Christopher N. Matthews
Professor
Anthropology
Montclair State University
United States of America
Biography
Christopher N. Matthews, professor, received a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. His research interests include the archaeology of capitalism and race in the United States and the practice of community-based research. His focus is the archaeology of slavery and freedom, and he has directed field projects in this area in Maryland, Louisiana, New York, and New Jersey. He teaches courses such as: the Anthropology of Race, Archaeology in Montclair, Native North Americans, and Introduction to Archaeology. He is the author of An Archaeology of History and Tradition and The Archaeology of American Capitalism and co-editor of Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practice and The Archaeology of Race in the Northeast. He is also the editor of the Society for Historical Archaeology's journal, Historical Archaeology.
Research Interest
American Historical Archaeology
Publications
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Phillippi BD. From Coercion to Compensation: Labor Systems and Spatial Practice on a Plural Farmstead, Long Island (Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University).
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Matthews CN. Unconventional Archaeologies in Setauket, New York. Anthropology Now. 2013 Sep 1;5(2):26-34.
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Matthews CN. To Excavate an Ethics from Archaeology. Anthropology Now. 2014 Dec 1;6(3):118-25.
