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Kurt Jordan

Associate Professor,
Anthropology and
American Indian Studies

kj21@cornell.edu
607.255.3109
210 Mc Graw Hall
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Article on 2007 Field School
American Indians in NYS
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Education
  • Columbia University, Anthropology (Archaeology), Ph.D., 2002
  • Columbia University, Anthropology (Archaeology), M.A., 1994
  • Cornell University, B.A., Anthropology and Government, 1988
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University -- 9 years
  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges -- 1 year
  • Columbia University -- 0.5 years
  • SUNY-Cortland -- 0.5 years
 
Research Interests
Iroquois Archaeology and History; Historical Archaeology of Indigenous Peoples; Political Economy; Political Economy; Colonialism, Cultural Entanglement, and Indigenous Autonomy; Relations between Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities; Shell Bead Wampum; Red Pipestone and Red Slate
 
Research Experience
  • Director, White Springs Project, 2007-present
  • Director/Co-Director, Townley-Read/New Ganechstage Project, 1996-present
 
Selected Publications: Books
  • 2008: The Seneca Restoration, 1715-1754: An Iroquois Local Political Economy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida and the Society for Historical Archaeology.
 
Selected Publications: Articles
  • In press: Pruning Colonialism: Vantage Point, Local Political Economy, and Cultural Entanglement in the Archaeology of post-1415 Indigenous Peoples. In Neal Ferris, Rodney Harrison, and Michael Wilcox, editors: The archaeology of the Colonized and its Contribution to Global Archaeological Theory,. under contract with Oxford university Press; publication expected 2012.

  • 2011: Secularism as Ideology: Exploring Assumptions of Cultural Equivalence in Museum Repatriation. Christopher N. Matthews and Kurt A. Jordan . In Reinhard Bernbeck and RandallH. CmGuire, editors: Ideologies in Archaeology. Tucson: univeristy of Arizona Press, pages 212-232.

  • 2010: Not Just 'One Site Against the World': Seneca Iroquois Intercommunity Connecitons and Autonomy, 1550-1779. In Laura L. Scheiber and Mark D. Mitchell, editors: Across a Great Divide: Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies, 1400-1900. Amerind Studies in Archaeology vol. 4. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, pages 79-106.
  • 2009: Colonies, Colonialism and Cultural Entanglement: The Archaeology of Postcolumbian Intercultural Relations. In Teresita Majewski and David Gaimster, editors: International Handbook of Historical Archaeology. New York: Springer, pages 31-49.
  • 2009: Regional Diversity and Colonialism in Eighteenth Century Iroquoia. In Timothy D. Knapp and Laurie E. Miroff, editors: Iroquoian Archaeology and Analytic Scale. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, pages 215-230.
  • 2004: Seneca Settlement Pattern, Community Structure, and Housing, 1677-1779. Northeast Anthropology 67:23-60.
  • 2003: An Eighteenth Century Seneca Iroquois Short Longhouse from the Townley-Read Site, c. A.D. 1715-1754. The Bulletin: Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association 119: 49-63.