PUBLICATIONS

Juried Research Publications--Books

2020 Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer: Nathan “Nate” Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend. New York: Berghahn Books.

2006 The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.

Juried Research Publications--Journal Articles

Published or Accepted Articles

2020 Why Nathan Harrison Was and Is Important. The Journal of San Diego History. Volume 66, Number 1, pp. 1-12.

2020 How Wild Was Nathan Harrison’s Old West?: Murders and Mayhem in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century San Diego. The Journal of San Diego History. Volume 66, Number 1, pp. 13-26 (with Jaime Lennox).

2020 Historical Photography and its Impacts on the Life and Legends of Nathan Harrison. The Journal of San Diego History. Volume 66, Number 1, pp. 27-40 (with Ryan Anderson).

2020 An Archaeology of Space and Everyday Life at Palomar Mountain’s Nathan Harrison Site. The Journal of San Diego History. Volume 66, Number 1, pp. 41-60 (with James Turner, Shannon Farnsworth, and Jamie Bastide).

2016 An Archaeology of San Diego Art, Identity, and Community: Confluent Uses of Historic Preservation in Research, Teaching, and Local Engagement. Heritage 2016 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Edited by Rogério Amoêda, Sérgio Lira, and Cristina Pinheiro.

2015 On the Cusp of an American Civil Rights Revolution: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Final Visit and Address to San Diego in 1964. The Journal of San Diego History. Volume 61, Number 2, pp. 375-410.

2014 Spatial Seriation, Vectors of Change, and Multi-Centered Modeling for Cultural Transformations among San Diego’s Historical Gravestones: 50 Years after Deetz and Dethlefsen’s Archaeological Doppler Effect. Journal of Anthropological Research. Volume 70, Number 1, pp. 69-106.

2014 Nate Harrison as Person, Myth, and Legend: Archaeological History and the Apotheosis of a 19th-Century African-American in San Diego County. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage. Volume 3, Number 1 , pp. 51-80 (with Jaime Lennox).

2013 On the Fiftieth Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s Visit to San Diego State. The Journal of San Diego History. Volume 59, Numbers 1 & 2, pp. 41-64.

2011 Mortality, Money, and Commemoration: Social and Economic Factors in Southern California Grave-Marker Change during the 19th and 20th Centuries. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. (Accepted September 2009) (with David Caterino).

2009 Scientific Excavations at Palomar Mountain’s Nate Harrison Site: The Historical Archaeology of a Legendary African-American Pioneer. The Journal of San Diego History. Volume 55, Number 3, pp. 141-160.

2008 Archaeology’s Diachronic Dimension, Historical Anthropology, and the Hawaiian-Shirt Renaissance: An Interview with Kent Lightfoot, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, on Friday, November 19, 2004, at Lightfoot’s Home in El Cerrito, California, and a Follow-up Telephone Interview on February 10, 2005. The San Diego State University Occasional Archaeological Papers. Volume 2, Number 1, pp. 31-44.

2007 Transformations in San Diego County Gravestones and Cemeteries. Historical Archaeology. Volume 41, Number 4, pp. 50-71 (with David Caterino).

2007 The Apotheosis of Ajacan's Jesuit Missionaries. Ethnohistory. Volume 54, Number 2, pp. 223-244.

2006 Uncovering Local Art and Industry: The Discovery of Hidden WPA Murals at San Diego State University. The San Diego State University Occasional Archaeological Papers. Volume 1, Number 1 (with Nicole Purvis).

2006 Lucas Jackson and Post-Modernism: Are Current Scholars Playing a "Cool Hand"? International Journal of the Humanities. Volume 3, Number 1.

2005 Homo Regalos: A Call for Applied Gift Exchange in a Time of Global Commodification, Symbolic Violence, and Bloodshed. International Journal of the Humanities. Volume 1, Number 1.

2005 Back to the Bowl: Using English Tobacco Pipe Bowls to Calculate Mean Site Occupation Dates. Historical Archaeology. Volume 39, Number 2

2005 Homo Regalos: A Call for Applied Gift Exchange in a Time of Global Commodification, Symbolic Violence, and Bloodshed. International Journal of the Humanities. Volume 1, Number 1.

2004 A 17th-Century Chesapeake Cottage Industry. Historical Archaeology. Volume 38, Number 2 (with J. Cameron Monroe).

2004 Introduction. The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center . Volume 2.

2004 Demand, Supply, and Elasticity in the Copper Trade at Early Jamestown . (Accepted September 2003) The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center . Volume 2 (with Shane Emmett).

2004 A Dating Formula for Colono Tobacco Pipes in the Chesapeake. (Accepted September 2003) The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center . Volume 2 (with J. Cameron Monroe and Quinn Emmett).

2001 Foreword. The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center. Volume 1.

Juried Research Publications--Edited Volumes

Published or Accepted Volumes

[2023] Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology: Essays and Other “Great Stuff” in Honor of Kent G. Lightfoot. New York: Berghahn Books (with Sara Gonzalez, Michael Grone, Kathleen Hull, Peter Nelson, and Stephen Silliman).

2008 The San Diego State University Occasional Archaeological Papers. Volume 2, Number 1.

2006 The San Diego State University Occasional Archaeological Papers. Volume 1, Number 1.

2004 The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center . Volume 2.

2001 The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center . Volume 1.

Juried Research Publications--Edited Volume Chapters/Articles

Published or Accepted Chapters

2012 "Gift Exchange in Early Virginia Indian Society." In Encyclopedia Virginia. Edited by Brendan Wolfe. READ_DATE. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 23 May 2012.

2009 "Mission San Diego de Alcala, La Purisima State Historic Park, and Other Historic Sites." In Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition. General Editor Francis P. McManamon. Greenwood Press. Volume 4, Pp. 109-111.

2008 "Reciprocity." In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. 9 vols. Edited in Chief William A. Darity. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. Volume 7, Pp. 105-106.

2008 "Burial ground." In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. 9 vols. Edited in Chief William A. Darity. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. Volume 1, Pp. 392-393.

2006 The Creation of Ajacan's Martyrs. In The Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives. Edited by Debra Meyers and Melanie Perreault. Lexington, Kentucky: Lexington Books.

2004 Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown. (Accepted September 2001) In Native Americans of the Chesapeake Region in the Age of Contact: Archaeological Perspectives , Edited by Dennis Blanton and Julia King. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press.

2004 Gift Exchange and the Ossomocomuck Balance of Power: Explaining Carolina Algonquian Socioeconomic Aberrations at Contact. In Searching for the Roanoke Colonies: An Interdisciplinary Collection . Edited by E. Thomson Shields and Charles Ewen. North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, Historical Publications Section.

Non-Juried Research Publications (In-House Professional Panel Review)

Published Articles and Reports

2020 The Implications of Food Preservation at the Nathan Harrison Site. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology. Volume 34. Pp. 155-160 (with Haley Alexander).

2008 Conserving WPA-Era Art at San Diego State University: The Removal, Restoration, and Re-Installation of Genevieve Burgeson’s 1936 NRA Packages. The San Diego State University Occasional Archaeological Papers. Volume 2, Number 1. (with Donna Byczkiewicz).

2008 Archaeological Palimpsests, Historical Maps, and Ground-Penetrating Radar: The Discovery of the Whaley-House Cistern/Well. The San Diego State University Occasional Archaeological Papers. Volume 2, Number 1.

2008 Skeletons in the "Mummy Closet": Dr. Spencer Lee Rogers’ 75-year-old grade books uncovered in SDSU Storage. The San Diego State University Occasional Archaeological Papers. Volume 2, Number 1.

2008 From "Unknown" to the Known: Recovering Identity at the Lost Scripps Cemetery in San Diego. The San Diego State University Occasional Archaeological Papers. Volume 2, Number 1. (with David Caterino).

2006 The Evolution of San Diego Cemeteries and Gravestones. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology. Volume 19:57-59.

2006 Preliminary Excavations at the Nate Harrison Site. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology. Volume 19:71-74.

2006 Introduction. The San Diego State University Occasional Archaeological Papers. Volume 1, Number 1 (with Dominique Rissolo)

2004 Introduction. The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center. Volume 2.

2001 Foreword. The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center. Volume 1.

2001 Pipebowl Mean Dates. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Virginia . Volume 56, Number 3.

2000 At the Edge of the Precipice; Frontier Ventures, Jamestown's Hinterland, and the Archaeology of 44JC802. Richmond, Virginia: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

1999 Archaeological Excavations at 44JC568, the Reverend Richard Buck Site . Richmond, Virginia: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (with Garrett Fesler).

Trade/Popular Publications

Published Books

2022 100 Seasons of Aztec Football. San Diego, California: Montezuma Publishing.

2015 Let it Rock!: Live from San Diego State. San Diego, California: Montezuma Publishing. 5 Volumes.

2012 Hail Montezuma!: The Hidden Treasures of San Diego State. San Diego, California: Montezuma Publishing. San Diego Book Awards Association Winner for 2012 Nonfiction Book, Local Interest Division

2008 The Cemeteries of San Diego County. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Press. (with David Caterino). San Diego Book Awards Association Finalist for 2008 Published Local Interest, Photographic Division

2007 The Cemeteries of San Diego. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Press. (with David Caterino).

Published Volumes

2001 Jamestown Rediscovery VII. Jamestown, Virginia: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (with William Kelso, Beverly Straube, and J. Eric Deetz).

2000 Jamestown Rediscovery: Search for the 1607 James Fort (6-booklet set). Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press (with William M. Kelso Beverly Straube, Elliott Jordan, Eric Deetz, Jamie May, Michael Lavin, and Catherine Correll-Walls).

Published Chapters/Articles/Op-Eds

Summer 2021 Throwback: Test your SDSU knowledge, SDSU Magazine, Volume 29, Number 1, p. 38.

Summer 2021 What Makes This Place So Special?, SDSU Magazine, Volume 29, Number 1, Pp. 14-19.

March 13, 2022 “Here’s How the San Diego Normal School Became SDSU,” San Diego Union-Tribune. Pp. B13-15.

Spring 2022 “New Perspectives on the 1622 Powhatan Uprising & Beyond: Recognizing indigenous symbolism in historical Powhatan violence,” Jamestown Society Magazine, Volume 46, Number 1, Pp. 12-14

Summer 2021 Throwback: The Famed Rockwell Ruckus: A retrospective look at the event that gripped campus and made international headlines, SDSU Magazine, Volume 28, Number 2, p. 30.

Winter 2021 Throwback: Never a Boring Day in SDSU History, SDSU Magazine, Volume 28, Number 1, p. 30.

Summer 2020 Matters of State: Basketball Mania and Hardwood Legacies: A brief history of SDSU men’s hoops, 360: The Magazine of San Diego State University, p. 34.

Fall 2018 Matters of State: Our Own Link to the Triassic, 360: The Magazine of San Diego State University, p. 34.

2011 Archaeological Myth Busting at Palomar Mountain’s Nate Harrison Site. Our Heritage. San Diego, California: Save Our Heritage Organisation, pp. 20-25.

2001 Every Artifact Counts. Jamestown Rediscovery VII . Jamestown, Virginia: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

Published Calendars

2021 Today in San Diego State History, 2022 Daily Calendar. San Diego, California: Montezuma Publishing.

Technical Reports

Published Reports

2021 Archaeological Excavations at the Nathan Harrison Site in San Diego County, California: An Interim Technical Report for the 2021 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Shannon Farnsworth, Jamie Bastide, Samuel Gerstein, Caeli Gibbs, Katherine Isola, Kathleen Krogh, Yvette Porter-Moore, Alexis Rogers, Jacob Smith, and Adam Steinauer).

2021 A Report on the Pipebowls from the Phips/White Site in Maine. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology.

2019 Archaeological Excavations at the Nathan Harrison Site in San Diego County, California: An Interim Technical Report for the 2019 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Jaime Lennox, James Turner, Jamie Bastide, Shannon Farnsworth, Haley Alexander, Zach Clow, Bill Ebuen, Natalia Galeana, Heather Hewes, Cece Holm, Geoffrey Hughes, Katherine Isola, Aryana Kaypour, Isabella Montalvo, Danny Piel, Kathleen Stanford, Peter Nelson, and David Lewis).

2012 Archaeological Excavations at the Whaley House in San Diego, California: An Interim Technical Report for the 2011 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Hillary Sweeney, Nick Doose, and Jaime Lennox).

2012 Preliminary Report for the 2011 Archaeological Excavations at the Whaley House in San Diego, California. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology.

2012 Archaeological Investigations of Fort Zinderneuf (The Beau Geste Movie Set Site), Buttercup Dunes, California. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Jaime Lennox, Nick Doose, Hillary Sweeney, and David Lewis).

2011 Archaeological Excavations at the Whaley House in San Diego, California: An Interim Technical Report for the 2010 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Hillary Sweeney, Jaime Lennox, Nick Doose, and David Caterino).

2011 Preliminary Report for the 2010 Archaeological Excavations at the Whaley House in San Diego, California. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology.

2010 Archaeological Excavations at the Whaley House in San Diego, California: An Interim Technical Report for the 2009 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Hillary Sweeney, Jaime Lennox, Nick Doose, David Caterino, Raul Noriega, Jennifer Ridihalgh, Tory Huey, Kenna Villar, Danielle Jacobellis, Kimberly Scott, and David Lewis).

2009 Archaeological Excavations at the Whaley House in San Diego, California: An Interim Technical Report for the 2008 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Hillary Sweeney, Jaime Lennox, Kimberly Scott, David Caterino, Destiny Larberg, David Lewis, Kent Manchen, Scott Mattingly, and Scott Rugh).

2009 Archaeological Excavations at the Nate Harrison Site in San Diego County, California: An Interim Technical Report for the 2008 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Jaime Lennox, Hillary Sweeney, Kimberly Scott, Matthew Maxfeldt, David Caterino, and David Lewis).

2008 Archaeological Excavations at the Whaley House in San Diego, California: An Interim Technical Report for the 2007 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Hillary Sweeney, David Caterino, Jaime Lennox, Destiny Larberg, Scott Mattingly, and David Lewis).

2008 Archaeological Excavations at the Nate Harrison Site in San Diego County, California: An Interim Technical Report for the 2007 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Matthew Tennyson, Hillary Sweeney, Jaime Lennox, Brenda Cabello, Erika Kleinhans, and David Caterino).

2008 2000-2006 Interim Report on the APVA Excavations at Jamestown, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (with Eric Deetz, David Givens, Carter C. Hudgins, Jamie May, Luke Pecoraro, Tonia Rock, Danny Schmidt, Beverly Straube).

2007 Archaeological Excavations at the Nate Harrison Site in San Diego County, California: An Interim Technical Report for the 2006 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Hillary Sweeney, Jaime Lennox, Kimberly Scott, Robert Tews, David Caterino, Anne Miller, Matthew Maxfeldt, and Sarah Stroud).

2006 Archaeological Excavations at the Nate Harrison Site in San Diego County, California: An Interim Technical Report for the Inaugural 2005 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Sarah Stroud, Lauren Lingley, Jaime Lennox, Hillary Sweeney, Olivia Smith, and David Caterino).

2005 Archaeological Excavations at the Nate Harrison Site in San Diego County, California: An Interim Technical Report for the Inaugural 2004 Field Season. San Diego, California: San Diego State University Department of Anthropology (with Sarah Stroud, Lauren Lingley, Jaime Lennox, Hillary Sweeney, Jason Maywald, and David Caterino).

2000 1999 Interim Report on the APVA Excavations at Jamestown, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (with Beverly Straube).

1996 Synthesis of Materials Recovered from 44PG82 . Flowerdew Hundred, Virginia: Flowerdew Hundred Foundation.

1995 Faunal Analysis of 44PG82 . Flowerdew Hundred, Virginia: Flowerdew Hundred Foundation.

1995 1995 Summer Excavations at 44PG77 . Flowerdew Hundred, Virginia: Flowerdew Hundred Foundation.

1995 1995 Spring and Summer Excavations at 44PG113. Flowerdew Hundred, Virginia: Flowerdew Hundred Foundation.

Book Reviews

Invited Book Reviews

2021 Alliance Rises in the West: Labor, Race, and Solidarity in Industrial California. CHARLOTTE K. SUNSERI. 2020. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. $60.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8032-9956-6. $60.00 (e-book, EPUB), ISBN 978-1-4962-2327-2. $60.00 (e-book, PDF), ISBN 978-1-4962-2329-6. - Historical Archaeology through a Western Lens. MARK WARNER and MARGARET PURSER, editors. 2017. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. $70.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8032-7728-1. $70.00 (e-book, EPUB), ISBN 978-1-4962-0035-8. $70.00 (e-book, PDF), ISBN 978-1-4962-0037-2. American Antiquity, 1-3. doi:10.1017/aaq.2021.139

2015 The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers.  Baugher, Sherene and Richard F. Veit (2014).  Journal of Anthropological Research.  Volume 71, Number 2, Pp. 303-304.

2013 Campus Traditions: Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University. Bronner, Simon J. (2012). Journal of Folklore Research.

2012 Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603-1832. Eds., Bellin, Joshua David and Laura L. Mielke (2011). American Ethnologist. Volume 39, Number 4.

2006 Values and Valuables: From the Sacred to the Symbolic. Eds., Werner, Cynthia and Duran Bell (2005). American Anthropologist. Volume 108, Number 3. P. 625.

Unsolicited Book Reviews

2006 Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. Lightfoot, Kent G. (2005). Historical Archaeology Volume 40, Number 4. P. 157.

Journal Referee

Current Anthropology
American Anthropologist
American Antiquity
International Journal of the Humanities (Associate Editor, Volumes I and III)
Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center (Editor, Volumes I and II)
San Diego State University Occasional Archaeological Papers (Editor, Volumes I and II) International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Historical Archaeology
Journal of Field Archaeology
The William & Mary Quarterly
University of California at Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility monograph series