Christopher Rodning
Professor - Anthropology
School of Liberal Arts
http://www.tulane.edu/~crodning/
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Region
- North America
Courses
Conquest and Colonialism; Archaeology of Gender; Archaeology of Cultural Landscapes; Disasters and Past Societies
Research
Archaeology; Southeastern United States; Native Americans; colonialism, landscape, architecture, monumentality, ritual
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Anthropology, 2004
- A.B., Harvard University, Anthropology, 1994
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Professor, Tulane University, 2017-
- Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2012-2017
- Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2005-
- Visiting Scholar, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2005
- Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma, 2005
Distinctions
- Field Discovery Award to Robin A. Beck, David G. Moore, Christopher B. Rodning, and Rachel V. Briggs, Fourth Shanghai Archaeology Forum, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai University, China, 2019
- Honors Professor of the Year, Honors Program, Newcomb-Tulane College, Tulane University, 2018
- April Brayfield Teaching Award, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2018
- Paul and Debra Gibbons Professorship, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2016- 2018
- Patty Jo Watson Prize for Outstanding Paper in the Archaeology of the Southeastern United States, 2016
- Research Competitiveness Subprogram Grant, “Lower Mississippi Valley Landscape Archaeology Project,” 2012-2015
Languages
- Spanish
Selected Publications
- 2020. “Material Culture in Northern La Florida: Impoverishment, Improvisation, Innovation, and Interaction” With David G. Moore and Robin A. Beck. In Modeling Entradas: Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America, edited by Clay Mathers, pp. 146–161.
- 2020. “Placemaking, Pluralism, & Cultural Persistence in the Aftermath of Spanish Contact in the Native American South.” With M. Pigott and H.G. Hoover. In The Global Spanish Empire... edited by Christine D. Beaule and John G. Douglass, pp. 83–104.
- 2018. “Chaos Theory and the Contact Period in the American South.” In Investigating the Ordinary: Everyday Matters in Southeast Archaeology, edited by Sarah E. Price and Philip J. Carr, pp. 24–38. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
- 2017. “Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan..."With David G. Moore and Robin A. Beck. In Forging Southeastern Identities...edited by Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith, pp. 99–116. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- 2017. “Spaces of Entanglement: Labor and Construction Practice at Fort San Juan de Joara.” With Robin A. Beck, Lee A. Newsom, and David G. Moore. Historical Archaeology 51(2):167-193.
- 2016. “The Politics of Provisioning: Food and Gender at Fort San Juan de Joara, 1566-1568.” With Robin A. Beck, Gayle J. Fritz, Heather A. Lapham, and David G. Moore. American Antiquity 81(1):3-26.
- 2016. Fort San Juan and the Limits of Empire: Colonialism and Household Practice at the Berry Site. Coeditor with Robin A. Beck and David G. Moore. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
- 2015. Center Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- 2013. “Conflict, Violence, and Warfare in La Florida.” With Robin A. Beck, Jr. and David G. Moore. In Initiating New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast, edited by Clay Mathers, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, and Charles M. Hae
