Areas of Expertise
Florida Archeology, Historical Process, Political Economy, Field Methodology, Ceramic Analysis
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida
Dissertation: Interaction, Population Movement, and Political Economy: The Changing
Social Landscape of Northeastern Florida (A.D. 900-1500)
M.S. Anthropology, Florida State University.
Thesis: Effects of European and American Colonization of the Southeast on Upper Creek Indian Settlement Patterns
B.A. Anthropology, Auburn University
Biography
Awards
2012 Jacksonville Historic Preservation Committee Preservation Award (Archaeology) for the
University of North Florida Public Archaeology Field School.
2011 UNF Engaged Department Incentive Award
2009 Jacksonville Historic Preservation Committee Preservation Award (Archaeology) for the
Archaeological Project at the Betz-Tiger Pont Preserve
2001 University of North Florida Students’ Choice Outstanding Professor Award
2001 Archaeological Neutron Activation Analysis Support Grant from the Archaeometry Lab
at the University Research Reactor, University of Missouri, Columbia
Affiliations
Florida Archaeological Council
Florida Anthropological Society
Southeastern Archaeological Conference
Preservation Project North Florida
Advisory Board of Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN): Northeast Region
Society of Georgia Archaeology
Society for American Archaeology
Grants and Contracts Awarded
2006 Friends of Talbot Islands Research Grant - $15,000
2003 United States Department of the Interior-National Park Service STAR Award - $4000
2001-2002 Charles H. Fairbanks Scholarship Award, Department of Anthropology, University of
Florida - $2,000
2001 Florida Archaeological Council John W. Griffin Grant Award - $500
2000 Florida Archaeological Council John W. Griffin Grant Award - $500
1999 Florida Archaeological Council John W. Griffin Grant Award ($300)
Publications & Presentations
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2012e Grafting onto the Native Landscape: The Franciscan Mission System in Northeastern
Florida. In From La Florida to La California: The Genesis and Realization of Franciscan Evangelization in the Spanish Borderlands. The Academy of American Franciscan History, Berkeley, CA (In Press).
2012e Missions San Buenaventura and Santa Cruz de Guadalquini: Retreat from the Georgia
Coast. In Life Among the Tides: Recent Archaeology on the Georgia Bight, edited by Victor Thompson and David Hurst Thomas. American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers. First author with Vicki Rolland and Robert Thunen (In Press).
2012d Les Indiens Mocama : Le côté natif de la rencontre de français (The Mocama Indians:
The Native Side of the French Encounter). In Florida, un rêve français (1562-1565). Musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle Librairie des Musées. La Rochelle, France.
2012c Late Prehistoric Florida: Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World. Edited
by Keith Ashley and Nancy M. White. University Press of Florida.
2012b The Mississippi Period in Florida: An Introduction. In Late Prehistoric Florida:
Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World, edited by Keith Ashley and Nancy White. University Press of Florida. First author with Nancy Marie White.
2012a Early St. Johns II Interaction, Exchange, and Politics: A View from Northeastern Florida.
In Late Prehistoric Florida: Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World, edited by Keith Ashley and Nancy M White. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2009 Straddling the Florida-Georgia State Line: Ceramic Chronology of the St. Marys Region (A.D. 1400-1700). In From Santa Elena to St. Augustine: Indigenous Ceramic Variability (A.D. 1400-1700), ed. by Kathleen Deagan and David Hurst Thomas, pp 125-140. American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers, no. 90.
2008b Reexamining an Archaeological Survey of Big Talbot Island. (with Robert Thunen). The Florida Anthropologist.61(3-4):133-148.
2008a Refining the Ceramic Chronology of Northeastern Florida. The Florida Anthropologist 61(3-4):123-132.
PUBLISHED BOOK REVIEWS
2009 Review of Native American Landscapes of St. Catherines Island, Georgia (Volumes I-III)
by David Hurst Thomas. Journal of Anthropological Research (65):664-666.
1997 Review of The Timucua by Jerald T. Milanich. The Florida Anthropologist 50(2):
103-104.
PUBLIC LECTURES AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
2012 Before and After 1565: A Participatory Exploration of St. Augustine’s Native American
History. Trolley tours, August 31, September 7, and October 5.
2012 Presented display at Science Night for Mayport Elementary School. May 2012
2012 Native American of Northeast Florida. Lecture for gifted students at Cunningham Creek
Elementary School. May 2012.
2012 Ribaults’ Landing: Native American History Interrupted. Mayport Festival, Mayport, FL.
May 2012
2012 A guided tour and lecture of the shell middens and Indians on Hontoon Island for the
Environmental Center’s St. Johns River TLO. March 2012.
2012 From Engravings to Archaeology: Changing views of the 16th Century Mocama
Indians. Lecture presentation for The Friends of the Florida Historical Society, Discover
Florida Lecture Series, Cocoa Beach, FL.
2012 When Worlds Collide: The Mocama and French Perspectives. Lecture presentation for
the Jacksonville Historical Society, Jacksonville.
2012 From Engravings to Archaeology: Changing views of the 16th Century Mocama
Indians. Timucuan Science Symposium.
2012 Natives and Newcomers in Sixteenth Century Jacksonville as part of UNF’s Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), which is part of the Division of Continuing Education.
