Short CV -- Samuel Wilson

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Education:

• 1986 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago
• 1982 Bachelor of Letters in Prehistory, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• 1981 M.A. in Anthropology, University of Chicago
• 1978 B.A. in History, Southwest Missouri State University.

Teaching Positions:

• 2003- present - Chair of the Department of Anthropology
• 2002- Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
• 1994- Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
• 1989-94 Asst Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
• 1988-89 Asst Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York

Books:

• 2007 - The Archaeology of the Caribbean. Cambridge University Press.
• 2006- The Prehistory of Nevis, a Small Island in the Lesser Antilles, with contributions by Elizabeth Wing, Laura Kozuch, Lee Newsom, and J. Daniel Rogers. Yale University Publications in Anthropology.
• 1999 The Emperor's Giraffe and Other Stories of Culture Contact. Westview Press. (paperback, 2000)
• 1997 The Indigenous People of the Caribbean, edited vol., The University Press of Florida
• 1993 Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas. J. Daniel Rogers and Samuel M. Wilson (eds). New York: Plenum Press.
• 1990 Hispaniola: Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Selected Articles and Papers:

• 2005 "Afterword" in Curet, Dawdy, and Gambino (eds), Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology. Alabama Press
• 2004 "The genesis of governments in human history: Seeking the human face of complexity in the past." Presented at a conference put on by the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems titled "Complexity Science and the Exploration of the Emerging World," April 2004
• 2004 SAA Poster: Magnetometer Survey and Intrasite Structure of an Early Caddo Site in Northeast Texas. Clay Schultz, Chet Walker, Darrell Creel, Dale Hudler, and Wilson. Prensented in Montreal.
• 2002 (with Leighton Peterson) The Anthropology of Online Communities, Annual Review of Anthropology 2002, Vol. 31: 449-467
• 2001 Nevis: Summary and Conclusions. XIX International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Aruba, 2001.
• 2001 Cultural Pluralism and the Emergence of Complex Society in the Greater Antilles. Presented at the XVIII International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology St. George's, Grenada, July 1999
• 2001 “The prehistory and early history of the Caribbean.” In Charles Woods (ed.) The Biogeography of the Caribbean. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 519-528.
• 2001Determinism, Uncertainty, and the Origins of States" Presented in the series "Facing the Uncertain" organized by Professor Ilya Prigogine. (in Ilya Prigogene (ed.) L’homme devant l’incertain. Paris: Editiones Odile Jacob, pp. 171-194.
• 1998 "Surviving European Conquest in the Caribbean." Revista de Arqueología Americana.
• 1997 "The Taíno Social and Political Order," and "The Caribbean Before European Conquest: A Chronology." In Taíno: Precolumbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean. Museo del Barrio, New York.
• 1996 "Archaeology of the Caribbean," in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology.
• 1996 "The rise of complex societies in the Caribbean." Bollettino del XIII Congresso dell'Unione internazionale delle scienze preistoriche e protostoriche, Forlí, Italy.
• 1993 (with Aad Versteeg and Kees Schinckle) "Large-scale excavations versus surveys: examples from Nevis, St. Kitts, and St. Eustatius in the Northern Caribbean" Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia Vol. 26, 1993: 139-161.
• 1993 "The Cultural Mosaic of the Prehistoric Caribbean", Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 81:37-66.
• 1990 "Peopling the Antilles" Archaeology 43(5):52-57 (Sept/Oct).
• 1990 "Columbus, My Enemy" Natural History 99(12):44-49, December, 1990.
• 1990 "Modelling Randomness in Locational Archaeology." Samuel M. Wilson and Don Melnick. Journal of Archaeological Science 17 (4): 403-412.
• 1989 "The Prehistoric Settlement History of Nevis, West Indies." Journal of Field Archaeology 16(4):427-450.
• 1985 "Phytolith Analysis of the Kuk site, an early agricultural site in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Archaeology in Oceania 20:90-97.
• (in press) "Quincentenary Discourses in the Caribbean", in Commemoration and Critique: the Columbian Quincentenary in Comparative Perspective, edited by Pauline Turner Strong. Duke University Press.
• (in press) “Testing and Assessment On-line” and “Refining your site” in Putting Your Course Online, edited by Kenneth Foote. University of Texas Press.

Natural History Columns, "Worlds in Contact"

• "The Admiral and the Chief"
• "Death and Taxes"
• "Pandora's Bite"
• "White Legends and Lost Tribes"
• "Trickster Treats"
• "Pilgrims' Paradox"
• "Saint George and John Canoe"
• "Columbus's Competition"
• "Eskimos and Vikings"
• "That unmanned wild Countrey..."
• "The Gardeners of Eden"
• "Columbus's Comedown"
• "The Emperor's Giraffe"
• "Caribbean Diasporas"
• "Coffee, Tea, or Opium"
• "On the matter of Smallpox"
• "A Texas Powwow"
• "Disney Dissonance"
• "Cricket in the Blood"
• "When We Were Very Young"

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