Christopher Fennell

I work in anthropology, archaeology, diaspora studies, critical heritage studies, and law, at the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago. My book "Crossroads and Cosmologies," received two awards: the John L. Cotter Award by the Society for Historical Archaeology for scholarly "achievement which is truly outstanding" and the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities by the Council for Graduate Schools for "outstanding contribution to scholarship." I also received the SHA' s Daniel G. Roberts Award for Excellence in Public Historical Archaeology for "commitment to public scholarship" and "anti-racism scholarship and education in historical archaeology."

Here are some other publications that may be of interest, in books available through Amazon:

"Reflections on Dynamic African American Cultures and Communities in the Upper Mid-Atlantic, 1610s to 1950s," chapter in Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic, peer reviewed book edited by Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa (2017).

"Architecture and Landscape Art" (with Shawn Fields and Rebecca Schumann), chapter in "The Routledge History of the American South," edited by Maggi M. Morehouse, Routledge, New York (2017).

"Manufacturing Relationships in Industry, Craft, and Heritage," introduction chapter in "Perspectives from Historical Archaeology: Investigations of Craft and Industrial Enterprise," textbook compiled and edited by Christopher Fennell, pp. 9-30, Society for Historical Archaeology, Germantown, MD (2016).

"Cultural Creativity, Rebellions, and Comparative Questions for Afro-Brazilian Archaeology," in "Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America," edited by Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Charles E. Orser (2014);

"Dexterous Creation: Material Manifestations of Instrumental Symbolism in the Americas," in "Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic," edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders (2014);

"Kongo and the Archaeology of Early African America," in "Kongo Across the Waters," edited by Susan Cooksey, Robin Poynor, and Hein Vanhee (2013);

"Examining Structural Racism in the Jim Crow Era of Illinois," in "The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Post-Emancipation Life," edited by Jodi Barnes (2011);

"Combating Attempts of Elision: African American Accomplishments at New Philadelphia, Illinois," in "Intangible Heritage Embodied," edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles and Helaine Silverman (2009);

"BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Expression in the Americas," in "The Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora," edited by Toyin Falola and Akin Ogundiran (2007).