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J. Cameron Monroe Home  Directory J. Cameron Monroe
| Education History | |
B.A., UC Berkeley
M.A., Ph.D., UCLA |
| Courses Taught | |
ANTH 194Y - Arch of Space & Landscape
ANTH 270 - Hist of Archaeological Theory
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| Research Focus | |
Teaching Specialties: Historical archaeology, African and African-Diaspora archaeology, the evolution of complex societies, and the analysis and interpretation of buildings and landscapes
Area of Research: Historical archaeology, complex societies, political economy, landscape, Africa and the African-Diaspora.
Area of Fieldwork: West Africa |
| Long Description | |
Professor Cameron Monroe’s research broadly examines political, economic, and cultural transformation in West Africa and the Diaspora in the era of the slave trade. He has conducted research on the nature of African-American ethnic identity and household-level production in early colonial Virginia. His current research project, the Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project, is located in the Republic of Bénin in West Africa. This project explores the dynamics of political transformation in West Africa in the era of the slave trade. Integrating documentary, oral, and archaeological data, this research focuses on the political economy of landscape and the built environment and the nature of urban transformation in contact period West Africa.
He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2003. His dissertation, which outlines his initial research in Bénin, was awarded the Society for Historical Archaeology Dissertation Prize for 2005.
Professor Monroe offers courses in historical archaeology (Anth 183/283), African and African-Diaspora archaeology (Anth 175B/275B, 175C/275C, the evolution of complex societies (Anth 174/274), and in the analysis and interpretation of buildings and landscapes (Anth 194Y/294Y). |
| Selected Publications | |
Forthcoming - Building Dahomey: Landscape, Architecture, and Political Order in Atlantic West Africa. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
In Press - “Dahomey and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeology and Political Order on the Bight of Benin.” Invited chapter in The Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and The African Diaspora, edited by Toyin Falola and Akin Ogundiran, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
2005 - “American archaeology in the Republic of Bénin: recent achievements and future prospects.” Antiquity 79: 305, http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/monroe.
2004 - “The Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project: Preliminary Results of the 2000, 2001, and 2002 Seasons.” Nyame Akuma 62, 2-10.
2004 - A 17th-Century Chesapeake Cottage Industry: New Evidence and a Dating Formula For Colono Tobacco Pipes.” Historical Archaeology 38 (2): 68-82. With Seth Mallios.
2004 - “A Dating Formula for Colono Tobacco Pipes in the Chesapeake.” The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center 2, http://www.apva.org/resource/. With Seth Mallios and Quinn Emmett.
2002 - Negotiating African-American Ethnicity in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake: Colono Tobacco Pipes and the Ethnic Uses of Style. British Archaeology Reports: Archaeology of the Tobacco Pipe Volume XVI . |
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