*1987 The
Development of a Hierarchical Society in 18th ‑Century
*1987 The
Archaeology of Manners. Society for American Archaeology
meetings,
*1987 The
Creation of Polite Society: Historical Archaeology of Colonial and Early
1987 Cows,
Printers and Capitalists and the Growth of
*1988 Changing
Structures in
*1988 An Archaeology of Knowledge: Deconstruction and the New
Maryland Hall of Records, (with Julie H. Ernstein). The
National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators
Meetings,