Maria Franklin
Maria Franklin | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Archaeologist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Academic work | |
| 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]
Education[edit]
She received her PhD in 1997 from Berkeley.[1]
Career[edit]
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]
Selected publications[edit]
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 & Heritage 7(2), 135-148.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Profile for Maria Franklin at UT Austin". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- ^ Franklin, Maria (2001). "A Black feminist-inspired archaeology?". Journal of Social Archaeology. 1 (1): 108–125. doi:10.1177/146960530100100108. ISSN 1469-6053. S2CID 145000320.
- ^ Franklin, Maria; Lee, Nedra (2019-09-02). "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. doi:10.1080/21619441.2019.1726613. ISSN 2161-9441. S2CID 216600511.
- ^ "Editorial board".