Maria Franklin | |
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| Occupation | Archaeologist |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Institutions | University of Texas,Austin |
Maria Franklin is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a historical archaeologist whose work includes black-feminist theory,African Diaspora studies and race and gender. [1]
Franklin is an assistant professor at the University of Texas,where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for African and African-American Studies. [2] Her research includes work on plantation-related sites in the Chesapeake at Colonial Williamsburg,and foodways in African American households in Texas. [3]
From 2010-2013 she sat on the board of directors of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
She is a member of the editorial board for American Antiquity . [4]
Franklin,M. 1997. “Power to the people”:sociopolitics and the archaeology of black Americans. Historical Archaeology 31(3),36-50.
Franklin,M. 2001. A Black feminist-inspired archaeology? Journal of Social Archaeology 1(1),108-125.
Franklin,M. and McKee,L. 2004. African Diaspora Archaeologies:Present Insights and Expanding Discourses. Historical Archaeology 38(1):1-9.
Franklin,M. 2004 An Archaeological Study of the Rich Neck Slave Quarter and Enslaved Domestic Life. Colonial Williamsburg Research Publications. Dietz Press,Richmond,VA.
Franklin,M.,&Lee,N. 2019. Revitalizing Tradition and Instigating Change:Foodways at the Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead,c. 1871–1905. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 8(3),202-225.
Franklin,M. 2020. Enslaved Household Variability and Plantation Life and Labor in Colonial Virginia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 24(1),115-155.
Franklin,M.,&Lee,N. 2020. African American descendants,community outreach,and the Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead Project. Journal of Community Archaeology &Heritage7(2),135-148.
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