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Mark W. Hauser
B.A. Dickinson College
M.A. Ph.D. Syracuse University
I am joining Africana Studies after spending one year as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Notre Dame. I am an archaeologist and historical anthropologist interested in colonial interactions and informal institutions in the Caribbean basin. I began my career as an archaeologist in the Caribbean in 1992 when I participated in my first field school in Barbados. Since then I have conducted research in St John, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, and Jamaica.
In my research I focus on the archaeology of the African Diaspora in the Atlantic World with specific attention to the ways in which enslaved laborers in the Caribbean created and transformed the world around them. I completed my dissertation at Syracuse University based on field research I conducted on local pottery and local economies in eighteenth century Jamaica. Since completing my dissertation I have conducted research examining the impact of the 1733 slave rebellion in St John, and have begun to look at contraband and cabotage trade in the eastern Caribbean. I have written on issues of identity, the political economy of the African Diaspora, colonial landscapes, and ceramic analysis.