Robert W. Preucel

Department Chair, Anthropology

rpreucel@sas.upenn.edu

Phone:

(215) 898 9017

Education:

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 1988

Office Address:

Room 437

Research Interests:

Archaeological method and theory; post-processual archaeology, meaning and practice, semiotics, materiality, landscape, gender, ethnogenesis, NAGPRA, native North America, American Southwest, Pueblo cultures.

Appointments:

Anthropology Department Faculty; Gregory Annenberg Curator, North America, American Section, University Museum; Director, Penn Center for Native American Studies; American Civilization Graduate Group; Resource Faculty, Latin American Cultures Program; Adjunct Faculty, Graduate School of Education.

Publications:

Books:

Preucel, Robert W. 2006. Archaeological Semiotics. Blackwell Press, Oxford.

Williams, Lucy Fowler, William Wierzbowski, and Robert W. Preucel (editors) 2005. Native American Voices on Identity, Art, and Culture: Objects of Everlasting Esteem. University Museum Press, Philadelphia.

Meskell, Lynn and Robert W. Preucel (editors) 2004. A Companion to Social Archaeology. Blackwell Press, Oxford.

Preucel, Robert W. (editor) 2002. Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning and Renewal in the Pueblo World. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Preucel Robert W. and Ian Hodder (editors) 1996. Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader. Blackwell Press, Oxford.

Preucel, Robert W. (editor) 1991. Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Occasional Paper 10. Carbondale.

Articles and Book Chapters:

Preucel, Robert W. and Steven R. Pendery 2006. Envisioning utopia: Transcendentalist and Fourierist landscapes at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Historical Archaeology 40:25-38.

Preucel, Robert W. 2005. Ethnicity and Southwestern archaeology. In Southwestern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, edited by Linda Cordell and Don Fowler, pp. 174-193. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Preucel, Robert W. and Lucy F. Williams 2005 . The Centennial Potlatch. Expedition 47(2):9-19.

Liebmann, Matthew, T. J. Ferguson, and Robert W. Preucel 2005. Pueblo settlement, architecture, and social change in the Pueblo Revolt Era, A.D. 1680-1696. Journal of Field Archaeology 30:1-16.

Ferguson, T. J. and Robert W. Preucel 2005. Signs of the ancestors: an archaeology of the mesa villages of the Pueblo Revolt. In Structure and Meaning in Human Settlement, edited by Joseph Rykwert and Tony Atkin, pp. 185-207. University Museum Press, Philadelphia.

Preucel, Robert W., Lucy F. Williams, Stacey O. Espenlaub, and Janet Monge 2003. Out of heaviness, enlightenment: NAGPRA and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Expedition 45(3): 21-27.

Preucel, Robert W., Loa P. Traxler and Michael V. Wilcox 2002. Now the God of the Spaniards is Dead:” Ethnogenesis and community formation in the aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, in Traditions, Transitions and Technologies: Themes in Southwestern Archaeology, edited by Sarah H. Schlanger, pp. 71-93. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

Preucel, Robert W. and Alexander Bauer 2001. Archaeological pragmatics. Norwegian Archaeological Review 34:85-96.

Preucel, Robert W. 2000. Living on the mesa: Hanat Kotyiti, a Post-revolt Cochiti community in the northern Rio Grande. Expedition 42:8-17.

Courses:

Anthro 188- Who Owns the Past? Archaeology, Museums, and Native Americans

Anthro 211- North American Archaeology

Anthro 222- Native American Art and Archaeology

Anthro 413- Southwestern Archaeology

Anthro 600- Fundamentals of Archaeology