François G. Richard

(PhD, Syracuse University, 2007) Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College, specializes in the study of the African historical experience, with emphasis on West Africa/Senegal and with secondary interests in plantation and slave settlements in the Caribbean. The range of his interests include the anthropology and archaeology of landscapes, complexity and political economy, historical anthropology, memory, Marxist and social theory, material culture analysis, survey methodology, and the politics of archaeology and archaeological activism/education.

E-mail: fgrichard@uchicago.edu

Publications:

2007 From Cosaan to Colony: Exploring Archaeological Landscape Formations and Socio-Political Complexity in the Siin (Senegal), A.D. 500-1900. PhD Dissertation, Syracuse University.

2003 (w/ C. DeCorse & I. Thiaw) Toward a Systematic Bead Description System: A View from the Lower Falemme, Senegal. Journal of African Archaeology, 1(1):77-110.

n.d. Atlantic Transformations and Cultural Landscapes in the Senegambia: An Alternative View From the Siin. In J.C. Monroe & A. Ogundiran, eds., State and Society in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeologies of Landscape and Region (forthcoming).

n.d. "This is real history right here, from the soil, from the roots up!": History, Archaeology and the Politics of the Past in Senegal. (Submitted to the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.)

n.d. Historical and Dialectical Perspectives on the Archaeology of Complexity in the Siin-Saalum (Senegal): Back to the Future? (Submitted to the Journal of World Prehistory.)

n.d. Ambiguous States and Inalienable Landscapes? Anatomies of Power in Siin (Senegal) during the Atlantic Era. (In preparation for submission to American Anthropologist.)

n.d. Chronicles of an Entangled Landscape: Towards a Dialectical Re-Reading of Atlantic Encounters in Siin (Senegal) and Beyond. (In preparation for submission to Historical Archaeology.)

n.d. What's in a Name? Provisional Notes on the making of Serer Ethnicity (15th-20th Century). (In preparation for submission to History in Africa.)