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CURRICULUM VITAE

John W. Arthur

University of South Florida

140 7th Avenue S., DAV 258

St. Petersburg, FL 33701

(727) 553-4960

arthurj@stpt.usf.edu

Web Page: www.stpt.usf.edu/arthurj

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EDUCATION

 

2000                Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology, University of Florida, Dissertation Title: Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology among the Gamo of southwestern Ethiopia.

1994                Master of Arts, Anthropology, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Theses Title: Ceramic Function During The Early Pithouse Period in the Mimbres River Valley.

1987                                Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin.

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Associate Professor (current).

University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Assistant Professor (2003-2009).

University of Florida, Adjunct Professor (2000-2003).

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Ethnoarchaeology, Identity in Archaeology, Ceramic Technology, Experimental Archaeology

Social Stratification, Craft Specialization, Complex Societies

Foragers, Farmers, Development of Food Production

African Archaeology, North American Archaeology

 

SCHOLARSHIP AND GRANTS

 

2006-2008       National Endowment for the Humanities Grant ($148,960), Awarded (Co-P.I.).

2006-2007       National Science Foundation, Archaeology Program ($59,600), Awarded (P.I.).

2005-2009       National Science Foundation, Archaeology Program ($95,100), Awarded (P.I.).

2005                University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, New Investigator Research Grant ($4,500.00), Awarded (P.I.).

2004                University of South Florida, Tampa, New Investigator Research Grant ($9,907.00). Awarded (P.I.).

2003                University of South Florida International Travel Grant ($1,995.00).

1999                Charles H. Fairbanks Award, University of Florida ($800.00).

1999                McGinty Dissertation Fellowship, University of Florida ($3,150.00).

1997                National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant ($11,973.50).

1996                Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Grants-in-Aid of Research ($515.00).

1995                Center for African Studies Travel Grant, University of Florida ($2,000.00).

1994                Small Graduate Student Grant, The University of Texas at San Antonio ($500.00).

1993                                Gifford Memorial Scholarship, The University of Texas at San Antonio ($300.00).

 

AWARDS

 

2005                Teaching Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida St. Petersburg. 

 

SINGLE AUTHOR BOOK

 

2006                Living with Pottery: Ethnoarchaeology among the Gamo of Southwest Ethiopia. Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry, University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City.

 

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Ongoing          Standardization in a Stratified Society: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective from the Gamo of Southwestern Ethiopia, to be submitted to the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

Ongoing          Preliminary Questions and Methods Concerning the Development of Caste, Identity, and Settlement in the Borada Highlands of Ethiopia. (With Kathryn W. Arthur, Matthew C. Curtis, Bizayehu Lakew, Joséphine Lesur-Gebremariam, and Yohannes Ethiopia), Azania.

Submitted       Identity and Ceramics, Invited by editor of the Journal of Archaeological Research.

Submitted          Fire on the Mountain: Dignity and Prestige in the History and Archaeology of the Borada Highlands in Southern Ethiopia, (With Kathryn Weedman Arthur, Matthew C. Curtis, Bizayehu Lakew, Joséphine Lesur-Gebremariam, and Yohannes Ethiopia), The SAA Archaeological Record, 2010.

2009                Understanding Household Population Through Ceramic Assemblage Formation. Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology Among the Gamo of Southwestern Ethiopia, American Antiquity, Volume 74 (1) pp. 31-48. 

2005                Ethnoarchaeology (with Kathryn Weedman), Handbook of Archaeological Methods, edited by Herbert Machner, AltaMira Press.

2003                Brewing Beer: Status, Wealth, and Ceramic Use Alteration among the Gamo of Southwestern Ethiopia, World Archaeology, 34(3): 516-528.

2003                Ethnoarchaeology, Pottery, and Technology: Bridging Ethnographic and Archaeological Approaches. Reviews in Anthropology 32 (4).

2002                Pottery Use-Alteration as an Indicator of Socioeconomic Status: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Gamo of Ethiopia, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 9(4): 331-355.

2001                A Functional Analysis of Early Pithouse Ceramics, in Early Pithouse Villages of the Mimbres Mogollon and their Regional Context, edited by Michael Diehl and Steven A. LeBlanc, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, pp. 69-76.

 

NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
 

Submitted       Historical Archaeology in the Highlands of Southern Ethiopia: Preliminary Findings, (With Kathryn Weedman Arthur, Matthew C. Curtis, Bizayehu Lakew, Joséphine Lesur-Gebremariam, and Yohannes Ethiopia), Nyame Akuma. 

2005                Brewing in Africa, Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 2nd Edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.  

2004                Academic Archaeology is Public Archaeology, The Archaeological Record, Society for American Archaeology (with Nancy Marie White, Brent R. Weisman, Robert H. Tykot, E. Christian Wells, Karla L. Davis-Salazar, and Kathryn Weedman), Vol. 4:26-29.

1997                Producers and Consumers: The Ethno-Archaeology of Gamo Pottery Producers and Use, In Ethiopia in Broader Perspective: Papers of the 13th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Vol. II, edited by Katsuyoshi Fukui, Eisei Kurimoto, and Masayoshi Shigeta, Shokado Book Sellers, Kyoto, pp. 284-298.

 

BOOK REVIEW

 

2008                The Kiva, Volume 73(4), Review of Archaeological Anthropology: Perspectives on Method and Theory edited by James M. Skibo, Michael W. Graves, and Miriam T. Stark, University of Arizona Press, 2007.

 

CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT REPORTS

 

1991                (with David O. Brown et al.) Archaeological Survey of a Proposed Landfill, City of Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, Hicks and Company Draft Report: Austin, Texas.

1989                Macrobotanical Analysis (with Heather Trigg), in Prairie Hinterland: The Archaeology of Palo Duro Creek Phase 2: Testing, Archaeological Research Inc.            

 

PRESENTATIONS

Nov. 2009              Pottery and Caste Groups: Historical Archaeology of the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia, Presented at the American Anthropological Association, Ceramic Ecology Session XX111, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Apr. 2009        Oral Tradition in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia, with Matthew Curtis and Bizuayehu Lakew, Presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.

Apr. 2009        Symposium Co-Chair – Identity and Historical Archaeology in Africa: Essential Methodologies Combining Ethnoarchaeology, Oral Tradition, and Oral History. Symposium Presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.

Nov. 2007       The Ceramic Analysis of Two Abandoned Hideworker Households in Konso, Ethiopia. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

Apr. 2007        Historical Archaeology and Ethnograpy in southern Ethiopia, with Kathryn J. Weedman and Matthew Curtis, Presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.

Nov. 2006       Standardization in a Stratified Society: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective from the Gamo of Southwestern Ethiopia, Presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Jose, California.

April 2006       Standardization at the Individual, Village, and Regional Scales: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Gamo of Southwestern Ethiopia, Presented at the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

April 2005       Symposium Chair –  Casting Roles: Are Caste Groups Visible in the Archaeological Record, Symposium Presented at the Society for American Archaeology , Salt Lake City, Utah

April 2005       An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Use of Space in Material Culture of Caste Groups in Southwestern Ethiopia (with Kathryn J. Weedman), Paper Presented at the Society for American Archaeology , Salt Lake City, Utah.

April 2005       Understanding Household Population through Ceramic Assemblage Formation: Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology among the Gamo of Southwestern Ethiopia, Paper Presented at the Society for American Archaeology , Salt Lake City, Utah.

June 2004        Castes in Africa? An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Gamo People in Southwestern Ethiopia (with Kathryn J. Weedman), Paper Presented at the Society for Africanists Archaeologists, Bergen, Norway.

April 2004       Pottery Style in a Caste Society: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Gamo of Southwestern Ethiopia, Poster Presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

April 2003       African Brews: Identifying the Social and Economic Context of Beer Production and Consumption in Southwestern Ethiopia, Paper Presented at the Opening Session of the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

April 2003       The Analysis of Two Abandoned Hide-Worker Households in Konso, Ethiopia, (with Hariett Clift, Rebecca Klein, and Minassie Girma), Paper Presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

March 2002     The Social and Economic Conditions of Ceramic Production: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.

Nov. 2001       Castes in Africa? A Study of the Gamo People in southwestern Ethiopia, Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

April 2001       Reading Pots: An Ethnoarchaeological Use-Alteration Analysis of Pottery, Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.

March 1999     To Have and To Have-Not: The Ethnoarchaeology of Gamo Wealth and Ceramic Use, Paper Presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, Illinois.

May 1998        Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology  among the Gamo Peoples: Pottery Production and Consumer Use, Paper presented at the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Syracuse, New York.

Dec. 1997        Producers and Consumers: The Ethno-Archaeology of Gamo Pottery Production

                        and Use, XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Kyoto, Japan.

April 1996       Woman the Toolmaker: The Ethnoarchaeology of Konso Hide Working and Flaked Stone Tool Use, Paper presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Nov. 1995       Craft Specialization Among Contemporary Potters of Southern Ethiopia: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective, Paper presented at the African Studies Association, Orlando, Florida.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Fall 2009         Associate Professor for Introduction to Anthropology and Method and Theory of Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Summer 2009  Assistant Professor for Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Spring 2009     Assistant Professor for Introduction to Anthropology and North American Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Fall 2008         Assistant Professor for Introduction to Anthropology and North American Indians, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Spring 2008     Assistant Professor for Introduction to Anthropology and North American Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Fall 2007         Assistant Professor for Introduction to Anthropology and Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Spring 2007     Assistant Professor for Archaeology, Peoples of Africa, and Archaeological Method and Theory, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Fall 2006         Assistant Professor for Introduction to Anthropology and North American Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Spring 2006     Assistant Professor for Introduction to Anthropology and Indians of North America, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Fall 2005         Assistant Professor for Introduction to Anthropology and Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Spring 2005     Assistant Professor for Introduction to Anthropology, North American Archaeology, Peoples of Africa, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Fall 2004         Assistant Professor for Archaeology and Introduction to Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Spring 2004     Assistant Professor for Introduction to Anthropology, Archaeology of Africa, North American Indians, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

Fall 2003         Assistant Professor for Archaeology and Introduction to Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Program.

 

University of Florida

Spring 2003     Adjunct Professor for Development of World Civilization and Archaeology of the Americans, Anthropology Department and Honors Program.

Fall 2002         Adjunct Professor r for Development of World Civilization and People of the Pueblos, Anthropology Department and Honors Program.

Spring 2002     Adjunct Professor for Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology of the Americas, Anthropology Department and Honors Program.

Fall 2001         Adjunct Professor for People of the Pueblos, Honors Program.

Spring 2001     Adjunct Professor for People of the Pueblos, Honors Program.

Fall 2000         Adjunct Professor for Development of World Civilization, Department of Anthropology, and Honors Program.

Summer 2000  Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology.

Spring 2000     Teaching Assistant for Ceramic Analysis, Department of Anthropology, Dr. Kenneth E. Sassaman.

Fall 1999         Teaching Assistant for Human Sexuality and Culture, Department of Anthropology, Dr. Brian duToit.

Spring 1999     Teaching Assistant for Human Sexuality and Culture, Department of Anthropology, Dr. Elizabeth Guillette.

Fall 1998         Teaching Assistant for Human Sexuality and Culture, Department of Anthropology, Dr. Brian duToit.

                       

University of Texas at San Antonio

Summer 1993  Teaching Assistant for the Summer Archaeological Field School, Department of Anthropology, Dr. Robert J. Hard. 

 

ACADEMIC FIELD RESEARCH

 

2008                Co-Principle Investigator, Gamo Ethnoarchaeological Project, southern Ethiopia.

2007                Co-Principle Investigator, Gamo Ethnoarchaeological Project, southern Ethiopia.

2006                Principal Investigator, Gamo Ethnoarchaeological Project, southern Ethiopia

2005                Principal Investigator, Gamo Ethnoarchaeological Project, southern Ethiopia.

2002                                Archaeological Field Director, Konso Ethnoarchaeological Project, southern Ethiopia.

1996-1998       Ceramic Ethnoarchaeological Dissertation Research among the Gamo of southwestern Ethiopia.

1995                Researcher, Southern Ethiopian Ethnoarchaeological Project, Steven A. Brandt supervisor.

1986                Field Crew Member, WS Ranch Site, Alma, New Mexico, O-Block Cave Site, Reserve, New Mexico, San Francisco River Survey to Alma, New Mexico, The University of Texas at Austin Field School, James Neely supervisor.

 

MUSEUM AND LABORATORY EXPERIENCE

 

2002                Laboratory Research, Konso Ethnoarchaeological Project, National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa (December).

2002                Ceramic Analysis, Konso Ethnoarchaeological Project, National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.

2001                Ceramic Analysis, Konso Ethnoarchaeological Project, National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa (December).

2001                                Curatorial Assistant, The Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville,

Historical Archaeology Collection.

1994-96           Curatorial Assistant, The Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, Invertebrate Paleontology Collection.

1991Lithic Analyst, Site 41BT215, Lower Colorado River Authority.

1990-1991       Laboratory Staff, Austin Convention Center analysis, Austin, Texas, Hicks and Company.

1989                Artifact Analysis, WS Ranch Site, Alma, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1989                Laboratory Staff, Devils Park and Apache Creek Ruins, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1988                Laboratory Staff, Eva Faust Site, Alma, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1987                Laboratory Staff, O-Block Cave Site and WS Ranch Site, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

 

CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

 

1992                Field Director, Bason Land Exchange Project, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc, John A. Peterson and Chris Nightengale supervisors.

1992                Staff Archaeologist, Hicks and Company, Austin, Texas, David O. Brown supervisor.

1991                Crew Chief, Lily Timber Sale Project, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, New World Inc.

1991                Staff Archaeologist, Hicks and Company, Austin, Texas.

1991                Staff Archaeologist, Lubbock Landfill Project, Lubbock, Texas, Hicks and Company.

1990                Crew Chief, Pumper Timber Sale, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1990                Crew Chief, Burnt Cabin Timber Sale, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, New World Inc.

1990                Crew Chief, Rincon Timber Sale, Cibola National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1990                Field Crew Member, Heber Habitat-90, Apache Sitgraves National Forest, Arizona, Archaeological Research Inc.

1990                Field Crew Member, Lost Lake Timber Sale, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1990                Field Crew Member, Elk Ridge Site, Mimbres, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1990                Field Crew Member, Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, Hicks and Company.

1990                Phase 2 of the Mopac Water Transmission Main, Travis County, Texas, Hicks and Company.

1989                Field Crew Member, Palo Duro Reservoir Testing Phase, Hansford County Texas, Archaeological Research Inc.

1989                Field Crew Member, Beaver Timber Sale, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1989                Field Crew Member, Devils Park Site, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1989                Field Crew Member, University Timber Sale, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1989                Field Crew Member, Basgal Timber Sale, Cibola National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1989                Crew Chief, Willow Creek Timber Sale, Cibola National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1989                Crew Chief, Canocito Timber Sale, Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1989                Field Crew Member, Socorro Telephone Survey, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1989                Field Crew Member, Beard Poison Timber Sale, Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1989                Field Crew Member, Apache Creek Ruin Testing, Apache Creek, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1988                Field Crew Member, Rockett Reservoir Survey, Rockett Water Supply Corp., Rockett, Texas, Archaeological Research Inc.

1988                Field Crew Member, Cap-Mamie Timber Sale, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1988                Field Crew Member, Scott-Able Timber Sale, Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, Archaeological Research Inc.

1987                Field Crew Member, Palo Duro Reservoir Testing, Hansford County, Texas, Archaeological Research Inc.

 

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES

 

2009 to Present      University of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee

2007 to 2009          University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Council.

2005 to 2008         University of South Florida Tampa Faculty Research Council.

2005 to 2007         University of South Florida St. Petersburg Faculty Research Council.

2005 to 2006         University of South Florida St. Petersburg Research and Graduate Studies Subcommittee.

 

EXTERNAL COMMITTEES

 

2009 to Present      Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.

2009 to Present      Member of the Editorial Board for the African Studies Quarterly.

2008 to Present      Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies.

2008 to Present      Member of the Advisory Board for the Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education (AWIARE).

2004 to Present      Society of Africanist Archaeologists Representative to the Society for American Archaeology and African Studies Association.

2006 to 2008         Vice President – Central Gulf Coast Archaeology Society.

2004 to 2005         Board Member – Central Gulf Coast Archaeology Society.

2004 to 2006         Board Member – Society of Africanist Archaeologists.

 

 

Peer review of articles, books, and grants for American Antiquity, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies, Journal of Archaeological Science, Azania, University of Arizona Press, National Science Foundation – Archaeology Division, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.