Cornell University
Intercollege Program
 

ARCHAEOLOGY  CORE  FACULTY
     
 
Frederic W. Gleach
Senior Lecturer,
Curator of the Anthropology Collections,
Anthropology

fwg1@cornell.edu
607.254.8688
163 Mc Graw Hall
Education
  • University of Chicago (Anthropology), AM (1987), PhD (1992)
  • Virginia Commonwealth University (Anthropology), BS (1984)
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1978-79)
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University (1993-1994, 1995-2003, 2005 to present)
  • Transylvania University (1994-1995)
  • DePaul University (Fall 1992)
 
Research Interests
Anthropology and archaeology of North America and the Caribbean, with particular focuses on Virginia Indians and colonial and post-colonial history, the Pacific Northwest, Puerto Rico and Cuba, and Yucatan; museums, visual and material culture; processes of representation and identity; warfare and exchange; histories of anthropology and archaeology.
 
Research Experience
  • Archaeological fieldwork in Virginia (numerous prehistoric and colonial sites, as excavator to assistant site director, 1982-86, 1988); in southern Illinois (Archaic mortuary site, fieldschool site director, 1987); in northern Spain (Cueva Morín, fieldschool site director, 1989)
  • Extensive archival research in the US and England
 
Selected Publications
Books
2005 (edited, with Regna Darnell)  Histories of Anthropology Annual.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2002 (edited, with Regna Darnell)  Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association: Presidential Portraits.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and the American Anthropological Association.
2002 (edited, with Lisa J. Lefler)  Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identities.  Proceedings of the Southern Anthropological Society 35.  Athens: University of Georgia Press
1997 Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Articles
2007 Cushing at Cornell: The Early Years of a Pioneering Anthropologist.  In Histories of Anthropology Annual, volume 3.  Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, eds.  Pp. 99-120.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2006 IPocahontas: An Exercise in Myth-making and Marketing.  In New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations.  Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, eds.  Pp. 433-455.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2003 Controlled Speculation and Constructed Myths: The Saga of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith.  In Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History, second edition.  Jennifer S. H. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert, eds.  Pp. 39-74.  Peterborough: Broadview Press.
2003 Pocahontas at the Fair: Crafting Identities at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition.  Ethnohistory 50(3): 419-445.
2002 Images of Empire: Popular Representations of the 1898 War.  Latino(a) Research Review 5(1): 51-79.
1995 Mimesis, Play, and Transformation in Powhatan Ritual.  In Papers of the Twenty-sixth Algonquian Conference.  David Pentland, ed.  Pp. 114-23.  Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.
1993 The Powhatan Indians and an Algonquian Aesthetic of War: A Work in Progress.  In Papers of the Twenty-fourth Algonquian Conference.  William Cowan, ed.  Pp. 199-211.  Ottawa: Carleton University.
1988 A Rose by Any Other Name: Questions of Mockley Chronology.  Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 4: 85-98.
1987 A Working Projectile Point Classification for Central Virginia.  Archaeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 42(2): 80-120.
1985 The Prehistoric Indians of the Capital Region.  In Parks, Preserves, and Rivers: A Guide to Outdoor Adventures in Virginia's Capital Region.  Louise F. Burke and Keith F. Ready, eds.  Pp. 52-60.  Richmond: The Metropolitan Foundation.