Kathleen D. Morrison

(PhD, UC Berkeley 1992) Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College and Director of the Center for International Studies, studies the archaeology and historical anthropology of South Asia with a focus on precolonial and early colonial South India. Her interests include state formation and power relations, agricultural organization and change, colonialism and imperialism, landscape history, anthropology of food and stable isotope analysis, urban-rural relations, botanical analysis, Holocene hunting and gathering, and the integration of archaeological, historical, and ecological analysis.
E-mail: k-morrison@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Publications:

2008 Daroji Valley: Landscape History, Place, and the Making of a Dryland Reservoir System, Manohar Press, Vijayanagara Research Project Monograph Series 18. Delhi.

2007 (w/C.M. Sinopoli) The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey: Volume 1, Anthropological Papers of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

2007 Making Places and Making States: Agriculture, Metallurgy, and the Wealth of Nature in South India, in The Wealth of Nature: How Natural Resources Have Shaped Asian History, 1600-2000, ed. P. Boomgaard and G. Bankoff, Palgrave MacMillan. pp.81-99. PDF

2007 Foragers and Forager-Traders in South Asian Worlds: Some Thoughts from the Last 10,000 Years, in Rethinking South Asia: Cultural, Linguistic, and Biological Diversity, ed. M. Petraglia and B. Allchin, pp.319-336.

2006 Failure and How to Avoid It, Nature, 440(6 April):752-4. PDF

2006 Rethinking Intensification: Power Relations and Scales of Analysis in Precolonial South India, in T.L.Thurston and C.T. Fisher, eds. Seeking a Richer Harvest: the Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change, Springer Scientific Publishing, New York, pp.235-48. PDF

2006 Intensification as Situated Process: Landscape History and the Causes and Consequences of Change, in Agricultural Strategies, ed. J. Marcus and C. Stanish, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, pp.71-91.

2006 Historicizing Foraging in Asia: Power, History, and Ecology of Holocene Hunting and Gathering, in An Archaeology of Asia, edited by M. Stark, Basil Blackwell, New York, pp.279-302.

2005 Environmental History, the Spice Trade, and the State in South India, in Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, And Identities in South Asia, G. Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan, eds, University of Washington Press, Seattle and Permanent Black, Delhi, pp.43-65.

2002 Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories edited by Morrison, K.D. and LL. Junker, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

2001 Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History, edited by S.E. Alcock, T.N. D'Altroy, K.D. Morrison, and C.M. Sinopoli, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

1995 Fields of Victory: Vijayanagara and the Course of Intensification, Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, No.53, Berkeley. (Reprinted 2000, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi)