Department of Anthropology

Faculty

LouAnn Wurst
PhD, SUNY Binghamton
Associate Professor and Co-Chair
Department of Anthropology

Courses Taught
Areas of Specialization
Current Research Projects
Selected Publications

Office:	C13, Cooper Hall
Office Phone:	(585) 395-5706
E-mail:	lwurst@brockport.edu

Courses Taught

ANT 110 Introduction to Archaeology
ANT 307 Gendering the Past
ANT 370 Anthropological Theory
ANT 440 Historical Archaeology
ANT 441 Archaeological Analysis
ANT 442 Field Methods in Archaeology
ANT 445 Teaching Archaeology in Elementary Schools
ANT 447 North American Archaeology

Areas of Specialization

North American Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Method and Theory in Archaeology, Marxist Theory, Feminist Theory, Gender and Anthropology, Critical Pedagogy, Material Culture Studies, Cultural Resource Management, American Industrial Development, Class and Ideology, Rural American Society

Current Research Projects

"The Finger Lakes National Forest Farmstead Archaeology Project" is a study of the discrepancies between common agrarian myths and the material realities of 19th and early 20th century families who lived on upland farms purchased by the Federal Government as part of the Resettlement Administration's submarginal Farms Program.

Selected Publications

2006

Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict. In Historical Archaeology, edited by Martin Hall and Stephen Silliman, Blackwell, 190-206.

2005

with Randall H. McGuire and Maria O’Donovan

Probing Praxis: The Last Eighty Years. Rethinking Marxism 17(3):355-372.

2003

The Legacy of Separate Spheres: A Commentary. In Shared Spaces and Divided Places: Exploring the Material and Spatial Dimensions of Gender Relations on the American Historical Landscape, edited by Deborah L. Rotman and Ellen-Rose Savulis. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

2002

with Randall H. McGuire
Struggling With the Past. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 6(2):85-94.